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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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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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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Staff Pick For those of us who have been in the rat race of modern culture long enough that we have stopped thinking, and for those of us who have never deeply examined our place in the world, this book is an awakening. It just may change the way you think about... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Storm Front: Dresden Files #1 by Jim Butcher Publisher Comments For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there... (read more) List Price $9.99 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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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments "My heart is afraidthat it will have to suffer." the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the far of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sparrow (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Mary Doria Russell Publisher Comments The Sparrow, an astonishing literary debut, takes you on a journey to a distant planet and to the center of the human soul. It is the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a twenty-first-century scientific mission to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Never Let Me Go: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro Staff Pick Set in a (barely?) alternate England in the late 1990s, Never Let Me Go is the sum of Kathy's memories. Kathy is one of many "donors" who have been brought into being for purposes that, while well-intended, can come to no good. Ishiguro's novel touches... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dark Tower #01: The Gunslinger by Stephen King Publisher Comments This heroic fantasy, set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations-The Gunslinger.... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse by John Joseph Adams Publisher Comments Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon — these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dirty Job (06 Edition) by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by Ursula K Le Guin Publisher Comments When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune—and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher Comments Centuries ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the two civilizations that have been separated by... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Staff Pick The Man in the High Castle is one of the first and best "alternate history" novels ever published. Turtledove and Flint should both have altars to Philip K. Dick in their homes.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice as A. N. Roquelaure Publisher Comments From bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquleaure. In the traditional folktale of 'Sleeping Beauty, ' the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The City and the City by China Mieville Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author China Mieville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other — real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Phantom (Sword of Truth #10) by Terry Goodkind Publisher Comments On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end. As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Fifth Sacred Thing (93 Edition) by Starhawk Publisher Comments An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (10 Edition) by Seth Grahame-smith Publisher Comments Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call Milk Sickness. My baby boy... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth's Children #3: The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M Auel Publisher Comments Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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