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the outside world Chris Bolton appears to be a mild-mannered employee in the Web
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during adolescence and lives a double life. His days are spent providing images
and content for Powells.com — but when the veil of night falls, he dons a cape
and tights to save the world and entertain friends. His powers have yet to fully
define themselves; they appear to have something to do with salted snack foods
and the color purple. In his secret identity he writes a web-comic called Smash with his artist brother, Kyle.
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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) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies 
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) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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) Your Price $4.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Malcolm Gladwell
Powells.com Staff Pick "Blink is riveting and entertaining, not to mention quite brief, which makes for a very fast read — but it stays with you....Few books can change your worldview or cause you to rethink your every action and response to the world around you. Not only... (read more) Your Price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Lawrence Block
Powells.com Staff Pick "Small Town succeeds most admirably in my basic test of any writing. When I pick it up, am I drawn into it? And when I put it down, am I looking forward to my next opportunity to get into it again?...Block gives us many compelling reasons to pick him up &... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Charlie Kaufman
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't even know how to begin writing anything in relation to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Is he really the most original voice working in Hollywood — or just an escaped mental patient who has gone undetected amidst the denizens of LA? In... (read more) Your Price $18.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments "The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," according to the "been there, done that" wisdom of Tender Branson, last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult. At the opening of Chuck Palahniuk's hilariously unnerving second... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Arturo Perez-Reverte Publisher Comments Lucas Corso is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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) Your Price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Douglas Wolk
Powells.com Staff Pick Douglas Wolk writes with a critic's authority, offering penetrating analysis of seminal comics writers and their best-known works alongside introductions to lesser-known talents. But he also writes with a fan's enthusiasm, and it shows through in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $11.86 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Richard Russo
Powells.com Staff Pick Blame the Gothic romantic deep inside me (buried alive, in a coffin), but I've long had a soft spot for the famous evening of June 16, 1816, in which Lord Byron read a book of German ghost stories to guests at his home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, then... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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