Cart
|
|
my account
|
wish list
|
help
|
800-878-7323
Hello, |
Login
MENU
Browse
New Arrivals
Bestsellers
Featured Preorders
Award Winners
Audio Books
See All Subjects
Used
Staff Picks
Staff Picks
Picks of the Month
Bookseller Displays
50 Books for 50 Years
25 Best 21st Century Sci-Fi & Fantasy
25 PNW Books to Read Before You Die
25 Books From the 21st Century
25 Memoirs to Read Before You Die
25 Global Books to Read Before You Die
25 Women to Read Before You Die
25 Books to Read Before You Die
Gifts
Gift Cards & eGift Cards
Powell's Souvenirs
Journals and Notebooks
socks
Games
Sell Books
Blog
Events
Find A Store
Don't Miss
Big Mood Sale
Teen Dream Sale
Portland Like a Pro Sale
Powell's Author Events
Oregon Battle of the Books
Audio Books
Get the Powell's newsletter
Visit Our Stores
Powell's Staff:
Five Book Friday: In Memoriam
(0 comment)
Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
Read More
»
Brontez Purnell:
Powell’s Q&A: Brontez Purnell, author of ‘Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt’
(0 comment)
Rachael P.:
Starter Pack: Where to Begin with Ursula K. Le Guin
(0 comment)
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
##LOC[Cancel]##
{1}
##LOC[OK]##
##LOC[Cancel]##
Customer Comments
Kit-Katya has commented on (6) products
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by
Richard Rothstein
Kit-Katya
, July 21, 2022
This book is eye-opening. I knew that legal residential housing segregation existed, but everything I'd seen took for granted that it was de facto, resulting from individuals' choices. Rothstein demonstrates that government at every level not only allowed residential segregation to happen, but actively encouraged and even required it. I studied history and law, and so much of what Rothstein wrote was new and surprising to me. Highly recommend this book.
Was this comment helpful? |
Yes
|
No
report this comment
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
by
Peter Cozzens
Kit-Katya
, January 03, 2018
This is a great overview of the Indian Wars in the 19th century. Cozzens does a good job providing cultural context, making the course of battles and campaigns clear, and keeping track of the leaders on all sides of the conflict. He makes the point that Indians didn't think of themselves as "Indians" until late in the game, and continued to keep up intertribal conflict even as they were fighting what should have been their common enemy. There were often Indians serving as scouts for the Army, and the land that many of the Plains Indians were fighting to keep was land they had taken from earlier tribes. He doesn't romanticize either the Indians or the conflicts, but explains each tribe's situation, motivations, and conflicts within a tribe about how to deal with the American government, as well as the conflicts within the Army and between the Army and the other agents of the U.S. government, such as the tribal agents on the reservations, as well as civilians. Overall, Cozzens presents a complicated story of complicated people, and I found it incredibly interesting, and quite readable despite the amount of detail. It's a hard story to read, because we know how it ends, and we know the great suffering that was inflicted upon the Indians as the government sought to compel them to adopt the white man's lifestyle, and the lingering effects of American Indian policy on tribes and individuals. But it's a story that deserves to be told with this kind of complexity and nuance.
Was this comment helpful? |
Yes
|
No
(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
report this comment
A Book of Sleep
by
Il Sung Na
Kit-Katya
, April 03, 2017
Such a lovely, peaceful book. My daughter enjoyed trying to find the owl on each page as a toddler, but what surprised me most was that she's four and she still requests it from time to time. I've given this book as part of a baby gift several times.
Was this comment helpful? |
Yes
|
No
(2 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)
report this comment
Going to Bed Book
by
Sandra Boynton
Kit-Katya
, April 03, 2017
This was one of our regular bedtime books. A nice soothing rhythm, and Boynton's characteristic illustrations that are cute without being twee. Definitely recommend for reading to babies or toddlers. However, we never could figure out why the animals take a bath BEFORE they exercise.
Was this comment helpful? |
Yes
|
No
report this comment
Not Quite Narwhal
by
Jessie Sima
Kit-Katya
, April 03, 2017
We received this book as part of the Boox offer, and it was an instant hit with my unicorn-loving daughter. The story is sweet and simple, the illustrations are cute, and there is some gentle humor (Kelp's water wings, the deflated beach balls floating around the narwhals and unicorns playing beach volleyball made me giggle). Easy enough for her to read on her own, but also nice for snuggling and reading together.
Was this comment helpful? |
Yes
|
No
report this comment
A God in Ruins
by
Kate Atkinson
Kit-Katya
, November 15, 2016
I loved Life After Life, to which A God in Ruins is billed as a "companion novel." The hero of LAL is Ursula; AGIR focuses on her brother, Teddy. Like LAL, this is a sprawling book, but instead of numerous alternative narratives for a single character, AGIR tells a single story about many generations in a family. Both novels examine the ways in which individuals and history are contingent and interwoven, but in different ways. The high point of Teddy's life seems to be his time in the RAF, leading bombing missions over Europe, despite the horrors of war and the ethical challenges of what he is asked to do. After the war, he marries his sweetheart, but he is somehow diminished, left to struggle with his memories and dreams, with the domestic disappointments of life with his challenging daughter. But Teddy carries on, trying to be a good man, and the novel is ultimately about the importance of that good man, and the way that a single life can affect so many others, for good or ill. It's also a great read--Atkinson's writing style is engaging and immediate.
Was this comment helpful? |
Yes
|
No
(2 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)
report this comment