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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris  
Powells.com Staff Pick One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure...
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Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon
by Liz Nakazawa
Powells.com Staff Pick A wonderful collection of work by 33 Oregon poets that celebrates the state (and state of mind) of Oregon, eco-region by eco-region, west to east, from the Pacific coast to the high desert country and the Blue Mountains. Editor Liz Nakazawa describes...
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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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The Last American Man
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Elizabeth Gilbert first met Eustace Conway in New York City, on the sidewalk in front of her apartment. He'd traveled from North Carolina, dressed in handmade buckskin clothing and "carrying an impressive knife on his belt." Gilbert, a...
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The Braindead Megaphone
by George Saunders
Powells.com Staff Pick Yes, some of these essays will make you laugh; George Saunders is freakin' hilarious. (If you doubt this, please see his Strange Letter Regarding Uranus.) But he is also a brilliant writer whose characters, even the non-fictional ones, will break your...
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Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not about Marriage
by Pete Dexter
Powells.com Staff Pick So you've got someone on your list who loves a great story, maybe reads the newspaper or magazines, but who you wouldn't really call a "book person." If they're down-to-earth and can stomach some gritty realism (column 21, page 70), and they...
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M Sapolsky
Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the...
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Anne Carson
Powells.com Staff Pick Autobiography of Red is the story of Geryon, a winged red monster slain by Herakles, as well as a young boy, tormented by his family, who writes his life story at the age of five. It is both an elaborate re-creation of ancient Greek myth and a...
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Gynomite: Fearless, Feminist Porn
by Liz Belile
Powells.com Staff Pick "First off, this is a collection of porn, and the text rarely makes presumptions about being high art. If you keep this in mind while reading Gynomite you can really start to see that it is quite strong and diversified, but if you're looking for...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
Powells.com Staff Pick "I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a...
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Other Colors: Essays and a Story
by Orhan Pamuk
Powells.com Staff Pick As expected, Other Colors: Essays and a Story is a tapestry of words and images. Pamuk does not disappoint readers with this collection. If you only read his fiction, welcome to the real world, as seen through the eyes of an artist. Recommended by Beth,...
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer
Powells.com Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about...
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Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (American Indian Studies)
by Trevino L. Plenty and Steve Pacheco and Luke Warm Water and Joel Waters
Powells.com Staff Pick A vastly entertaining collection that combines four Native American voices unlike any you'll find in today's marginalized poetry circles. These four young writers have been blazing a new, more modern trail in recent years and it is high time that their...
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Journals of Lewis and Clark (Rev 97 Edition)
by Bernard (ed.) Devoto
Powells.com Staff Pick Endorsed by Stephen Ambrose himself ("It is the ideal selection for the citizen-reader, an American classic in its own right..."), this selection of the journals of Lewis and Clark edited by celebrated novelist, literary scholar, and...
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Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard
Powells.com Staff Pick In "Dog Kibble," Tasha Baxter's verse exhibits a brutal economy of words: "Life is never meaningless," her villanelle announces, "there is always food." Here and throughout this collection these authors demand your attention, as if to bark, "You...
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Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage
by Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell
Powells.com Staff Pick The best collection of wedding-related poetry I found. The editors also include an useful primer on wedding service scripts (in case you're writing your own), presenting standard examples from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Zen traditions. Dave...
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American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Library of America)
by Harold (edt) Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick "Maybe the most beautiful gifty book for the season. It's edited by the indefatigable Harold Bloom, and includes literally hundreds of poems by hundreds of poets. The book is nicely slipcased, and is a true gem, with all sorts of helpful annotation and...
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace
Powells.com Staff Pick David Foster Wallace is arguably the most accessible, intelligent, versatile writer working today. Never mind just now his novels and stories, or his "compact history" of infinity. In Consider the Lobster, he insinuates himself among actors, actresses...
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by Thomas Lynch
Powells.com Staff Pick Thomas Lynch has two occupations: poet and undertaker. Wedding the two in this book of personal essays, he shatters our conception of an undertaker as wan, reserved, and staid, replacing it with one who is colorful, brazen, and whimsical. This is not a...
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Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading
by J. Peder Zane
Powells.com Staff Pick Ask just about any author why they write and you're likely to hear a story about a book they once read. In Remarkable Reads, thirty-four accomplished authors each remember one such book. Together, these short personal essays deliver a fascinating glimpse...
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