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  Gone Series: Book 1

  Gone

  by Michael Grant

  One normal day everyone the age of 15 and older disappears. They are gone. And just as suddenly, phones don't work, the internet goes down, the television goes fuzzy. No way to figure out what's happened, no way to get help. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. Rules are broken and made. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable,... (more)
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  Gone Series: Book 2

  Hunger

  by Michael Grant

  It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ. Three months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers. Tension rises and... (more)
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  Gone Series: Book 3

  Lies

  by Michael Grant

  "It happens in one night: A girl who died now walks among the living; Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach; and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most: Drake. But Drake is dead. Sam and Caine defeated him along with the Darkness -- or so they thought. As Perdido Beach burns, battles rage: Astrid against the Town Council; the Human Crew versus the mutants;... (more)
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  Skinjacker Trilogy: Book 1

  Everlost

  by Neal Shusterman

  It begins with an accident. Nick and Allie don't survive the crash, and now their souls are stuck halfway between life and death in a sort of limbo called Everlost. It's a magical yet dangerous place, where bands of lost souls run wild and anyone who stands in the same spot too long sinks to the center of the Earth. Frightened and determined, Nick and Allie aren't ready to rest in peace just yet. They want their... (more)
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  They Cage the Animals at Night

  The True Story of a Child Who Learned to Survive

  by Jennings Michael Burch

  One rainy day in Brooklyn, Jennings Michael Burch's mother, too sick to care for him, left him at an orphanage, saying only, "I'll be right back." She never returned. Shuttled through a series of bleak foster homes and institutions, he never remained in any of them long enough to make a friend. Instead, Jennings clung to a tattered stuffed animal, his sole source of warmth in a frightening world. This is the... (more)
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  Gone Series: Book 4

  Plague

  by Michael Grant

  PLAGUE, from Michael Grant's GONE Series. PLAGUE is the forth installment of this series of six books. The order is as follows: GONE, HUNGER, LIES, PLAGUE, FEAR, and LIGHT.Eight months after everyone over the age of fifteen disapeared from the town of Perdidio Beach, California, the stakes are still rising. The kids in Perdido Beach are still starving. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so... (more)
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  Calvin and Hobbes: Book 3

  Yukon Ho!

  by Bill Watterson

  The spirit of childhood leaps to life again with boundless energy and magic in Yukon Ho!, the newest collection of adventures featuring rambunctious six-year-old Calvin and his co-conspirator tiger-chum, Hobbes. Picking up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off, Yukon Ho! is sure to begin an immediate reign at the top of bestseller lists everywhere!
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  Skinned Trilogy: Book 1

  Skinned

  by Robin Wasserman

  Lia Kahn was perfect: rich, beautiful, popular -- until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Lia will never feel pain again, she will never age, and she can't ever truly die. But she is also rejected by her friends, betrayed by her boyfriend, and alienated from her old life. Forced to the fringes of society, Lia joins others like her. But they... (more)
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  Dog Heaven

  by Cynthia Rylant

  A comforting and smile-inducing poetic text speculates on the place where all good dogs go, describing Dog Heaven as a wonderful location filled with countless ham biscuits, good meals, lots of petting, and endless stretches of fields to run in.
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  The Tale of Genji

  by Murasaki Shikibu

  One of the world’s oldest novels and the greatest single work of Japanese literature, this 11th-century romance centers on the lives and loves of an emperor’s son. It offers a vast tapestry of the intrigues and rivalries of court life, as well as an exquisitely detailed portrayal of a decaying aristocracy. Rich in poetry and wordplay in addition to subtle social and psychological observations, this splendid... (more)
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  Resume With Monsters

  by William Browning Spencer

  Harried Philip Kenan is battling a series of bad jobs--and the monsters from H.P. Lovecraft's fiction. While aided in his fight by unorthodox therapist Dr. Lily Metcalf, there is still a problem--he is being drawn back to the dark time, to the Doom That Came to MicroMeg. Can Philip save his estranged lover this time, or will monsters triumph?.
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  Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion

  by The Onion

  “The Onion is laugh-out-loud, go-tell-your-friends, get-angry-you-didn’t-think-of-it funny.” –Conan O’Brien “Outside of maybe Dario Fo, an Italian who few are sure exists, the Onion people make the most consistently perfect and excoriating social commentary we currently have. But will those Nobel bastards honor them, too? Only God, our merciless and just God, knows.” –Dave Eggers “The funniest publication in the... (more)
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  Sovereign Stone Trilogy: Book 2

  Guardians of the Lost

  by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

  For two centuries the portion of the great Sovereign Stone belonging to the humans of Loerem was lost from sight and memory. But there are those who dare never forget ... A magical relic has been miraculously recovered -- and the battle for the future of Loerem begins. It is a nightmare conflict that will ensnare dwarf, human, elf, and orken beings, as the immortal dark lord Dagnarus launches terrible war from... (more)
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  Angel Claw

  by Moebius, Jodorowsky

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  Open Court Popular Culture and Philosophy Series

  Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy

  Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

  by James B. South, William Irwin

  How can Buffy's religious symbolism be squared with creator Joss Whedon's professed atheism? Is Buffy truly a Kierkegaardian knight of faith? Do Faith's corruption and return to the good life demonstrate Platonic eudaimonism? Or do they illustrate the flaws in Nietzsche's superman concept? What does the show's treatment of vampires, demons, and other entities say about ethical attitudes toward nonhumans? These are... (more)
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  Peaceable Kingdom

  by Jack Ketchum

  "As a writer I'm all over the place," says horror maverick Jack Ketchum (the pseudonym of Dallas Mayr) with typical understatement in his introduction to Peaceable Kingdom, a collection of 32 shorter fictional works from the past decade. You never know what you'll get when you pick up a Ketchum story (the contents range from the "ice-cold" to the "almost cuddly" and include a western, a vampire tale and the... (more)
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  Forensic Science of CSI

  by Katherine M. Ramsland

  The CBS television show, "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation," has captured audiences - and ratings - with its unflinchingly realistic details of forensic science, tools, and technology. This fascinating new book - written by an acclaimed biographer with a master's degree in forensic psychology - goes behind the crime-solving techniques dramatized on the TV show to examine the reality of these cutting-edge... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 6

  "F" Is for Fugitive

  by Sue Grafton

  When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it’s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlake—a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boys—was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all this time, Bailey’s finally been... (more)
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  Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest

  by Stephen G. Michaud, Beck Weathers

  “I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling — quite literally a dead man walking — into camp and the shaky start of my return to life....” In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their... (more)
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  October Dreams

  A Celebration of Halloween

  by Richard Chizmar, Robert Morrish

  Classic novellas, never-before-published stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real-life memories of October 31st-from today's best practitioners of fear: Dean Koontz € Peter Straub € Poppy Z. Brite € Rick Hautala € Steve Rasnic Tem € Elizabeth Engstrom € Thomas Ligotti € Gary A. Braunbeck € Jack Ketchum € Thomas F. Monteleone € Hugh B. Cave € Simon Clark € Christopher Golden... (more)