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Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem  
Powells.com Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first...
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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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Executive Privilege Signed
by Phillip Margolin Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is back, this time with a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth. When...
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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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War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq
by Richard Engel Publisher Comments In the most dramatic and intimate account of battle reporting since Michael Herrs classic Dispatches, NBC Newss award-winning Middle East Bureau Chief, Richard Engel, offers an unvarnished and often emotional account of five years in Iraq. Engel is the...
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The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question...
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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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Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
by David Wann Publisher Comments In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a variety of ...
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Out from Boneville: Bone, Book 1 (Bone #01)
by Jeff Smith Publisher Comments The Bone adventures tell the story of a young bone boy, Fone Bone, and his two cousins, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who are banned from their homeland of Boneville. When the cousins find themselves mysteriously trapped in a wonderful but often...
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Candy Everybody Wants (P.S.)
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Publisher Comments From the critically acclaimed author of I Am Not Myself These Days comes the very odd adventures of a starry-eyed young man from the Midwest seeking fame and fortune in the flamboyant surreality of New York, Los Angeles...and everywhere in between...
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Age of Dreaming Signed
by Nina Revoyr Publisher Comments Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he is living in complete obscurity-until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind. Jun is intrigued by the possibility...
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Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research
by Sue Halpern
Publisher Comments An essential behind-the-scenes foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss only now available to general readers. When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann...
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Slip of the Knife: A Novel
by Denise Mina Publisher Comments A brilliant new thriller featuring Paddy Meehan, one of the most praised heroines since Temperance Brennan, from "a rising star in the world of crime fiction" (Laura Miller, Salon). Paddy Meehan is no stranger to murder — as a reporter she lives...
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Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
by Philippe Sands Publisher Comments On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation--techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo...
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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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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--And Why
by Amanda Ripley Publisher Comments It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility that a tear in the fabric of life could open up without warning, upending a house, a skyscraper, or a civilization. Today, nine out of ten Americans live in...
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Selected Poems Signed
by Floyd Skloot
Powells.com Staff Pick Frankly, Floyd Skloot deserves to be better known. His lovely poems, many dealing with subjects made familiar to his readers through nonfiction books such as In the Shadow of Memory, are rigorous and technically brilliant. He writes with equal and...
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The Stolen Child: A Novel
by Keith Donohue Publisher Comments "I am a changeling — a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own..." The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age...
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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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Passage To Juneau : a Sea and Its Meanings (99 Edition)
by Jonathan Raban From Powells.com "I had a boat, most of a spring and summer, a cargo of books, and the kind of dream of self-enrichment that spurs everyone who sails north from Seattle," explains Jonathan Raban at the outset of his journey along the Inside Passage from...
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