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    Flesh Circus (Jill Kismet)

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The Windup Girl
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
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I'd heard all manner of praise and complimentary comparisons for The Windup Girl, but it wasn't until I started to read the book that I began to believe, and in believing I was filled with sadness and wonder. Bacigalupi throws us into a terribly possible post-oil future and introduces a... (read more)

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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
by Jesse Bullington
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I recommend this book with trepidation, though I enjoyed the dark, cruel humor within. My wife put it down after reading the first couple chapters, deterred by the graphic cruelty of the titular brothers Grossbart. A thick-skinned reader, one who finds the squelch of bodily fluids to be chuckle-inducing, may find... (read more)

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Guards! Guards! (Discworld Novels)
Guards! Guards! (Discworld Novels)
by Terry Pratchett
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Here there be dragons...and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in... (read more)

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The Shadow Queen (Black Jewels Novels)
The Shadow Queen (Black Jewels Novels)
by Anne Bishop
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The national bestselling Black Jewels saga continues Theran Grayhaven is the last of his line, desperate to restore the land of Dena Nehele. But first he needs to find a Queen who remembers the Blood's code of honor and lives by the Old Ways. Languishing... (read more)

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Steampunk
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Steampunk
Steampunk
by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
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Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories. Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern... (read more)

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    Anansi Boys

    Neil Gaiman
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    Battlet Twenty Five

    Robert N Charrette
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    Alien Plot

    Piers Anthony

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The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
by Max Brooks
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A chilling tour through faux-historical zombie plagues. From cannibal Cossacks making a poor choice of meat to a ship full of undead African slaves, it's hard to decide which is more frightening ... (read more)

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The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
by Ray Bradbury
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One hundred of Ray Bradbury's remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience and his place among the most imaginative and enduring writers of our time. Here are the Martian stories, tales... (read more)

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The Wild Things
The Wild Things
by Dave Eggers
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Not content to reinforce the foundation of Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Eggers instead architects entirely new additions. Young Max's psyche is fully formed, and the Wild Things themselves are given wonderfully eclectic personalities, ensuring... (read more)

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The Alchemist
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
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"My heart is afraidthat it will have to suffer." the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the far of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes... (read more)

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The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
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"Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more)

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The Sparrow (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
The Sparrow (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Mary Doria Russell
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The Sparrow, an astonishing literary debut, takes you on a journey to a distant planet and to the center of the human soul. It is the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a twenty-first-century scientific mission to... (read more)

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Cry Wolf: An Alpha and Omega Novel
Cry Wolf: An Alpha and Omega Novel
by Patricia Briggs
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Now Briggs begins an extraordinary new series set in Mercy Thompson's worldbut with rules of its own. INTRODUCING THE ALPHA AND OMEGA NOVELS... Anna never knew werewolves existed until the night she survived a violent attackand became one herself. After... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
  1. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
    by Max Brooks
  2. The Wild Things
    by Dave Eggers
  3. The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho
  4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
    by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
  5. Odd and the Frost Giants
    by Neil Gaiman and Brett Helquist

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Court of the AirCourt of the Air
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When streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has recently been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to run back to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was the real target of the attack.

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