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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Staff Pick Fahrenheit 451 is probably one of the most important books ever written. If the world of this novel comes to pass, I will be this book. (You'll have to read it to see what I mean.)... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wee Free Men : a Story of Discworld (04 Edition) by Terry Pratchett Publisher Comments A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality . . . Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.00 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 Gathering Storm: The Wheel of Time #12 by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson Publisher Comments Tarmon Gaidon, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready. The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick Publisher Comments “The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dicks career.” - New York Times It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Iron Council by China Mieville Staff Pick In Iron Council, China Miéville delivers us back to the teeming metropolis of New Crobuzon. Its citizens (a fantastic array of creatures) are on the brink of revolution, and its government will use any means necessary to control the uprising. Fans of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Publisher Comments "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world." --John Brunner THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 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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The Once and Future King by T. H. White Publisher Comments T.H. White's masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations.... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.50 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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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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The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner Publisher Comments Because of his great skill at thievery, Gen lands in the King's prison. After months of isolation, kept sane only by his sharp intelligence, Gen is released by the King's Scholar, the Magus, who believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. The... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Spook Country by William Gibson Staff Pick Spook Country is Gibson at the top of his game, with gorgeous detail, page-turning suspense, and fascinating characters. If you've never read this author in the past because his work was categorized as science fiction, pick up this book, which is all too... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dune by Frank Herbert Staff Pick I'm sure other Powell's employees have chosen Dune as a staff pick, and for good reason: It's a science fiction classic. It is densely written and almost prophetic in nature. The spice, and the desert wars over it, sound so very much like our current... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein Publisher Comments In one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Wild Life by Molly Gloss Staff Pick At the turn of the century, in the primeval forest of the Pacific Northwest, a fiery feminist becomes lost. Struggling to survive, night after terrifying night, she is finally rescued by... Bigfoot!? Huh? No, really — this incredible story works. Gloss... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Publisher Comments In 1992 Vernor Vinge amazed the science fiction world with this epic novel of star-spanning adventure. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and has since become a landmark in the field. Now, with the long awaited sequel The Children of the Sky about to... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Publisher Comments Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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