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by Cindy Anderson Publisher Comments Bigger and better! Eat, drink, and be happy; and save money too! Find more than 170 rated reviews on Portland's best Happy Hours. Enjoy high-end restaurant quality food and ambiance for less. Pick all the right places to meet up with friends! You can use... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elizabeth Gilbert Powells.com Staff Pick Not long after her thirtieth birthday, on the heels of an ugly divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled for a year, to Italy, India, and finally Indonesia. In Italy she wanted to explore the art of pleasure (pasta, wine, handsome men speaking a beautiful... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tracy Kidder Powells.com Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Khaled Hosseini Powells.com Staff Pick Never mind the sophomore slump this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kurt Vonnegut Powells.com Staff Pick After Slaughterhouse Five came out in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut entered a long period of depression and swore he would never write another novel. Fortunately he was lying, and in 1973, out came Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (the subtitle... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles C. Mann Powells.com Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Natsuo Kirino Powells.com Staff Pick I ventured into Out having gone on a detective murder mystery kick the great Raymond Chandler, the invincible Dorothy L. Sayers... So it was no surprise that I next turned to Japan's queen of crime writing. Out is a can't-stop-reading, classy... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bryce Courtenay Publisher Comments In this magical novel, an irresistible boy tells the story of his survival and coming of age against the background of South Africa during and just after World War II.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Barack Obama Publisher Comments In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joshua Ferris Powells.com Staff Pick Then We Came to the End tells the story of an ad agency in decline, circa 2001. "We had a toy client, a car client, a long-distance carrier and a pet store," readers are told. We. Ferris uses the first person plural to present the agency's collective... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cormac Mccarthy Publisher Comments Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marjane Satrapi Publisher Comments Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Max Brooks Publisher Comments Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, "The Zombie Survival Guide"is one's key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking thestreets right now.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Chuck Palahniuk Powells.com Staff Pick Stranger than Fiction is the book Palahniuk's devoted readers have been waiting for since Fight Club. These lean, powerful essays wield the blunt force of Palahniuk's gritty novels without the endless digressions that have marred some of his more recent... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Halberstam Special Offer Buy the set! Order The Coldest Winter now and receive the acclaimed 35-minute documentary about David Halberstam's last great effort. Starring Joan Didion, Bob Woodward, Robert Caro, Anna Quindlen, and Neil Sheehan.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tom Robbins Publisher Comments American MIAs choose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. In "Villa Incognito," love, lust, and provocative ideas abound.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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