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A Separate Peace by John Knowles Publisher Comments It would be inconceivable for an American author to write a coming-of-age novel in a comedic vein without reckoning with J.D. Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye; and it would be equally impossible to explore the genre in a tragic vein without taking account... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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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) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mystic River by Dennis Lehane Publisher Comments When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Club Dumas: A Novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte Publisher Comments #1 International Bestseller "A thriller of marvelous intricacy."The New York Times Book Review Lucas Corso is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking: An Insider's Guide to Making Movies Outside of Hollywood by Mark Polish Publisher Comments "The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking is a well-organized, often hilarious guide for any first-time filmmaker's journey through the perilous and unpredictable world of independent filmmaking. By tracking the process of their films, from an idea's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-N-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind Staff Pick I don't know much about film, but I can keep up with the best Hollywood gossipers. In an attempt to elevate and justify my shameful interest in the lives of celebrities, I found a terrific book. Easy Riders Raging Bulls begins with Hollywood in bad... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hellboy #01: Seed of Destruction 2nd Edition by Mike Mignola and John Byrne Publisher Comments Mike Mignola's award-winning Hellboy is now a major motion picture starring Ron Perlman (Beauty and the Beast, City of Lost Children) and directed by Guillermo Del Toro (Mimic, Blade II, The Devil's Backbone). When strangeness threatens to engulf the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Hard Goodbye -- 2nd Edition (Frank Miller's Sin City #01) by Frank Miller Publisher Comments Legendary artist Frank Miller opened a noir opus in Sin City. This critically-acclaimed triumph honored by both an Eisner Award and the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award combines the pulp intensity of writers like Spillane and Cain... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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That Yellow Bastard -- 2nd Edition (Frank Miller's Sin City #04) by Frank Miller Publisher Comments Frank Miller changes the game in the fourth volume of his signature crime series, introducing the only truly heroic figure in Sin City's world of vice, Detective Hartigan. A highlight of the series, and the inspiration for one of the segments of the... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hellboy #04: The Right Hand of Doom 2nd Edition by Mike Mignola Publisher Comments The second collection of short stories by award-winning cartoonist Mike Mignola includes the 1999 hit series Box Full of Evil; "The Right Hand of Doom," which concisely and thoroughly examines Hellboy's history; and "Pancakes," Mignola's most hilarious... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill Publisher Comments Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.49 Sale - Hardcover
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The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood by James Mottram Publisher Comments An appreciation of the young turks who took hold of Hollywood in the nineties: from P. T. Anderson to Spike Jonze to the godfather of them all, Steven Soderbergh Hollywood is undergoing a renaissance, spawned by a vanguard of auteurs who for more... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas Wolk Staff Pick Douglas Wolk writes with a critic's authority, offering penetrating analysis of seminal comics writers and their best-known works alongside introductions to lesser-known talents. But he also writes with a fan's enthusiasm, and it shows through in every... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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