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Powells Books

The Planet's Neighborhood Bookstore

About Me

Visit our store online at www.powells.com !

Authors and Publishers!
If you'd like to contact us about carrying your book, zine, magazine, or anything else, please visit the " Links for small press publishers " page on Powells.com.

My Interests

Books, mainly. Also DVDs and fun, cool, weird stuff .

I'd like to meet:

Readers. Lovers of books. All fans of the written word.

Music:

Too distracting when you're reading.

Movies:

Did we mention our DVDs ?

Television:

We're catching up on our favorite novels on TiVo.

Books:

Four million or so.

Heroes:

Writers. All writers. Are you a writer? Then guess what -- you're one of our heroes! And we'd love to meet you.

My Blog

Signed First Editions

Hundreds of authors visit Powell's stores every year, reading from their works, taking questions, and signing their books. Now you can order signed copies from virtually every author that comes to vis...
Posted by Powells Books on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:40:00 PST

J Wood’s "Lost" Blog Returns to Powells.com!

With the fourth season premiere of Lost a mere handful of hours away (as of this writing), we're thrilled to present the return of author J Wood's posts to our blog!  Dubbed "the best Lost blogge...
Posted by Powells Books on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:17:00 PST

Emily Powell in the News!

The Los Angeles Times published this story about the transition of ownership from Michael Powell to his daughter, Emily.A sampling:Emily Powell, heir apparent to one of the book world's biggest operat...
Posted by Powells Books on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:02:00 PST

R.I.P. Fup, Store Cat.

We are saddened to report that our beloved store cat, Fup, passed away on October 25th, 2007.We have a tribute to Fup on our blog.Thank you to everyone who has wished us well.  And especially to ...
Posted by Powells Books on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:16:00 PST

Jim Crace fans, better hurry!

You can win a signed copy of National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Jim Crace's "nonexistent" book Useless America, which is available in a print run of 75 copies exclusive to Powells.com!J...
Posted by Powells Books on Fri, 18 May 2007 03:04:00 PST

LOST in Powell's!

Lost fanatics (you know who you are)!The Powells.com blog will feature a weekly entry from Living Lost author J. Wood after each of the 16 episodes for the remainder of the third season.  If you ...
Posted by Powells Books on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:33:00 PST

Read Our Blog!

Check out the Powells.com blog!Authors, readers, critics, media -- and booksellers. Plus guest bloggers, special offers, and more!
Posted by Powells Books on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:28:00 PST