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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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The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott Staff Pick Michael Scott's The Alchemyst series hit us like a ton of gold bricks! Mr. Scott has already published several books of folktales, and this little venture into the life and time of Nicholas Flamel is full of great gods and myths. If you haven't had a run-... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Feed by M. T. Anderson Staff Pick If you had your iPod touch, email, bank account, and family business all organized and recorded in an implant at the base of your neck, what would your world look like? Would you even bother talking? Would you care? Take a peek at our future and ask the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Am the Cheese (Laurel-Leaf Library) by Robert Cormier Staff Pick Part mystery and part drama, this young adult classic from the righteous '70s (it was published right after Jimmy Carter took office) is weird, thrilling, surprising, provocative, and sophisticated. But the bicycling scenes are my favorite — long... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith Staff Pick A book dealer came into Powell's rare book room one day while I was working and bought a beautiful first edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She said it was her favorite book and a birthday present to herself. From the look in her eye and the way she... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu Staff Pick For a good vacation read, try Shadow Thieves. Anne Ursu's somewhat dark, mythological thriller is the first in the Cronus Chronicles, so if you enjoy it, there's more to look forward to. Ursu's work dances between humor, gothic suspense, and family... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 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 $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Men and Gods: Myths and Legends of the Ancient Greeks (New York Review Books Classics) by Rex Warner Staff Pick Did I say Greek myths were in? When were they ever out? This collection will rock your socks — with outstanding illustrations, to boot. Even the most experienced Greek god or goddess will pore over Men and Gods with abundant enthusiasm.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn Staff Pick A must read! Parenting has come around to attachment again, and moved far, far away from the punitive cruelties of Victorian caregivers. Alfie Kohn has applied, in academic terms, the reasons to parent unconditionally. We have evolved!... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale Staff Pick If you haven't heard of Shannon Hale...well, now you have! Try Book of a Thousand Days, which is her newest feminist fairy tale. The very first page will inexorably pull you in with Jungian, gothic images of mad women suffering patriarchal cruelties... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Celebrating the Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth-Honoring Activities for Parents and Children by Cait Johnson Staff Pick This is a book for those people who want a little woo-woo in their lives but don't believe in Santa Claus. My son and I have found solace in our practice of the Silver Cave, when the longest night seems to go on forever and we need to find hope in the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai Staff Pick This excellent, old-timey, crazy-well-done comic is part of the Western world's love for all things manga. If you like Bone, you will love Usagi Yojimbo.... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Rabbit Hill (Puffin Newberry Library) by Robert Lawson Staff Pick Written in 1944, this is one of the classics of children's literature. The animals of Rabbit Hill and the folks who live in the big house learn about coexisting, giving us all something to think about in terms of how we interact with the world around us.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Haunted Looking Glass (New York Review Books Classics) by Edward Gorey Staff Pick Thrill to the haunting tales from such classic masters as Dickens, Stevenson, and Collins. Sizzling, permeating, thoroughly scary. Gorey's illustrations make this a pleasure to read.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly Staff Pick Revolution is a rich and complex story of a young woman dealing with her grief over a lost brother. With stellar attention to detail and pacing, Donnelly takes us through the French Revolution in a graceful blend of realistic fiction, historical fiction,... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams Staff Pick Bunnies, community, fantasy, adventure, danger — a classic pick for anyone who likes Brian Jacques, C. S. Lewis, or Erin Hunter.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Runaways #02: Teenage Wasteland by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alpona and Craig Yeung Staff Pick Mutant children, alien children — what difference does it make when your parents are evil and you are trying to figure out how to be heroes? Brian Vaughan's inimitable series is perfect for readers of the graphic persuasion (and readers who never... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Watership Down by Richard Adams Staff Pick Bunnies, community, fantasy, adventure, danger — a classic pick for anyone who likes Brian Jacques, C. S. Lewis, or Erin Hunter.... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Boxed Set #1-5 (Gregor) by Suzanne Collins Synopsis Rich in suspense and brimming with adventure, the "New York Times"-bestselling Underland Chronicles unfold the fate of the Underland and the great warrior, Gregor. Includes Books 1 to 5.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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