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by Ian Rankin Powells.com Staff Pick Some of the best crime writing these days seems to be coming from Scotland, and Ian Rankin is the cream of the crop. A brilliant addition to the Inspector Rebus series (as well as an ideal launching point for newcomers to Rankin), Fleshmarket Alley is... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Patricia Schultz Publisher Comments It's a traveler's life list, a guide, an inspiration, a memory book. Open it to check out where you've been, and where you should go next. What to see and what to do and what to show the kids. Where to eat and where to stay. And how to change your life... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William Faulkner Powells.com Staff Pick Faulkner is in a class of his own, and this is his best work. Moving seamlessly from its opening incoherence to its revelatory finale, it's almost as if he is teaching you how to read the novel as you are reading it! A family drama with some of the... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Christopher Reich Publisher Comments A job he shouldn't have taken... A woman he shouldn't have loved... A secret he shouldn't expose...if he wants to live. Nick Neumann had it all: a Harvard degree, a beautiful fiancée, a star-making Wall Street career. But behind the dazzling... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.25 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bernard Shaw Publisher Comments Shaw's expos of the British class system--featuring the enduring characters of Professor Henry Higgins and the "gutter-snipe" Eliza Doolittle he vows to turn into a lady--remains his most popular play. Includes Shaw's Preface and "sequel."... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $1.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Homer Publisher Comments In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic work, but maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tom McCarthy Publisher Comments A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can't quite place. How he goes... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Elizabeth Kostova Powells.com Staff Pick This is the perfect summer read I promise. From Anne Rice to Stephen King to Bram Stoker and beyond, desire for tales from the crypt never seems to die. Even if you believe the Dracula legend has been bludgeoned to the thinnest pulp, you will be... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of The Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Myla Goldberg Publisher Comments Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Arthur Miller Publisher Comments Based on historical people and real events, Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (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 $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ann Patchett Powells.com Staff Pick Run, a worthy successor to Bel Canto, shows off Patchett's trademark gorgeous prose and emotional depth. Her characters are believably flawed, but ultimately good and decent human beings who you want to spend time with. Recommended by Jill, Powells... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marian Keyes Publisher Comments The fast lane is much too slow for Rachel Walsh. And Manhattan is the perfect place for a young Irish female to overdo everything. But Rachel's love of a good time is about to land her in the emergency room. It will also cost her a job and the boyfriend... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mary Wollst Shelley Publisher Comments Edited by Maurice Hindle.... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Kate Atkinson’s dazzling debut novel is a deeply moving story of family heartbreak and happiness. Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jennifer Mcmahon Publisher Comments Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered--a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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