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Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Staff Pick
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The Passage
by Justin Cronin
Staff Pick
Justin Cronin's The Passage is a marvel — an epic, post-apocalyptic vampire novel that's extremely well written and a great work of storytelling. Reminiscent in some ways of Stephen King's The Stand, but wholly unique in its approach, The Passage is... (read more)

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Bearers of the Black Staff (Legends of Shannara #1)
by Terry Brooks
Staff Pick
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Applegeeks #01: Freshman Year
by Ananth Panagariya and Mohammad F. Haque
Staff Pick
I've been following AppleGeeks online for a few years now and have loved every minute of it, whether it's Hawk talking to his squirrel buddy during Ramadan, Gina being drunk and belligerent, or the robot Eve learning how to be human. The book... (read more)

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