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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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House of Leaves: A Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski Staff Pick "Saints be praised, this is the best book of the new millennium. A veritable tour de force. Pynchon meets Stephen King meets Robert Hughes meets Borges meets Dante. Joycian. Jungian. Mythic. Any clich used by fawning literary critics applies. Yadda Yadda... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Under the Dome by Stephen King Staff Pick Well-written, compelling, and intelligent on ethical questions, this epic is worth its daunting page count. Reminiscent of his earlier work, particularly The Stand and It, Under the Dome is Stephen King's best book in years.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Red Moon by Benjamin Percy Staff Pick As a hearty enthusiast of paranormal fiction, good and bad, I'll be the first to admit that the genre's often less-than-literary acumen can be discouraging. Benjamin Percy's newest novel, Red Moon, takes the supernatural thriller to a higher level... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick After six long years, Audrey Niffenegger gives us a gem of a ghost story. Based around two sets of twins, Highgate Cemetery in London, a haunted flat, and long-buried secrets, this story proves even better than The Time Traveler's Wife. With a shocking... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dead and Gone: Sookie Stackhouse Novel #9 (Southern Vampire Series) by Charlaine Harris Staff Pick I never tire of Sookie Stackhouse and her adventures. Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris's ninth in this series, is great fun! Sookie faces angry fairies who are out to kidnap her in order to force her grandfather, a royal fairy, to bend to their will. But... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Horns by Joe Hill Staff Pick After reading Joe Hill's newest novel, Horns, I am vastly relieved: there is a successor to Stephen King. I've spent a few traumatizing moments wondering what I'd do should there not ever be another King novel or short story. Well, as long as his son... (read more) Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hunting Ground (Alpha and Omega Novels) by Patricia Briggs Staff Pick Briggs has created the perfect tie-in to her Mercy Thompson series. Hunting Ground is the second Alpha and Omega book and expands the supernatural world Briggs introduced in her Mercy books. The Alpha and Omega series features Anna Latham, Omega mate of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Terror by Dan Simmons Staff Pick This book is based factually on the missing Franklin expedition, last seen by Europeans in July of 1845. The HMS Erabus and the ill-named HMS Terror were the space shuttles of their day, and Dan Simmons spins a haunting and suspenseful tale of this... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Devil in Silver by Victor Lavalle Staff Pick I highly anticipated Victor LaValle's Devil in Silver, and it surpassed my expectations! I absolutely loved his fantastic writing and amazing story. LaValle never lets up, one great chapter after another.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse #10) by Charlaine Harris Staff Pick Dead in the Family is much more character driven than the last book in Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series. Finding a dead body on her land (no, not the one she knew was there) leads to the discovery that someone (the new Vampire King? the FBI... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) by H. P. Lovecraft Staff Pick H. P. Lovecraft created a world full of frightful and disturbing creatures that would go on to influence popular culture in ways he could never have imagined. While he graced the pages of the Weird Tales pulp magazine, his work was never published in... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (10th Anniversary Edition) by Stephen King Staff Pick Whether or not you read Stephen King's fiction, if you're interested in writing, you'll love this book. Now in a handsome paperback anniversary edition.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost Story by Peter Straub Staff Pick A truly creepy novel that could possibly be Straub's best. In the footsteps of Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, and Edgar Allan Poe, Ghost Story will take you down a new and frightening path. Follow it if you dare!!!... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Staff Pick What is it that Frank has hidden up in the attic that could possibly tell the future? What does his father keep locked away in his private study? And when will his mentally disturbed brother, who escaped from the asylum, get home? Iain Banks's first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Silver Borne: (Mercy Thompson #5) by Patricia Briggs Staff Pick Irrepressible, coyote-shifting Mercy Thompson is back and her life is changing in some good ways and a few bad ways. Silver Borne, Patricia Briggs's fifth book in this dark fantasy series, finds Mercy struggling to adjust to her new mate bond with Adam... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King Staff Pick Stephen King has done much of his best writing in the long-story form (including the novellas The Body, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, and The Langoliers), and Full Dark, No Stars proves no exception. These four tales are sinister, violent... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hell House by Richard Matheson Staff Pick I've been a fan of the movie adaptation to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (The Haunting, 1963) for years. Richard Matheson's Hell House is an updated telling of that story, which also made it to film as The Legend of Hell House (1973... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 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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Monster Island: A Zombie Novel by David Wellington Staff Pick What if some zombies retained their awareness and personality? What if they found that they were connected through a unified field and found that they had special powers? Find out what the world looks like through the decaying eyes and fetid shoes of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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