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06.17: Jeannette Walls
2014-05-13 20:39:07| Powells Books Events Calendar
From Jeannette Walls, author of the bestselling memoir The Glass Castle, comes a heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world in a feat of imagination and storytelling. Deeply moving, The Silver Star (Scribner) is about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other and the world, despite its flaws and injustices.
06.17: How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
2014-05-13 20:39:07| Powells Books Events Calendar
The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong (Penguin Press), Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life but rather touches everything we do — the whole world is shot through with it. Math-world superstar Ellenberg unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands.
06.17: C. C. Humphreys
2013-05-11 01:35:10| Powells Books Events Calendar
A rousing new adventure series starring the "007 of the 1770s," C. C. Humphreys's Jack Absolute (Sourcebooks Landmark) marks the exhilarating beginning of an epic historical series.
06.17: Jessica Anya Blau
2013-05-11 01:35:10| Powells Books Events Calendar
A new comic novel based loosely on Alice in Wonderland, Jessica Anya Blau's The Wonder Bread Summer (Harper Perennial) is the thrilling story of Allie Dodgson, a straitlaced college student on the lam after stealing a Wonder Bread bag filled with cocaine.
06.17: Daniel James Brown
2013-05-11 01:35:10| Powells Books Events Calendar
Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat (Viking) tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals including the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in Berlin.
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