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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin  
Powells.com Staff Pick At times uproarious, often sentimental, and always laced with the wit and charm we've come to expect from Steve Martin, this is a warm and enjoyable portrait of his life in stand-up from childhood to his last show in 1981. Recommended by Ann, Powells....
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield
Powells.com Staff Pick Someone finally tells it like it is — you can write that book, you can paint that picture, you can live your dreams. But first you've got to shatter the Resistance that's got you stymied, and that takes (you won't want to hear this) work....
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Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour, 1734-1763
by Albertus Seba
Powells.com Staff Pick Taschen has always published heavy, lush art books, but they've outdone themselves with Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (weighing in at thirteen pounds). Albertus Seba, a pharmacist in eighteenth-century Amsterdam, collected beautiful and strange animals,...
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Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
by Tove Jansson
Powells.com Staff Pick Tove Jansson, a Finnish author and illustrator, drew these comics for the Onday Evening News in the 1950s. Many people know and love her books, but have never seen these amazing comics. Thanks to Drawn & Quarterly, now's your chance! Perfect for both...
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The Three Incestuous Sisters: An Illustrated Novel
by Audrey Niffenegger
Powells.com Staff Pick This is the book we are all talking about! Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife channels Edward Gorey and Charlotte Bronte in this lavish and astonishing work of art. Recommended by Veronica, Powells.com...
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
Powells.com Staff Pick The young Lehrer's keen portraits make for a winning read. Using Woolf, Stravinsky, Cézanne, Whitman, and a handful of others, he shows how art has given us as much insight into the human mind as science has. Recommended by Josephine, Powells.com...
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A Lifetime of Secrets: A Postsecret Book
by Frank Warren
Powells.com Staff Pick Who doesn't love that feeling of looking through someone else's mail without the risk of getting caught? Here, Warren presents another collection of intimate confessions, shared secrets, and endless pleasure for voyeurs and students of the human...
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Fruits
by Shoichi Aoki
Powells.com Staff Pick "It's a book of photographs of Japanese youth in very creative, colorful fashion, and would be so fun to get for Christmas. If you are feeling down or sad, after looking at it you will be cheered up." Adrienne, Powells...
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Lost Painting : Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (06 Edition)
by Jonathan Harr
Powells.com Staff Pick The mysterious fate of a lost masterpiece, an art restorer's obsession, and Caravaggio's troubled life are the focus of this riveting work of history. Recommended by Michal, Powells.com...
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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories
by Ben Katchor
Powells.com Staff Pick "A great collection of poignant cartoon vignettes of another time." Recommended by Carole Reichstein...
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Moomin Book Two: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
by Tove Jansson
Powells.com Staff Pick My favorite continuing-story comic strip is being reprinted in its entirety, and volume two suggests that the five planned installments will just get better and better. In theory, the ecstatically dizzy plots would try the reader's patience, but in...
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Postsecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
by Frank Warren
Powells.com Staff Pick In the movie, In the Mood for Love, Tony Leung whispers his most secret thoughts into a hole in the ruined temple of Angkor Wat. In Bethlehem, pilgrims write out their prayers and wishes and stuff them into tiny cracks between the bricks at the Western...
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
by Charles R Cross
Powells.com Staff Pick Published to coincide with the thirty-fifth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, Room Full of Mirrors gives full voice to the music that continues to enthrall each successive generation of rock fans. Hendrix's colorful, tumultuous life is brilliantly...
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Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
by Henry Petroski
Powells.com Staff Pick Fear not! Despite the sound of the title, Success through Failure is blissfully free of the latest corporate management philosophies. Instead of business jargon, engineering and design author Henry Petroski focuses on the fascinating cycle of mistakes...
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Brunelleschi's Dome (00 Edition)
by Ross King
Powells.com Staff Pick Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced...
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You Are Here
by Katharine Harmon
Powells.com Staff Pick Maps are magical pieces of paper. Who doesn't love to pore over them and imagine traveling to New York, Paris, Amsterdam or even Weed, California? Maps are reassuring when you are lost, and they inspire you to dream when you're stagnant. Author Katherine...
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Soak, Wash, Rinse, Spin: Tolleson Design
by Steven Tolleson
Powells.com Staff Pick As a graphic designer and book store employee, I pore endlessly over design books. This is one of the few designer's books that I can't help but recommend. Not only is it visually engaging and well designed, it explains projects in a concise manner...
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Wall and Piece
by Banksy
Powells.com Staff Pick If there's any truth to Marshall McLuhan's prophecy that the next wars and revolutions of our time will be fought through media and not guns, then the ever mysterious and notorious graffiti artist called Banksy would be the most ready example of how one...
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
by Francine Prose
Powells.com Staff Pick In nine mini-biographies Prose finds the qualities in each woman that defines her as a muse. Elegantly written. Fascinatingly unique. Mark Ingraham, Powells...
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The Complete Peanuts: 1957-1958
by Charles M. Schulz
Powells.com Staff Pick It can be hard to remember a time when Snoopy wasn't an insurance salesman and Charlie Brown didn't stare at us from a million Hallmark cards — in short, when Peanuts was still sharp and funny and relevant. Thank God, then, for the Complete Peanuts...
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