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2009 BookBrowse Favorites
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Search results: The best new books - BookBrowse's Favorite Books of 2009
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Wolf Hall: A Novel
by Hilary Mantel
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 1 Sep 2010
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| In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power. |
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Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 10 Aug 2010
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| It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the most formidable airbeast in the skies of Europe. |
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Brodeck: A Novel
by Phillipe Claudel
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 13 Jul 2010
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| Set in an unnamed time and place, Brodeck blends the familiar and unfamiliar, myth and history into a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Readers of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Kafka will be captivated by Brodeck. |
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Doghead: A Novel
by Morten Ramsland
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: 6 Jul 2010
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| From a fiercely funny Danish John Irving, a bighearted, epic story of mad dogs, naughty boys, strange relatives, and family secrets. |
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Abigail Adams
by Woody Holton
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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| Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Nonfiction Book Award.
In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of America's founding era, prize-winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams's life story and of women's roles in the creation of the republic. |
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The Magicians: A Novel
by Lev Grossman
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 25 May 2010
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| A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world. |
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Far Bright Star
by Robert Olmstead
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 25 May 2010
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| Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa. But things go terribly wrong; his troop is brutally attacked, and Napoleon, left by his captors to die in the desert, reflects on his past as he struggles to survive. |
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Big Machine: A Novel
by Victor LaValle
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 9 Mar 2010
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| A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us. |
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