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Powell's top-selling books for Saturday, February 24, 2024

    #1

    The Kamogawa Food Detectives
    by Hisashi Kashiwai

    The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

    What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time?

    Down a quiet... (read more)


    #2

    First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
    by Sarah Wilson

    New York Times Bestseller

    "Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I've ever read." Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck


    The Chinese believe that before you can conquer... (read more)


    #3

    Wandering Stars - Signed Edition
    by Tommy Orange

    The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange's breakout best seller There There — winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American Book Award, and one of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2018 —... (read more)


    #4

    Remarkably Bright Creatures
    by Shelby Van Pelt

    For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus

    After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night... (read more)


    #5

    Someone Who Isnt Me
    by Geoff Rickly

    Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone who no longer recognizes himself. When Geoff hears that a drug called ibogaine might be able to save him from his heroin addiction, he goes to a clinic in Mexico to confront the... (read more)


    #6

    Creative Act a Way of Being
    by Rick Rubin

    The #1 New York Times bestseller.

    "A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment."... (read more)


    #7

    Holes
    by Louis Sachar

    Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by... (read more)


    #8

    The Joseph Road: Choices That Determine Your Destiny
    by Jerry E. White

    Do you wonder if God has a destiny for you? Joseph's life is a winding tale, from the choices laid before him to the struggles he endured to the protection God bestowed on him. Out of the ashes of disaster, God enabled him to rescue Egypt and to save a deeply flawed family that grew into a great... (read more)


    #9

    Gathering Of Old Men
    by Ernest J Gaines

    Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man.

    "Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly... (read more)


    #10

    Descubre Tus Fortalezas 2.0 (Strengthsfinder 2.0 Spanish Edition): Strengthsfinder 2.0 (Spanish Edition)
    by Tom Rath

    Para ayudar a la gente a descubrir sus talentos, Gallup present la primera versi n de su evaluaci n en l nea, StrengthsFinder, en 2001, que inici una conversaci n global y ayud a millones de personas a descubrir sus cinco mejores talentos. En su ltimo bestseller nacional, StrengthsFinder 2.0,... (read more)


    #11

    The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
    by Hannah Durkin

    Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its last... (read more)


    #12

    The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)
    by Cory Doctorow

    New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California's prisons are traded like stock shares.

    The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a... (read more)


    #13

    Slow Down
    by Kohei Saito, Brian Bergstrom

    " A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal."
    --Publishers Weekly, (starred review)

    "Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded... (read more)


    #14

    The Warm Hands of Ghosts
    by Katherine Arden

    During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the... (read more)


    #15

    Prophet Song
    by Paul Lynch

    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023

    On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on... (read more)


    #16

    All About Love: New Visions
    by bell hooks

    A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' Love Song to the Nation trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause... (read more)


    #17

    One Day
    by David Nicholls

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring ANNE HATHAWAY and JIM STURGESS

    It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are... (read more)


    #18

    Bringing Up Bebe One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
    by Pamela Druckerman

    The runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France's amazingly well-behaved children   When American journalist Pamela Druckerman had a baby in Paris, she didn't aspire to become a "French parent." But she... (read more)


    #19

    Radical Mycology
    by Peter Mccoy

    Fungi are found throughout the world, often playing critical roles at the center of all ecological webs. As culturally important foods and medicines, as well as instigators of religious practices, they have been intimately tied to the development and spread of human cultures. And yet, despite their... (read more)


    #20

    The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
    by Michiko Kakutani

    An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril — from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times... (read more)


    #21

    Land in Our Bones
    by Layla K Feghali

    A profound and searching exploration of the herbs and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Cana'an--a vital invitation to re-member our roots and deepen relationship with the lands where we live in diaspora

    Tying cultural survival to earth-based knowledge, Lebanese ethnobotanist,... (read more)


    #22

    The Book of Love
    by Kelly Link

    In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.

    "A dizzying dream ride you will never forget." — Leigh Bardugo
    "An astonishing, gorgeous... (read more)


    #23

    Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
    by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One million copies sold! "A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women." The Washington Post Book World

    Book club pick for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf


    Within every... (read more)


    #24

    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
    by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of... (read more)


    #25

    Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    "If you're looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read." --Bustle

    From the New York Times... (read more)


    #26

    Tattooist of Auschwitz
    by Heather Morris

    This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov--an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.

