|
by Shannon Biro Publisher Comments At four, Shannon Kring spends her days stuffing anything she can get her hands on into her red leather suitcase, playing 60 Minutes with her Barbie dolls, and basking in the limelight cast on her by her over-attentive mother. Then her sister Natalie is... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Shusha Guppy Publisher Comments "Guppy's memoir of life in Iran before the Ayatollahs is exquisite. It conveys a sense of the country and its customs, which reveal better than most documents, the nature of the crisis which Iran is still enduring." -William Shawcross, Sunday Times... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elizabeth Cohen Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book The Family on Beartown Road is Elizabeth Cohen’s true and moving portrait of love and courage. Elizabeth, a member of the “sandwich generation”—those caught in the middle, simultaneously caring for... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bridget Harrison Publisher Comments What if Bridget Jones were alive and well and living in Manhattan? Meet Bridget Harrison, a soon-to-be-thirty Brit, newly-on-the-scene reporter for America’s most famous tabloid, the New York Post. While her friends back in London are tossing their... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Sedgwick Publisher Comments John Sedgwick's acclaimed first two novels, THE DARK HOUSE and THE EDUCATION OF MRS. BEMIS, introduced readers to the rarified, monied enclave of Brahmin Boston, in which privilege and elitism, handed down from one generation to the next, comes at a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Evan Handler Publisher Comments A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death. Actor and author Evan Handler's new book, It's Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jim Webb Publisher Comments “I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos." Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Eric Clapton Publisher Comments In "Clapton: The Autobiography," one of the most revered and private figures in the history of rock, blues, and pop finally shares his astonishing life story. The perfect gift for any Slow Hand fan.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Aton Edwards Publisher Comments This emergency survival guide provides the tools for self-sufficiency and personal protection at a time when extreme weather, terrorist attacks, and economic uncertainty have become the new realities of 21st-century life.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Williams Sonoma Publisher Comments Pasta is a marriage of ingredients — from vine-ripened tomatoes and aged parmesan to delicate clams and crisp white wine. This cookbook, filled with sumptuous color photos throughout, explores the myriad of combinations and offers 40 all-occasion... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
|
by Joyce Thompson Publisher Comments Reading Joyce Thompson, like sitting on a hillside with a friend, tracing story in rock and sun, surprised when darkness comes.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Catherine Llo Burns Publisher Comments Life is a series of losses. I’ve decided to be very Zen about it. I have lost two husbands, my parents, my brother, countless friends; it is just one loss after another. You might as well get used to it.” So muses the author’s mother in... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Deborah Rudacille Publisher Comments Rudacille provides a history of 150 years of often bitter contention between scientists who use animals in their research for both medical and commercial purposes and those who defend the rights of animals to live free of human exploitation.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ali Smith Powells.com Staff Pick The Accidental, Ali Smith's dazzling new novel, explores the modern family in all its chaos, darkness, and love, using some of the most inventive prose seen in recent years. Smith's story is bewitching, her characters empathetic, and her craft... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Allen Raymond Publisher Comments Fresh out of grad school, Allen Raymond joined the GOP for one reason: rumor had it that there was big money to be made on the Republican side of the aisle. From the earliest days of the Republican Revolution through its culmination in the second Bush... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Carol Ireson Publisher Comments After the Vietnam War, socialist governments ascended to power in all the countries of the former Indochina. In Laos, more than a decade of socialist reorganization was followed by economic liberalization in the late 1980s. Laotian women had... (read more) List Price $86.00 Your price $18.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kim Powers Publisher Comments Powers details his frantic search for his twin brother Tim who disappears from Manhattan one weekend while in his late 20s. He falls in with two eccentric traveling companions who guide him on the last leg of his quest, driving through the night to the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robin Gaby Fisher Synopsis On January 19, 2000, a fire raged through SetonHallUniversity's freshman dormitory, killing three students and injuring 58 others. Among the victims were Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, roommates from poor neighborhoods who made their families proud by... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Loung Ung Publisher Comments Chapter One phnom penhApril 1975 Phnom Penh city wakes early to take advantage of the cool morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with sweltering heat. Already at 6 A.M. people in Phnom Penh are rushing and bumping... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Julie Klam Publisher Comments A woman's hilarious, bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance. Julie Klam was raised as the only daughter of a Jewish family in the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
|









