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2001 Favorites by Established Authors
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The Unwanted
by Kien Nguyen
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: 1 Apr 2002
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| The biography of an Amerasian child in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. A wonderful book - highly recommended. "He writes with a voice of innocence that takes us into the heart and spirit of one person's undeserved and tragic childhood." USA Today. |
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M. Sapolsky
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: 1 Mar 2002
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| Robert Sapolsky's exhilarating account of his life in the bush with neighbors both human and primate, by turns hilarious and poignant. The culmination of more than two decades of experience and research, A Primate's Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost scientist-writers. |
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Female Intelligence
by Jane Heller
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: 1 Feb 2002
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| Female Intelligence is a hilarious look at our inability to bridge the communication gap between men and women, despite all the Mars/Venus books on the market. |
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The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
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A collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. The tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with Divakaruni's unique understanding of the human spirit.
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
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| Tan's newest novel mixes pure fiction with elements of autobiography. In the acknowledgements she writes, "The heart of this story belongs to my grandmother, its voice to my mother". |
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The Constant Gardener
by John Le Carre
Hardcover: Dec 2000
Paperback: 1 Nov 2001
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| Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana. |
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Kingdom of Shadows
by Alan Furst
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: 1 Oct 2001
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| In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe. |
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The Vault
by Peter Lovesey
Hardcover: Sep 2000
Paperback: 1 Oct 2001
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| When a skeletal hand turns up in the vault of the Pump Room, followed by the excavation of a skull, Diamond is called upon to solve a series of crimes. |
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