    "The Tattooist of... (read more)


    #27

    Tender Is the Flesh
    by Agustina Bazterrica and Sarah Moses

    Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans — though no one calls them that anymore.

    His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it... (read more)


    #28

    Court of Thorns & Roses 04 Court of Frost & Starlight
    by Sarah J Maas

    A tender addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas, bridging the events of A Court of Wings and Ruin and upcoming books.

    Feyre, Rhysand, and their friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly... (read more)


    #29

    What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    by Randall Munroe

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask

    The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those... (read more)


    #30

    Hello Beautiful
    by Ann Napolitano

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a poignant and engrossing family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?

    "Hello Beautiful is exactly that: beautiful, perceptive, wistful. It's a story of family and friendship, of how... (read more)


    #31

    Fourth Wing (Empyrean Book 1)
    by Rebecca Yarros

    An Instant New York Times Bestseller

    A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book


    "Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy." Booklist (Starred... (read more)


    #32

    Life on Earth
    by Dorianne Laux

    In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux's trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom.... (read more)


    #33

    Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
    by Leslie Jamison

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage — an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
     
    Leslie Jamison has... (read more)


    #34

    Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
    by Charles Duhigg

    From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work — and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life

    "A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well... (read more)


    #35

    Monstrilio
    by Gerardo Samano Cordova

    #36

    When the Body Says No Understanding the Stress Disease Connection
    by Gabor Mate

    Now in paperback, the bestselling exploration of the effects of the mind-body connection on stress and disease

    Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there such a thing as a "cancer personality"? Drawing on scientific research and the author's decades of experience as a practicing... (read more)


    #37

    Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know
    by Emily Oster

    "Gives moms-to-be a big helping of peace of mind!" — Harvey Karp M.D., bestselling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block

    Pregnancy — unquestionably one of the most pro¬found, meaningful experiences of adulthood — can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. Pregnant... (read more)


    #38

    Dune
    by Frank Herbert

    Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece — a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time — nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

    Set on the desert planet Arrakis,... (read more)


    #39

    A Court of Thorns and Roses (Court of Thorns and Roses #1)
    by Sarah J. Maas

    The sexy, action-packed first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series from Sarah J. Maas.

    When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a... (read more)


    #40

    The Firekeeper's Daughter
    by Angeline Boulley

    An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Pick

    In Firekeeper's Daughter, debut author Angeline Boulley crafts a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, for readers of... (read more)


    #41

    I Who Have Never Known Men
    by Jacqueline Harpman

    Ursula K. LeGuin meets The Road in a post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy.

    Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time,... (read more)


    #42

    Sun Also Rises The Authorized Edition
    by Ernest Hemingway

    The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, with a new introduction by Colm T ib n, award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Magician.

    A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of... (read more)


    #43

    Capitalist Realism Is There No Alternative
    by Mark Fisher

    It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and... (read more)


    #44

    Rouge
    by Mona Awad

    From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother's fate — and find a connection that is more... (read more)


    #45

    How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)
    by Jessica McCabe

    In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the hard-won insights and practical strategies that have helped her survive, even thrive, in a world not built for her brain.

    Forget "try harder."... (read more)


    #46

    Women
    by Kristin Hannah

    The missing. The forgotten. The brave... The women.

    From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels--at once an... (read more)


    #47

    Short History of Trans Misogyny
    by Jules Gill Peterson

    An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by Susan Stryker

    "A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

    There is no shortage of voices... (read more)


    #48

    Shark Lady
    by Ann Mcgovern

    An introduction to the life and career of the ichthyologist whose interest in fish began at the age of nine during weekly trips to the Aquarium in New York City.


    #49

    The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
    by Bessel Van Der Kolk

    "Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society." Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies

    A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma... (read more)


    #50

    A Little Life
    by Hanya Yanagihara

    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
    The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Wall Street Journal - NPR - Vanity Fair - Vogue - Minneapolis Star Tribune - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian - O, The Oprah Magazine - Slate - Newsday - Buzzfeed - The... (read more)


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