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Staff Picks for April-May 2001
Andrew's Picks
Interface by Stephen Bury
There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantage. An advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers. A biochip in his head hardwires him to a computerized polling system. The mood of the electorate is channeled directly into his brain. Forget issues. Forget policy. He's more than the perfect candidate-he's a special effect.
$6.99
The Big U by Neal Stephenson
The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious." But if you want to know what Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back to school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring thirty-year old junior Casimir Radon. Now reissued after years out of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.
$13.00 prior to 15%
bestseller discount
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of the best living American writers."
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's Cradle is one of this century's most important works… and Vonnegut at his very best.
$11.95
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler's classic novel has Philip Marlowe dealing with the Los Angeles gambling citcuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women.
$11.00
Black Money by Ross MacDonald
When Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross MacDonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the suntanned skin of Southern California's high society.
$11.00
Annie's Picks
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them by J.K. Rowling, writing as Newt Scamander
"A copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them resides on almost every wizarding household in the country. Now, for a limited period only, Muggles too have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl."
$3.99
Wild Magic: The Immortals Book One by Tamora Pierce
"Young Daine's knack with horses gets her a job helping the royal horsemistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. It soon becomes clear that Daine's talent, despite her struggles to hide it, is downright magical.
Horses and other animals not only obey the mysterious girl, they come to her and seem to listen to her words. But Daine will have to learn to trust humans before she can come to terms with her powers, her past, and herself."
$4.99
Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr
"Even as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfolk, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a glimpse of a forgotten past and a fateful future. Four hundred years - and many lifetimes - ago, one selfish young lord causes the death of two innocent lovers. Then and there he vowed never to rest until he'd righted that wrong -- and laid the foundation for the lives of Jill and all those whom she would hold dear: her father, the mercenary soldier Cullyn; the exiled berserker Rhodry Maelwaedd; and the ancient and powerful herbman Nevyn, all bound in a struggle against darkness. . . and a quest to fulfill the destinies determined centuries ago."
$6.99
Sword-Dancer by Jennifer Roberson
"He was Tiger, born of the desert winds, raised as a slave and winning his freedom by weaving a special kind of magic with a warrior's skill. Now he was an almost legendary sword-dancer, ready to take on any challenge - the price was right. . . or the woman pretty enough. She was Del, born of ice and storm, trained by the greatest Northern sword masters. Now, her ritual training completed, and steeped in the special magic of her own runesword, she had come South in search of the young brother stolen five years before.
But even Del could not master all the dangers of the deadly Punja alone. And meeting Del, Tiger could not turn back from the most intriguing challenge he's ever faced - the challenge of a magical, mysterious
sword-dancer of the North. . ."
$6.99
The Fairies by Suza Scalora
"I set out across the world to catalog and photograph every fairy I could find. This book contains the result of my quest, the first set of fairy photographs the world has ever seen."
$19.95
Jason's Picks
The Soulforge by Margaret Weis
A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of magic.
Raistlin Majere is six years old when he is introduced to the archmage who enrolls him in a school for the study of magic. There the gifted and talented but tormented boy comes to see magic as his salvation. Mages in the magical Tower of High Sorcery watch him in secret, for they see shadows
darkening over Raistlin even as the same shadows lengthen over all Ansalon.
Finally, Raistlin draws near his goal of becoming a wizard. But first he must take the dread Test in the Tower of High Sorcery. It will change his life forever -- if he survives.
$7.99
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, because he dared not believe in this strange alternate world on which he suddenly found himself.
Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean. A pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero -- Berek Halfhand -- armed with the mystic power of White Gold. That power alone could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of the Despiser, Lord Foul. Only... Covenant had no idea of how the power could be used!
Thus begins one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written...
$6.99
On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
Shooting Death was a mistake, as Zane soon discovered. For the man who killed the Incarnation of Death was immediately forced to assume the vacant position! Thereafter, he must speed over the world, riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others.
Zane was forced to accept his unwelcome task, despite the rules that seemed woefully unfair. But then he found him being drawn into an evil plot of Satan. Already the Prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved.
He could see only one possible way to defeat the Father of Lies. It was unthinkable -- but he had no other solution!
