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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey  
Powells.com Staff Pick This memoir by Edward Abbey recounts his years as a park ranger working at Arches National Park in Utah. Abbey's keen eye and sharp writing clearly impart the beauty of the desert and the importance of preserving our limited natural resources. His...
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Powells.com Staff Pick If your only experience with Catch-22 was reading it for a class in high school — or if you haven't even read it at all — you owe it to yourself to revisit this book. It's a comic masterpiece, yes, but more than that: Catch-22 is a blast of...
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Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
Powells.com Staff Pick This collection of short stories is Borges's best known work — and completely mind-blowing. You'll find more ideas in one of his five-page mysteries than you will in most full-length novels. Ficciones is fundamentally bizarre, unrestrainedly...
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
Powells.com Staff Pick On the surface Naked Lunch chronicles a junkie's journey from New York to Tangiers, and then into the imaginary — and hellish — Interzone. The soul of the book is much deeper, presenting a surreal satire of American culture and humanity. It...
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The Master and Margarita
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Powells.com Staff Pick "Manuscripts don't burn" — that's what the man said. It's impossible to destroy the last thing that one has loved, as memory trumps death. This holds true for Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita: he burned his own copy down to nothing,...
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Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking)
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Powells.com Staff Pick You will instantly like this wonderful cookbook, whether you are an experienced cook or just a beginner. Sunlight Café has a vastly appetizing selection of "user-friendly" recipes for omelets, pancakes, and breads. It includes sections on yogurt...
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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
by Paul Collins
Publisher Comments The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Powells.com Staff Pick For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the great 20th-century war novels. Hemingway's cast of characters are as rich and complex as you will find in any of his works. Hemingway's portrait of Robert Jordan and his role in the Spanish Civil War is a vivid...
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood
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Powells.com Staff Pick Tired of all the parenting books with simplistic solutions and misleading information about how demanding the first year really is? Then this book is for you. The author is not a doctor or an expert — instead, she writes from her own experience as a...
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Three Novels
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Powells.com Staff Pick Here is the great masterpiece of prose by Irish legend and Nobel laureate Beckett. At times it is a disturbingly funny sojourn through the devastation of mortality. Other times it leaves you feverish and paranoid about the horrors of simplicity and the...
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Flavor
by Rocco Dispirito
Powells.com Staff Pick Dispirito has put together a cookbook that is much better than the typical celebrity fare. He focuses on the four classic tastes: sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Each recipe includes essential information such as total cooking time, active cooking time...
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along. Recommended by...
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Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds: Western Region
by Donald Stokes
Powells.com Staff Pick Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds is by far the best bird guide on the market. It is straightforwardly organized by plumage color with color tab indexes for quickly finding the bird at your feeder. The large-full color photographs of the male and female...
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An Army at Dawn
by Rick Atkinson
Powells.com Staff Pick An Army at Dawn is a superbly written book on the Northern African campaign of World War II. This is a wonderful history of some of the first campaigns of the war; Atkinson maintains a balanced focus on everyone involved, from the generals down to the...
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Hug
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Powells.com Staff Pick My son wanted me to read this book every night for months! The true magic is that I enjoyed reading the three-word story over and over again. Perfect for impatient bedtime reading or as a baby shower gift. Recommended by...
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Sale: $10.98 Hardcover List Price $25.00
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Philosophy Dog
by Breon Ofarrell
Powells.com Staff Pick I am a sucker for any book with pictures of dogs and this one is no exception. Philosophy Dog is photographed beautifully, and the stories in each chapter are heartwarming. While there is some helpful advice, it is not primarily a training book —...
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Donald and The...
by Peter F. Neumeyer and Edward Gorey
Powells.com Staff Pick All of the books on which Neumeyer and Gorey collaborated are memorable. Gorey's amazing drawings and bizarre sense of humor make Donald and The... a charming book for all ages. Recommended by Amy W....
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Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence
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Powells.com Staff Pick Over the Line was conceived as a companion volume to the now out-of-print catalogue raisonne, published in 2000, of Jacob Lawrence's works. Nesbett's primary objective was to create the first multi-author view of Lawrence's life, work, and techniques...
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Green Architecture
by James Wines
Powells.com Staff Pick This sturdy little book from Taschen provides an exciting visual portrait of some of the great examples of contemporary ecological architecture, as well as the history behind the trend towards "green" design. Wines compares and contrasts these modern...
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Brunelleschi's Dome
by Ross King
Powells.com Staff Pick It took decades of dedication from Brunelleschi and the entire Florentine community to create one of the most studied and beautiful structures in the world. In a steadily engaging and accessible manner, Ross King brings to life the challenges and...
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