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Powells.com Top 50 books for Friday, May 24
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?
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Special
#2
Science Fiction and Fantasy
NOS4A2 Signed 1st Edition
by Joe Hill
Publisher Comments
Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, plunges you into the dark side of imagination with a thrilling novel of supernatural suspense that will have you flinching at shadows and checking... (read more)
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#3
Cooking and Food
Cooked Signed 1st Edition
by Michael Pollan
Publisher Comments
Fire, water, air, earth — our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education. In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four... (read more)
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#4
Health and Medicine
Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook, 2nd Edition
by Alissa Segersten and Tom Malterre
Publisher Comments
Eating a whole foods, oligo-antigenic diet can change your health and your life. An oligo-antigenic diet reduces or eliminates foods you are sensitive to.
Completely eliminating foods, such as gluten and dairy for some people, while increasing fresh... (read more)
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#5
Featured Titles
Paprika (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Publisher Comments
Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psychiatric institute that has developed the technology to invade people's dreams. When prototype models of a... (read more)
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#6
Featured Titles
Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book)
by Hilary Mantel
Staff Pick
Would the sequel live up to expectations? Actually, yes. Hilary Mantel's talent for rich detail and sensuous atmosphere is still apparent, and Bring Up the Bodies is, in some ways, a much more gripping, riveting, and textured read than Wolf Hall. For one... (read more)
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#7
Featured Titles
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher Comments
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing... (read more)
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#8
Business
#9
Literature
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
From Powells.com
Haruki
Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation,
but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native
country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature... (read more)
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#10
Literature
A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
Publisher Comments
A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. A lonely 20-something young man begins a surreal quest in which he confronts not only a herd... (read more)
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#11
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Wool
by Hugh Howey
Publisher Comments
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the... (read more)
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#12
Sustainable Living
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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#13
Literature
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
Staff Pick
Do we really need another sweeping historical epic set in 16th-century England? One which possesses at its heart yet another subplot about Henry VIII and his volatile affections? We certainly do if the novel is written by Hilary Mantel. Written in a... (read more)
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#14
Literature
Spring Snow (Sea of Fertility #1)
by Yukio Mishima
Publisher Comments
The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders — rich provincial families unburdened by... (read more)
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#15
Literature
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
Publisher Comments
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of... (read more)
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#16
Literature
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
Publisher Comments
This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event.
Toru, a... (read more)
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#17
Literature
Grotesque (Vintage International)
by Natsuo Kirino
Publisher Comments
Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward... (read more)
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#18
Mythology
#19
General
#20
Literature
The Woman in the Dunes
by Kobo Abe
Publisher Comments
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the... (read more)
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#21
Literature
Villain (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Shuichi Yoshida
Publisher Comments
A young insurance saleswoman is found strangled at Mitsuse Pass. Her family and friends are shocked and terrified. The pass — which tunnels through a mountainous region of southern Japan — has an eerie history: a hideout for robbers... (read more)
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#22
Special
Go Big or Go Home Signed Edition
by Kat Von D
Publisher Comments
Renowned tattoo artist, author of New York Times bestsellers High Voltage Tattoos and The Tattoo Chronicles, and star of LA Ink, Kat Von D raises the bar with her most intimate work yet: Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing. Kat... (read more)
Your price: $29.99
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#23
Special
Siege and Storm Signed Edition
by Leigh Bardugo
Publisher Comments
Darkness never dies. Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can't outrun her past or her... (read more)
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#24
Special
Buried in the Sky Signed Edition
by Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan
Publisher Comments
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost... (read more)
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#25
Cooking and Food
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
by Deborah Madison
Staff Pick
Working at Catacombs warehouse, I run across many, many cookbooks, and more often than not take them home to try them out. This cookbook has quickly become one of my favorites. Every recipe — really, every one! — that I've tried so far has been... (read more)
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#26
Gardening
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (2nd Edition)
by Toby Hemenway
Staff Pick
