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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer." the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the far of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire #2) by George R. R. Martin Publisher Comments A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO. George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin—dubbed the “American Tolkien” by Time magazine—has... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Alchemist (Insight) by Paulo Coelho Staff Pick Whether you want to take a journey or to be reassured that life is filled with wonder and magic, this beautifully optimistic book is for you. Follow Santiago, a shepherd who follows a dream to find treasure hidden under the pyramids, but ends up finding... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Storm Front: Dresden Files #1 by Jim Butcher Publisher Comments For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace Publisher Comments Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicles #01 by Patrick Rothfuss Publisher Comments The boy who would be king has gained the throne... At age nine, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath vowed to avenge his slaughtered mother and brotherand to punish his father for not doing so. At fifteen, he began to fulfill that vow. Now, at eighteen, he... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Never Let Me Go: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro Staff Pick Set in a (barely?) alternate England in the late 1990s, Never Let Me Go is the sum of Kathy's memories. Kathy is one of many "donors" who have been brought into being for purposes that, while well-intended, can come to no good. Ishiguro's novel touches... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien Publisher Comments THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George R. R. Martin Publisher Comments A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO. Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Left Hand of Darkness (69 Edition) by Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher Comments When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune—and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children) by Jean M Auel Publisher Comments This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new leader... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George R. R. Martin From Powells.com If you're a "read-the-book-first" type, you might want to get started now on George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. HBO has optioned the first book, A Game of Thrones, as a series, and 10 episodes are slated to begin filming in Ireland in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick "Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman and John Lawrence Staff Pick I reread Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy every year or so and was thrilled with this short story, the latest installment in the saga of Lyra Belacqua. Enhanced with maps and illustrations, it’s a wonderful story and a collectible gem.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth's Children #3: The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M Auel Publisher Comments Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Sparrow (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Mary Doria Russell Publisher Comments The Sparrow, an astonishing literary debut, takes you on a journey to a distant planet and to the center of the human soul. It is the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a twenty-first-century scientific mission to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick Snow Crash is one of my favorites. It's an epic cyber-punk tale that contains elements that are both fantastical and very realistic. The characters are richly imagined, even the villains. It is fast paced and well embellished, containing elements of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dune Chronicles #02: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Publisher Comments Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muad'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a super-being. "Brilliant...It is all that Dune was, and maybe a little bit more." --Galaxy... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Plains of Passage Earths Children 4 by Jean Auel Publisher Comments Jean M. Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children® series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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