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Bolton's Picks
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Gladwell's appeal can be traced directly to his studied obsession with familiar objects and events, and his remarkable talent for synthesizing complicated ideas into compelling stories. In The Tipping Point, the author set out to describe how ideas... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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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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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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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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The Complete Peanuts: 1953-1954 by Charles M. Schulz Staff Pick It can be hard to remember a time when Snoopy wasn't an insurance salesman and Charlie Brown didn't stare at us from a million Hallmark... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Staff Pick Neil Gaiman has once again created a world filled with both dark humor and adventure. Nobody Owens, orphaned as an infant, is raised by the ghosts, ghouls, and werewolves of a graveyard. Exciting and oddly touching!... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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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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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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Mirrormask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from the Jim Henson Company by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean Staff Pick This wondrous volume presents Neil Gaiman's screenplay of the film MirrorMask, along with director/artist Dave McKean's storyboards. The unique format (the relevant panel is positioned next to the depicted section of Gaiman's script) creates a smooth... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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The Hot Kid: A Novel by Elmore Leonard Staff Pick I've only read two Elmore Leonard books, so I can't say for certain if The Hot Kid is his best novel — but I almost can't imagine a better one. Leonard is at the top of his game here, packing his period cops-and-robbers tale with vivid characters... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script by Charlie Kaufman Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In either case... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Mome by Gary Groth Staff Pick The second issue of this quarterly journal of the best in "sequential art" is a must-have for every true lover of the comics form. Mome is the comics lover's answer to lit-journals like Granta and McSweeney's: it features some of the edgiest, most... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Adaptation: The Shooting Script by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or, just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In either... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Which Lie Did I Tell? : More Adventures in the Screen Trade (00 Edition) by William Goldman Staff Pick "Nobody knows anything." William Goldman has given us these three simple words to sum up the backroom chatter and deal making that goes on between studio executives trying to figure out why one movie becomes a hit and another tanks. Of course there is no... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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