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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.... (read more)  List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy Milford
Publisher Comments Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Regan Daley
Publisher Comments AH, DESSERT. It's the ultimate comfort food. A simple crumble, with all its memories of childhood. A slice of still-warm blueberry pie. That chocolate truffle with just a hint of chestnut melting away so mysteriously. Yet many cooks are intimidated by... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.95 (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 $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Colson Whitehead
Powells.com Staff Pick In the highly anticipated follow-up to his critically revered The Intuitionist, Whitehead asks plenty of his readers. Repeatedly, new characters appear only to withdraw five pages later; J.'s visit to Talcott plods forward only bit by bit, tunneling... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 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 $7.00 (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 Alice Sebold
Powells.com Staff Pick As you likely know if you're reading this, The Almost Moon opens with a startling confession: Helen Knightly has killed her mother — and the killing "came easily," she admits. What follows is a remarkable, tension-filled examination of aging and... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoff Dyer
Publisher Comments In Geoff Dyer's deft hands, what seems like an abstract idea — the search for the essence of experience — becomes an opportunity for storytelling: for a bracing, riotous, and addictive (to writer and reader) chronicling of anticipation and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Patchett
Powells.com Staff Pick The government of a small South American country holds a birthday party for the head of Japan's leading electronics manufacturer, hoping to attract its business. Mr. Hosokawa, they know, can't resist the opportunity of a private performance by the world... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Lee Burke
Publisher Comments For years, Det. Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff's office kept the secret of the watery resting place of the Nazi submarine. Now decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist and a neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter both want to find the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Amy Hempel
Powells.com Staff Pick I read The Collected Stories in order, over the course of a single week. My long overdue introduction to Amy Hempel — it was a very good week, indeed. By the time I finished I'd penciled five names onto the back of the last page: friends who'll soon... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Miriam Toews
Powells.com Staff Pick Sharp and often howlingly funny — but insistently generous — A Complicated Kindness introduces sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel, straining under the pressure of family, boys, and authority, common enough conflicts drawn here in extravagant... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick This is the mix-tape of writing! Twenty-five pieces of fiction, nonfiction, humor, and alternative comics, come together in one literary compilation. Nonrequired Reading presents a refreshing selection from a diverse group of writers and publications... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 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 $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) 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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