Book reviews, excerpts, reading guides and more of BookBrowse 2002 Favorites by debut authors
2002 Favorite Books by Debut Authors
Recommended books found: 10
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: Apr 2004
A luminous and astonishing novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. In the hands of a brilliant new writer, this story of the worst thing a family can face is transformed into a suspenseful and even funny novel about love, memory, ...
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High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way
by Keith Bradsher
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: Jan 2004
The auto industry wants us to believe that SUVs are safer and "greener" than ordinary cars, but the reality is they poorly protect occupants and inflict horrific damage in crashes, they guzzle gasoline, and they are hard to control. Bradsher ...
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Down To A Soundless Sea
by Thomas Steinbeck
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Dec 2003
Deeply felt and richly imagined, full of compelling drama and historical authenticity, Thomas Steinbeck's stories are as memorable and rugged as the coastline that inspired them. Click the excerpt link to read a complete short story.
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This Side Of The Sky
by Elyse Singleton
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: Sep 2003
In this lifelong story, Lilian and Myraleen struggle through dramatically changing times: From the stark realities of life in rural Mississippi, through the different sort of racism they find in workaday Philadelphia and France during World War II.
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Rain Fall
by Barry Eisler
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
A stylish thriller debut introducing John Rain--a Japanese-American freelance assassin and warrior for the 21st century.
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Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Volume I
by Lian Hearn
Hardcover: Aug 2002
Paperback: Jun 2003
A world-wide sensation, this first book of The Otori Trilogy is a brilliantly imagined, wholly seductive tale of war, passion, and intrigue, evoking the spirit of medieval Japan.
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A Breath of Fresh Air
by Amulya Malladi
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: Jun 2003
On the night of December 3, 1984, Anjali waits for her husband to pick her up at the train station in Bhopal, India. In an instant, her world changes forever. Her anger at his being late turns to horror when a catastrophic gas leak poisons the city ...
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Himalayan Dhaba
by Craig Danner
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: Jun 2003
Leads the reader through the mountains of India and across the rugged terrain of the human heart on a journey that will long be remembered.
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Breaking Clean: A Memoir
by Judy Blunt
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: Jan 2003
Blunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how land and her life will always be intertwined. A must read.
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Puppet Child
by Talia Carner
Hardcover: Nov 2002
Paperback: Sep 2002
When the justice system fails her daughter, one courageous mother takes matters into her own hands. In a wrenching race against time, the safety of one child becomes entangled in the theatrics of Family Court, bottled-up family dynamics, media frenzy...
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