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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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Have Dog Will Travel A Poets Journey
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Stephen Kuusisto
Barbara Mayer
, May 22, 2018
At age 38, blind poet Stephen Kuusisto got his first guide dog, a yellow Lab named Corky. You could say it was “love at first sight” – Corky burst into the room, put her paws on his shoulders and washed his face. It was the start of a great relationship for man and dog as they learned to navigate crowded sidewalks and cross busy streets safely. Have Dog, Will Travel is the story of Stephen’s transformation into a confident, joyful person. With Corky at his side, he visits Manhattan for the first time, rides the subway and strolls through Central Park. This is a heartwarming, beautifully written memoir of overcoming a disability with the loving help of a dog.
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Water Is Wide
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Pat Conroy
Barbara Mayer
, June 09, 2017
In The Water Is Wide, author Pat Conroy describes in evocative prose the year he spent teaching black children in a two-room schoolhouse on Yamacraw Island, a sea island off the South Carolina coast. Conroy quickly discovers that his 6th and 7th grade students can barely write or spell, don’t know what country they live in or the name of the ocean that surrounds their island. He rises to the challenge by using art, music, tape recordings of student voices, guest musicians and field trips to the mainland. His unconventional teaching methods soon get him into hot water with the school superintendent and board of education. Full of humor, pathos and anger at how our educational system fails its most vulnerable children, this book will get under your skin and change the way you think about teaching and learning.
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Bryan Stevenson
Barbara Mayer
, May 06, 2017
Just Mercy is an eye-opening look at our criminal justice system through the eyes of a young lawyer who fought to overturn the conviction of an Alabama man sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit. Bryan Stevenson fought to prove the innocence of Walter McMillian and other death row inmates. He founded the Equal Justice Initiative to help criminals on death row as well as juveniles sentenced to life in prison for crimes they committed when they were immature teenagers. This book is a moving, impassioned plea for justice leavened with mercy and compassion.
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