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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
by Paul Hawken  
Powells.com Staff Pick Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete...
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Sale: $17.46 Hardcover List Price $24.95
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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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Sale: $19.56 Hardcover List Price $27.95
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick A truly fascinating book. Winchester captures the mood of China during the chaos of WWII and shows just how enormous an endeavor Joseph Needham undertook in writing his scientific history "for an audience already highly prejudiced against China and the...
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Sale: $19.25 Hardcover List Price $27.50
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson...
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Sale: $9.80 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley
Powells.com Staff Pick Funny, charming, and self-effacing, Sloane Crosley's essays will resonate with you, whether or not you grew up playing Oregon Trail on the computer or have ever locked yourself out of your house — twice in the same day. Crosley's voice is...
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Sale: $15.39 Hardcover List Price $21.99
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The Film Club: A Memoir
by David Gilmour
Powells.com Staff Pick What kind of father would allow his son to drop out of high school as long as the kid agreed to watch three movies of the father's choosing each week? Want to start an interesting conversation about parenting and education? Talk about what Gilmore did...
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Sale: $21.00 Hardcover List Price $30.00
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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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Online Sale: $17.49 Hardcover List Price $24.99
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Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
by Taras Grescoe Publisher Comments An eye-opening look at aquaculture that does for seafood what Fast Food Nation did for beef. Dividing his sensibilities between Epicureanism and ethics, Taras Grescoe set out on a nine-month, worldwide search for a delicious — and humane —...
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Sale: $18.16 Hardcover List Price $25.95
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Standard Operating Procedure
by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris Publisher Comments Standard Operating Procedure is a war story that takes its place among the classics. It is the story of American soldiers who were sent to Iraq as liberators only to find themselves working as jailers in Saddam Hussein's old dungeons, responsible for...
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Sale: $17.46 Hardcover List Price $24.95
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace
Powells.com Staff Pick The Billionaire's Vinegar is a 2008 best buy. Wallace strikes an ideal balance between wine education and history lesson, leaving the reader with a pleasant and lingering aftertaste. I was fascinated by the journey of a 220-year-old bottle of wine, but...
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