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by Rachel Dresbeck  
Publisher Comments For more than twenty years, the Insiders' Guide® series has remained the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information. Each guide is written by locals and true insiders and offers a personal, practical perspective that readers... (read more)  List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Glenn Stout
Powells.com Staff Pick There?s no shortage of books about the Red Sox out there, but if you?re going to own just one, stop, you?ve found it: Red Sox Century is the best, most comprehensive volume you?ll find. Born in 1901, baseball?s most interesting franchise last won a World... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $11.20 (Used - Hardcover) 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 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 Richard Russo
Powells.com Staff Pick Careful: Laboratory tests confirm that Richard Russo's prose promotes addictive behavior among committed readers of fiction. His fifth novel, Empire Falls, turns its own pages. Booklist noted, "Russo follows up his rollicking academic satire... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Foster Wallace
Publisher Comments Long renowned as one of the smartest writers on the loose, David Foster Wallace reveals himself in Consider the Lobster to be also one of the funniest. In these pages he ranges far and farther in his search for the original, the curious, or the merely... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Deford
Powells.com Staff Pick You'd expect top-notch baseball writing from Deford. It's his character portraits, and the ease with which he gets you turning pages, that might take you by surprise. He writes what he knows, and he knows people — particularly, men who turn ball... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Heidi Julavits
Powells.com Staff Pick Julavits's second novel manages the neat trick of entertaining while relating the story of a hijacking. The Effect of Living Backwards is a book about sisters. About identity. About choices. "A wonderfully absurdist game of chess," Aimee Bender called it.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.90 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Antrim
Powells.com Staff Pick For a while, inexplicably, Donald Antrim's debut novel was out of print. How did the publishers let this happen? As soon as Vintage released a new paperback edition, I immediately scooped up three copies for friends. Although I'd read and enjoyed Antrim... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alice McDermott
From Powells.com In 1998, Alice McDermott's fourth novel, Charming Billy, surprised the literary world by capturing the National Book Award. Few doubted that McDermott deserved the prize and the readership it would deliver — she'd also been nominated for... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Judy Blunt
Powells.com Staff Pick Blunt spent the first thirty years of her life circumscribed by traditions handed down by generations of homesteaders before her. In Breaking Clean, we encounter a life alternately brutal and breathtaking, a woman torn between the responsibilities of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 Daniel J. Levitin
Powells.com Staff Pick A revelation for music buffs and science geeks — and all the better if you happen to be both. How do memory and music work together? What makes timbre? How do writers like Lennon and McCartney, or John Coltrane and Miles Davis, manipulate our... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Jill Ker Conway
Review "When, in the mid-1970s, the trustees of Smith College in Northampton sought a new president — someone to stand up for women's colleges against the encroachment of coeducation — they found their Joan of Arc in Jill Ker Conway." The Boston... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.50 (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 $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Leavy
Powells.com Staff Pick "Koufax spans two distinct eras in baseball and in America," Jane Leavy notes. "In virtually ever way that matters, ethnically and economically, medically and journalistically, he offers a way to measure where we've been, what we've come to, what we've... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Lethem
Powells.com Staff Pick Lethem's ambitious new novel introduces readers to Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, two boys, best friends, growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. Dylan is white. Mingus is black. Raised by sullen, single fathers, together and alone the young neighbors awaken to life... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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