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09.29: H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger CANCELLED
2015-09-01 22:03:35| Powells Books Events Calendar
Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa — the winningest high-school football team in Texas history — with the 25th anniversary edition of H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger's Friday Night Lights (Da Capo). With frankness and compassion, Bissinger unforgettably captures a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires — and sometimes shatters — the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms. We're sorry to report that this event has been cancelled.
09.29: H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger
2015-08-24 01:03:52| Powells Books Events Calendar
Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa — the winningest high-school football team in Texas history — with the 25th anniversary edition of H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger's Friday Night Lights (Da Capo). With frankness and compassion, Bissinger unforgettably captures a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires — and sometimes shatters — the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms.
09.29: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
2015-08-24 01:03:52| Powells Books Events Calendar
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but 20-something Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life's work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both living and very dead), she learned to navigate the secretive culture of those who care for the deceased. Honest, heartfelt, and self-deprecating, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (W. W. Norton) tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters and unforgettable scenes.
09.29: Alix Christie
2014-08-18 22:38:51| Powells Books Events Calendar
Gutenberg's Apprentice (Harper), Alix Christie's enthralling literary debut, evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of printing in medieval Germany. Christie's novel is a story of invention, intrigue, and betrayal — rich in atmosphere and historical detail, and told through the lives of the three men who made it possible.
09.29: Lauren Oliver
2014-08-18 22:38:51| Powells Books Events Calendar
Lauren Oliver, author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy, makes her brilliant adult debut with Rooms (Ecco), a mesmerizing tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which the lives of the living and the dead intersect in shocking, surprising, and moving ways. Rooms is an enticing and imaginative ghost story and a searing family drama that is as haunting as it is resonant.
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