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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis  
Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work...
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When the Emperor Was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
Powells.com Staff Pick A breathtaking debut. Also a painter, Otsuka creates complex scenes and well-rounded characters with astonishing efficiency. Line by line her minimalist strokes disguise the massive canvas on which she's working: the internment of more than 120,000...
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Publisher Comments Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner...
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Baghdad Without a Map
by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments This wild and comic tale of Middle East misadventure is "a very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region. Fearlessness is a valuable quality in a travel writer, and Mr. Horwitz...seems as intrepid as they come". (The...
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The Polar Express
by Chris Van Allsburg
Powells.com Staff Pick Could a bookseller's favorite book really be a children's Christmas picture book? I am often asked to name my favorite book — an impossible question to answer, really — and I find myself mentioning The Polar Express time and again (not without...
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
by Stefan Fatsis
Publisher Comments Scrabble may be truly called America's game. But for every group of "living-room players" there is someone who is "at one with the board." In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few, exploring the underground world of colorful...
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Power of One (07 Edition)
by Bryce Courtenay Publisher Comments In 1939, hatred took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language–English. He was nursed by a woman of the wrong color–black. His childhood was marked by...
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
by David Quammen Publisher Comments In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and...
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Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin Publisher Comments Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere’s museums. Need to talk to...
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Dorothea Lange (55)
by Mark Durden Publisher Comments 55 is a new series of beautifully produced pocket-sized books that acknowledge and celebrate all styles and aspects of photography. Dorothea Lange was working for the FSA in California at the same time as Walker Evans was photographing in the South...
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The Pocket Dalai Lama (Shambala Pocket Classics)
by Dalai Lama Xiv Publisher Comments This collection of wisdom on a wide range of topics is a pocket-sized inspirational companion for anyone--and the perfect short introduction to the Dalai Lama for the beginner. It includes short gems from many of his teachings made popular in such books...
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How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
by Dalai Lama Publisher Comments Divided into a series of distinct steps that will lead spiritual seekers of all faiths toward enlightenment, this book illuminates the specifics about how to practice morality from day to day, how to practice meditation, and how to practice wisdom....
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Walker Evans (55)
by Luc Sante Publisher Comments Walker Evans (1903?75) is now considered perhaps the finest documentary photographer ever and his images have had considerable influence on other artists, not just in the field of photography. He is well known for his 1930s work for the Farm Security...
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Child of My Heart
by Alice McDermott
From Powells.com In 1998, Alice McDermott's fourth novel, Charming Billy, surprised the literary world by capturing the National Book Award. Few doubted that McDermott deserved the prize and the readership it would deliver — she'd also been nominated for...
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Power Golf
by Ben Hogan Publisher Comments You'll see a difference the next time you pick up a club after you've read Ben Hogan's Power Golf — one of the best golf instruction books ever written. Here the master shares a lifetime of championship secrets to help you improve every phase of...
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Midnight in Sicily
by Peter Robb
Publisher Comments In late 1995 Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy and once called "the finest political mind in Europe," went on trial both for murder and for his association with the Sicilian Mafia. With hundreds of witnesses still to be called, there...
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Earl Mindell's New Herb Bible
by Earl Mindell Publisher Comments The Bestselling Guide to Herbal Remedies -- Completely Revised and Expanded<P>Since its original publication in 1992, Earl Mindell's Herb Bible has become the definitive guide to the world of herbal remedies. Recognized as today's leading trend in...
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Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham Publisher Comments Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will...
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Under the Skin
by Michel Faber
Publisher Comments Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing...
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The Battle For God
by Karen Armstrong
From Powells.com "In The Battle for God, Armstrong brilliantly traces the struggle between the burgeoning Western secularism and the religious fundamentalism that has dogged its heels for the past five hundred years, culminating in that greatest of all fundamentalist...
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