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03.09: Brenda Cooper
2015-02-14 01:01:37| Powells Books Events Calendar
What if a society banished its worst nightmare to the far edge of the solar system, destined to sip only dregs of light and struggle for the barest living — and yet, that life thrived? It grew and learned and became far more than you ever expected, and it wanted to return to the sun. What if it didn't share your moral compass in any way? Edge of Dark (Pyr), the first book in Brenda Cooper's Glittering Edge duology, describes the clash of forces when an advanced society that has filled a solar system with flesh and blood life meets the near-AIs that it banished long ago.
03.09: Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
2015-02-14 01:01:37| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Lentil Underground (Gotham Books), journalist Liz Carlisle, a protégé of Michael Pollan, shares the inspiring story of a little-known group of farmers who defied agribusiness by launching a unique sustainable farm-to-table food movement. Carlisle reports on the handful of colorful pioneers who have successfully bucked the chemically based food chain and the entrenched power of agribusiness by stubbornly banding together. Lentil Underground weaves an eye-opening and richly reported narrative that will be welcomed by readers of food and farm memoirs as well as everyone concerned with the future of American agriculture and natural food in an increasingly uncertain world.
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03.09: Powell's Friends & Family Sale 2014
2014-02-22 01:34:40| Powells Books Events Calendar
Sign up here, and before the event we will email you a coupon good for 30% off (nearly) everything in our stores on March 9. You'll also receive Powell's email newsletter as well as upcoming special offers. Please note, this is good at all Powell's locations excluding Powells.com.
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03.09: Dan Berne
2014-02-18 23:35:14| Powells Books Events Calendar
Family means everything to widowed Alaskan fisherman Ray Bancroft, raising his granddaughter with help from a multitude of gods and goddesses — not to mention rituals ad-libbed at sea by his half-Tlingit best friend. But statues and otter bone ceremonies aren't enough when Ray's estranged daughter returns from prison. Set against a backdrop of ice and mud and loss, Dan Berne's gripping debut novel, The Gods of Second Chances (Forest Avenue Press), explores the unpredictable fissures of memory, and how families can break apart even in the midst of healing.
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2013-03-09 00:37:27| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Jason Meredith, center left, a UI alum and engineer for John Deere in Moline, talks with Sean Galloway, right, a UI senior in computer engineering, as they check out the Autonomous M-Gator at the College of Engineering Open House in Urbana on Friday, March 8, 2013.