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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
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May 22, 2007
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
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Riverhead Hardcover
September 6, 2007
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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a ...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
by J. K. Rowling
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Arthur A. Levine Books
July 21, 2007
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Readers beware. The brilliant, breathtaking conclusion to J.K. Rowling's ...
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The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
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Thomas Dunne Books
July 10, 2007
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Starred Review. If a virulent virus—or even the Rapture—depopulated Earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind vanished? That's the provocative, and occasionally puckish, question posed by Weisman (An Echo in My Blood) in this imaginative hybrid of solid science reporting and morbid speculation. Days after our ...
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The Dangerous Book for Boys
by Conn Iggulden
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William Morrow
May 1, 2007
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Equal parts droll and gorgeous nostalgia book and heartfelt plea for a renewed sense of adventure in the lives of boys and men, Conn and Hal Iggulden's ...
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Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell)
by Chelsea Cain
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Minotaur Books
September 4, 2007
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Chelsea Cain steps into a crowded, blood-soaked genre with ...
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 4, 2007
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Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007: Denis Johnson is one of those few great hopes of American writing, fully capable of pulling out a ground-changing masterpiece, as he did in 1992 with the now-legendary collection, Jesus' Son. Tree of Smoke showed every sign of being his "big book": 600+ pages, ...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
February 13, 2007
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Starred Review. This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. Beah's harrowing journey ...
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
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Metropolitan Books
April 3, 2007
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Starred Review. Surgeon and MacArthur fellow Gawande applies his gift for dulcet prose to medical and ethical dilemmas in this collection of 12 original and previously published essays adapted from the New England Journal of Medicine and the New Yorker. If his 2002 collection, Complications, addressed the unfathomable ...
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I Am America (And So Can You!)
by Michael C. Brumm
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Grand Central Publishing
October 9, 2007
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Starred Review. Realizing that it takes more than thirty minutes a night to fix everything that's destroying America, Colbert bravely takes on the forces aligned to destroy our country—whether they be terrorists, environmentalists, or Kashi brand breakfast cereals. His various targets include nature (I've never trusted the sea. ...
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The God of Animals: A Novel
by Aryn Kyle
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Scribner
March 1, 2007
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The Significant Seven Spotlight Title, March 2007: Aryn Kyle's haunting coming-of-age novel is the kind of book that you want to share with everyone you know. Twelve-year-old Alice Winston is growing up fast on her father's run-down horse ranch--coping with the death of a classmate and the absence of ...
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
by David Michaelis
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Harper
October 16, 2007
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Amazon Significant Seven, October 2007: There's no book this year that made people's eyes light up when I told them about it more than Schulz and Peanuts, David Michaelis's new biography of cartoonist Charles Schulz. (And when they saw the obvious-but-brilliant Chip Kidd-designed cover, their eyes got even brighter.) ...
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In the Woods
by Tana French
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Viking Adult
May 17, 2007
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Irish author French expertly walks the line between police procedural and psychological thriller in her debut. When Katy Devlin, a 12-year-old girl from Knocknaree, a Dublin suburb, is found murdered at a local archeological dig, Det. Rob Ryan and his part...
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
by Dinaw Mengestu
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Riverhead Hardcover
March 1, 2007
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Starred Review. Barely suppressed despair and black wit infuse this beautifully observed debut from Ethiopian émigré Mengestu. Set over eight months in a gentrifying Washington, D.C., neighborhood in the 1970s, it captures an uptick in Ethiopian grocery store owner Sepha Stephanos's long-deferred hopes, as Judith, a white academic, fixes ...
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
by A. J. Jacobs
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Simon & Schuster
October 9, 2007
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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: Make no mistake: A.J. Jacobs is not a religious man. He describes himself as Jewish "in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant." Yet his latest work, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the ...
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The Great Man: A Novel
by Kate Christensen
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Doubleday
August 14, 2007
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This penetratingly observed novel is less about the great man of its title than the women Oscar Feldman, fictional 20th-century New York figurative painter (and an infamous seducer of models as well as a neglectful father), leaned on and left behind: Abiga...
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Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
by Andre Aciman
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
January 23, 2007
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Egyptian-born Aciman is the author of the acclaimed memoir ...
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel
by Roberto Bolaño
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 3, 2007
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Amazon Significant Seven, May 2007: The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Marquez of his generation, but his novel The Savage Detectives is a lot closer to Y Tu Mamá También than it is to One Hundred Years of Solitude. Hilarious and sexy, meandering and ...
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Bridge of Sighs
by Richard Russo
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Knopf
September 25, 2007
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Amazon Significant Seven, November 2007: Richard Russo's first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Bridge of Sighs is a typically stunning portrait of three small town families struggling--like the town itself--to strike a balance between obsessively embracing their own history or shunning it entirely, with devastating consequences along ...
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel
by Joshua Ferris
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Little, Brown and Company
March 1, 2007
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Amazon Best of the Month Spotlight Title, April 2007: It's 2001. The dot-com bubble has burst and rolling layoffs have hit an unnamed Chicago advertising firm sending employees into an escalating siege mentality as their numbers dwindle. As a parade of employees depart, bankers boxes filled with their personal ...
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
by Maggie O'Farrell
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Harcourt
October 24, 2007
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Starred Review. O'Farrell (After You'd Gone) delivers an intricate, eloquent novel of family malice, longings and betrayal. Slim, stylish Iris Lockhart runs a dress shop in contemporary Edinburgh when she's not flirting with her stepbrother Alex or rendezvousing with her married attorney lover, Luke. Esme Lennox, meanwhile, is ...
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
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Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group
May 1, 2007
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Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos. The same contrarian spirit that makes him delightful reading as a political commentator, even (or especially) when he's completely wrong, makes him ...
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
by Alan Greenspan
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Penguin Press HC, The
September 17, 2007
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In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of ...
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The Raw Shark Texts: A Novel
by Steven Hall
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Canongate U.S.
April 10, 2007
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Amazon Best of the Month, March 2007: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. It's a twisting, trippy thriller that tears through the landscape of language, revealing ...
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The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1)
by Patrick Rothfuss
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DAW Hardcover
March 27, 2007
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Amazon.com's Best of the Year...So Far Pick for 2007: Harry Potter fans craving a new mind-blowing series should look no further than The Name of the Wind--the first book in a trilogy about an orphan boy who becomes a legend. Full of music, magic, love, and loss, Patrick ...
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The Shotgun Rule: A Novel
by Charlie Huston
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Ballantine Books
August 28, 2007
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Starred Review. One of the crime genre's rising stars, Huston (Six Bad Things) delivers a stunning, darkly comic coming-of-age novel, set in the summer of 1983 in an unnamed Northern California town. Four teenage boys, out of school and experimenting with drugs, booze and sex, find trouble fast ...
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Loving Frank: A Novel
by Nancy Horan
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Ballantine Books
August 7, 2007
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Amazon Significant Seven, August 2007: It's a rare treasure to find a historically imagined novel that is at once fully versed in the facts and unafraid of weaving those truths into a story that dares to explore the unanswered questions. Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story is--as ...
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Falling Man: A Novel
by Don DeLillo
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Scribner
May 15, 2007
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The defining moment of turn-of-the-21st-century America is perfectly portrayed in National Book Award winner Don DeLillo's ...
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