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2008 BookBrowse Favorites
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Fall of Frost: A Novel
by Brian Hall
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 1 Apr 2009
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| A fascinating and exquisitely written novel about the art and life of Robert Frost. |
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The Story of a Marriage: A Novel
by Andrew Sean Greer
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 31 Mar 2009
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| From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco. |
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Wolf Totem
by Rong Jiang
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 31 Mar 2009
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| An epic Chinese tale in the vein of The Last Emperor, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols - the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world - and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. |
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Animal's People: A Novel
by Indra Sinha
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 17 Mar 2009
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| Profane, piercingly honest, and scathingly funny, Animal's People is the stunning tale of an unforgettable character: Animal, a young man whose back was twisted beyond repair in an industrial accident. It is a dark world, shot through with flashes of joy and lunacy. |
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Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 10 Mar 2009
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| It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm - a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion. |
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: 6 Jan 2009
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| An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths
that sustain us, and the love that saves us. |
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 6 Jan 2009
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| "Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer."— Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead. |
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Disquiet
by Julia Leigh
Paperback: 25 Nov 2008
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| Olivia arrives at her mother’s chateau in rural France, where she is joined by Olivia’s brother Marcus and his wife Sophie - but this reunion is far from joyful, as each woman wrestles with their own pain. |
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