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Breath: A Novel
by Tim Winton  
Powells.com Staff Pick Small things can deliver the biggest wallop. At just over 200 pages, Tim Winton's Breath is a slim but breathtakingly potent novel about coming of age, the bonds that unite us, and the rifts that can tear us apart with lifelong consequences. Lovers of...
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Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
by Fritz Haeg
Publisher Comments Manifesto callout, special treatment: Edible Estates is an attack on the front lawn and everything it has come to represent Edible Estates is an ongoing series of projects to replace the front lawn with edible garden landscapes responsive to culture...
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The Egg and I
by Betty MacDonald Publisher Comments The author relates the joys and frustrations of life on a poultry farm in the mountains of Washington....
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The New Kings of Nonfiction
by Ira Glass Publisher Comments A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure-capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the...
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Personal Days Signed
by Ed Park Publisher Comments In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There's Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams...
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The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting
by Christie Mellor Publisher Comments Dozens of short, wickedly funny chapters skewer today's parental absurdities and remind us how to make child-rearing a kick. Mellor's hilarious, refreshing and useful advice rights the balance between parent and child....
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Jim the Boy
by Tony Earley
Publisher Comments Tony Earley gives us a luminous portrait of a ten-year-old boy growing up in the Depression-era town of Aliceville, North Carolina: "As the sun began to set, Jim and the uncles watched the last yellow light of the day slide up the mountain toward the...
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Northline (Harper Perennial P.S.)
by Willy Vlautin Publisher Comments Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, intent on making a new life for herself. Haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief, her only comfort seems to come from the imaginary conversations she has...
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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
by Nic Sheff Publisher Comments Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his...
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Part memoir, part meditation on crappy television, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is a raucous ride through the cultural wasteland of Generation X. Don't think, though, that this book's obsession with meaningless trivia is worthless. Chuck Klosterman's...
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Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
by Taras Grescoe Publisher Comments An eye-opening look at aquaculture that does for seafood what Fast Food Nation did for beef. Dividing his sensibilities between Epicureanism and ethics, Taras Grescoe set out on a nine-month, worldwide search for a delicious — and humane —...
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Stillness Speaks
by Eckhart Tolle
Publisher Comments In Stillness Speaks, best-selling author Eckhart Tolle illuminates the fundamental elements of his teaching, addressing the needs of the modern seeker by drawing from all spiritual traditions. At the core of the book is what the author calls "the state...
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Urban Dictonary: Fularious Street Slang Defined
by Aaron Peckham Publisher Comments Urbandictionary.com is a wildly successful site that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most...
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Things I Learned from Knitting (Whether I Wanted to or Not)
by Stephanie Pearl-mcphee Publisher Comments The Yarn Harlot strikes again! Best-selling knitting author and humorist Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is back with an irresistible collection of witty observations on how knitting and life wisdom are spun together. In Things I Learned From Knitting (Whether I...
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Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life
by Carl Zimmer Publisher Comments Within days of being born, we are infected with billions of E. coli. They will inhabit each and every one of us until we die. E. coli is notorious for making people gravely ill, but engineered strains of the bacteria save millions of lives each year....
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Enrique's Journey (06 Edition)
by Sonia Nazario Publisher Comments In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother...
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Vegan with a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipies That Rock
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Publisher Comments In "Vegan with a Vengeance", Isa Chandra Moskowitz, host of the community access vegan cooking show "The Post Punk Kitchen", brings the do-it-yourself, community-driven ethos of punk rock into the kitchen. Her cooking philosophy embraces being kind to...
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What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles Publisher Comments Still the bestselling job-hunting book and a favorite of career changers for more than three decades, this gold standard of career guides" ("Fortune") has been updated for 2008 with new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice....
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While They Slept Signed
by Kathryn Harrison Publisher Comments Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and...
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The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers Publisher Comments Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty...
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