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The Big Sleep (Vintage Crime)
by Raymond Chandler  
Publisher Comments When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications...
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The Player of Games
by Iain M. Banks Publisher Comments The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh...
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Seeker
by Jack McDevitt Publisher Comments Thousands of years after the unsolved disappearance of an entire colony, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict stumbles upon a cup that appears to be from the Seeker, one of the colony's original ships, and, while attempting to estable the artifact's...
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What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats
by Jack Handey Publisher Comments Jack Handey is one of America's favorite humorists, from his New Yorker pieces to his Deep Thoughts books and Saturday Night Live sketches. Now, in What I'd Say to the Martians, Handey regales readers with his incredible wit and wacky musings....
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Snakepit 2: My Life in a Jugular Vein
by Ben Snakepit Publisher Comments Follow Ben through his daily comic adventures involving beer, weed, work, shows, tour, love, and parties filled with monsters. His drawing and writing style is sincere and heartfelt and you can feel his highs and lows. Each day is captured in 3 frames...
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Engineer Trilogy #1: Devices and Desires
by K. J. Parker
Powells.com Staff Pick Parker's characters, each with strengths and weaknesses, possess a very real emotional texture rarely found in fantasy novels. Devices and Desires, the first in the trilogy, is a darkly intricate fantasy of revenge and betrayal: armies will be...
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Hapless Child
by Edward Gorey Publisher Comments This sorry tale of petite Charlotte Sophia's catastrophic, short life is classic Gorey. The poor child is orphaned and treated mercilessly by schoolmates and ruffians alike, and only barely survives--for a time, anyway--by the skin of her baby teeth...
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The Mount
by Carol Emshwiller Publisher Comments "A wicked book. Dystopian, weird, comedic."-Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter "Terrific."-Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil Both a coming-of-age story and a political fable, Carol Emshwiller's novel looks at what it...
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The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher Comments In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George...
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Glasshouse
by Charles Stross Publisher Comments In the twenty-seventh century, accelerated technology dictates the memories and personalities of people. With most of his own memories deleted, Robin enters The Glasshouse — an experimental polity where he finds himself at the mercy of his own...
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The New Weird
by Ann Vandermeer Publisher Comments This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird—a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books—creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly...
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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age -- The '20s, '30s and '40s (Vintage Crime/Blck Lizard Orig)
by Otto Penzler Publisher Comments The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train...
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Majestrum: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn
by Matthew Hughes Publisher Comments When Hapthorn is hired by Lord Afre to investigate the motives of his daughter's new companion, a young man of indeterminate circumstances, he takes the job expecting it to allow him the opportunity to explore and understand his changing universe. Little...
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Wine, Tarts, & Sex
by Susan Johnson Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author whose torrid tales are legendary (Robin Shone) comes another steamy story-set in the kitchen. World-renowned chef Jake Chambers could have had any ingnue he wanted in California since the kitchen isn't the only...
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Homunculus
by James P Baylock Synopsis In 1870s London, a city of contradictions and improbabilities, a dead man pilots an airship and living men are willing to risk all to steal a carp. Here, a night of bangers and ale at the local pub can result in an eternity at the Blood Pudding with the...
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Curses
by Kevin Huizenga Publisher Comments Insightful portraits of reality are presented in this collection of narratives that are light-hearted but with a healthy dose of nineteenth-century spine-tingling adventure that follow the life-altering experiences of Glenn Ganges, a seemingly ordinary...
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The Dragons of Babel
by Michael Swanwick Publisher Comments A fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner! A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant...
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Box Office Poison
by Alex Robinson
Review "Compellingly voyeuristic...problems of dead end jobs and roommates could be boring as hell, but Robinson spins it into an engrossing saga without being melodramatic..." Beth Hannan Rimmels, Long Island...
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Baltimore; or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire
by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
Powells.com Staff Pick A work of Gothic perfection, Baltimore could very nearly pass for a genuine "lost classic" of the Penny Dreadful era. Fans of Mike Mignola's Hellboy, the supernatural novels of Christopher Golden, and vampire fiction with a Victorian bite will sink...
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Tailchaser's Song
by Tad Williams Synopsis Fifteen years ago, the story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous ginger tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M'an, was first told. This 15th anniversary edition includes a special new...
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