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Customer Picks
July/August 2006 Picks
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
"A biophysicist is devastated by the deaths of his wife and children in a terrorist bombing. To avenge his family, he develops and unleashes a deadly virus, the White Plague, which quickly affects the whole world. A science fiction classic that questions the ultimate wisdom of research in biological warfare."
Recommended by Laura Taylor
$8.00 used copy
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
"Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel, winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback. The colonization of Egypt by western European powers is the launch point for power plays and machinations. Steeping together in this time-warp stew are such characters as an unassuming Coleridge scholar, ancient gods, wizards, the Knights Templar, werewolves, and other quasi-mortals, all wrapped in the organizing fabric of Egyptian mythology. In the best of fantasy traditions, the reluctant heroes fight for survival against an evil that lurks beneath the surface of their everyday lives."
Recommended by Jim Toth
$13.95
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
"Intrepid literary detective Thursday Next is back in the second installment of Jasper Fforde's one-of-a-kind series. The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Jasper Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction--the police force inside books. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe's "The Raven." What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth."
Recommended by Allison Herndon
$14.00
North of Havana by Randy Wayne White
"Now, White's newest thriller takes Doc Ford to Havana, where his friend is being held by the Cuban government. Still haunted by his suspected involvement in a plot against Castro, Ford ventures to Cuba -- where he finds himself entangled ina web of murder, revenge, and assassination.
Ford gets a call from his ex-hippie friend Tomlinson, who has somehow strayed into the wrong waters on his boat, No Mas, and is now an unwilling guest of the Cuban government. Equipped with enough money for fines, bills, and bribes, Ford takes a circuitous route to Havana, only to discover that Tomlinson and a mysterious woman companion have disappeared, and that the story is considerably more complex and dangerous than he'd been told. Before the day is out, Ford will find himself on a twisting trail of murder, revenge, and revolution, a road paved with dark echoes of the past, including, unexpectedly, his own. At its end, all secrets will be revealed - but they may not be ones Ford wants to hear...."
Recommended by Tracy Dunham
$6.99
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