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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)

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Comix
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Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
Publisher Comments
The first collection of the increasingly popular comic strip that features a rambunctious 6-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger who comes charmingly to life.... (read more)

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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)

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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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Recent and Recommended
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Staff Pick
I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon... (read more)

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Film
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Mirrormask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from the Jim Henson Company
Mirrormask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from the Jim Henson Company
by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Staff Pick
This wondrous volume presents Neil Gaiman's screenplay of the film MirrorMask, along with director/artist Dave McKean's storyboards. The unique format (the relevant panel is positioned next to the depicted section of Gaiman's script) creates a smooth... (read more)

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Crime
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The 25th Hour
The 25th Hour
by David Benioff
Publisher Comments
Former drug dealer Monty Brogan's time is running out. In twenty-four hours he leaves New York City to begin seven years at Otisville Federal Penitentiary. Tonight is a time for good-byes — and one last chance to enjoy the noise, the lights, and the... (read more)

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Comix
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Out from Boneville: Bone, Book 1 (Bone #01)
Out from Boneville: Bone, Book 1 (Bone #01)
by Jeff Smith
Publisher Comments
The Bone adventures tell the story of a young bone boy, Fone Bone, and his two cousins, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who are banned from their homeland of Boneville. When the cousins find themselves mysteriously trapped in a wonderful but often... (read more)

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Sale Books
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Echo Park (Harry Bosch)
Echo Park (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly
Publisher Comments
In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call... (read more)

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Used Books
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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
From Powells.com
"Live from New York is described as 'an uncensored history of Saturday Night Live' and that is exactly what you get: no mincing of words, no glancing blows....See the hatred that Jim Belushi still bears for Bob Woodward for writing about his brother... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Monday, December 21, 2009
The Graveyard Book
  1. The Graveyard Book
    by Neil Gaiman
  2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    by Malcolm Gladwell
  3. Calvin and Hobbes
    by Bill Watterson
  4. Out from Boneville: Bone, Book 1 (Bone #01)
    by Jeff Smith
  5. The Sandman #01: Preludes and Nocturnes
    by Neil Gaiman
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