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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments First published in 1985, this is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. "A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Y: The Last Man #01: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan Publisher Comments "Funny and scary … an utterly believable critique of society. A+"—THE WASHINGTON POST "The best graphic novel I've ever read."—STEPHEN KING "This year's best movie is a comic book."—“ALL THINGS CONSIDERED,” NPR "A... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Children of Men by P D James Publisher Comments Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick Publisher Comments Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) by P D James Publisher Comments The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) by P D James Publisher Comments Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Children of Men by P D James Publisher Comments The year is 2021, and the human race is quite literally coming to an end. Since 1995 no babies have been born, because in that year all males unexpectedly became infertile. Great Britain is ruled by a dictator, and the population is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Croupier Publisher Comments All bets are off in London's gambling world when struggling writer Jack Manfred (Gosford Park's Clive Owen) accepts his father's offer of a job as a croupier, out the cards of fate and fortune each night to casino patrons. As his relationship with his... (read more) Your price: $14.26 New - DVD
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The Lighthouse: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery by P. D. James Staff Pick P. D. James's peerless reputation comes from her skillful combination of elegant prose and sharp psychological insight with wonderfully complex mysteries. She is a wise, eloquent, and humane novelist who explores all manner of human frailty with the same... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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