Books Read in 2009

New year, new book list.
Date created: Feb 10, 2009
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Pages: 448, Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, ISBN-13: 9780425192931 ISBN-10: 0425192938, Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc., (00) edition. See Textbooks.com for more information.
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Pages: 280, Paperback, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
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Drawing on the individual experiences of patients, musicians, composers, and everyday people, the author of Awakenings explores the complex human response to music, detailing the full range of human reactions to music, what goes on and can go wrong when we listen to music, and how music can affect those suffering from a variety of ailments. 100,000 first printing.
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Lowboy: Library Edition     Added Mar 9, 2009
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In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy, a probe that leads them to Rebbe Fold, the charismatic leader of a mysterious sect. 250,000 first printing.
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Describes the harrowing youth of Emannuel Jal, who was conscripted at the age of seven into the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army and who as a young man rose to become a hip-hop music star in Kenya and a spokesperson for Amnesty International. 100,000 first printing.
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Coraline [by Neil Gaiman, Hardcover]     Added Mar 2, 2009
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A deliciously dark graphic adaptation of Gaiman's modern classic...sure to delight established fans and to mesmerize newcomers.This graphic novel is as dark, creepy, and brilliant as anything out there.This adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel reads as though it were intended for the graphic novel format in the first place.. Russell's illustrations suit the tone of the story perfectly.A virtuoso adaptation.a master of fantastical landscapes, Russell sharpens the realism of his imagery, preserving the humanity of the characters and heightening the horror, even as Gaiman's concise storytelling ratchets up the eeriness.
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The Great Arab Conquests (How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in) (Reprint) (Paperback)
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The Domino Men (Hardcover)
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Watchmen [by Moore, Alan/Gibbons, Dave]     Added Feb 24, 2009
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It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane, or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder superheroes - and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians? On the run from the law, Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world and their lives, but what they uncover will shock them to their very core and change the face of the planet! Following two generations of masked superheroes from the close of World War II to the icy shadow of the Cold War comes this groundbreaking comic story - the story of The Watchmen.
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Road [by Cormac McCarthy, Hardcover]     Added Feb 16, 2009
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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearting, a cart of scavenged food - and each other.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, each the other's world entire, are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
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Fool [by Christopher Moore, Hardcover]     Added Feb 15, 2009
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Pocket, King Lear's fool, sets out to straighten out the mess the mad king has made of the kingdom and the royal family, only to discover the truth about his own heritage.
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Meet Peter Brown, a young Manhattan emergency room doctor with an unusual past that is just about to catch up with him. His morning begins with the quick disarming of a would- ...
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Exit Ghost [by Philip Roth, Paperback]     Added Feb 10, 2009
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Exit Ghost (Vintage International Series) (Reprint) (Paperback)","Vintage International Series
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In Time s Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod s life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art. -- Newsday
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Pages: 235, Edition: Today Show Book Club, Paperback, Anchor
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A Long Way Gone (Memoirs of a Boy Soldier) (Large Print) (Paperback)
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Baghdad Without a Map (And Other Misadventures in Arabia) (Reprint) (Paperback)
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Making Money (Discworld Series) (Hardcover)","Discworld Series
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<P> Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. <P> He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. <P> There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. <P> But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack--who has already killed Bod's family. . . . <P> Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his "New York Times" bestselling modern classic "Coraline." Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.
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