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Laura's Staff Picks
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
"A stunning epic that has stirred the imagination of millions of readers, 'The Clan of the Cave Bear' tells the story of the orphaned Ayla and her struggle to fit in and survive after her own tribe is killed by an earthquake."
$7.99
Congo by Michael Crichton
"The legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj have seen an eight-person field exhibition die. After startling discoveries, a new expedition is sent back into the Congo--its mission, to descend into the secret world where the only way back out may be through the grisliest death...."
$7.99
The Client by John Grisham
"Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America."
$7.99
Christine by Stephen King
"Arnie Cunningham is in love with his car. Christine, the car, is in complete control. 'Vintage King . . . breathtaking, awesome. Carries such momentum the reader must force himself to slow down.'--New York Times Book Review"
$7.99
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
"When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech."
$16.95
Lelia's Staff Picks
Witness in Bishop Hill by Sara Hoskinson Frommer
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$23.95
Stealing the Elf-King's Roses by Diane Duane
"In an alternate-world Los Angeles, prosecutor/psychic Lee Enfield and her partner, Gelert, investigate the murder of an elf. They soon reveal a deadly network of ties among organized crime, multinational corporations, and planetary governments of the Seven Worlds--all working together on the "ethnic cleansing" of elves from the alternate world of Alfheim."
$6.99
The Spider's Touch by Patricia Wynn
"Following The Birth of Blue Satan, this stunning second entry in Wynn's series pursues the fortunes of Gideon Viscount St. Mars, otherwise known as the highwayman Blue Satan, and his friend Hester Kean. It is 1715, and George I has just ascended the English throne, causing heart palpitations among the ardent supporters of James Stuart, the exiled Pretender. Gideon, unjustly accused of the murder of his father, leaves his own French exile on a fact-finding mission for James but refuses complete allegiance. Hester, meanwhile, suffers (somewhat) in the retinue of the Earl of Hawkhurst, the man who holds Gideon's rightful place in England. A subsequent murder close to Hester brings the two together again. This glorious, thoroughly authentic historical is for most collections."
$25.95
Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
"When a stranger enters paleontologist Richard Leyster's office with an ice cooler and reveals the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus, Leyster's universe is changed. It's a dream come true: to study dinosaurs in their own era. But tampering with time has disastrous effects on both the past and future."
$7.50
Delilah Doolittle and the Careless Coyote by Patricia Guiver
"Poor Mavis Byrde was practically in tears. Neither the police nor the pet psychic could find her beloved Abyssinian, Meowzart. Now Delilah's on the case and she fears the worst. Coyotes are always preying on Surf City's strays. Or it could have been Mavis's cat-collecting neighbor. Then she encounters an even bigger mystery...the neighbor has been murdered! Delilah will have to rely on her own wily ways to get to the bottom of both cases..."
$5.99
Andrew's Staff Picks
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
"The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding--remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury."
$6.50
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
"It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust -- found only in the vast Arctic expanse of the North -- was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it.
Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle ..."
$6.99
The Smoke by Tony Broadbent
"Brought up in one of London's famed street markets, Jethro the cat burglar is as smart as he is streetwise, which is just as well, as he always needs all of his wits about him to pull off the perfect job and not get caught. After he breaks into the Soviet embassy and steals jewels belonging to the ambassador's wife, Jethro comes to the attention of His Majesty's Secret Service, who forces him to revisit the place again to retrieve a code book for them. But this is all just a set up for a thief to catch a thief, and it leads to a deadly game of cat and mouse to see who will get to Jethro first: London's gangsters, MI5, or one of the Soviet's most formidable secret agents."
$23.95
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
"The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York--a grisly, gritty gross-out about the cool yuppie lifestyle of Patrick Bateman, 26, whose avocation is torturing and dismembering his female victims and festooning his apartment with their body parts."
$14.00
Hosts by F. Paul Wilson
"A virus used in a revolutionary therapy for brain tumors has mutated, forming a group consciousness among the treated patients. Like any good virus, it wants to multiply. Meanwhile, Repairman Jack finds himself on a subway when a mad gunman starts shooting up the car. Jack stops the gunman before the death toll can grow. However, a reporter for a tabloid newspaper sees Jack's face and tracks him down for an exclusive story. He promises to make Jack famous, a celebrity, the toast of the town -- the very last thing Jack wants. Wilson deftly weaves these plots in a crafty thriller packed with twists and turns that build to a thrilling climax."
$25.95
Annie's Staff Picks
Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
"The Anibus Gate is the classic time travel novel that took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have created such as adventure."
$12.95
Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey
"Phedre no Delaunay has survived much in her short life; she is an anguissette, a courtly spy, and the keeper of a nation's secrets. She has saved a kingdom, kept her people from a barbaric invasion, and thwarted Melisande Shahrizai, a ruthless, Machiavellian villainess.
But Phedre's gods are not yet finished with her, for while the young queen is well loved by the people, there are factions that believe someone else should wear the crown. To save all she holds dear, Phedre must travel across the wilds of her world, where she will discover an unimaginable conspiracy."
$7.99
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
"Sold into indentured servitude as a child in the sumptuous and exotic Night Court, Phdre no' Delaunay is a woman trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, in the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. She also struggles for honor and duty, and her loyalty to the land she loves will take her to the edge of despair and beyond."
$7.99
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
"In the spirit of Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire, Bitten" tells the bloodsucking tale of Elena Michaels, a werewolf whose allegiance to the clan that initiated her is savagely tested."
$13.00
Angel of Darkness by Charles de Lint
" 'Published for the first time under his own name, this novel of contemporary dark fantasy is by one of the most original fantasy writers currently working.'--Booklist."
$12.95
