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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
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 (2,003 customer reviews)
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Crown
February 2, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of ...
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The Night Fairy
by Laura Amy Schlitz
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(53 customer reviews)
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Candlewick
February 23, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: You don’t have to be a follower of those mysterious winged creatures to love this unique fairy tale from 2009 Newbery Medal-winner Laura Amy Schlitz. The book’s heroine, Flory is certainly not your garden variety fairy. After losing ...
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
by Heidi W. Durrow
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 (159 customer reviews)
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Algonquin Books
January 11, 2010
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $22.95 | | Price: | $16.03 | | You Save: | $6.92 (30%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: Early on in The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Rachel Morse (the girl in question) wonders about being "tender-headed." It's how her grandmother chides her for wincing at having her hair brushed, but it's also a way of understanding how ...
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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
by Lynne Olson
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(227 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
Random House
February 2, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: Citizens of London is the story of the American firebrands who broke rank with popular opinion and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with England during the bleak infancy of World War II. Author Lynne Olson more than lives up to the critical acclaim ...
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
by Peter Hessler
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(111 customer reviews)
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Harper
February 9, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: There is, as everyone knows, no place in the world changing as fast, and at such scale, as China. Accounts of the upheaval can be breathless and even alarming, but Peter Hessler is the calmest and most companionable of correspondents. In ...
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Incarceron (Incarceron, Book 1)
by Catherine Fisher
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(211 customer reviews)
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Dial
January 26, 2010
Hardcover
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| List Price: | $17.99 | | Price: | $13.48 | | You Save: | $4.51 (25%) |
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: The shifting landscapes, unexpected plot punches, and bold, brave characters found in Catherine Fisher's Incarceron are nothing short of thrilling: fans of Garth Nix and Suzanne Collins will take to this epic, twisty fantasy instantly, but it's also the kind of ...
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The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
by Philip Hoare
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(26 customer reviews)
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Ecco
February 2, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: After reading Moby Dick, author Philip Hoare was so captivated by the subject that he spent years trying to fathom the planet’s most enormous and enigmatic of creatures. Hoare's admitted mania for whales led him to write Leviathan, or ...
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Ordinary Thunderstorms: A Novel
by William Boyd
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 (74 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
Harper
January 26, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: In his surprising new novel (think The Fugitive meets Nobody's Fool), William Boyd explores how one chance occurrence can evolve rapidly into a life-leveling storm. Climatologist Adam Kindred is trying to establish a new life in London (far from his failed ...
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The Room and the Chair
by Lorraine Adams
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 (24 customer reviews)
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Currently unavailable
Knopf
February 9, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: Lorraine Adams's second novel, The Room and the Chair, has the raw materials of the sort of political thriller that has a target superimposed over the Capitol on the cover: a fighter pilot downed over the Potomac as part of a ...
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