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Hardcover: Sep 2009 | Paperback: Mar 2011
Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Children's Book Award. When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can...
Hardcover: Sep 2009 | Paperback: Jan 2011
Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel to Al Capone Does My Shirts. Recommended for ages 10+.
Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
Hardcover: Aug 2009 | Paperback: Nov 2010
Darwin's Armada tells the stories of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker and Alfred Wallace, four young amateur naturalists from Britain who voyaged to the southern hemisphere during the first half of the nineteenth century in search of ...
Stories
Hardcover: Nov 2009 | Paperback: Nov 2010
In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.
A Novel
Hardcover: Sep 2009 | Paperback: Oct 2010
In his characteristically masterly way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations of the people of a small Irish town during one long summer.
A Novel
Hardcover: Oct 2009 | Paperback: Sep 2010
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power.
Hardcover: Oct 2009 | Paperback: Aug 2010
It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their ...
A Novel
Hardcover: Jun 2009 | Paperback: Jul 2010
Set in an unnamed time and place, Brodeck blends the familiar and unfamiliar, myth and history into a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Readers of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Kafka will be captivated by ...
A Novel
Hardcover: Feb 2009 | Paperback: Jul 2010
From a fiercely funny Danish John Irving, a bighearted, epic story of mad dogs, naughty boys, strange relatives, and family secrets.
Hardcover: Nov 2009 | Paperback: Jun 2010
Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Nonfiction Book Award. In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of America's founding era, prize-winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams's life story and ...
A Novel
Hardcover: Aug 2009 | Paperback: May 2010
A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world.
Hardcover: May 2009 | Paperback: May 2010
Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa. But things go terribly wrong; his troop is brutally attacked, and Napoleon, left by his captors to die in the ...
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