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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins Staff Pick Destined for widespread popularity and quite possibly a little controversy, this post-apocalyptic tale about teenagers who fight to the death to help feed their families is so riveting and heartbreaking, I ceased all essential functions until I finished... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Staff Pick We didn't read this in high school. The assigned book was The Scarlet Letter, which was already a favorite of mine. Recently, however, I decided that I'd ignored To Kill a Mockingbird for too long. If you haven't read it, or if it's been awhile since you... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling From Powells.com It is not surprising that J. K. Rowling needed a break before writing the fifth Harry Potter book. The first four came out within a couple of years, to record breaking success. What is surprising is how she managed to maintain such quality in the... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Staff Pick Magic green pills spill, accidentally, onto the ground beneath a peach tree. A peach appears overnight, the only fruit the tree has ever produced; by morning, it's swollen to the size of a houseboat, and soon enough James Henry Trotter is climbing aboard... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crank by Ellen Hopkins Publisher Comments Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina — she's fearless... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Harry Potter #5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling Publisher Comments The next volume in the thrilling, moving, bestselling Harry Potter series will reach readers June 21, 2003 -- and it's been worth the wait! We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate your memory.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Light in the Attic (81 Edition) by Shel Silverstein Publisher Comments Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I flunk that test? Whatif green hair grows on my chest? Whatif nobody likes me? Whatif a bolt of... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Publisher Comments Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving. Then, an... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children) by Jean M Auel Publisher Comments The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalars people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Twilight Saga #03: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer Synopsis Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour the paperback edition Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Synopsis Alexie's National Book Award winner chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live. Includes poignant drawings that reflect the character's art.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Publisher Comments Poor, orphaned Harry Potter is stuck living with his miserable relatives until salvation arrives in the form of letter: He's been invited to attend the prestigious Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. From that point on your child will follow... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) by Louise Rennison Publisher Comments Georgia Nicolson has started dating the Sex God (aka Robbie). So life should be perfect . . . except in Georgia's life, nothing is ever perfect. Her cat, Angus (the size of a small Labrador), is terrorizing the neighborhood. Her sister, Libby (who is... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—here humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Harry Potter #2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2) by J. K. Rowling Synopsis When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been unleashed on the school.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's prosperous black families, as well as its white families... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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