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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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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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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser Publisher Comments Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity — six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he...
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Just How Stupid Are We? Signed
by Rick Shenkman Publisher Comments Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics....
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Portland Happy Hour Guidebook (2008 Edition)
by Cindy Anderson Publisher Comments Bigger and better! Eat, drink, and be happy; and save money too! Find more than 170 rated reviews on Portland's best Happy Hours. Enjoy high-end restaurant quality food and ambiance for less. Pick all the right places to meet up with friends! You can use...
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The Uprising Signed
by David Sirota Publisher Comments An All-Access Pass to the Populist. Insurrection Brewing Across the Country. Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the...
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Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
by Leonie Swann Publisher Comments A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd. On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, the members of the flock gather around their...
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
by Laurence Gonzales Publisher Comments In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illuminate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the...
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The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds
by Gavin Pretor-Pinney Publisher Comments A quirky, clever guide for everyone who loves to look up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Journalist and...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell 
Powells.com Staff Pick After graduating from Eton and serving five years as a member of the Imperial Police in Burma, George Orwell went slumming. Determined to overcome his inherited middle class mores, Orwell lived in abject poverty as a dishwasher and a vagrant. Down and...
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Out of Nowhere: The Inside Story of How Nike Marketed the Culture of Running
by Geoff Hollister Publisher Comments How does a boy from a small Oregon farm town get swept up in the politics of his chosen sport? Out of Nowhere takes the reader along on Geoff Hollister's 33 year journey at the center of Nike, the company that would change not only the world of athletic...
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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
by Tobias Wolff Publisher Comments "One of our most exquisite storytellers" (Esquire) gives us his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. Tobias Wolff's first two books, In the Garden...
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Cat Getting Out of a Bag: And Other Observations
by Jeffrey Brown Publisher Comments Celebrated comic artist and graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown's collection of all-new drawings sweetly illustrates the joys of living with a cat. Featured in "McSweeney's" and on NPR's "This American Life," and praised by comic luminaries Chris Ware and...
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Out
by Natsuo Kirino
Powells.com Staff Pick I ventured into Out having gone on a detective murder mystery kick — the great Raymond Chandler, the invincible Dorothy L. Sayers... So it was no surprise that I next turned to Japan's queen of crime writing. Out is a can't-stop-reading, classy...
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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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Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
by Jen Lancaster Publisher Comments Personal Training, Session One: I'm standing at the front desk, waiting for the mythical "Barbie" to appear. While I was sucking down water and aspirin earlier today, trying to shed my hangover, I started thinking about how judgmental I can be. I mean...
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Transit Maps of the World
by Mark Ovenden Publisher Comments Using glorious, colorful graphics, Ovenden traces the story of mass transit in this comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system around the world....
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Shadow of Power Signed
by Steve Martini Synopsis Murder reaches deep into the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court in this electrifying new thriller featuring defense attorney Paul Madriani....
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The Gun Seller
by Hugh Laurie
Powells.com Staff Pick The Gun Seller reminds me of a well-made gin and tonic — crisp, hip, and refreshing, with a droll twist of lime. Recommended by Carrie, Powells...
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.)
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick Fantasy author Gaiman is at his best in this short story collection, which contains an embarrassing riches of storytelling that is at times dark, funny, terrifying, beautiful, and always brilliant. Recommended by Bolton, Powells.com...
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