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Staff Picks for October/November
Laura's Staff Picks
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
"With sage and wit, storyteller Washington Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with stories of romance, travel, and literary musing. This collection of his finest works include his novel "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Specter Bridegroom", essays of his travels, and more."
$5.95
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
"One of C.S. Lewis's most imaginative creations, this world-famous book is a humorous correspondence between the devil Screwtape and his apprentice Wormwood, whose job is to produce a human's soul for eternity in hell. Filled with astute insights into temptation, repentance, and grace, this wonderful tale intelligently explores what it means to live a good, honest life and is a favorite of Lewis fans."
$10.95
Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
"This compilation of horror and fantasy features stories of mystery detective Auguste Dupin, complimented by a selection of Poe's greatest tales of the weird and fantastic."
$7.95
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"This edition of the enduringly popular tale, with its striking illustrations and extended captions unique to the "Whole Story" series, provides extensive background information. A deeply thoughtful study of the ethical dilemmas that knowledge can bring to humankind, "Frankenstein" also provides a portrait of modern science in Europe almost two centuries ago."
$17.99
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"One of the most popular stories ever told, "Dracula (1897) has been re-created for the stage and screen hundreds of times in the last century. Yet it is essentially a Victorian saga, an awesome tale of a thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the dark underside of a supremely moralistic age. Above all, "Dracula" is a quintessential story of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters in literature: centuries-old Count Dracula, whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, the beautiful. Bram Stoker, who was also the manager of the famous actor Sir Henry Irving, wrote seventeen novels. "Dracula" remains his most celebrated and enduring work -- even today this Gothic masterpiece has lost none of the spine-tingling impact that makes it a classic of the genre."
$4.95
Lelia's Staff Picks
Quintaglio Ascension #1: Far-Seer by Robert J. Sawyer
"Afsan, a young saurian, learns much about the heavens while apprenticed to the court astrologer. But he is ostracized when he contradicts the saurian religious belief that the great glowing body which fills the sky each night is a divinity. An intriguing story set in a world where the age of dinosaurs never ended."
$14.95
Invitation to Murder by Elizabeth Bright
"This first entry of a new cozy mystery series introduces Jennifer Shane, who has just opened her own card-making business in Rebel Forge, Virginia. But she's beginning to wonder if it was a good idea--especially since murder has left its calling card. Hearing a murder over the phone, Jennifer Shane, the owner of her own card-making business, receives threatening letters and, while teaching card-making lessons and cutting her ex-fiance out of her life, teams up with her eccentric aunt to piece together the clues and expose a killer.
Includes card-making tips."
$6.99
Magic Time: Ghostlands by Mark Scott Zicree and Robert Charles Wilson
"The epic climax of the Magic Time saga finds former lawyer turned visionary leader Cal Griffin continuing his quest across the changed face of America, where machines no longer run and magic holds sway. Accompanied by his loyal band of followers -- fierce warrior Colleen Brooks, expatriate Russian physician Doc Lysenko, and bipolar street wizard Herman "Goldie" Goldman -- Cal follows a trail of clues he hopes will lead him to the Source of the Change that overthrew the world ... and to his abducted sister, Christina, who was transformed into one of the powerful, enigmatic beings known as flares.
Facing the most harrowing challenges of his life, Cal encounters old friends and foes, plus new ones such as Lady Blade of the Oglala Lakota, tracking her Storm-fled husband; the grunter boy Inigo Devine, emissary from a dread region and bearing a frightful secret; Mama Diamond, the elderly Japanese-American stone and bone dealer, who discovers an awesome, dragon-born talent within herself; and Jeff Arcott, Theo Siegel, and Melissa Wade, the triumvirate of brilliant grad students that just might have found the trick to getting everything running again ... but at a terrible cost.
In this gripping tale of families torn apart and seeking reunion, of men and women haunted by past griefs and phantom futures, of unimaginable beauties and magnificent horrors, Cal Griffin and his friends find themselves called to rise above all limits of strength and endurance, armed with little more than forgiveness, compassion, and an unshakable determination to heal the world and one another ... in the depths of the Ghostlands."
$7.99
Flamingo Fatale by Jimmie Ruth Evans
"After a full day slinging hash at Kountry Kitchen and then surviving the graveyard shift at Budget Mart, the last thing Wanda Nell Culpepper needs is to to find her no-account ex-husband, Bobby Ray, flashing cash and stirring up trouble. Things can't get much worse--until the next day when she finds her missing pink flamingo stuck in his very dead body."
$6.99
How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martin
"When Nora Blackbird's parents skip town leaving Nora and her sisters, Emma and Libby, with a two million dollar property tax bill, Nora goes to work for a Philadelphia newspaper society column. Her first assignment takes her to a party where she stumbles upon the body of the murdered host. Nora's sisters complicate matters while Nora investigates--and then there's the New Jersey crime boss pursuing her with come-ons she can't resist."
$6.50
Andrew's Staff Picks
The Bright Spot by Robert Sydney
"Dashiell Hammett meets speculative fiction in this engaging tale of two thespians who become stars in a conspiracy beyond their control....
When struggling actors Nick and Luella meet, it's love at act one. But the show may close earlier than they think when they find that an easy gig re-creating the past for elderly James Dumfries is really a phony time-travel scam concocted to separate an old man from his money.
It turns out that Dumfries is no ordinary senior citizen. He is the creator of workware, a technology that has changed the world by enabling workers to manage the most tiresome tasks without complaint, training...or memory. What machines had once done, man can do again-at the high price of his humanity. But that was never Dumfries's intention-and now he doesn't just want to see the past, he wants to change it. Through Nick. Caught in the web of Dumfries's regrets and the government's lies, Nick and Lu soon find themselves in the spotlight of a decades-long drama...with a killer ending."
$6.99
Glitz by Elmore Leonard
"Psycho mama's boy Teddy Magyk has a serious jones for the Miami cop who put him away for raping a senior citizen -- but he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts before killing him. So when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooker takes a swan dive from an Atlantic City high-rise and Vincent naturally shows up to investigate the questionable death of his "special friend," Teddy figures he's got his prey just where he wants him. But the A.C. dazzle is blinding the Magic Man to a couple of very hard truths: Vincent Mora doesn't forgive and forget ... and he doesn't die easy."
$7.50
I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey Into the Mind of Philip K. Dick
by Emmanuel Carrere
"For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century" ("The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. In the riveting style that won accolades for "The Adversary", Emmanuel Carrere follows Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by mystical visions of swirling pink light, three-eyed invaders, and messages from the Roman Empire. Drawing on interviews as well as unpublished sources, he vividly conjures the spirit of this restless observer of American postwar malaise who subverted the materials of science fiction--parallel universes, intricate time loops, collective delusions--to create classic works of contemporary anxiety."
$15.00
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
"The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses..... It's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort -- and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability."
$29.99 prior to 25% new hardcover discount
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
"In this riveting debut novel, a young girl discovers her father's darkest secret and embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could--the quest to find history's most legendary fiend: Dracula."
$25.95 prior to 25% new hardcover discount
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