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« : October 28, 2013, 12:16:47 PM »

New Books 10/28/13

Accused  Lisa Scottoline
Dark Witch  Nora Roberts
Fifteen Minutes  Karen Kingsbury
The Garden of Evening Mists   Tan Twan Eng
Kings of Cool   Don Winslow
Winners   Danielle Steel

Nonfiction
Command and Control:  Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety  Eric
  Schlosser
The Fall of the House of Dixie:  The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South  Bruce
   Levine
The Last Man in Russia:  The Struggle to Save a
     Dying Nation   Oliver Bullough
Lost Girls:  An Unsolved American Mystery  Robert
     Kohler

Audio Books on CD
Accused   Lisa Scottoline
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« #1 : October 28, 2013, 12:48:07 PM »

and the Man Booker prize winner is.....!
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« #2 : October 29, 2013, 11:06:21 AM »

The new one in is the Asian Man Booker Prize:  The Garden of Evening Mists   Tan Twan Eng

We also have the English Man Booker Prize winner:
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

From the Man Booker website:  The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. The prize is the world's most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of authors and publishers.
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« #3 : October 29, 2013, 12:01:42 PM »

ah, thank you.  I knew the Garden...book was the Asian Man prize but didn't see t'other in the list!!
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