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2007 BookBrowse Favorites
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Before I Die
by Jenny Downham
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 26 May 2009
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| The story of Tessa, a young teenage girl who has only months to live ... a brilliantly crafted novel, heartbreaking yet life-affirming. |
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Someone Knows My Name: aka: The Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill
Hardcover: Nov 2007
Paperback: 10 Nov 2008
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| Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom—and of the knowledge she needs to get home. |
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Young Stalin
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 14 Oct 2008
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| A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil. |
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Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
by Michael Chabon
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 30 Sep 2008
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| Zelikman and Amran are escorting a young prince to reclaim his usurped throne. Getting there – along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of – will be much more than half the fun. |
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The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
by Alan Bennett
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 30 Sep 2008
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| A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen in pursuit of her wandering corgis stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who frequents the library, the Queen is transformed as she discovers the liberating pleasures of the written word. |
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
by Alex Von Tunzelmann
Hardcover: Aug 2007
Paperback: 30 Sep 2008
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| The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. With the loss of India, its greatest colony, Britain ceased to be a superpower, and its king ceased to sign himself Rex Imperator. This is the remarkable story of the events surrounding this transition. |
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White Blood
by James Fleming
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 23 Sep 2008
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| An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution. |
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Cheating at Canasta: Stories: Stories
by William Trevor
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 16 Sep 2008
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| From a chance encounter between two childhood friends to the memories of a newly widowed man to a family grappling with the sale of their ancestral land, Trevor examines with grace and skill the tenuous bonds of our relationships, the strengths that hold us together, and the truths that threaten to separate us. |
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