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2012 BookBrowse Favorites
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Search results: The best new books - The best fiction and nonfiction books of 2012 as voted by BookBrowse's members and subscribers
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
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| Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother. |
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Defending Jacob: A Novel
by William Landay
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
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| Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control. |
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No Mark Upon Her: A Novel
by Deborah Crombie
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 5 Feb 2013
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| New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense - a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious drowning of a Met detective - an accomplished rower - on the Thames. |
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 29 Jan 2013
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| An extraordinary book with the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves. |
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A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel
by Wiley Cash
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 22 Jan 2013
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| A mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town. |
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The Healing: A Novel
by Jonathan Odell
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 13 Nov 2012
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| The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won't soon forget. |
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Running the Rift: A Novel
by Naomi Benaron
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 16 Oct 2012
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| Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. |
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 24 Sep 2013
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| Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader, no matter the time of day. |
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