by Salman Rushdie
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Author Interview: Brendan Short  A dazzling tale featuring a colorful cast of heroes, villains, and damsels in distress (both real and make believe), Brendan Short's debut novel Dream City poses the most dangerous of questions: What happens when one man finally discovers what he's spent his entire life searching for? Library Journal calls it "an impressively mature first effort....Highly recommended."
by Junot Diaz  
Powells.com Staff Pick Innovative and educational, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a captivating novel about a family marked by fuku (curse) and circumstance. Díaz's story is reminiscent of Steinbeck's East of Eden — except that it's set in modern-day... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $9.80 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies 
by Homer And Lattimore Publisher Comments The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.... (read more) Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Nancy Horan Publisher Comments I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by John Carter Publisher Comments Eighth edition, completely revised and re-set, with additional information and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you... (read more) Your Price $29.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Emma Donoghue Publisher Comments Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of her once-dear friend, the unhappily wed... (read more) Your Price $26.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Tom Rob Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick I stayed up long past my bedtime to get to the end. I get a lot of debut crime/thriller/suspense fiction across my desk, and every book and author is hyped as the next big thing. This is the first one where I think that might be true. Usually, with a... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shirley Hazzard
Powells.com Staff Pick You may already be familiar with some of the fanfare associated with Shirley Hazzard's novel The Great Fire, as it was her first novel in twenty years. Aldred Leith is one of those living in what's left of the Pacific Theatre in the years immediately... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Benjamin Black Publisher Comments A new thriller from the Booker Prize-winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan. John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of... (read more) Your Price $13.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by P. G. Wodehouse Publisher Comments The fall brings four more antic novels from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Picadilly Jim (soon to be a major motion picture), Jimmy Crocker has a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic and must do an about-face to win back the woman of... (read more) Your Price $17.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Miranda Glover Publisher Comments Art, fashion, sex, fame--artist Esther Glass has it all. That is, until a ghost from her past threatens to destroy her perfect life. Trying to cover her tracks, Esther goes for ultimate sensation--selling herself at Sotheby's as a living work of art... (read more) Your Price $19.09 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
Publisher Comments From the makers of Russell Simmons's Def Comedy Jam, comes an all-new series that showcases practitioners of one of the country's fastest-rising performing art forms — def poetry — in an intimate, uncensored format. Taped live at The Supper... (read more) List Price $19.96 Your Price $17.12 (New - DVD) check for used and sale copies
by Margaret Mitchell Excerpt Chapter One Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy... (read more) Your Price $19.95 (Used - Slipcase) check for new and sale copies
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