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2008 BookBrowse Favorites
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Savvy
by Ingrid Law
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: 23 Mar 2010
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| For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a “savvy” – a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark electricity…and now it’s the eve of Mib’s big day. |
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My One Hundred Adventures
by Polly Horvath
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 26 Jan 2010
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| The winner of a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and countless other awards has written her richest, most spirited book yet, filled with characters that readers will love, and never forget. |
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
by David Wroblewski
Hardcover: Jun 2008
Paperback: 26 Oct 2009
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| Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. But his life is plunged into chaos as his uncle returns, his father suddenly dies, and he is forced to flee into the wilderness with only three yearling dogs for company. |
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The Black Tower
by Louis Bayard
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Oct 2009
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| Vidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of France’s most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mystery—the fate of the young dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI. |
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
by Jennet Conant
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 15 Sep 2009
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| An extraordinary tale of deceit, double-dealing, and moral ambiguity - an insider's view of the counterintelligence game played by the British in Washington during the early days of World War II. |
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The Wasted Vigil
by Nadeem Aslam
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 8 Sep 2009
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| The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel—at once lyrical and blistering—about war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan. |
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The Given Day: A Novel
by Dennis Lehane
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. |
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Home: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. |
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