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Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
by Natalie Goldberg  Publisher Comments Twenty years ago Natalie Goldberg's classic, Writing Down the Bones, broke new ground in its approach to writing as a practice. Now, Old Friend from Far Away — her first book since Writing Down the Bones to focus solely on writing — reaffirms...
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Red Bird: Poems
by Mary Oliver 
Powells.com Staff Pick Poetry lovers, rejoice! Mary Oliver's new collection has arrived, echoing her beloved early poems as well as exploring new territory. Whether reminiscing about nature or exploring the grim inevitability of its loss, Oliver's meditations on human...
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Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon
by Liz Nakazawa
Powells.com Staff Pick A wonderful collection of work by 33 Oregon poets that celebrates the state (and state of mind) of Oregon, eco-region by eco-region, west to east, from the Pacific coast to the high desert country and the Blue Mountains. Editor Liz Nakazawa describes...
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The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers
by University of Chicago Press Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [863]-879) and index....
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No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey through The Odyssey
by Scott Huler Publisher Comments When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero,...
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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
by Joshua Kendall Publisher Comments The extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary Thesaurus, Peter Mark Roget — polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado — was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed...
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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
by Robert Hass
Publisher Comments The poems in Robert Hass's new collection — his first to appear in a decade — are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate...
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The Ghost Soldiers: Poems
by James Tate
Powells.com Staff Pick Tate, the master of the contemporary prose poem, cranks up the tension in his newest bunch of poems simply by letting his odd array of characters go back and forth with their skewed and hilarious conversations. These dialogue-heavy wonders are dense with...
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Writers Market (Writer's Market)
by Robert Lee Brewer Synopsis The 2008 Writers Market will incorporate all the great information writers have to come to expect for more than 80 years, but this edition will move the book to a new level of excellence. From the higher profiles of its author interviews to the five new...
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By Hook or by Crook
by David Crystal Synopsis In this delightful excursion through the English language, Crystal combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and a traveler's observations to create a mesmerizing and entertaining narrative account with the language and its speakers....
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A Lifetime of Secrets: A Postsecret Book
by Frank Warren
Powells.com Staff Pick Who doesn't love that feeling of looking through someone else's mail without the risk of getting caught? Here, Warren presents another collection of intimate confessions, shared secrets, and endless pleasure for voyeurs and students of the human...
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Landmark Thucydides : a Comprehensive Guide To the Peloponnesian War (96 Edition)
by Thucydides Publisher Comments Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen...
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How to Do Biography: A Primer
by Nigel Hamilton Publisher Comments It is not surprising that biography is one of the most popular literary genres of our day. What is remarkable is that there is no accessible guide for how to write one. Now, following his recent Biography: A Brief History(from Harvard), award-winning...
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The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's Past
by David Kidder Publisher Comments In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history--365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year Modeled...
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That Little Something: Poems
by Charles Simic Publisher Comments In his eighteenth collection, Charles Simic, the superb poet of the vaguely ominous sound, the disturbing, potentially significant image, moves closer to the dark heart of history and human behavior. "Evil things are being done in our name," he writes in...
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Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Publisher Comments Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of the national bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, aren't falling for any election year claptrap — and they don't want their readers to either! In Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington...
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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Art Of...)
by Charles Baxter Publisher Comments The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present. The books in...
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Drunk By Noon (07 Edition)
by Jennifer L. Knox Synopsis Did somebody say Jen Knox's poems "read like Richard Pryor with an MFA"? Yes, somebody did. (It was John Findura in Verse Magazine.) She's also been compared to comedian Sarah Silverman, artist Jeff Koons, a 10-year-old who can't keep her mouth shut, and...
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (Vintage)
by Maureen Corrigan Publisher Comments “It’s not that I don’t like people,” writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. “It’s just that there always comes a moment when I’m in the company of others—even my...
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
by Scott Douglas Publisher Comments For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional “shush,” vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney’s contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our...
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