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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...
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Wolf Totem
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Rong Jiang
Doug
, January 05, 2011
Spell-binding .. you will not want to put it down. From the 'Translator's Note' - "In 1969, a young Chinese intellectual from Beijing answered Chairman Mao's call for city dwellers to go 'up to the mountains and down to the countryside,' joining as many as a hundred like-minded youngsters in traveling to one of China'a most remote, most "primitive" spots north-central Mongolia. .... "Jiang Rong did in fact learn" ... and learn I did - WOW, to the very end of the book. If you have a love of the out-of-doors, and adventure, and Western literary classics - you will love this book. READ IT.
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Irish Country Doctor
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Patrick Taylor
Doug
, January 02, 2010
Being I read Dr. Taylor's second book before I read this first one - I was well aware of all the characters in the story line ---- but this did not stop me for getting the background to a wonderful group of people in a very beautiful land. The Irish - enchant - Dr. Taylor is a gifted wordsmith, capturing with just the right phrases a land and people he has come to love through humor and sparks.
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Irish Country Village
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Patrick Taylor
Doug
, January 02, 2010
Incredible humanity - you cannot help but laugh and cry with the folk in this county village with all their textures of down-to-earth life and living. Dr. Taylor is a rare writer who tackles the lives of other people brilliantly; totally vibrant, intoxicating and heart-warming; there are few better portraits of such a different world.
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Landscaping With Fruit
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Lee Reich
Doug
, January 01, 2010
Beyond description ... 191 pages simply packed with some of the most incredible information I have ever experienced. With the renewed interest in growing our own food and the focus on 'kitchen gardens' - this book is most timely and will serve as a complete resource to help many of us have an abundant harvest. Here you will learn about design, plant selection, growing techniques and a philosophy of gardening that will make your 'edible' landscape both productive and beautiful.
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Public Produce
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Darrin Nordahl
Doug
, November 01, 2009
It is about time someone wrote 'clearly' about this issue. Good work Darrin - if just one person in public office in each city or government entity would read this book, we very well may be able to change the shape of our public places - from waste-lands of energy gobblers to energy producers.
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Sky Time in Grays River Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
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Robert Michael Pyle
Doug
, June 15, 2007
Most excellent ... for a Yale trained scientist - ecologist and Guggenheim Fellow ... Bob Pyle creates for us a very personal narative which is an incredible and very powerful sonata for life and living. He shares with us and wants us to hear that too may harried Americans have lost in their daily lives an essential attentiveness to the natural world and its subtle yet deliberately timed rhythms. Flora, fauna, real people and ordinary happenings are woven into a quilt that defines a special place which can change anyone and once changed develop the pleasures of being alive into sacraments.
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Get a Life You Dont Need a Million to Retire Well
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Ralph Warner
Doug
, December 05, 2006
Ralph Warner, an attorney, has written a retirement guide which, despite its title, focuses on non-financial issues as well as the traditional retirement concerns - which I found was just up my alley. Using notable people who have led productive "retirement" lives Mr. Warner focuses on important concerns such as broadening circles of friends, relying on one's extended family, turning to hobbies and nonwork activities. The book will help the general near-retirement or already-retired reader gain a healthier perspective on retirement. The sections on friendship and love are particularly compelling. Mr. Warner can also be something of a contrarian in his financial advice; he maintains that experts who say people need roughly 80% of their pre-retirement income are wrong. Additionally, Warner says that the Social Security system is not actually in precarious shape and will be around for many years to come. Be-that-as-it-may this book of the is one of freshest and most practical approaches to retirement planning in a long time - because, money for retirement does not really matter? Well, not exactly - but the real keys to an effective and successful retirement are good health, spiritual life, relationships with family and friends, and having interesting things to do. Mr Warner accomplishes his mission in this book and that is to identify the habits and life-style choices that set zestful people apart from those who spend their last years bored, lonely, and very depressed. He reveals - quite bluntly infact - that there is most often a very direct connection between a mid-life obsession with work and saving and an unhappy & unfulfilling retirement.
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Epidemic The Rot Of American Culture
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Robert Shaw
Doug
, September 15, 2006
The book's subtitle - "The rot of American culture, absentee and permissive parenting, and the resulting plague of joyless, selfish children" ---- says it all. Author Robert Shaw knows what he is talking about - an MD and family therapist he brings an incredible breadth of experience that more than qualifies him to write a book about how to raise happy and emotionally stable, respectful and self-disciplined children that not only contiribute to society and make a better world for all of us .... but, that it is so important that parents (mom and dad) should demand of themselves a reading "aloud" together this book. Parents will do their life and their children's life a favor. It is an easy reader - you will rip right though it. Every now and then there is some really good information that warrants passing along - this book is one of those standouts (outstanding) in desperate need of being read, and if you are a parent, you will be glad you got this book.
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The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea
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A. J. MacKinnon
Doug
, July 21, 2006
There is living aboard and then there is "living aboard" according to Jack de Crow. Wow-oh-wow is all I can say about this amazing 355 page volume. Many readers may-well be inclined to dismiss Mackinnon as the sort of amusing, colorful, harmless eccentric famously produced by the English race of peoples; but, Mackinnon (not being English) gives us a personality close to the water and close to the hearts of those who saw him bravely rowing his little boat east. Through out his voayage he was taken in to be repaired, fed and generally treated with great affection by those he met on his voyage. Mr. Mackinnon treats us with a stylish flair you might expect from a literature teacher and gives us many a lesson well worth learning in this exciting and charming book. It is a fine addition to be onboard your bookshelf.
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Understanding Boat Communications
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John C. Payne
Doug
, July 21, 2006
This little book deals with the vital communication equipment you might find aboard a cruising boat = through being very concise Mr. Payne gives us an instant access to the very criical issue of sea-going communication - additionally, he provides us with the stuff needed to equip your boat properly, be it for a long off-shore voayage or a puttering around adventure. Initially, with the new GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System) as a benchmark for discussion, Mr. Payne shares with us the way in which Inmarsat satellites are used to link the sailor in trouble with the agencies which can find and rescue them. Mr Payne also explores the unplesant but eventually reassuring subject of EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons) - since NOAA will stop monitoring the older EPIRBs in 2009 such a subject is well worth a detailed exploration. Finally, we are presented with happier subjects, like Navtex, VHF radio, cell phones and their limited place in sea-going communications, SSB/HF radio, amateur (ham) radio, short-wave communications, e.mail services, satellite communications and last but not least Weatherfax. Some of us will need all of the information - but, all will need some of it. The wisdom and pleasant out-going (but often reserved) personality of Mr. Payne comes through again and again, and though he writes with the candor of the electrical engineer and the critical voice of a surveyor Mr. Payne gives us many a lesson well worth learning for a happier and safer boating experience.
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