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2007 BookBrowse Favorites
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The Maytrees: A Novel
by Annie Dillard
Hardcover: Jun 2007
Paperback: 10 Jun 2008
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| In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the lives of Toby and Lou Maytree. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work. |
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Nefertiti: A Novel
by Michelle Moran
Hardcover: Jul 2007
Paperback: 27 May 2008
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| Love, betrayal, political unrest, plague, and religious conflict — Nefertiti brings ancient Egypt to life in vivid detail. Fast-paced and historically accurate, it is the dramatic story of two unforgettable women living through a remarkable period in history. |
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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
by Frederick Taylor
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 27 May 2008
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| On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. The Berlin Wall is the first comprehensive account of a divided city and its people in a time when the world seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction. |
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 13 May 2008
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| By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. |
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The Savage Garden
by Mark Mills
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 6 May 2008
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| The story of two murders, four hundred years apart - and the ties that bind them together. |
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Sister Mine: A Novel
by Tawni O'Dell
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 6 May 2008
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| Shae-Lynn Penrose is former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or taking them to bed. But when the younger sister she thought was dead arrives on her doorstep, followed closely by a gun-wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate Connecticut housewife, Shae-Lynn is forced to grapple with the truth she discovers about the life her sister’s been living. |
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Origin: A Novel
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Hardcover: Jun 2007
Paperback: 5 May 2008
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| A fingerprint expert's investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood. |
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by Per Petterson
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 29 Apr 2008
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| We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of July. |
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