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by Julie Orringer  
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Dave's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here.... (read more)  List Price $21.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Stefan Fatsis
Publisher Comments At a time of despair about our national pastime, the Northern League of Professional Baseball is a beacon of hope - an independent league, unaffiliated with the majors, where the games are for the fans and not between the owners and players. In his... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (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 $6.95 (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 Roger Angell and Steve Kettmann and Richard Ford
Powells.com Staff Pick In the spring of 1962, New Yorker editor William Shawn sent Roger Angell to Florida to write about spring training. Forty-one years later, Angell still covers baseball for the magazine. No one writes as well about the sport. (Few people write... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J D Salinger
Powells.com Staff Pick I named my yellow Lab "Zooey" and believe me, I don't make those kinds of decisions hastily. It was either Zooey or Pooh, and, well, I wondered what kind of looks I might get from strangers, shouting "Pooh!" at my dog in the park. Would people know that... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Malcolm Gladwell
Powells.com Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Malcolm Gladwell
Powells.com Staff Pick "Blink is riveting and entertaining, not to mention quite brief, which makes for a very fast read — but it stays with you....Few books can change your worldview or cause you to rethink your every action and response to the world around you. Not only... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Haven Kimmel
Powells.com Staff Pick Cassie Claiborne is a street-smart Nine-Ball prodigy, a temperamental tomboy, too knowing to accept her surroundings and too circumscribed by them to find release. I was less than thirty pages into Something Rising and already I sensed I'd be missing her... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Betsy Brevitz D.V.M
Powells.com Staff Pick Everything you need to know to keep your dog healthy, your mind at ease, and your wallet full. From puppies to seniors, it's all here: fleas and allergies, vaccines and behavioral problems, emergencies and basic first aid. I'll be giving Hound Health... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Orlean
Publisher Comments Now in paperback comes the wonderfully entertaining, bestselling collection of the "New Yorker" writer's brightest profiles. "A voyeur's delight: expertly framed windows into the cosmology of the human experience . . . (these profiles) reintroduce... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aimee Bender
Powells.com Staff Pick Funny, tender, very often bracing and constantly surprising, Aimee Bender... Oh, forget the pretense: Aimee Bender writes like no one else, and I love her for it. On the surface, most of the stories in Willful Creatures shouldn't ring true at all —... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $9.95 (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 $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Warren St. John
Powells.com Staff Pick In the tradition of Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, Warren St. John immerses readers in the wildly eccentric world of hardcore American sports fans. Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer is a hilarious, breezy read for anyone who's ever shouted at the TV or sulked... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Weisman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Pollan
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Julie Otsuka
Powells.com Staff Pick A breathtaking debut. Also a painter, Otsuka creates complex scenes and well-rounded characters with astonishing efficiency. Line by line her minimalist strokes disguise the massive canvas on which she's working: the internment of more than 120,000... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Gilbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Elizabeth Gilbert first met Eustace Conway in New York City, on the sidewalk in front of her apartment. He'd traveled from North Carolina, dressed in handmade buckskin clothing and "carrying an impressive knife on his belt." Gilbert, a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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