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by Kurt Vonnegut  
Publisher Comments One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Don DeLillo
Publisher Comments Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roald Dahl
Publisher Comments Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little — in this case, an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty, self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aimee Bender
Powells.com Staff Pick Bender's imagination takes her writing in fresh new directions that make comparison with her contemporaries difficult. The novel's narrator is soon-to-be-twenty-year-old Mona Gray. Just a week before the start of classes, with no advance warning (and no... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Don DeLillo
Publisher Comments Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Powells.com Staff Pick Proving that sometimes it's not the story that matters nearly so much as how you tell it, Rosenthal has organized one of the most entertaining, compulsively readable memoirs in recent memory. Go ahead, I dare you to put it down. Recommended by Dave... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Woody Allen
Publisher Comments Here they are--some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD (A Play), to NO KADDISH FOR WEINSTEIN, old and new Woody Allen fans will laugh themselves... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Crace
Publisher Comments A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desire All great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder, in typical Cracean fashion, leads to... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Swofford
Powells.com Staff Pick Excruciatingly direct and exceedingly well written, Anthony Swofford's memoir of Marine Corps life during the 1991 Gulf War is one of the most articulate, unflinching portrayals of military service the public has ever seen. "The individual soldier has... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elissa Minor Rust
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't often read short stories, but Elissa Minor Rust's debut arrived on my desk last week with a yellow sticky note proclaiming, "Local author!" Why not, I figured — and what do you know, I've been returning for another story or two almost every... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Susanka
Powells.com Staff Pick Whether you're designing a house from the ground up, renovating an existing home, or simply trying to get the most out of your living space, consider Home by Design an indispensable guide. The underlying principles of residential architecture —... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alice Sebold
Publisher Comments When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick Name one other book critic that consistently makes you laugh out loud without denigrating the work of his subject. Right, you can't. (If you can, please, let me know.) Hornby's monthly "What I've Been Reading" columns for the Believer magazine (collected... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Rakoff
Publisher Comments Journalist, actor, and radio commentator Rakoff has gathered in his first book what can best be described as essays on contemporary culture. And therein lies Rakoff's genius and his burgeoning appeal. The wry and the heartfelt join in his prose to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexandra Fuller
Powells.com Staff Pick In Scribbling the Cat, Fuller forsakes the oblique approach of her bestselling debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and tackles the Rhodesian War head-on. Visiting her parents in Zambia, she meets a veteran of the all-white Rhodesian Light Infantry... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Keith Hernandez and Mike Bryan
Publisher Comments Former All Star Keith Hernandez teaches even the most learned fan a thing or two about baseball with his unparalleled insight into all aspects of the game, from the action in the bullpen to the positioning on the field to the plays at the plate. Praise... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick In the nineties, while Americans were looking to cloying John Gray to explain the differences between men and women, the Brits were having a much better time learning about the foibles of gender from two of their best satirists. Taken together... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Saunders
Powells.com Staff Pick TBaFRoP has garnered many a comparison to Animal Farm. Fair enough: they're both novella-length, political fables written by men named George. But Saunders is so much funnier — and more playful. If you haven't read his work, here's a perfect place... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholson Baker
Publisher Comments Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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