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2004 Favorite Books by Debut Authors
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Wine of Violence
by Priscilla Royal
Hardcover: Dec 2003
Paperback: 30 Jan 2006
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| 'With its intriguing plot, chilling conclusion and characters who exhibit universal and timeless feelings, this fresh first has all the potential to evolve into a series as enduring as Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael books.' |
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Broken For You
by Stephanie Kallos
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 9 Sep 2005
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| Funny, heartbreaking, and alive with a potpourri of eccentric and irresistible characters, Broken for You is a testament to the saving graces of surrogate families, and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the world’s wrongs. |
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How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Hardcover: Aug 2004
Paperback: 31 Jul 2005
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| 'Rarely does a writer come up with a first novel so assured, so powerful and engaging that you can be pretty sure that you will want to read everything this author is capable of writing'. |
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The Hundredth Man
by Jack Kerley
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 1 Jun 2005
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| Thundering to a stark and chilling revelation, The Hundredth Man marks the arrival of an author who raises the stakes on every page. |
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Don't Look Back: An Inspector Sejer Mystery
by Karin Fossum
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: 1 Jun 2005
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| Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar. |
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Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
by Neely Tucker
Hardcover: Feb 2004
Paperback: 5 Apr 2005
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| Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve. Don't miss this gripping memoir. |
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Good Grief
by Lolly Winston
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 4 Apr 2005
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| Filled with laugh-out-loud humor, struggles, triumphs, and plenty of midnight trips to the fridge, Good Grief is a funny, wise, and heartbreakingly poignant novel from one of fiction's freshest and most exciting new voices. |
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Heaven Lake
by John Dalton
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 8 Mar 2005
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| Heaven Lake is about many things: China, God, passion, friendship, travel, even the reckless smuggling of hashish. But above all, this extraordinary debut is about the mysteries of love. |
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