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The Closers (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly Publisher Comments He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market 
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stranger than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Ruins by Scott Smith Staff Pick Twelve years after his staggering debut, Scott Smith returns with The... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market
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Anansi Boys: A Novel by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lush Life: A Novel by Richard Price Publisher Comments A National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, it's residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.) 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 $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - 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: $2.50 Used - 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: $4.95 Used - 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: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $27.50 Your price: $20.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Abstinence Teacher: A Novel by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children, but amid its good schools and healthy real estate market, a small-town culture war is brewing. The Abstinence Teacher focuses on two divorced parents who become adversaries in the mess: Ruth... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories by David Benioff Publisher Comments In When the Nines Roll Over, David Benioff uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling, sometimes pathetic emotional lives of a diverse set of characters. Over the course of eight stories, we are introduced to a host of young... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - 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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Blow the House Down: A Novel by Robert Baer Publisher Comments Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11. Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bridge of Sighs: A Novel by Richard Russo Staff Pick Russo is a modern master of absorbing characters, brilliantly sharp dialogue, and a warm-hearted yet strangely thrilling storytelling style. The only sighs this elegiac novel produces are of wistful satisfaction.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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