POWELL'S BOOKS

"For my 2014 tumblr bestie who used to be obsessed with true crime but is starting to feel weird about it"

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James "Is our narrator actually being haunted, or is she slowly losing her mind?" The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter "A collection of the best adaptations of classic fairy tales, with a feminist flare, modern twists, and carnal delights....If you like Neil Gaiman, you will like Angela Carter"

📚🔗: To the list

"I was late to the party with Leichter’s debut, Temporary, but now I’m devastatingly early to the party with Terrace Story, a book I am obsessed with and want to discuss with everyone, ASAP. It’s the story of a couple living in a small apartment with their baby and their sort-of friend who somehow opens a portal to a terrace outside their apartment whenever she visits — and only when she visits. The magic in this story is incidental to the heartache and the ways that the small choices people make glance off of each other in devastating, unexpected ways. I had no idea where this book was taking me, and I am so glad for that. Consistently surprising, filled with wonderful and aching emotional depth, and with an ending that is truly an all-timer: I know this book is going to be one of my favorites from 2023." — Bookseller, Kelsey F.

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Divination and Divine from the Rare Book Room 🔮🔮🔮 I Tarocchi di Dante e dei Fedeli d’Amore, Wolfango Peretti Poggi Milan: Editorali d’Ami, 1983 $300 Wolfango Peretti Poggi (1926–2017) was an Italian artist and illustrator from Bologna. He illustrated this beautiful and very hard to find tarot set with scenes from Dante’s works. 📝Notes: Boxed tarot deck. Seventy-eight color cards, 6¼ x 3½ inches, gold ink border on recto, abstract design on verso. Accompanied by explanatory pamphlet in Italian and card reading “Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona”. In box, 6½ x 3¾ x 1½ inches, red paper over cardboard, tarot card with title overprint pasted to lid, “Made in Italy” sticker to side of lid. Box in very good condition with light wear; contents in near fine condition.

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Learn more about this and other supernatural tomes from our Rare Book specialist on the Powell's Blog.

Booksellers submitted more than 100 titles for consideration and in the end we came together to put forth this list of 25. We bet that if you started now, you could read all of our essential novellas by the end of the year. Go on: we dare you.

"Much has been written about her, but one question remains... who is she?"

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PSA: summer reading logs from kids are the best.

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