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by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Halberstam Special Offer Buy the set! Order The Coldest Winter now and receive the acclaimed 35-minute documentary about David Halberstam's last great effort. Starring Joan Didion, Bob Woodward, Robert Caro, Anna Quindlen, and Neil Sheehan.... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Philip Pullman Publisher Comments Lyra Belaqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar Pantalaimon always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle a struggle born of... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Virginia Woolf Publisher Comments This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sean Wilsey Powells.com Staff Pick Strangely compelling, Sean Wilsey's bare-all memoir about his terribly eccentric family is as disturbing as it is entertaining. You know those moments in life when you think "this can't be happening"? Wilsey's life seems composed entirely of those... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments In his journal, John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prizewinning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jeffrey Toobin Publisher Comments Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important and secret legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. Just in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charlie Savage Synopsis Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield enormous powers, unchecked by Congres or the courts--an agenda that links warrantless wiretapping and... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price $10.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Khaled Hosseini Publisher Comments An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joshua Ferris Powells.com Staff Pick Then We Came to the End tells the story of an ad agency in decline, circa 2001. "We had a toy client, a car client, a long-distance carrier and a pet store," readers are told. We. Ferris uses the first person plural to present the agency's collective... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mitch Albom Publisher Comments This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But on one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father ??? and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a poor orphaned boy who wishes to transcend his humble upbringing. He finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability but learns as his life advances that his money... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Anita Shreve Publisher Comments Always readable-sometimes compulsively so-Shreve's novels are typically emotionally resonant, nicely paced, and populated by memorable characters. -People<BR> <BR> At the age of 29, <st1: City w: st=on> <st1: place w: st=on>Sydney&... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Romero Publisher Comments The hosts of the vegan cooking show The Post Punk Kitchen are back with a vengeance — and this time, dessert. A companion volume to Vegan with a Vengeance, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World is a sweet and sassy guide to baking everyone's favorite... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ian McEwan Special Offer Buy the set! Order On Chesil Beach now and receive the acclaimed 28-minute film about Ian McEwan for only $5 more.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jane Austen Synopsis Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn in Hertfordshire. Jane, the eldest, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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