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Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga #1)
by Orson Scott Card  Publisher Comments Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind...
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J K Rowling Publisher Comments Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable life...
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Harvest Book)
by Audrey Niffenegger 
Powells.com 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...
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Alchemist (98 Edition)
by Paulo Coelho
Powells.com 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...
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The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
Publisher Comments "My heart is afraidthat 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...
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Childhood's End (Racksize) (53 Edition)
by Arthur C. Clarke Publisher Comments Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankind...
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Ishmael (Large Format) (92 Edition)
by Daniel Quinn
Powells.com Staff Pick For those of us who have been in the rat race of modern culture long enough that we have stopped thinking, and for those of us who have never deeply examined our place in the world, this book is an awakening. It just may change the way you think about...
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Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy)
by C S Lewis Publisher Comments The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal...
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Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
Publisher Comments Sophi Fevvers — the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec — is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American...
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The Children of Hurin
by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien Publisher Comments There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the great...
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Never Let Me Go: A Novel
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Powells.com 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...
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The Eyre Affair :Thursday Next #01
by Jasper Fforde
Powells.com Staff Pick The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next — a literary detective from the future — enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the...
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler Publisher Comments When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death Lauren Olamina, a minister's young daughter, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected...
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Stardust: Being a Romance Within The Realms of Faerie
by Neil Gaiman
Publisher Comments In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn...
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Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence
by Nick Bantock Publisher Comments It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point on nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London. His logical, methodical world was suddenly turned upside down...
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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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Kindred: 25th Anniversary Edition
by Octavia E. Butler Publisher Comments The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copies< BR> < BR> Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K Dick Publisher Comments Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet...
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The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher Comments A Literary Guild Featured Alternate Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF...
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The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher Comments George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being — for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him — but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for...
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