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2012 BookBrowse Favorites
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Search results: The best new books - The best fiction and nonfiction books of 2012 as voted by BookBrowse's members and subscribers
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Bring Up the Bodies: Wolf Hall Trilogy #2
by Hilary Mantel
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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| The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. |
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Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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| Oct. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. |
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The Yellow Birds: A Novel
by Kevin Powers
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 30 Apr 2013
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| With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic. |
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The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
by Brian Castner
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 9 Apr 2013
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| In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming that grabs readers by the throat even as it touches their hearts. |
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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
by Margot L. Stedman
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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| A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. |
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
by Rachel Joyce
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 26 Mar 2013
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| A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise - and utterly irresistible - storyteller. |
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
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| Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother. |
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Defending Jacob: A Novel
by William Landay
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
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| Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control. |
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