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Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by S. G. Browne Staff Pick Vampires get to be in love and sell millions of books. Why shouldn't zombies get the same privileges? Breathers corrects this egregious oversight with an undead love story that manages, against all odds, to be tender and funny. And full of brains.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Skippy Dies: A Novel by Paul Murray Staff Pick Talk about a spoiler! Yes, Skippy dies. (Or maybe he doesn't. I'll never tell.) But the fact of his death isn't nearly as important as the why, which Paul Murray's Dublin-set novel explores with a dizzying mix of hilarity and tragedy that's never less... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit Staff Pick If, like me, you've ever wondered how people can possibly survive the mental ordeal of a catastrophe like 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina, A Paradise Built in Hell will pique your curiosity — and reward it with a riveting examination of what happens to... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $23.95 Your price: $8.50 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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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff Staff Pick This collection of new and classic short stories shows why Wolff is one of today's preeminent storytellers. He's already a fixture in modern American literature textbooks — but Wolff's writing is too sharp, too alive, too urgent to be confined... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 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: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman Staff Pick Friedman doesn't just have the world's greatest moustache — he's also a sharp writer and keen thinker. The world needs this book — and we can consider ourselves fortunate that someone as clever as Friedman has written it.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 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: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bigfoot: I Not Dead by Graham Roumieu Staff Pick In my many years of gallivanting through the forest with my dear friend Sasquatch, we've often discussed fictional portrayals of him in books and on film. Somehow, these depictions always miss the essential bigfootiness of my huge, hairy companion. But... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - 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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Peter and the Starcatchers (Boxed Set: Books 1-3) by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Staff Pick The Peter Pan prequel you dreamt of as a kid: a breathless adventure packed full of pirates, intrigue, and imagination. A worthy addition to the canon of J. M. Barrie's timeless fantasy, this series just might become a classic in its own right.... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Trade Paper
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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 $8.99 Your price: $4.95 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 $24.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives by Peter Terzian Staff Pick What do Talking Heads, ABBA, Pearl Jam, Eurythmics, Gloria Estefan, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and the soundtrack to Annie have in common? They all inspired one of the writers in Heavy Rotation. These entertaining essays from such acclaimed authors as... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death by David Shields and Bradford Morrow Staff Pick You are going to die. If that incontrovertible fact bums you out, you may want to read The Inevitable, which contains 20 essays about death that are alternately funny, sad, enlightening, and fascinating. The book doesn't pretend to have the the answers... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Eldest (Spanish Edition) by Christopher Paolini Staff Pick Fantasy lovers still recovering from the post-Harry Potter blues will find some much needed late-summer relief in these pages. Eldest, Christopher Paolini's accomplished sequel to his bestselling Eragon: Inheritance Book 1, continues the story with... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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