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Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Anansi Boys is Neil Gaiman's best novel yet. It may lack the epic scope of American Gods, but page for page it provides a higher level of satisfaction. This is Gaiman at his wittiest, most uninhibited; we feel the author having fun with his creations...
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A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
Publisher Comments A novel of unrest among 16-year-olds in a boy's school at theopening of WorldWar II....
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Out from Boneville: Bone, Book 1 (Bone #01)
by Jeff Smith Publisher Comments The Bone adventures tell the story of a young bone boy, Fone Bone, and his two cousins, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who are banned from their homeland of Boneville. When the cousins find themselves mysteriously trapped in a wonderful but often...
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The Club Dumas: A Novel
by Arturo Perez-Reverte Publisher Comments Lucas Corso is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers...
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The Closers (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly Publisher Comments He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly...
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Straight Man: A Novel
by Richard Russo
Powells.com Staff Pick Blame the Gothic romantic deep inside me (buried alive, in a coffin), but I've long had a soft spot for the famous evening of June 16, 1816, in which Lord Byron read a book of German ghost stories to guests at his home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, then...
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Empire Falls: A Novel
by Richard Russo
Powells.com Staff Pick In lieu of the driving narrative voice of Straight Man, Empire Falls delves into a large cast of strong characters who will live on in the reader's mind long after the novel proper has ended. Russo's sprawling Pulitzer Prize winner impresses on many...
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Holes
by Louis Sachar
Publisher Comments Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where...
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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick Twelve years after his staggering debut, Scott Smith returns with The Ruins — and it's worth the wait. The Ruins is brilliantly suspenseful, almost unbearable in places, and shares A Simple Plan's mounting intensity. Smith's premise could lend...
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Eyes of the Storm: Bone, Volume 3 (Bone #03:)
by Jeff Smith Publisher Comments In Eyes of the Storm, volume three of the nine-book Bone saga, Lucius, Smiley, and Phoney survive an attack by the rat creatures and return safely to Lucius' tavern in Barrelhaven. Phoney, desperate to win a bet with Lucius, stokes the townspeople's fear...
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Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick Blame the Gothic romantic deep inside me (buried alive, in a coffin), but I've long had a soft spot for the famous evening of June 16, 1816, in which Lord Byron read a book of German ghost stories to guests at his home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, then...
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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments In Neil Gaiman's richly imagined fiction, anything is possible. And the proof is in the telling in this extraordinary collection of short stories. Discover within these pages miraculous inventions and curious characters: an elderly widow who finds the...
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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick Those of you who are tired of waiting for a new Harry Potter novel might do well to pick up this little gem. Young Coraline finds a secret passage that leads her to a living nightmare. This book is scary, but not too scary, a little creepy, and...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show...
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Little Children
by Tom Perrotta
Powells.com Staff Pick "What really makes Little Children shine is its theme of isolation. Never before have I laughed so much and so enjoyed a book whose message was so essentially sad....I closed the covers feeling sober, alone, and delirious from the sheer rush of the...
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The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments A classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, Bradbury enthralls, delights and challenges readers with his vision and his heartQtaking them...
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The Dragonslayer: Bone, Volume 4 (Bone #04)
by Jeff Smith Publisher Comments Fone Bone confronts a host of dangers in Book 4 of the Bone saga, The Dragonslayer. He and Gran'ma Ben and Thorn have a terrifying encounter with Kingdok, ruler of the rat creatures. The Hooded One is inciting his army to full-scale war. Someone is...
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The Sea of Trolls
by Nancy Farmer
Powells.com 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. Recommended by Rico...
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The Club Dumas
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Publisher Comments Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of...
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Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
Powells.com Staff Pick Along with The Far Side and Bloom County, Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes (briefly) revitalized the comics page for much of the '80s and '90s. Sadly, nothing has since come close, making this the perfect time to revisit Watterson's oeuvre. Mixing the...
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