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To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis Publisher Comments It is 1888 and Ned Henry is shuttling between the 1940s and modern day, researching Coventry Cathedral for a patron who wants to rebuild it. But when the time continuum is disrupted, Ned must scramble to set things right.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments Reports that a lizard-like reptile is attacking infants and infirm people in coastal towns on the island of Costa Rica are attributed by the natives to the "hubia," or "raptor," are ignored by the authorities. That is, until an American doctor working in... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Lost World by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments "HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $0.50 Used - Mass Market
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Airframe by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Time Machine (Dover Thrift Editions) by H. G. Wells Publisher Comments When the Time Traveler courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything had changed. H.G. Wells's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the... (read more) Your price: $3.25 New - Trade Paper
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Prey by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles—micro-robots—has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Timeline by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people. Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922 by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments The classic adventure novel of Viking warriors on a journey to face their most dreaded enemy -- by the New York Times-bestselling author of Airframe.... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Five Patients by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments "Crichton has an extraordinary capacity to seize upon, then make real and personal, the new and the complex, the intriguing and the frighening." THE NATION In this incisive, detailed survey of five patients, famous thriller author and doctor Michael... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde Publisher Comments If Thursday thought she could avoid the spotlight after her heroic escapades in the pages of Jane Eyre, she was sorely mistaken. The unforgettable literary detective whom Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times calls "part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sphere 1st Edition by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments "A page-turner...Chichton's writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action. This book should come with hot buttered popcorn." NEWSWEEK A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Travels (88 Edition) by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments From swimming with sharks off Tahiti to midnight meetings with elephants in Africa to an introduction to the paranormal in the American desert, see how bestselling author Michael Crichton views our world. A record of Michael Crichton s astonishing... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rising Sun by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Congo by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor,... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Case of Need by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments Written shortly after Crichton completed his medical internship, this award-winning debut novel depicts the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center. Reissue.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London—and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century—... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later,... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Disclosure by Michael Crichton Publisher Comments A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton's new novel, the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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