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Powells.com Top 50 books for Saturday, June 30
Welcome to Powell's Bestseller Room. If you're looking for a dependable recommendation, you're in the right place. Each week we stock our shelves with our customers' current favorites. And since Powell's prides itself on our cut-above-the-rest clientele, why not follow their lead?
#1
Special
The Prisoner of Heaven Signed Edition
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher Comments
The internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz ZafÓn takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind... (read more)
List price: $27.99
Your price: $25.99
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#2
Cooking and Food
Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving
by Ball
Publisher Comments
The Ball Blue Book of Preserving is the classic American guide to keeping fresh-tasting food on hand. Here you will find answers to every food preservation question, including vacuum sealing and packing with the Tilia FoodSaver, as well as unique gift... (read more)
Your price: $8.95
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#3
Cooking and Food
#4
Special
#5
Literature
Mink River
by Brian Doyle
Staff Pick
I haven't enjoyed a book this much in so long! Set in a tiny coastal Oregon town, this story is populated with characters who seem to leap off the page and speak their lines into your ear. They are that real. Brian Doyle breaks all the so-called "rules... (read more)
Your price: $18.95
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#6
Special
The Age of Miracles Signed Edition
by Karen Thompson Walker
Publisher Comments
With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age... (read more)
List price: $26.00
Your price: $18.20
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#7
Humor
#8
Economics
#9
Reference
#10
Literature
Canada
by Richard Ford
Publisher Comments
"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives... (read more)
List price: $27.99
Your price: $19.59
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#11
Featured Titles
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
Publisher Comments
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe — and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake... (read more)
List price: $25.95
Your price: $18.17
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#12
Featured Titles
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
by Alison Bechdel
Publisher Comments
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazines No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a... (read more)
List price: $22.00
Your price: $15.40
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#13
Special
Existence Signed Edition
by David Brin
Publisher Comments
Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence. Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up.... (read more)
Your price: $27.99
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#14
Special
75 Classic Rides Oregon Signed Edition
by Jim Moore
Publisher Comments
From an after-work ride through Portland's neighborhood streets or a family cycle along the flat Willamette Valley Scenic Bikeway, to a multi-day tour in the salty breezes of the Oregon coast if you're seeking the best road biking the state has to offer,... (read more)
Your price: $24.95
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#15
Children's
Turtle in Paradise
by Jennifer L Holm
Publisher Comments
Inspired by family stories, two-time Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Holm beautifully blends family lore with America's past in this charming gem of a novel, rich in historical detail, humor, and the unique flavors... (read more)
List price: $16.99
Your price: $4.98
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#16
Gardening
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
by Bill Mollison
Publisher Comments
This is the definitive Permaculture design manual in print since 1988. It is the textbook and curriculum for the 72-hour Certificate course in Permaculture Design.
Written for teachers, students and designers, it follows on and greatly enlarges on the... (read more)
Your price: $104.45
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#17
Children's
Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #01: The Mysterious Howling
by Maryrose Wood
Publisher Comments
Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line with gentle nips; Cassiopeia, perhaps four or five, has a bark that is (usually) worse than her... (read more)
Your price: $6.99
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#18
Pacific Northwest
Walk There!: 50 Treks in and around Portland and Vancouver
by Laura Foster
Publisher Comments
Lived here all your life or just visiting, Walk There! is like a magazine subscription of where to go, how to get there and the secrets you need to know when you arrive. Walk There! 50 treks in and around Portland and Vancouver, Metro's collection of... (read more)
Your price: $9.95
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#19
Featured Titles
Happy Accidents Signed Edition
by Jane Lynch
Publisher Comments
You might know Jane Lynch as the cheerleading coach everyone loves to hate on Glee, the intense lesbian dog-trainer in Best in Show, or store manager offering to deflower Steve Carell in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. But before that, she was just a teenager in... (read more)
Your price: $14.99
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#20
Children's
Star in the Forest
by Laura Resau
Publisher Comments
Zitlally's family is undocumented, and her father has just been arrested for speeding and deported back to Mexico. As her family waits for him to return—theyve paid a coyote to guide him back across the border—they receive news that... (read more)
Your price: $6.99
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#21
Children's
The Night Fairy
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher Comments
From 2008 Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz comes an exhilarating new adventure — and a thoroughly original fairy who is a true force of nature. What would happen to a fairy if she lost her wings and could no longer fly? Flory, a young night... (read more)
Your price: $6.99
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#22
Special
Tiny Beautiful Things Signed Edition
by Cheryl Strayed
Publisher Comments
Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can't pay the bills — and it can be great: you've had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar — the once... (read more)
Your price: $14.95
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#23
Sale Books
The Maze Runner
by James Dashner
Publisher Comments
Includes 3 copies each of The Kill Order (HC/9780385742887), The Death Cure (TR/9780385738781), The Scorch Trials (TR9780385738767), and The Maze Runner (TR/9780385737951)... (read more)
List price: $9.99
Your price: $4.98
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#24
Literature
State of Wonder (P.S.)
