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by Cormac McCarthy  
Powells.com Staff Pick Strike-me-dead beautiful and bleak — this is the book I put into every customer's hands. Absolutely the best thing out of 2006, and perhaps many years preceding, The Road reminds me of McCarthy's early novels, only matured to perfection. Recommended... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Powells.com Staff Pick A living legend who leaps fearlessly across genre boundaries, Ursula Le Guin offers one of her very best novels to date in this retelling of Virgil's The Aeneid, told from a perspective that very often got lost in even the most compelling Greek myths... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your Price $16.80 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Patrick Rothfuss Synopsis A high-action novel written with a poet's hand, this brilliant debut fantasy by Patrick Rothfuss is a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through a riveting first-person narrative that allows the reader to "become" the hero.... (read more) Your Price $7.99 (New - Mass Market) check for used and sale copies
by Max Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick Despite never having been into the whole "zombie thing," I picked up World War Z. Halfway through, it dawned on me that I was becoming really, deeply scared. A few more pages in and I was trying to figure out how, exactly, to make my house both... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your Price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jacqueline Carey Publisher Comments From Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of Kushiel's Scion, comes the second adventure in the Imriel trilogy. Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are history's most reviled traitors, while his adoptive parents, Phedre and Joscelin, are... (read more) Your Price $7.99 (New - Mass Market) check for used and sale copies
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) List Price $14.95 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared right now his life is spinning out of control, and it is all his dads fault. If... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Mass Market) check for used copies
by Dean R. Koontz Publisher Comments Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone very different—and passes to him a... (read more) Your Price $7.99 (New - Mass Market) check for used and sale copies
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Thursday May 15, 2008
by Team Geeky @ Powell's Books  From Powells.com Just can't get enough sci-fi? Have a deep affection for the forgotten, out-of-print sci-fi gems of yesteryear? Unafraid to try your luck? Have a dollar that's just burning a hole in your pocket? Then the sci-fi team at our Hawthorne store has just the book for you — and it's only a dollar! Order the Sci-Fi Dollar Mystery Book today and they'll pull one of the many outstanding $1 sci-fi books they've lovingly collected and placed on their special shelf. One of them has your name on it! ...(read more) Your price $1.00 (Used - Mass Market) 
by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Dan Simmons
Powells.com Staff Pick The Terror is perhaps the perfect blend of exploration and horror writing. An expedition looking for the Northwest Passage becomes icebound for the winter, and then crew members begin to disappear. The book is a genuine page-turner, as the crew members... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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 - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by George Orwell
Publisher Comments George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of Negative Utopia is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful.... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Neil Gaiman
Publisher Comments Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident.Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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