$6.99
The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass
...before the Acharites inhabited their land, according to lore, it was ruled by the Forbidden Ones. A millennia-old prophecy was given when the Forbidden Ones were driven from Achar. And now, the Acharites witness its manifestation: Achar is under attack by an evil lord from the North, Gorgreal. His ice demons strike from the sky and kill hundreds of brave warriors in the blink of an eye...
...one young woman, Faraday, betrothed of Duke Borneheld, learns that all she has been told about her people's history is untrue. While fleeing to safety from the dangerous land, Faraday rides with Axis, legendary leader of the Axe-Wielders and hated half-brother of Borneheld -- and a man Faraday secretly loves although it would be death to admit it.
Leaving the safe company of Borneheld and Axis, Faraday embarks on a journey that will change her life forever. Not only fighting against the atrocities inflicted by a distortion of her land's history, but also fighting for one man's love.
This grand and heroic story tells the tale of one woman's struggle to learn the truth of her people and change their hearts and their minds forever. She fights against oppressive forces to share this reality and will not desist until everyone knows...the truth of the Star Gate.
$24.95 prior to 25% new hardcover
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Lords of the Sky by Angus Wells
With his bold and brilliant epic trilogy The Godwars, Angus Wells established himself as a modern master of fantasy. Now comes his most powerful novel yet, a compelling tale of war and redemption in a world of strange beauty and incredible magic.
$6.50
Lelia's April Picks
Midnight Hour by Mary Saums
Willi Taft, a feisty studio singer in Nashville, is bored with her life. More excitement than she wants comes her way when a local private investigator lands her in the middle of a murder investigation. Soon she suspects the killing is related not only to a twenty-year-old crime, but to her own past as well. When bullets and rumors start to fly in her direction, she finds herself abandoned by friends, shunned by business associates, and targeted for murder. But why? For the answers, Willi must walk alone down the thin line between life and death, where past and future meet---the Midnight Hour.
$15.00
signed copy available
Dancing With Mr. D by Lisa Kleinholz
Zoe Szabo thought she found paradise when she and her musician husband, Billy, left the city behind and moved to a leafy New England college town. Soon enough, Greymont suddenly turns into a hotbed of treachery, betrayal, and murder -- and the rock-journalist-turned-small-town-reporter is in the middle of it. First a radical environmentalist is found dead. Then a member of a rock band mysteriously drowns. And Zoe must determine whether the deaths are tragic coincidences or part of someone's sinister playlist.
$5.99 prior to 15% bestseller discount
signed copy available
Little White Lies by Ron and Janet Benrey
PIPPA HUNNECHURCH PARTED COMPANY WITH GOD SEVEN YEARS AGO. TODAY PIPPA NEEDS A MIRACLE.
...a corporate recruiter, her luck seems to improve when she teams up with a highly successful "headhunter", Marsha Morgan, but her joy quickly turns to confusion when Marsha drowns in what everyone assumes is a freak accident. After another death -- this one clearly not an accident -- Pippa finds herself caught in a web of deceit.
In the midst of the high-stakes, revolving-door world of corporate recruiting, Pippa gains a new understanding of herself, God, and the power of little white lies.
$12.99
100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (ed. Jim Huang)
Our list of 100 favorite mysteries of the twentieth century represents the accumulated wisdom of independent mystery booksellers, the most knowledgeable people in the business. These are the books we most enjoy, the books we present to our customers over and over again, and the books that we ourselves return to when we want to visit with cherished friends. In this book, we journey through our list of 100, with reviews contributed by booksellers across the United States and Canada, and offer additional personal recommendations and comments.
$12.00 prior to 15%
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Murder in Four Part Harmony by Lorie Ham
Alexandra Walters, a gospel singer, returns home to find a former love suspected of murder. Turning to her private investigator friend Stephan for assistance, Alex sets out to prove Jerry's innocence. The investigation takes them into the underside of the Gospel Music world and briefly into the world of the Mafia. While trying to prove Jerry's innocence, Alex must face threats against herself and her child, a missing cat, Stephen's jealousy, and her lingering feelings for Jerry...
$19.95
signed copy available
