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A Dance with Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire #5) by George R. R. Martin Staff Pick For more than half of a decade, fans of George R. R. Martin's New York Times-bestselling series Song of Ice and Fire have been crazy with anticipation, their minds racing with burning questions and open-ended theories. Days have been spent rereading the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson Staff Pick Robopocalypse is mesmerizing and explosive. Underlining the uncertainty, violence, and fear surrounding cataclysmic events involving rogue technology, Daniel Wilson has skillfully incorporated a tenderness and fragility into the robot monstrosities. This... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns by Ray Bradbury Staff Pick Fahrenheit 451 is probably one of the most important books ever written. If the world of this novel comes to pass, I will be this book. (You'll have to read it to see what I mean.)... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Boneshaker by Cherie Priest Staff Pick It's no secret that I am a fan of steampunk. For years, I have harbored a quiet love of dirigibles and goggles. So it's no surprise that it was love at first sight when I spied the cover of Boneshaker. What I found inside didn't disappoint: a zombie... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Passage by Justin Cronin Staff Pick Justin Cronin's The Passage is a marvel — an epic, post-apocalyptic vampire novel that's extremely well written and a great work of storytelling. Reminiscent in some ways of Stephen King's The Stand, but wholly unique in its approach, The Passage is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell Staff Pick While it was hard to narrow down my list to just five "best of" picks, I didn't have to think twice about what would be my favorite book of the year. In Cloud Atlas Mitchell again uses the format of connecting short stories with recurring motifs into a... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi Staff Pick I'd heard all manner of praise and complimentary comparisons for The Windup Girl, but it wasn't until I started to read the book that I began to believe, and in believing I was filled with sadness and wonder. Bacigalupi throws us into a terribly possible... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Alchemist (Insight) by Paulo Coelho 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... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Magicians by Lev Grossman Staff Pick As a diehard Narniaphile and fantasy addict, I think it would have been impossible for me not to fall in love with The Magicians. Taking a page from C. S. Lewis, Grossman introduces Fillory, a charming and uncanny alternate world created by a fictional... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and Brett Helquist Staff Pick A Neil Gaiman story at any length is a treat. Odd and the Frost Giants is like the perfect finger food: brief but intensely, deliciously satisfying. If you aren't a fan of Norse mythology when you open the cover, you will be by the time you close it.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn 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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams Staff Pick Bunnies, community, fantasy, adventure, danger — a classic pick for anyone who likes Brian Jacques, C. S. Lewis, or Erin Hunter.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dune by Frank Herbert Staff Pick I'm sure other Powell's employees have chosen Dune as a staff pick, and for good reason: It's a science fiction classic. It is densely written and almost prophetic in nature. The spice, and the desert wars over it, sound so very much like our current... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 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 $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Magic Burns: Kate Daniels Series #2 by Ilona Andrews Staff Pick Ilona Andrews is one of my favorite new urban fantasy authors. Instead of creating a "romance" novel parading around disguised as urban fantasy, Andrews creates an extraordinary alternate universe filled with interesting characters, curious creatures... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels #4) by Ilona Andrews Staff Pick I'm a big fan of Ilona Andrews's Kate Daniels series, and I love the alternate reality she has create in "post shift" Atlanta. However, the latest book in the series, Magic Bleeds, is by far the best yet. Andrews pits Kate against her very powerful and... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #01) by Jasper Fforde 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov Staff Pick In 1965, Asimov's Foundation trilogy beat out several other science fiction and fantasy series (including The Lord of the Rings) to receive a special Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series."... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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