2007 Shortlist
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 0This novel tells two stories, set sixty years apart, on the island of Tevua. In 1942, Tepu and Edouwe struggle to survive under Japanese occupation; and in 2004 Hector and Lily find a Japanese...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 5A unique 128-page, textless graphic novel, in black, white and sepia, The Arrival draws its inspiration from tales of migrants in past and recent times. The central character is a man who...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 2Valerie runs away to live on the streets of New York City. But there's something very strange about the crowd she falls in with...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 2Taking their anti-social edge one step further, seventeen-year-old Gem and her friends Mira and Lo have decided to go Underground. Their activities will be "extreme", "anti-establishment", "...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 8So you're a guy; you're at a band show and your ex, the girl who dumped you, walks in with the new guy. Looking for a safe exit, you ask the girl you happen to sitting with to be your girlfriend...
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Write a review for this book Reviews: 15Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much...
