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Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist Staff Pick This is one of the best vampire novels since Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Although the author wrote the screenplay, too, there's still a lot that didn't find its way into the film. If you read one bloodsucking book this year make sure it's the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist Staff Pick Reinhard Kleist gives us a dark and nuanced portrait of the Man in Black, with stunning black-and-white artwork that perfectly complements the retelling of Johnny Cash's life. Interspersed among the narrative are short selections of illustrated song... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gardens of the Moon: Malazan Book of the Fallen #01 by Steven Erikson Staff Pick Gardens of the Moon is the first book in one of my favorite fantasy series. Unconventional in it's characters and scope, this series rocks. The world and the races in it aren't your average Tolkien-derived orcs and elves. Everyone in these books is... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cruddy by Lynda Barry Staff Pick Cartoonist Lynda Barry proves to be a formidable writer with this novel of teen alienation. Shocking, outlandish violence is balanced by lyrical, insightful prose. Cruddy is a homicidal road story, a coming-of-age tale, and a meditation on adolescence... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Acacia, Book One: The War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham Staff Pick Acacia is a promising fantasy debut by an established historical novelist. It combines the moral ambiguity and brutality of George R. R. Martin with elements of Guy Gavriel Kay and Ursula K. Le Guin.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson Staff Pick Gardens of the Moon is the first book in one of my favorite fantasy series. Unconventional in it's characters and scope, this series rocks. The world and the races in it aren't your average Tolkien-derived orcs and elves. Everyone in these books is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Meanwhile: Pick Any Path 3,856 Story Possibilities by Jason Shiga Staff Pick OMG! OMG! OMG! A choose-your-own-adventure graphic novel! The best mash-up ever! Who could do this? Only mathematician/graphic-novelist Jason Shiga. If you haven't heard of him, you should not only check out Meanwhile, but also Bookhunter. Shiga's humor... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James Staff Pick Drawing on over 40 years experience writing and reading detective fiction, P. D. James examines its origins, techniques, tropes, and evolution throughout the 20th century. Her insights and analysis will be fascinating to readers and writers of the genre.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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American Rust (Random House Reader's Circle) by Philipp Meyer Staff Pick A noir story in spirit if not in form, Philipp Meyer's debut novel shows off the skills of a terrific writer. Characters' voices leap off the page in a bleak and desperate narrative full of sympathy, perspective, and brilliant prose. The lives of these... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington Staff Pick I recommend this book with trepidation, though I enjoyed the dark, cruel humor within. My wife put it down after reading the first couple chapters, deterred by the graphic cruelty of the titular brothers Grossbart. A thick-skinned reader, one who finds... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks Staff Pick The Culture sometimes has trouble with introductions. So they send the foremost expert game-player to act as their agent to a very different culture, where a vast series of games determines the fate of their citizens. The Player of Games is definitely... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Acacia, Book One: The War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham Staff Pick Acacia is a promising fantasy debut by an established historical novelist. It combines the moral ambiguity and brutality of George R. R. Martin with elements of Guy Gavriel Kay and Ursula K. Le Guin.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Finch by Jeff VanderMeer Staff Pick Finch is a genre-blender of detective, dystopian, and science fiction that follows detective John Finch as he investigates a double murder. A fantastical tale told in the clipped, rugged voice of classic noir, Finch is one of the most inventive and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind Staff Pick Perfume is a well-written, genre-crossing historical tale that delves into the macabre, but it also has the rare quality of being able to change the way you experience life, albeit through an olfactory perspective. Perfume does more than let you get lost... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gardens of the Moon 1st Edition by Steven Erikson Staff Pick Gardens of the Moon is the first volume of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. With brutal battles, conniving characters, and a densely constructed world, this epic series is an excellent pick for fans of George R. R. Martin or Patrick... (read more) Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker and Leslie S. Klinger Staff Pick Leslie Klinger does it again! By approaching Dracula as he did Sherlock Holmes, Klinger provides insights and historical inquiries into the validity of Stoker's "fictional" telling of the Count, ultimately leaving the reader to truly wonder if the Count... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Complete Dracula by Leah Moore Staff Pick For the first time in 112 years, the full version of Dracula is finally adapted into comic-book form. A great companion to The New Annotated Dracula.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dylan Dog Case Files by Tiziano Sclavi Staff Pick Witty, macabre, and hopelessly romantic, Dylan Dog is a page-turner of a classic, now finally available in graphic-novel format. But consider yourself warned: This Italian comic will probably keep you from doing anything responsible until you've finished... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Staff Pick Brothers and Sisters! Flare up a big, mouthwatering, medicinal spliff and take a trip with the great Thomas Pynchon and his immaculately stoned anti-hero detective "Doc" Sportello through post-Manson L.A. as they attempt to solve the mystery of the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Compact Disc
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