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2007 BookBrowse Favorites
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The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
Hardcover: Jul 2007
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us. |
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De Niro's Game
by Rawi Hage
Hardcover: Aug 2007
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| Two young friends caught in Lebanon’s civil war must choose their futures: To stay in the city and consolidate power through crime, or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier. |
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Run
by Ann Patchett
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 29 Jul 2008
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| Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. |
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By the Time You Read This: A Novel
by Giles Blunt
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 29 Jul 2008
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| Detective John Cardinal is on the hunt for an ingenious killer even as he mourns his own wife’s tragic death in this thriller of heart-stopping suspense. Published in the UK as The Fields of Grief. |
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Consumption
by Kevin Patterson
Hardcover: Aug 2007
Paperback: 8 Jul 2008
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| Born on the tundra in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at the age of ten, she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and evacuated to a southern sanitarium. When she returns home six years later, she finds a radically different world, where the traditionally rootless tribes have uneasily congregated in small communities. And Victoria has become a stranger to her family and her culture. |
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 24 Jun 2008
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| The bestselling author of No Logo exposes the rise of "disaster capitalism" and destroys the myth of the global "free market". |
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Away: A Novel
by Amy Bloom
Hardcover: Aug 2007
Paperback: 24 Jun 2008
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| When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. |
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