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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach Staff Pick If you haven't read Mary Roach's previous bestsellers Bonk and Stiff (shame on you!), Packing for Mars is as good an introduction to Roach as you'll find. Space travel hasn't been this funny or intriguing since Douglas Adams — and best of all, it's... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross Staff Pick Among its many other innovations, the 20th century was the first to truly have its own soundtrack. New Yorker music critic Alex Ross is nothing if not ambitious, and, as he tracks the history of 20th-century music (and the music of 20th-century history... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff Publisher Comments "One of our most exquisite storytellers" (Esquire) gives us his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. Tobias Wolff's first two books, In the Garden... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Life by Keith Richards and James Fox Staff Pick This riveting autobiography by celebrated (and famously hard-living) guitar legend Keith Richards reads with the unforgettable hook and crisp ferocity of the best Rolling Stones songs — most of which you'll rush to replay after learning about their... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The System of the World: #03 Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick The concluding volume of the Baroque Cycle mixes swashbuckling adventure, historical romance, mathematics, and Isaac Newton into a frothy brew that's truly irresistible.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande Staff Pick Who among us hasn't trembled at the very prospect of entering a doctor's office? It should give us all comfort, then, that bestselling author, general surgeon, and MacArthur Fellow Atul Gawande has written Better, a book that challenges surgeons to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende Staff Pick With a multitude of vivid characters and lush settings — from Saint-Domingue sugar plantations to 19th-century New Orleans — this book is everything you expect from Isabel Allende, an epic that swells with beauty, anguish, and, above all, passion.... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore Staff Pick You Suck is a comedy with real bite! Fans of Christopher Moore or vampire fiction (or just curious newcomers) will find this a juicy, deliciously hilarious tale. Read it freely... and leave behind some of the happiness you bring!... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Staff Pick Peter and the Starcatchers is a nearly perfect, swashbuckling adventure that's sure to please girls and boys alike. A brilliantly conceived prequel to Peter Pan.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pendragon, Book 6: The Rivers of Zadaa by D. J. Machale Staff Pick The New York Times-bestselling Pendragon series charges on with this absorbing sixth book. Bobby Pendragon is no ordinary teenager — he has been tasked with saving the world. In The Rivers of Zadaa, Bobby pursues his nemesis, Saint Dane, into the midst... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lost Colony: Artemis Fowl, Book Five (Artemis Fowl #05) by Eoin Colfer Staff Pick The fifth book in this venerable series finds young criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl up to his nefarious tricks. This time he has to fend off a demon invasion by unraveling the mystery of a time spell. Fans of the series won't be disappointed by this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut Staff Pick Alas, Kurt Vonnegut is still dead. Luckily for grieving readers, the cascade of Vonnegut's work continues to flow. This book features 16 previously unpublished stories from the early years of his career, each of which will delight his longtime fans.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The System of the World: Baroque Cycle #03 by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick The concluding volume of the Baroque Cycle mixes swashbuckling adventure, historical romance, mathematics, and Isaac Newton into a frothy brew that's truly irresistible.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Looking Glass Wars (Looking Glass Wars) by Frank Beddor Staff Pick In the wake of Harry Potter, YA fantasy novels have become a dime a dozen. Luckily there are gems like The Looking Glass Wars that stand out. This lively, engaging adventure will thrill anyone who's ever read the Alice in Wonderland books and wished they... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends: A Very Trippy Miscellany by Adriano Sack Staff Pick You're sitting at a bar with friends, and the conversation hits a lull. Someone excuses herself to get the next round and buy some time. But you don't need it, because you've read The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends and you're loaded with an... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Star Trek: The Original Series 365 by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann Staff Pick Whether you enjoy Star Trek as a guilty pleasure or you genuinely embrace it as the pinnacle of sci-fi radness, you'll love this book! Beam it up and you'll spend an entire year boldly making bad puns.... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Artemis Fowl #05: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer Staff Pick The fifth book in this venerable series finds young criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl up to his nefarious tricks. This time he has to fend off a demon invasion by unraveling the mystery of a time spell. Fans of the series won't be disappointed by this... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte Staff Pick Is the literary adventure novel coming back into vogue? While Pérez-Reverte has always been an advocate of the form (not to mention one of its finest practitioners), the double whammy of Isabel Allende's thrilling Zorro and the U.S. edition of Captain... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Homeland Insecurity: Complete News Archives, Volume 17 (Onion Ad Nauseam) by Onion Staff Pick Deck the halls with hilarity, as the editors of the Onion compile their fiercest, funniest pieces from the satirical newspaper that lampoons the best, worst, and weirdest in America.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer Staff Pick From the author of The House of the Scorpion comes a thrilling adventure-quest involving Vikings, a mother Dragon, giant spiders, and a shape-shifting half-troll named Ivar the Boneless.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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