Staff Picks

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The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear - trade paperback
By Walter Moers - $32.95 - add to cart

Marvellous, light-hearted and refreshing, Moers English debut is a welcome change from the mundane realities of life. Picaresque and beautiful. (Leif)

 

Animals in Translation - trade paperback
By Temple Grandin; Catherine Johnson - $16.95 - add to cart

In this eye-opening take on animal thought and behaviour, Grandin brings the reader rare understanding of animals. She uses her autistic perspective to explore their rich emotional lives and help a...

 

Battle Royale - trade paperback
By Koushun Takami - $18.99 - add to cart

Battle Royale is Takami's novel of an alternate history where a Japanese class of 15-year-old students is pitted against each other in a one-survivor combat exercise. Filled with suspense, fear, an...

 

Bel Canto - trade paperback
By Ann Patchett - $15.50 - add to cart

Winner of the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction.In Bel Canto, Ann Patchett weaves a tale of music, romance, hostage-taking and diplomacy. Character and relationship driven, it is a novel that could be ...

 

Book of Haikus - trade paperback
By Jack Kerouac - $19.50 - add to cart

This compact little book, appealing for both its format and its contents, is a treasure trove of in-the-moment observations and bits of wisdom from America's most famous beat poet, who described ha...

 

Catch-22 - trade paperback
By Joseph Heller - $18.99 - add to cart

Catch 22 is a comic masterpiece that speaks about the pointlessness of war and the feeling of hopelessness that the impossibility of escaping the boundaries of society instills in people. This is a...

 

Charles the Bold - trade paperback
By Yves Beauchemin - $21.00 - add to cart

This book grabbed me from the first page, where Charles himself is born in the opening sentence. He's an unusual child, highly intelligent and resourceful, sensitive and stubborn, somewhat strange ...

 

Dairy Queen - young adult softcover
By Catherine Gilbert Murdock - $9.99 - add to cart

Fifteen-year-old D.J. Schwenk is not booky, brilliant, or blessed with supernatural powers, unlike most teen-lit heroines these days, and that's what I loved about her. After her brothers leave for...

 

The Eight - mass market paperback
By Katherine Neville - $11.99 - add to cart

Written from the points of view of a handful of fascinating characters across time and history, The Eight is Katharine Neville's best and most beloved novel to date. 1790: During the voilent turmo...

 

Elephant Winter - trade paperback
By Kim Echlin - $17.00 - add to cart

Elegantly concise and evocative of both the familiar and the exotic, this novel provides insight into the nature of love and death, life and change. Set during a winter of profound change for the n...

 

Hit List - mass market paperback
By Lawrence Block - $10.99 - add to cart

Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains tha...

 

I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes - trade paperback
By Jaclyn Moriarty - $24.95 - add to cart

The Zing family has a secret--a big secret--but I'll bet you can't guess what it is. Set in sunny Australia, this novel is witty, hilarious and most of all clever. Moriarty fits the pieces of her s...

 

Innocent Traitor - trade paperback
By Alison Weir - $19.95 - add to cart

For those who love Philippa Gregory and other writers of historical fiction, this book is for you! This novel by a highly acclaimed historian follows the life of Lady Jane Grey, a 16-year-old girl ...

 

Iron Kingdom - trade paperback
By Christopher Clark - $29.00 - add to cart

This history of Prussia is awash in the turmoil and opportunities that mark the central European past. Clark's flowing prose is highly accessible to a wide readership while still contributing to ac...

 

The Isaiah Effect - trade paperback
By Gregg Braden - $22.95 - add to cart

Modern science, quantum physics, ancient history, prayer, prophecy and a pathway to the future of peace on earth. What more could you want in a book? (Shaun)

 

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