by Ann Patchett
Staff Pick
State of Wonder is Ann Patchett's best book yet (yes, even better than Bel Canto). Brimming with mystery, philosophy, intrigue, ethical questions, the flora and fauna of the Amazon jungle, and absolutely beautiful prose, Patchett's new novel should be at... (read more)
Your price: $15.99
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#25
Literature
Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Karen Russell
Staff Pick
Russell's debut novel is in a literary class of its own. Swamplandia! is a mystical, fascinating coming-of-age story told from the perspective of the charming 13-year-old Ava. A shabby tourist attraction in Florida and unpredictable family members flavor... (read more)
Your price: $14.95
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#26
Special
Growing Up Dead in Texas Signed Edition
by Stephen Graham Jones
Synopsis
It was a fire that could be seen for miles, a fire that split the community, a fire that turned families on each other, a fire that it's still hard to get a straight answer about. A quarter of a century ago, someone held a match to Greenwood, Texas's... (read more)
Your price: $14.95
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#27
Literature
The Cat's Table
by Michael Ondaatje
Publisher Comments
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a ship bound for England, and at mealtimes is seated at the "cat's table" with a ragtag group of "Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, "bursting all over the... (read more)
List price: $25
Your price: $11.95
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#28
Children's
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
by Tom Angleberger
Publisher Comments
In this funny, uncannily wise portrait of the dynamics of a sixth-grade class and of the greatness that sometimes comes in unlikely packages, Dwight, a loser, talks to his classmates via an origami finger puppet of Yoda. If that werent strange enough... (read more)
List price: $12.95
Your price: $6.98
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#29
Children's
One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams Garcia
Publisher Comments
Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, One Crazy Summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 in search of the mother who abandoned them. It's an unforgettable story... (read more)
Your price: $6.99
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#30
Science Fiction and Fantasy
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4)
by George R. R. Martin
Publisher Comments
A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO. George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin—dubbed the “American Tolkien” by Time magazine—has... (read more)
Your price: $8.99
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#31
Romance
#32
Child Care and Parenting
#33
Featured Titles
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Signed Edition
by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
Publisher Comments
Camden, New Jersey, with a population of 70,390, is per capita the poorest city in the nation. It is also the most dangerous. The city's real unemployment — hard to estimate, since many residents have been severed from the formal economy for... (read more)
Your price: $28.00
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#34
Mystery
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
Publisher Comments
Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly... (read more)
List price: $25.00
Your price: $17.50
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#35
Humor
I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections
by Nora Ephron
Staff Pick
The essays in Ephron's charming collection range from the very relatable (vignettes covering everything from egg yolks to Thomas Friedman) to the delightful and personal (as in "Journalism: A Love Story," which recounts her post-college days in a largely... (read more)
Your price: $22.95
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#36
Cooking and Food
#37
Children's
Ray & Me (Baseball Card Adventures)
by Dan Gutman
Publisher Comments
What would you do if you had a chance to save someone's life? When Stosh gets hit on the head with a baseball, he's lucky to survive. Then he learns about another player who wasn't so lucky—Ray Chapman, the only player in major league history to... (read more)
Your price: $5.99
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#38
Popular Fiction
The Pillars of the Earth (Oprah's Book Club Selection #60)
by Ken Follett
Publisher Comments
Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code FOLLETPILLARS at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies... (read more)
List price: $24.95
Your price: $2.95
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#39
Romance
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades Trilogy #1)
by E. L. James
Publisher Comments
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his... (read more)
Your price: $15.95
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#40
Literature
The Catcher in the Rye
by J D Salinger
Publisher Comments
Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.... (read more)
List price: $6.99
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#41
Self Help
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
by Harville Hendrix
Publisher Comments
The bestselling guide to transforming an intimate relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship, with a new foreword and chapter from the author
In Getting the Love You Want, Dr. Harville Hendrix presents the relationship skills that... (read more)
List price: $15.00
Your price: $9.50
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#42
Popular Fiction
Mission to Paris
by Alan Furst
Publisher Comments
It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for... (read more)
Your price: $27.00
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#43
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The claiming of Sleeping Beauty
by A. N. Roquelaure
Publisher Comments
In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty" the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush... (read more)
Your price: $2.95
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#44
Self Help
#45
Nature Studies
Making It
by Kelly Coyne
Publisher Comments
If you have ever wondered how to grow vegetables in an apartment, build a chicken coop, homebrew beer, or make your own soap from scratchthis book is for you. The essential guide to becoming a producer instead of a consumer, Making It is full of... (read more)
Your price: $19.99
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#46
Gender Studies
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
by Gail Dines
Publisher Comments
Astonishingly, the average age of first viewing porn is now 11.5 years for boys, and with the advent of the Internet, it’s no surprise that young people are consuming more porn than ever. And, as Gail Dines shows, today’s porn is strikingly... (read more)
Your price: $16.00
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#47
Mystery
The Devil's Star: A Harry Hole Novel
by Jo Nesbo
Publisher Comments
In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat — with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job, Detective... (read more)
List price: $14.99
Your price: $10.95
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#48
Mystery
#49
Special
This Truth Never Fails Signed Edition
by David Rynick
Synopsis
This Truth Never Fails is a playful yet well-grounded narrative of a year in the life of an unusual Zen master. Far from the silent and detached stereotype of Zen teachers, Rynick writes with disarming humor, offering both the struggles and the joys of... (read more)
Your price: $15.95
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#50
Sale Books
Italy: Pasta, Pesto, Passion (Culinaria)
by Claudia Piras
Synopsis
Food and culture are inexorably tied together. Culinaria reports on every aspect of a country's cuisine within the context of the people who created it. Profusely illustrated with spectacular photography and abundantly peppered with authentic recipes... (read more)
List price: $24.95
Your price: $12.98
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