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09.18: Heidi Schulz
2015-08-14 23:03:15| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Heidi Schulz's The Pirate Code (Hook's Revenge #2) (Disney-Hyperion), Jocelyn Hook and her pirate crew hunt for Captain Hook's hidden treasure. In this rambunctious showdown between characters new and old, Jocelyn puts her brand of pirating to the test in a quest to save her future.
09.18: Quantified: Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy
2015-08-14 23:03:15| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Quantified (Island Press), Joe S. Whitworth draws lessons from the world's most tech-savvy, high-impact organizations to show how we can make real gains for the environment. As president of the Freshwater Trust, Whitworth has put quantified conservation into practice, pioneering the model of a do-tank that is dramatically changing how rivers can get restored across the United States.
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09.18: Laila Lalami
2014-08-18 20:39:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America — a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez sailed with a crew of 600 men. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown. Within a year of landing in Florida, only four members of his expedition were left alive, including a young slave called Estebanico. The Moor's Account (Pantheon) brilliantly captures Estebanico's voice and vision, giving us an alternate narrative for this famed expedition.
09.18: The 12 Bottle Bar
2014-08-18 20:39:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
David and Lesley Solmonson's The 12 Bottle Bar (Workman) is a system, a tool kit, and a recipe book. Beginning with one irresistible idea — a complete home bar of just 12 key bottles — the Solmonsons show how to make more than 200 classic and unique mixed drinks. It's a surprising guide — tequila didn't make the cut, and neither did bourbon, but genever did. It's a literate guide, too — describing with great liveliness everything from the importance of vermouth and bitters (the salt and pepper of mixology) to the story of a punch bowl so big it was stirred by a boy in a rowboat.
09.18: Sudhir Venkatesh
2013-08-13 23:35:38| Powells Books Events Calendar
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York's underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich and poor that secretly weaves together the whole city. Sudhir Venkatesh, acclaimed sociologist at Columbia University and author of Gang Leader for a Day, returns to the streets to connect the dots of New York's divergent economic worlds and crack the code of the city's underground economy. Floating City (Penguin Press) exposes the underground as the city's true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity — revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York.
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