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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Powells.com 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)
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.)
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick
Fantasy author Gaiman is at his best in this short story collection, which
contains an embarrassing riches of storytelling that is at times dark,
funny, terrifying, beautiful, and always brilliant.
Recommended by Bolton, Powells.com... ( read more)
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A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
Publisher Comments
A novel of unrest among 16-year-olds in a boy's school at theopening of WorldWar II.... ( read more)
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Suite Francaise: A Novel
by Irene Nemirovsky
Powells.com Staff Pick
A literary time capsule, Suite Française is a novel about wartime occupation written during the Nazi occupation of France. Irène Némirovsky's unfinished manuscript has been published more than 60 years after her death to worldwide... ( read more)
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
Powells.com Staff Pick
Alison Bechdel, creator of the Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip, uses the cartoon form to tell the story of her coming out and the discovery of her father's sexual orientation. The title refers to the funeral home where she grew up, and her parents... ( read more)
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Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick
"Anansi Boys is Neil Gaiman's best novel yet. It may lack the epic scope of American Gods, but page for page it provides a higher level of satisfaction. This is Gaiman at his wittiest, most uninhibited; we feel the author having fun with his creations... ( read more)
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Out from Boneville: Bone, Book 1 (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)
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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... ( read more)
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Empire Falls: A Novel
by Richard Russo
Powells.com Staff Pick
In lieu of the driving narrative voice of Straight Man, Empire Falls delves into a large cast of strong characters who will live on in the reader's mind long after the novel proper has ended. Russo's sprawling Pulitzer Prize winner impresses on many... ( read more)
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Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
by Craig Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick
One of Mike H.'s Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here.... ( read more)
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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... ( read more)
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High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick
In the nineties, while Americans were looking to cloying John
Gray to explain the differences between men and women, the Brits were having
a much better time learning about the foibles of gender from two of their best
satirists. Taken together... ( read more)
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
Powells.com Staff Pick
Alison Bechdel, creator of the Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip, uses the cartoon form to tell the story of her coming out and the discovery of her father's sexual orientation. The title refers to the funeral home where she grew up, and her parents... ( read more)
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Used - Hardcover
The Sandman #01: Preludes and Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick
The pinnacle of pop comix storytelling. These beautifully written stories, astonishing in their scope and emotional depth, revolutionized the comics industry. Together the initial ten volumes of Gaiman's epic comprise one of the greatest narratives in... ( read more)
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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. Anderson's 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)
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The Sandman #02: The Doll's House
by Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg
Powells.com Staff Pick
The pinnacle of pop comix storytelling. These beautifully written stories, astonishing in their scope and emotional depth, revolutionized the comics industry. Together the initial ten volumes of Gaiman's epic comprise one of the greatest narratives in... ( read more)
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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
by Neil Gaiman
Publisher Comments
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion...and anything is possible.
In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders — a place... ( read more)
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Neverwhere: A Novel
by Neil Gaiman
Publisher Comments
Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are... ( read more)
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The Closers (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly
Publisher Comments
He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly... ( read more)
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City of Thieves: A Novel
by David Benioff
Publisher Comments
As wise and funny as it is thrilling and original — the story of two young men on an impossible adventure.
A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother... ( read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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