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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah Book Club #61)
by Eckhart Tolle  Publisher Comments The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now. With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived...
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Lush Life: A Novel
by Richard Price 
Powells.com Staff Pick It's a given that fans of Price's earlier novels will rush to read Lush Life. In addition, fans of the HBO series The Wire — or anyone who enjoys a gripping read, period — won't want to miss this fantastic novel, which peels back the shiny...
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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Powells.com Staff Pick Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)...
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The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett Publisher Comments The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect — a man divided in his soul...of...
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
Powells.com Staff Pick Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Publisher Comments The new novel from one of Ireland's most prominent voices, The Gathering is an extraordinary anatomization of a family confronting the ghosts of its history. A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular...
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The Silver Swan: A Novel
by Benjamin Black
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't ordinarily read mystery novels, but The Silver Swan is no ordinary mystery. Banville's command of prose is arresting, and though this is a difficult book to put down because it is so expertly plotted, it is also impossible not to savor...
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The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolano
Powells.com Staff Pick Take one part Tom Robbins, one part James Joyce, add a dose of '70s nostalgia, and stir. What you get is the journey of a poetic soul across the broken landscape of our world. The Savage Detectives is at once illuminating and introspective, riveting and...
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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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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by Kate Summerscale
Powells.com Staff Pick At once a mystery and a history of early mystery novels, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a page-turner. Summerscale picks apart a famous Victorian murder, the murder that sparked "detective fever" and inspired Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to...
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a...
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The Zinester's Guide to Portland (2007): A Low/No Budget Guide to Visiting and Living in Portland, Oregon
by Shawn Granton and Nate Beaty Publisher Comments Shawn Granton (Ten Foot Rule) and Nate Beaty (Brainfag Comics) edited a really comprehensive guide of things to do in Portland, OR. Features tons of information on various neighborhoods, bridges, eateries, hangouts, bars, places that sell zines, and how...
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Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow
by Jim Hightower and Susan DeMarco Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author and America's funniest activist gives the lowdown on how to put up-not shut up-in the fight for our future. Hightower, the country's #1 populist, has picked up some useful advice over the years, from never eat at...
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Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying
by David Bach Publisher Comments Let David Bach show you a whole new way to prosper—by going green Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have...
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What Now?
by Ann Patchett Publisher Comments Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage...
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God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre
by Richard Grant Publisher Comments Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of...
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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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