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2007 BookBrowse Favorites
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Search results: The best new books -
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Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
by Mal Peet
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 9 Sep 2008
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| When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 8 Sep 2008
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| A true story, as powerful as Schindler’s List, in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: A Novel
by Junot Diaz
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 2 Sep 2008
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| Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ - the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations. |
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel
by Brock Clarke
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 2 Sep 2008
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| As a teenager, Sam Pulsifer's accidentally torches an American landmark, and killed two people in the blaze. After ten years in prison, he thinks he has put his past behind him - but when the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and even a replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, go up in smoke, Sam becomes the number one suspect. |
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 2 Sep 2008
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| This story of Skip Sands - spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong - and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. |
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories
by Vincent Lam
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 2 Sep 2008
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| Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures invites us into a world where the ordinary becomes the critical in a matter of seconds. A formidable debut, it is a profound and unforgettable depiction of today’s doctors, patients, and hospitals. |
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Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir
by Carolyn Jourdan
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 19 Aug 2008
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| Heart in the Right Place, an alternately laugh-out-loud-funny and cry-your-eyes-out-serious memoir about the down-sizing of Carolyn Jourdan's life from white marble columns, gilded domes, and Neiman Marcus to naugahyde, peeling linoleum, and Wal-mart. |
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Blonde Faith
by Walter Mosley
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 6 Aug 2008
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| The tenth Easy Rawlins thriller puts him on the streets of LA to solve a case that threatens the lives of his closest friends. |
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