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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison  
Powells.com Staff Pick The brother of Augusten Burroughs (author of the bestselling memoir Running with Scissors) has created an entertaining and often surprising memoir about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome. Whether you know someone on the autism spectrum or you're...
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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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Saturday: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
Powells.com Staff Pick Ian McEwan's new novel is generous, contemplative, and moving — and in good company, joining classics like Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses that take place during a single day. McEwan intricately weaves characters and themes towards an eloquent and...
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The God of Animals: A Novel
by Aryn Kyle
Powells.com Staff Pick Alice Winston is one of the most likable characters I've come across in a long time; smart, tough, and intuitive beyond her years, her voice is both utterly realistic and absolutely captivating. Aryn Kyle's extraordinary debut novel treats the reader to...
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
by William Stolzenburg
Powells.com Staff Pick What would our world look like without without wolves, giant cats, and other preying animals? William Stolzenburg examines the absence of once-prominent predators and how that affects our global ecosystem. There are a lot of alarmist books coming out...
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
by Kate Atkinson
Publisher Comments National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Kate Atkinson’s dazzling debut novel is a deeply moving story of family heartbreak and happiness. Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception...
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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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A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe
by Lauren Weedman
Powells.com Staff Pick The funniest book I've read in years, Lauren Weedman's A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body made my face hurt with laughter. I compulsively read it out loud to whomever happened to be around, and recommended it to everyone I met. A Woman Trapped in a Woman...
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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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The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
by David Shields
Powells.com Staff Pick "I've been weirdly giddy ever since finishing the book," David Shields admits. "Somehow I find the mortality data strangely liberating." Somehow this isn't surprising. In The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, Shields takes readers from...
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Garden Spells
by Sarah Addison Allen Synopsis In this luminous debut novel, Allen tells the story of an enchanted apple tree that bears prophetic fruit and edible flowers that are imbued with special powers--and the extraordinary people who tend it....
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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur Herman
Powells.com Staff Pick An ambitious and masterful work of history, Herman's sweeping narrative details the 40-year rivalry between two incredible figures. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One
by Lian Hearn
Powells.com Staff Pick The first in a trilogy, Across the Nightingale Floor is being compared with the likes of the Pullman Trilogy, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings — and rightly so. It is easily the best fantasy novel I've read in quite a while. The story line...
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Don't Look Back
by Karin Fossum Publisher Comments In her novels, Norway's Queen of Crime, Karin Fossum evokes a world that is terrifyingly familiar. In Don't Look Back, we are introduced to the tough, ethical Inspector Sejer....
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In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot
by Graham Roumieu
Publisher Comments Roumieu, whose illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Progressive, reveals the hairy hominids's brave struggles with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, and philosophical quandaries ("Me once...
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The Female Brain
by Louann Brizendine
Powells.com Staff Pick Although initially turned off by the title, The Female Brain was one the most revealing gender studies I have ever read. More a case for feminism than a case for gender superiority, Brizendine explores the physiological reasons behind the differences in...
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner
Powells.com Staff Pick Eric Weiner takes an entertaining romp around the world in search of geographical happiness, and I was willingly taken along for the ride. His self-professed Eeyore-centric take on the world and his grumpy wit made his discourse all the more fun...
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
by Dinaw Mengestu
Powells.com Staff Pick In a season rife with internationally flavored books about the dispossessed and the exploited, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears rises to the top. An unforgettable tale of an Ethiopian immigrant's struggle with his violent past and an uncertain...
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
by Rafe Esquith
Powells.com Staff Pick Few teachers get the recognition that Rafe Esquith has received during his extraordinary career, but in this case, it is so richly deserved. In a recent poll, over 60 percent of Americans said our country is headed in the "wrong direction." As I read...
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben
Powells.com Staff Pick "Timely and useful. This valuable benchmark is a substantial contribution to the rethinking of unlimited economic expansion." Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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