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04.10: Kate Ascher
2014-03-18 00:36:12| Powells Books Events Calendar
In our digital age, it's easy to forget that almost everything we enjoy about modern life depends on motion. Over the last century, the world has come to rely on its ability to move just about anywhere effortlessly. Exploring our incredible interconnected world is the task of Kate Ascher's The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air (Penguin Press), a gorgeous graphic guide that reveals the highly complex and largely invisible network of global transportation.
04.10: Meg Wolitzer CANCELLED
2013-04-11 00:36:00| Powells Books Events Calendar
From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer comes a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later, the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings (Riverhead), Meg Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent, the nature of envy, the roles of class, art, money, and power, and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life. We're sorry to report that this event has been cancelled.
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04.10: Meg Wolitzer
2013-03-15 00:36:43| Powells Books Events Calendar
From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer comes a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later, the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings (Riverhead), Meg Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent, the nature of envy, the roles of class, art, money, and power, and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
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04.10: Dana Haynes
2013-03-15 00:36:42| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Dana Haynes's Ice Cold Kill (Minotaur), Daria Gibron is a woman with a deadly past and an uncertain future. A former Shin-Bet agent now in exile in the U.S. and under the protection of the F.B.I., she works primarily as an interpreter. But Daria is a thrill junkie who can't resist the occasional freelance job as an operative — a habit that has left her with a trail of corpses behind her, and a few still living, very dangerous, high-powered enemies who would stop at nothing to get revenge. En route to an impromptu meeting with an old contact from her days in the Israeli Secret Service, Daria gets an unexpected and anonymous tipoff that she's about to walk into an ambush. Daria Gibron is many things — trigger-happy, resourceful, focused, and extremely dangerous — but the one thing she isn't is anybody's fool.
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