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Holes by Louis Sachar Publisher Comments Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar! Monday, October 20th, 7:00 p.m. Andersons Bookshop, Naperville, IL Tuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, IL Wednesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WI... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep about to make Fat Charlie's... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Out from Boneville: 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... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sandman, Volume 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments A Game of You is the fifth volume in the story of The Sandman. A departure in style and tone for the series, as Morpheus, King of Dreams, takes a supporting role. A mix of several fiction genres, from fantasy to horror, A Game of You features a doll... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman Publisher Comments Volumes I & II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sandman, Volume 8: World's End by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Worlds' End is the eighth volume in the story of The Sandman. Caught in the vortex of a reality storm, wayfarers from throughout time, myth, and the imagination converge on a mysterious inn. In the tradition of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, as the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire Falls: A Novel by Richard Russo Publisher Comments With Empire Falls, Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America's most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman Publisher Comments For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Board Book
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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller From Powells.com "Live from New York is described as 'an uncensored history of Saturday Night Live' and that is exactly what you get: no mincing of words, no glancing blows....See the hatred that Jim Belushi still bears for Bob Woodward for writing about his brother... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments A stunning contemporary classic by American literary treasure Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. Meet the mysterious Mr. Moonshroud, who leads eight boys on a journey back through the centuries to discover the real... (read more) List Price $5.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson Publisher Comments Craig Thompson the award-winning creator of Blankets and Good-bye, Chunky Rice spent three months travelling through Barcelona, the Alps, and France, as well as Morocco, where he was researching his next graphic novel, Habibi. Spontaneous... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sandman #09: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments The Kindly Ones is the ninth volume in the epic saga of The Sandman. The penultimate chapter finds Morpheus, Lord of Dreams, paying the price for his many painful choices and unwise decisions throughout the series. A vengeful goddess unleashes the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Sin City by Frank Miller Publisher Comments In 1991, visionary creator Frank Miller continued his shakedown of the comics industry when he premiered his visceral and powerfully charged Sin City series. With Sin City, Miller sent a shock wave through the industry and beyond, stunning critics... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Hard Goodbye -- 2nd Edition (Frank Miller's Sin City #01) by Frank Miller Publisher Comments Legendary artist Frank Miller opened a noir opus in Sin City. This critically-acclaimed triumph honored by both an Eisner Award and the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award combines the pulp intensity of writers like Spillane and Cain... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman Synopsis Featuring the popular characters from the award-winning Sandman series by Neil Caiman, THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS reveals the legend of the Endless, a family of magical and mythical beings who exist and interact in the real world. Born at the beginning... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Cow Race: Bone, Volume 2 (Bone #02) by Jeff Smith Publisher Comments Fone Bone and his cousins plan to return home after visiting the village of Barrelhaven with Thorn and Gran'ma Ben. But Phoney risks everything on one last get-rich-quick scheme at the town's annual Great Cow Race.... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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