Gaia's Garden has been an indispensable reference for gardeners who want to turn their yards into ecosystems that work with nature to create gardens that are beautiful, beneficial (to insects, birds, and people), and self-sustaining. This second edition... (read more)
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#27
Literature
City of Thieves
by David Benioff
Staff Pick
Set during the Germans' brutal siege of Leningrad in World War II, City of Thieves is a harrowing, surreal, and surprisingly funny odyssey through a land ravaged by war, where two young soldiers on an impossible mission encounter the best and worst of... (read more)
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#28
Children's
Gregor the Overlander: Underland Chronicles #1
by Suzanne Collins
Publisher Comments
In the irresistible first novel by the author of The Hunger Games, a boy embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny -- and find his father. New cover art coming July 1st! In the first novel of the New York Times bestselling series by... (read more)
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#29
Gardening
#30
Children's Nonfiction
Drawing from Memory
by Allen Say
Publisher Comments
Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist Drawing from Memory is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the... (read more)
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#31
Health and Medicine
The Herbal Medicine-makers Handbook: a Home Manual
by James Green
Publisher Comments
THE HERBAL MEDICINE-MAKER'¬?S HANDBOOK is an entertaining compilation of natural home remedies written by one of the great herbalists, James Green, author of the best-selling THE MALE HERBAL. Writing in a delightfully personal and down-home style,... (read more)
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#32
Self Help
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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)
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#33
Featured Titles
Seven Japanese Tales
by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Publisher Comments
Junichiro Tanizaki’s Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty.... (read more)
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#34
Literature
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
by David Sedaris
Publisher Comments
A new collection of essays from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been called "the preeminent humorist of his generation" by Entertainment Weekly.
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his... (read more)
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#35
Children's
Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhha Lai
Publisher Comments
For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Ha and her... (read more)
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#36
General
#37
REM
The History of Love: A Novel
by Nicole Krauss
Staff Pick
In this brilliant work on love and loss, two stories, past and present, merge. With compassion and humor, Nicole Krauss writes a beautiful and incredibly imaginative novel, delivering readers through twists and turns to arrive at a wholly satisfying... (read more)
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#38
Children's Young Adult
Who Is Neil Armstrong? (Who Was...?)
by Roberta Edwards
Publisher Comments
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and, to an audience of over 450 million people, proclaimed his step a ?giant leap for mankind.? This Eagle Scout built his own model planes as a little boy and then grew up to be a test pilot for... (read more)
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#39
Literature
Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher Comments
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents... (read more)
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#40
Literature
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
Staff Pick
The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more)
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#41
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: $9.99
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#42
Child Care and Parenting
#43
Outdoors
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
Staff Pick
I know this title is everywhere right now. I was very fortunate to get an advanced copy, and I immediately fell in love. Why? Well, like many, my favorite books are those that seem to have been written just for me. I deeply understood the raw ache of... (read more)
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#44
Science Fiction and Fantasy
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1)
by George R. R. Martin
From Powells.com
If you're a "read-the-book-first" type, you might want to get started now on George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. HBO has optioned the first book, A Game of Thrones, as a series, and 10 episodes are slated to begin filming in Ireland in... (read more)
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#45
Children's
#46
Literature
Naomi
by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Publisher Comments
Na-o-mi. The three syllables of this name, unusual in 1920s Japan, captivate a 28-year-old engineer, who soon becomes infatuated with the girl so named, a teenaged café waitress. Drawn to her Eurasian features and innocent demeanor, Joji is eager... (read more)
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#47
World History
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by Margalit Fox
Publisher Comments
In 1900, while excavating on Crete, the charismatic Victorian archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed inscribed clay tablets amid the ruins of a lavish Bronze Age palace. Written by palace scribes circa 1450 b.c., the script they displayed—... (read more)
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#48
Special
A Serpent's Tooth Signed Edition
by Craig Johnson
Publisher Comments
The inspiration for A&E's Longmire finds himself in the crosshairs in the ninth book of the New York Times bestselling series
The success of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues to grow after A&E's hit show... (read more)
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#49
Children's Animals
Young Fredle
by Cynthia Voigt
Publisher Comments
Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets&mdash... (read more)
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#50
Children's
Dear Mr. Henshaw (Avon Camelot Books)
by Beverly Cleary
Publisher Comments
Dear Mr. Henshaw, Leigh Botts has been author Boyd Henshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid at school. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross... (read more)
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