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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks  
Powells.com Staff Pick Despite never having been into the whole "zombie thing," I picked up World War Z. Halfway through, it dawned on me that I was becoming really, deeply scared. A few more pages in and I was trying to figure out how, exactly, to make my house both...
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Iron Kissed
by Patricia Briggs
Powells.com Staff Pick I love this series and couldn't wait for the third installment, Iron Kissed. It was well worth the wait! Mercy is a kick-ass hero who takes no prisoners and just happens to be a shape-shifting mechanic living in a world of werewolves, vampires, and other...
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Odd Hours
by Dean Koontz
Powells.com Staff Pick Odd Hours continues the story of Dean Koontz's most likeable and quirky character, Odd Thomas, a young man who "sees dead people" as well as a few other spooky things. Koontz is at his best here, introducing several new characters just as quirky as Odd...
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From Dead to Worse
by Charlaine Harris
Powells.com Staff Pick From Dead to Worse, the eighth Sookie Stackhouse book by Charlaine Harris, is funny, sexy, sassy, and full of surprises. This series is one of my favorites because Harris creates such a plausible alternate reality. Her main character, Sookie, can't seem...
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
Powells.com Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who...
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House of Leaves: A Novel
by Mark Z. Danielewski
Powells.com Staff Pick "Saints be praised, this is the best book of the new millennium. A veritable tour de force. Pynchon meets Stephen King meets Robert Hughes meets Borges meets Dante. Joycian. Jungian. Mythic. Any clich used by fawning literary critics...
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The Historian: A Novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
Powells.com Staff Pick With The Historian Elizabeth Kostova has written a love letter to Dracula, Eastern Europe, and the study of history. Writing an epistolary novel (just like the original Dracula) might have seemed risky in the age of email, but it works. We are drawn into...
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Lullaby
by Chuck Palahniuk
Powells.com Staff Pick "This is arguably Palahniuk?s greatest gift: his ability to jab his finger right on the sharpest point of a nerve we might not even have known was exposed. In Fight Club, it was the growing dissatisfaction with a materialistic world bent on conformity...
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Poltergeist: A Greywalker Novel
by Kat Richardson
Powells.com Staff Pick Great read! The hero of Kat Richardson’s new series is a tough, sassy, street-smart female detective who has one little problem: she died for two minutes and is now a Greywalker. Harper Blaine is able to move between our world and the world of the...
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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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Last Call
by Tim Powers
Powells.com Staff Pick Generations of Powell's Science Fiction Team members have read and loved this book, and it is one of my favorites to sell science fiction-reading customers who are looking for something new. Powers combines Arthurian mythology, chaos theory, tarot, and...
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Duma Key: A Novel
by Stephen King
Powells.com Staff Pick I start salivating about six months before any new Stephen King novel is released and couldn't wait to get my hands on Duma Key. As usual with the "master's" books, I read it in one weekend, driving my poor dog nuts because I wouldn't put the light out...
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The Terror
by Dan Simmons
Powells.com Staff Pick The Terror is perhaps the perfect blend of exploration and horror writing. An expedition looking for the Northwest Passage becomes icebound for the winter, and then crew members begin to disappear. The book is a genuine page-turner, as the crew members...
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The Outlaw Demon Wails
by Kim Harrison
Powells.com Staff Pick Demons, elves, vampires, and witches... just a few of my favorite things! Thank heaven for Kim Harrison and her Rachel Morgan series, which feeds my addiction on a regular basis. It was hard, but I waited patiently, like a good little urban fantasy...
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Powells.com Staff Pick With The Historian Elizabeth Kostova has written a love letter to Dracula, Eastern Europe, and the study of history. Writing an epistolary novel (just like the original Dracula) might have seemed risky in the age of email, but it works. We are drawn into...
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Monster Island: A Zombie Novel
by David Wellington
Powells.com Staff Pick "An original and inventive zombie novel that you can really sink your teeth in to." James, Powells...
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The Terror: A Novel
by Dan Simmons
Powells.com Staff Pick I've long been a fan of Dan Simmons's science fiction, and I'd enjoyed some of his horror novels as well. The Terror is, however, both an unusual new direction for Simmons and one of his most impressive works to date. In this historical novel based on...
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Bad Men: A Thriller
by John Connolly
Powells.com Staff Pick As a child, I kept myself awake deep into the night with ghost stories and horror novels. As an adult, I turned to mysteries to provide my thrills. Part supernatural thriller, part mystery, Bad Men pleases both the child and the adult in me. Pick up...
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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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The Historian: A Novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
Powells.com Staff Pick This is the perfect summer read — I promise. From Anne Rice to Stephen King to Bram Stoker and beyond, desire for tales from the crypt never seems to die. Even if you believe the Dracula legend has been bludgeoned to the thinnest pulp, you will be...
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