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2010 BookBrowse Favorites
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Search results: The best new books - BookBrowse's Favorite Books of 2010
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Hardcover: Feb 2010
Paperback: 8 Mar 2011
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Winner of BookBrowse's 2010 Best Book Award
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. |
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Making Toast: A Family Story
by Roger Rosenblatt
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 15 Feb 2011
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| When his daughter, Amy, died suddenly of a heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife moved in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. His story tells how a family makes the possible out of the impossible. |
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Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories
by Thomas Lynch
Hardcover: Feb 2010
Paperback: 14 Feb 2011
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| Heart-rending stories of life and death: a debut fiction collection by the award-winning author of The Undertaking. |
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The Hand that First Held Mine: A Novel
by Maggie O'Farrell
Hardcover: Apr 2010
Paperback: 3 Jan 2011
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| A spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. |
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel
by Maaza Mengiste
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: 3 Jan 2011
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| An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution. |
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel
by Helen Simonson
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 1 Dec 2010
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Winner of BookBrowse's 2010 Best Debut Award
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family.
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Selected Poems
by Amy Clampitt
Paperback: 12 Oct 2010
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| Here is a treasure of Amy Clampitt's verse, for those who are reading her for the first time, as well as for those who have long admired her. |
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The Ada Poems
by Cynthia Zarin
Hardcover: 21 Sep 2010
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| A dazzling story of obsessive love emerges in Cynthia Zarin's luminous new book inspired and inhabited by the title character of Nabokov’s novel Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, who was the lifelong love of her half brother, Van. |
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