Danielle's Staff Picks

Play It As It Lays (Paperback)

By Joan Didion, David Thomson
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780374529949
Availability: On Our Shelves (as of this morning)
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 11/2005
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This book has a brevity that is stunning. It reminds me that stark writing is just as good as long-winded prose. Sometimes better. It takes you into the empty dark side of the 1960s. Joan Didion is masterful. Read it.

Lolita (Paperback)

By Vladimir Nabokov
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780679723165
Availability: On Our Shelves (as of this morning)
Published: Vintage, 3/1989
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This is the most beautiful book I have ever read. It's a classic but I still think it deserves a shelf talker. It feelsl ike reading a poem. The language is lush and intoxicating.

Beasts (Paperback)

By Joyce Carol Oates
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780786711031
Availability: On Our Shelves (as of this morning)
Published: Da Capo Press, 1/2003
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If you think his is just another Joyce Carol Oates book, think again. Psychological, chilling, and at the same time beautifully written, I couldn't put it down. A must-read novella.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Paperback)

By Philip K. Dick
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780345404473
Availability: On Our Shelves (as of this morning)
Published: Del Rey, 5/1996
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My favorite science fiction book of all time. This book set the stage for the groundbreaking cult favorite film "Blade Runner", and deals with the question of what makes us human. The book is set against a gritty futuristic landscape and has a "Brave New World" feel to it. You won't regret reading this book.
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