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2009 BookBrowse Favorites
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Search results: The best new books - BookBrowse's Favorite Books of 2009
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Solace of the Road
by Siobhan Dowd
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 5 Apr 2011
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| Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. She’s not Holly anymore, she’s Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk. |
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: 5 Apr 2011
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| Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Reader Awards. Three extraordinary women start a movement that forever changes a small town in 1960s Mississippi, and the way women — mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends — view one another. The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. |
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The Magician's Elephant
by Kate DiCamillo
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 8 Mar 2011
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| Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Children's Book Award. When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortuneteller's mysterious answer (An elephant will lead him there!) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it’s true. |
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Al Capone Shines My Shoes
by Gennifer Choldenko
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 22 Jan 2011
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| Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel to Al Capone Does My Shirts. Recommended for ages 10+. |
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When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
Hardcover: Jul 2009
Paperback: 28 Dec 2010
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| Winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal. Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she’s too late. For ages approx 9-14. |
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Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
by Iain McCalman
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 15 Nov 2010
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| Darwin's Armada tells the stories of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker and Alfred Wallace, four young amateur naturalists from Britain who voyaged to the southern hemisphere during the first half of the nineteenth century in search of adventure and scientific fame. |
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Too Much Happiness: Stories
by Alice Munro
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 2 Nov 2010
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| In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. |
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Love and Summer: A Novel
by William Trevor
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 26 Oct 2010
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| In his characteristically masterly way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations of the people of a small Irish town during one long summer. |
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