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A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book Three (Song of Ice and Fire #03) by George R. R. Martin Publisher Comments A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO. George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin—dubbed the “American Tolkien” by Time magazine—has... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George R. R. Martin From Powells.com If you're a "read-the-book-first" type, you might want to get started now on George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. HBO has optioned the first book, A Game of Thrones, as a series, and 10 episodes are slated to begin filming in Ireland in... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns by Ray Bradbury Staff Pick Fahrenheit 451 is probably one of the most important books ever written. If the world of this novel comes to pass, I will be this book. (You'll have to read it to see what I mean.)... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Cthulhu Dice Publisher Comments Serving Cthulhu is fun, except for all those other cultists out to get you. So . . . get them first Cthulhu Dice lets you drive your rivals mad . . . very, very quickly. Players take turns rolling the big, beautiful, custom 12-sided die, embossed with... (read more) Your price: $4.99 Gifts - Miscellaneous
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Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga #1) by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments When three unusually attractive young adults rent the summer cottage next door, Barney's boring vacation at the beach seemingly takes a turn for the better. However, after the neighbors unwittingly reveal their extraterrestrial identities, the board... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Dune by Frank Herbert Staff Pick I'm sure other Powell's employees have chosen Dune as a staff pick, and for good reason: It's a science fiction classic. It is densely written and almost prophetic in nature. The spice, and the desert wars over it, sound so very much like our current... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and Brett Helquist Staff Pick A Neil Gaiman story at any length is a treat. Odd and the Frost Giants is like the perfect finger food: brief but intensely, deliciously satisfying. If you aren't a fan of Norse mythology when you open the cover, you will be by the time you close it.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick "Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ender's Game ((Rev)02 Edition) by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dune Chronicles #02: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Publisher Comments Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muad'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a super-being. "Brilliant...It is all that Dune was, and maybe a little bit more." --Galaxy... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Strange Angels #01: Betrayals by Lili St Crow Publisher Comments She?s no angel . . . Poor Dru Anderson. Her parents are long gone, her best friend is a werewolf, and she?s just learned that the blood flowing through her veins isn?t entirely human. (So what else is new?) Now Dru is stuck at a secret New England Schola... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.95 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: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan Staff Pick A young adult novel that appeals to adults, Tender Morsels is a nightmare fairytale story of redemption that will reach across your subconscious much like Jeanette Winterson's work. Lanagan's prose is delightfully crafted, careful, imaginative, and... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis Publisher Comments It is 1888 and Ned Henry is shuttling between the 1940s and modern day, researching Coventry Cathedral for a patron who wants to rebuild it. But when the time continuum is disrupted, Ned must scramble to set things right.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Cryoburn (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures) by Lois Mcmaster Bujold Publisher Comments Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. All well and good, so long as they kept to themselves. But now the Kibou-daini are attempting to franchise out their Fountain of Youth wares to the rest of the galaxy and the Barrayar ... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Living Dead in Dallas: Sookie Stackhouse Novel #2 (Southern Vampire Series) by Charlaine Harris Publisher Comments Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered and no one seems to care. Then she's face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Speaker for the Dead (Ender Wiggins Saga #2) by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Timeless (Parasol Protectorate #5) by Gail Carriger Publisher Comments Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society, living in a vampire's second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Dune Chronicles #04: God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert Publisher Comments Centuries have passed on Dune, and the planet is green with life. Leto, the son of Dune's savior, is still alive but far from human, and the fate of all humanity hangs on his awesome sacrifice... "Rich fare...heady stuff." --Los Angeles... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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