 | The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 What if Jesuits (always an intrepid lot) decided to go to a planet to teach aliens about God?
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 | Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.74 How Xerox screwed up by ignoring the ground breaking thinkers on their payroll
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 | Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3 by Clive Barker
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $6.91 A Classic Horror Short Story Collection by Clive Barker. Aptly named
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 | Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A far richer reading experience than "Silence of the Lambs" which you should read first. Hannibal is prime rib. Silence is an In-and-Out burger.
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 | The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius
Buy used from: $3.50 Gossipy history of the Caesars. Not a dull moment
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 | I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.49 A closer look at one of the emperors--Claudius and his nutty family, the Claudians. Read the sequel too--Claudius the God. Ya gotta know how it ends!
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 | Gospel: A Novel by Wilton Barnhardt
Buy used from: $0.91 A novel by Wilton Barnhardt. Father O'Hanarahan (another Jesuit) goes on a quest for the lost gospel of Q. Hear about saints and the eyes they serve on plates!
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 | Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.80 By Houshun Tokami. Kids are kidnapped and forced to participate in a deadly game of survival where to lose means to die. Ultra violent.
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 | Towing Jehovah (Harvest Book) by James Morrow
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.10 What happens when God dies and his holy corpse falls from heaven and lands in the ocean. Why, you tow Him of course! Read more!
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 | Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.97 About how the American Civil War still goes on in the South. Read about war re-enactors in Shiloh and Scarlett O'Hara impersonators
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 | December by Phil Rickman
Buy used from: $0.01 By Phil Rickman, an under-rated writer, in my opinion. A rock band decides to record an album in a spooky abbey. Eeek!
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 | The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Read about a Fencing master and the thrust that can't be parried. One of Reverte's elegiac tales. Read all of Reverte!
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 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.75 The bizarre misadventures of corpses with biblical scholars & plastic surgeons & more . . . Dont read over lunch!
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 | How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator by Andre de Guillaume
Buy used from: $2.70 For doormats like me and for those of you who want to fulfill your inner Napoleon
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 | Molvania: A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry (Jetlag Travel Guide) by Santo Cilauro
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 Humorous parody of a Fodor travel guide . . . read while you have a toothache
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 | The Grand Complication: A Novel by Allen Kurzweil
Buy new: $18.90 / Used from: $0.34 If you love inventory, , secret penmanship, erotic pop-ups, Marie Antoinette memorabilia and shrimps . . . then this is the book for you.
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 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 The most imaginative tale of grown-up magic. Runs rings around Harry Potter.
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 | Shroud of the Thwacker, The by Chris Elliott
Buy new: $18.36 / Used from: $0.01 How can you resist this title . . . ? Follow the black-and-blue trail of a serial thwacker . . .
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 | An Imperfect Lens: A Novel by Anne Roiphe
Buy new: $19.50 / Used from: $0.01 Literally Love and cholera . . . worth buying just for a ghastly love scene between a doc's assistant and a grossly ill hotel maid.
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 | De Kooning's Bicycle: Artists and Writers in the Hamptons by Robert Long
Buy new: $18.40 / Used from: $3.03 It seemed a good idea at the time at a Santa Monica bar: to read about alcoholic artists (Jackson Pollock for starters) who live on Long Island. I feel so much better now.
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 | His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) by Naomi Novik
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.71 Awesome book. Master & Commander with Dragons! Some hanky moments too with a little dragon & a traitor's dragon!. 5 Stars
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 | The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.11 Its finally here! The finale of the Aloysius Pendegast Trilogy wherein brilliant agent is pitted against Diogenes, his mad genius brother. Blood, guts and hellish intellectual games!
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 | Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.68 A irresistibly gossipy auto-biographical book on Buford's culinary adventures as an indentured servant cook in Molto Mario's restaurant, and a warbling butcher
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 | Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum
Buy used from: $1.95 Follow the academics in their pursuit of the paranormal . . .
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 | Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $2.75 Everything you wanted to know about giving birth: check out the gal who gave herself a C-section! Yikes!
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 | The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $2.48 The whole earth is flooded and the only people alive are on a children's hospital that has miraculously changed into an ark. On the ark are sick children, nurses, doctors, angels and a tamale vendor.
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 | Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
Buy new: $22.36 / Used from: $0.01 At long last, I can read about the teen years of my favorite gourmand sociopath! I worship you, Thomas Harris!
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 | Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird by Andrew D. Blechman
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $3.10 Read about that much maligned bird: the pigeon and its place in History! (I could be so popular!)
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 | The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $2.00 A ship and its crew is stuck in the ice and they're sick, hungry and there's an inhuman stalker trying to get on board! Eeek!
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 | Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank
Buy new: $19.46 / Used from: $4.80 Go where no man has gone before! A book about that rare entity: A Virgin! Eeek! What is it???
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