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A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers
by Hillary Carlip  
Powells.com Staff Pick Hillary Carlip takes her collection of abandoned grocery lists and personifies their authors as she imagines them. Complete with hilarious photographs (reminiscent of Cindy Sherman) and profiles of each shopper, A la Cart cracked me up like that one egg...
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So Crazy Japanese Toys!: Live-Action TV Show Toys from the 1950s to Now
by Jimbo Matison
Powells.com Staff Pick They both saved the earth and put it in grave danger - the monsters and heroes of Japanese live-action. Whether you cherish tragic protagonists like Kikaida or mega monsters such as Godzilla, Jimbo Matison's So Crazy Japanese Toys collects them all. For...
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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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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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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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Backyard Ballistics
by William Gurstelle
Powells.com Staff Pick As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade...
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
by Jean Nathan
Powells.com Staff Pick The fey daughter of a successful portrait artist and sister to a fishing lure inventor, Dare Wright conducted her life like an actress in an autobiographical production. Juxtaposed between innocence and erotica she created nineteen children's books, had...
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Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies
by Russ Kick
Powells.com Staff Pick These essays, from some of the most potent radicals writing today, serve to fill the massive informational void that American corporate media chooses to ignore. Abuse Your Illusions is an essential addition to post-9/11 discourse. Gerry, Powells....
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Found : Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items From Around the World (04 Edition)
by Davy Rothbart
Powells.com Staff Pick Somewhat more banal than so called "reality" programs, and all the more poignant for it, Found is an eclectic, sometimes bizarre, and frequently fascinating compilation. An addictive read for the voyeur in you. Georgie, Powells.com...
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Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth
by Tucker Shaw
Powells.com Staff Pick "It is so fabulous. One of the most interesting and addictive books I've ever seen — a perfect conversation piece book." Drew, Powells...
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Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World
by Ian Phillips
Powells.com Staff Pick If you occasionally take pleasures in the innocent misfortune of others, this one is for you. Each page tells the story of desperation as owners resort to the one hope that someone will find and return their precious pets. If it weren't for lost snakes...
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Chaos & cyber culture
by Timothy Leary
Powells.com Staff Pick Most modern philosophers wail on about the horrors of living today. Reading Leary, I find myself overwhelmed with the glittering optimism he has for the possibilities of modern society. Published just as the Internet explosion was happening in...
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Weirdo Deluxe: The Wild World of Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow Art
by Matt Dukes Jordan
Powells.com Staff Pick We'll let those wacky intellectuals wax on about the complex pluralism of the post modern art world or how it's become progressively tainted by commercialism — a sweet new compilation of pop surrealists, Weirdo Deluxe fully redeems the exquisitely...
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
by Jean Nathan
Powells.com Staff Pick The fey daughter of a successful portrait artist and sister to a fishing lure inventor, Dare Wright conducted her life like an actress in an autobiographical production. Juxtaposed between innocence and erotica she created nineteen children's books, had...
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Chris Ware (Monographics)
by Daniel Raeburn
Powells.com Staff Pick Similar in sentiment to artist Joseph Cornell's three-dimensional work, Chris Ware's drawings and sculpture remind me of enchanting collections of objects lost and found. In this new monograph, Daniel Raeburn closely examine's Ware's work methods and...
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Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio
by Danny Gregory
Powells.com Staff Pick Author Danny Gregory went to a flea market and found a ring binder containing 369 colorful and cryptic-looking postcards. Intrigued, he bought the collection and did some investigating. These cards were ham radio QSL cards, which are postcards that...
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Love Letters, Lost
by Babbette Hines
Powells.com Staff Pick I found a stash of my grandparents love letters to each other from the time they met in the 30's to after my mother was born in '43. Finding them faded and worn did nothing to diminish the feelings in those notes. They warmed the cockles of my heart. In...
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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
by Corinne May Botz
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating book for anyone interested in criminal investigation and forensics. Frances Glessner Lee founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936. By the 1940s, she was building detailed doll houses that replicated unsolved crime scenes...
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Airstream: The History of the Land Yacht
by Bryan Burkhart
Powells.com Staff Pick Mid-century houses were better. So were mid-century cars. It would follow, then, that mid-century homes on wheels were better too. Well, they were. Not that RVs are really a category worth arguing about. But there is one fifth wheel that holds its place...
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