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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman Staff Pick If you've only read The Sandman, you're cheating yourself, but if you haven't read Gaiman at all, it's simply a crime. Smoke and Mirrors is his first — and, I think, best — short story collection, with not a bad story in the lot. The best are the... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Straight Man: A Novel by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep about to make Fat Charlie's... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King Publisher Comments International bestselling author Stephen King is in terrifying top form with his first collection of short stories in almost a decade. In this spine-chilling compilation, King takes readers down a road less traveled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments Ever heard of a culling song? Its a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu: And Other Stories by Susanna Clarke Publisher Comments From the author of the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting collection of stories. Set in versions of England that bear an uncanny resemblance to the world of Strange and Norrell, these stories are... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Shining by Stephen King Publisher Comments The Overlook Hotel is more than just a home-away-from-home for the Torrance family. For Jack, Wendy, and their young son, Danny, it is a place where past horrors come to life. And where those gifted with the shining do battle with the darkest evils... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments Three hours after midnight, one week before Halloween, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolls into Green Town, Illinois. A carnival like no other, it feeds on the dreams and weaknesses of those drawn to its eerie attractions, destroying every... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Stardust (P.S.) by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars &mdash... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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The 25th Hour by David Benioff Publisher Comments All Monty Brogan ever really wanted when he grew up was to be a fireman. Now he's about to start a seven-year stretch in the federal penitentiary for drug dealing. With just twenty-four hours of freedom to go, he prowls the city with his girlfriend and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust: Being a Romance Within The Realms of Faerie by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess Publisher Comments In a Victorian-era tale of magic and romance, young Tristran Thorn falls in love with the town beauty and must go on an incredible coming-of-age journey in order to capture her heart. Living in the small countryside town of Wall, one night Tristran vows... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bag of Bones: A Novel by Stephen King Publisher Comments NOW AN A&E TELEVISION EVENT— STEPHEN KINGS POWERFUL TALE OF LOST LOVES ENDURING BONDS AND HAUNTING SECRETS FROM THE PAST. . . . Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving, unable to... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Name of the World (00 Edition) by Denis Johnson Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fight Club (04 Edition) by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments With more than 300,000 copies sold, Chuck Palahniuk's brilliant first novel and cult classic is being reissued with a new Introduction by the author. An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is widely recognized as one... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Salem's Lot by Stephen King Publisher Comments Stephen King's second novel,'Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane townunder siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart -- and the insular... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The October Country by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments The October Country is Ray Bradbury's own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic includes:... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Suite Francaise: A Novel by Irene Nemirovsky Publisher Comments Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman Staff Pick Fantasy author Gaiman is at his best in this short story collection, which contains an embarrassing riches of storytelling that is at times dark, funny, terrifying, beautiful, and always brilliant.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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