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2003 Favorite Books by Debut Authors
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The Seduction of Silence
by Bem Le Hunte
Hardcover: Jan 2003
Paperback: 1 Mar 2004
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| Both magical and utterly compelling, this spellbinding novel interweaves family sagas with the richness of Indian mysticism, creating an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family. |
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The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
by Paula Huntley
Hardcover: Jan 2003
Paperback: 1 Feb 2004
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| "Gripping, heartbreaking reading...The interweaving of Hemingway's story, the students' narratives of terror and Huntley's own tales of discovery make for a book that is stirring and nearly impossible to put down." |
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser
Hardcover: Jan 2003
Paperback: 1 Jan 2004
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| Critser's portrait of Fat America including forays into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but eloquent portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic. |
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I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
by Allison Pearson
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: 1 Aug 2003
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| In a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad, Allison Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working women--the self-recrimination, the comic deceptions, the giddy exhaustion, the despair--as no other writer has. |
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The Song Reader
by Lisa Tucker
Paperback: 1 May 2003
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| 'Leeann is the perfect narrator for this engaging and bittersweet story of compassion, forgiveness, and the search for redemption. This is a wonderful first novel.' |
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Hardcover: May 2002
Paperback: 1 May 2003
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| At once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. Winner of the 2002 Booker Prize. |
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Buried In Burrywood
by Lana Waite
Paperback: 1 Oct 2002
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| It's not healthy to be unloveable in Burrywood, Washington. Unsavory citizens begin dying one by one, victims of an assassin. Diana, editor of the local paper, must solve the mystery before she becomes one of the victims. |
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