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04.22: Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II
2015-03-18 19:04:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
Bruce Henderson, the bestselling author of Hero Found, returns with the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines. Combining personal interviews, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and archival research, Rescue at Los Baños (William Morrow) tells the daring story of a remarkable group of prisoners — whose courage and fortitude helped them overcome hardship, deprivation, and cruelty — and of the young American soldiers and Filipino guerrillas who risked their lives to save them.
04.22: Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
2015-03-18 19:04:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You and Me (W. W. Norton) features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage. Readers and writers will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie, but a wise and witty new friend in love with language and alive to the glories of its use in America, even in the age of autocorrect and spell check.
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04.22: Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool
2015-03-18 19:04:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform, Jennifer Jacquet's Is Shame Necessary? (Pantheon) presents us with a trenchant case for public shaming as a nonviolent form of resistance that can challenge corporations and even governments to change policies and behaviors that are detrimental to the environment. Jacquet argues that public shaming, when it has been retrofitted for the age of social media and aimed in the proper direction, can help compensate for the limitations of guilt in a globalized world.
04.22: The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
2014-03-18 00:36:18| Powells Books Events Calendar
Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino leader in U.S. history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography — until now. In The Crusades of Cesar Chavez (Bloomsbury), Pulitzer Prize-winner Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal, revealing how this most unlikely American hero ignited one of the great social movements of our time.
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04.22: George Estreich
2013-03-15 00:36:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance presents a puzzle: Does the shape of her eyes indicate Down syndrome or the fact that she has a Japanese grandmother? In The Shape of the Eye (Tarcher), George Estreich's powerful memoir, a poet and stay-at-home dad tells his daughter's story, reflecting on her inheritance — from the literal legacy of her genes, to the family history that precedes her, to the Victorian physician John Langdon Down's diagnostic error of "Mongolian idiocy." Against this backdrop, Laura takes her place in the Estreich family as a unique child, quirky and real, loved for everything ordinary and extraordinary about her.