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by Amy Bloom  
Powells.com Staff Pick Lyrical and moving, terribly sad but funny, too, Away is a major accomplishment and a pleasure to read. Amy Bloom's language is precise and graceful, and her characters and their journeys make America in the 1920s shine with life. Recommended by Tessa,... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Jonathan Ames
Powells.com Staff Pick Wake Up, Sir! is a brilliant work of fiction that just happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, to boot (though it also has a stirring underlying sadness). Jonathan Ames is a daring and deeply honest writer whose work abounds with tender and heartbreaking... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian M. Wiprud
Powells.com Staff Pick If you don't like people looking at you, then don't read Pipsqueak, because I guarantee that your raucous laughter will cause folks to stare. A taxidermied squirrel, the swing-dance craze, and secret Soviet Cold War weapons experiments all play a part in... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick I started reading Summerland on a road trip and couldn't put it down. I was hooked from the moment Ethan and a ragtag group of characters — including a depressed Sasquatch and the rudest fairy princess you can imagine — embark on their quest to... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Patchett
Powells.com Staff Pick Ann Patchett's writing delves into a new world with each successive novel. This time she takes us on a captivatingly American journey of love, loss, and redemption. Patchett uses a delightfully modern story to explore timeless questions that will... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sherman Alexie
Powells.com Staff Pick Once I started this book, I couldn't stop reading. Not only is this young adult book funny and touching — it feels so real. Anyone of any age who has struggled to know themselves and has fought for happiness will find resonance in the words and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jhumpa Lahiri
Powells.com Staff Pick Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Moore
Powells.com Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Katie Roiphe
Powells.com Staff Pick Reminiscent of Composing a Life, Mary Catherine Bateson's famous study of women's lives, Katie Roiphe's Uncommon Arrangements gives us a compelling sociological look at the inner workings of marriage. Culled from the histories of seven marriages from... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cathi Hanauer
Powells.com Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J. K. Rowling
Powells.com Staff Pick The seeds planted throughout the series bear fruit in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. How did Dumbledore's nose get broken? Or his hand burned to a crisp? You will find all the answers here. This is the finest book in the series; the writing is... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dennis Lehane
Powells.com Staff Pick When it's too darn hot, open Shutter Island for a thoroughly chilling experience. Lehane describes the book as gothic noir. I'd say it was that, plus intelligent and riveting. Two policemen investigate a disappearance on a remote island psychiatric... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com Staff Pick "It's won the Pulitzer and for good reason; it's beautifully written, inspired, and gives you something to think about the rest of the year." Hilary, Powells... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Khaled Hosseini
Powells.com Staff Pick Never mind the sophomore slump — this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J. Maarten Troost
Powells.com Staff Pick When Troost followed his wife to a small island nation he expected Bali Hai. Instead he found an isolated, polluted, boiling hot hellhole. His wonderful tale is both hilarious and thrilling. This original adventure offers enjoyment and also allows... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Eager
Powells.com Staff Pick The four children of Half Magic have been reading E. Nesbit's magical story The Enchanted Castle, when they find something magical of their own — at least, partly magical. The ensuing misadventures are highly entertaining. Half Magic was a childhood... (read more) List Price $6.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Child
Powells.com Staff Pick If you don't read Reacher, you don't know Jack. So, dive headfirst into this taut and brutal tale of hero Jack Reacher — a lone drifter, a trained killer, a man of justice — as he rights wrongs and defends the helpless. It's author Lee... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Z. Danielewski
Powells.com Staff Pick "Saints be praised, this is the best book of the new millennium. A veritable tour de force. Pynchon meets Stephen King meets Robert Hughes meets Borges meets Dante. Joycian. Jungian. Mythic. Any clich used by fawning literary critics... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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