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Bolton's Picks


Bolton's Picks


Kids and Young Adults
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The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Staff Pick
Neil Gaiman has once again created a world filled with both dark humor and adventure. Nobody Owens, orphaned as an infant, is raised by the ghosts, ghouls, and werewolves of a graveyard. Exciting and oddly touching!... (read more)

List Price $17.99
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Used - Hardcover


Favorites
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The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
Publisher Comments
A classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, Bradbury enthralls, delights and challenges readers with his vision and his heartQtaking them... (read more)

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Used - Mass Market


Recent and Recommended
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The Club Dumas
The Club Dumas
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Publisher Comments
Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of... (read more)

List Price $14.00
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Used - Trade Paper


Comix
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History
Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
Staff Pick
Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more)

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Used - Trade Paper


Film
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I Heart Huckabees: The Shooting Script
I Heart Huckabees: The Shooting Script
by David O. Russell and Jeff Baena
Publisher Comments
The eagerly awaited film from the director of Three Kings, an "existential comedy" starring Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Huppert, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, and Naomi Watts. Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), head of the... (read more)

List Price $19.95
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Used - Trade Paper


Crime
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The Hot Kid
The Hot Kid
by Elmore Leonard
Publisher Comments
Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921 the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal. A few weeks later, he killed his first man—a cattle thief who was rustling his dad's stock. Now Carlos, called Carl, is the hot kid... (read more)

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Used - Mass Market


Nonfiction
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Staff Pick
Gladwell's appeal can be traced directly to his studied obsession with familiar objects and events, and his remarkable talent for synthesizing complicated ideas into compelling stories. In The Tipping Point, the author set out to describe how ideas... (read more)

List Price $25.95
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Used - Hardcover


Favorites
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Empire Falls: A Novel
Empire Falls: A Novel
by Richard Russo
Publisher Comments
With Empire Falls, Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America's most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of... (read more)

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Used - Trade Paper


Sale Books
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Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
Publisher Comments
Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry... (read more)

List Price $14.00
Your price: $6.98
Sale - Trade Paper


Used Books
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
Staff Pick
Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more)

List Price $35.00
Your price: $18.00
Used - Hardcover


Bestsellers

Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Graveyard Book
  1. The Graveyard Book
    by Neil Gaiman
  2. Empire Falls: A Novel
    by Richard Russo
  3. The Martian Chronicles
    by Ray Bradbury
  4. Suite Francaise: A Novel
    by Irene Nemirovsky
  5. A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
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