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Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Staff Pick Reading Sometimes a Great Notion (I finally made it past the first 100 labyrinthine pages after many failed attempts) had such a profound impact on me; it spoke so directly to my core and to what brought me to the land of big trees and ocean breeze (I'm... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Staff Pick Both a cautionary tale for bad men and a clarion call for unhappy women, Gone Girl is a compelling page-turner that does not let up. Every few pages another bombshell drops, and the tension is exquisite! While Nick Dunne lackadaisically plans to show up... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley Staff Pick If Nancy Mitford wrote I Capture the Castle or Cold Comfort Farm and starred in them Harriet the Spy you'd have something close to the quirky charm of Bradley's Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Even if you figure out the probable culprit before it's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sharp Objects: A Novel by Gillian Flynn Staff Pick Gillian Flynn's debut novel is a literary thriller that will shock and repulse you, even as it draws you inexorably into its tangled, sadistic web of deceit, secrets, and horrific revelations. With her vivid characters and sharp-edged dialogue, Flynn is... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Staff Pick Libby Day's mother and two sisters were savagely murdered when Libby was only seven years old. Her testimony in the ensuing trial helped send her brother to prison for the crimes. But is he really guilty? Flynn's accessible and compelling writing style... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Likeness by Tana French Staff Pick The Likeness is another masterpiece of suspense by Tana French. Reminiscent of The Secret History, this psychological thriller is wonderfully written and impeccably paced a perfect summer read.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Woods by Tana French Staff Pick The only thing more exciting than a great thriller is a terrific debut by a great thriller writer! Tana French makes a tremendous splash with In the Woods, a harrowing mystery in the vein of Mystic River that wholly earns the comparison. I dare you to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, corporate intrigue, subtle psychology, explosive content, and a sensational heroine make for a high-caliber novel.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases by Michael Capuzzo Staff Pick The Murder Room is an absolutely riveting story about the history of the Vidocq Society, a group of forensic scientists, cops, FBI agents, etc., that come together to solve unsolvable crimes. I'm not usually a fan of true crime, but The Murder Room is... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander Mysteries # 7 ) by Henning Mankell Staff Pick Discover Europe's favorite mystery writer. Sweden's Henning Mankell writes a first-rate police procedural that also serves as an indictment of contemporary society. His characters are fully drawn, full of frailties, unexpected courage, and are utterly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Staff Pick Having devoured as much Daphne du Maurier as I could get my hands on as a teenager (after my sisters were done, of course), I can confidently recommend Rebecca as the best gothic love story and mystery I have ever read.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Staff Pick What begins as an innocent (if quirky) adolescent tale swiftly transforms into an absorbing high school whodunit. If I had to compare it to a few recent films, it manages to come across both as gritty as Brick and as refreshing as Juno, but with a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Staff Pick Weird happenings at NYC's Museum of Natural History follow the discovery of a 19th-century, mass grave. Spines cut from corpses. Impalements on dinosaur horns. It's all frightful enough to rouse the FBI's quirkiest investigator — the pale, enigmatic... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (The Millennium Trilogy #3) by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick Picking up mere moments after the cliffhanger ending of The Girl Who Played with Fire, this final book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy brings the adventures of Salander and Blomkvist to a thunderous and satisfying conclusion.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (The Millennium Trilogy #1) by Stieg Larsson Staff Pick In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, corporate intrigue, subtle psychology, explosive content, and a sensational heroine make for a high-caliber novel.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown Staff Pick While the rest of the world seems disappointed in Dan Brown's newest Robert Langdon book, I enjoyed it immensely. Yes, it follows a similar pattern as the previous books and, yes, Langdon again is called upon to save the world from some menacing threat... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $1.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #01) by Jasper Fforde Staff Pick The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next a literary detective from the future enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick Staff Pick Come a day, you might get sick of hearing about A Reliable Wife — so many people will have read it and raved to you about it. Here's some preventative medicine: read it first. Seduction, marriage, money, sex, drugs, murder... when Catherine Land... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kiss the Girls by James Patterson Staff Pick Patterson didn't write all our Best Jet Bets, but no thriller list from the nineties would be complete without this slickly written punch to the gut. Detective Alex Cross returns to spar with a self-styled Casanova, a co-ed killer who sometimes stalks... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market
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