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	Shanghai Encounter 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonely Planet Grand Canyon National Park 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonely Planet Pocket Beijing by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Robert Isenberg (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonely Planet Shanghai Encounter Paperback April 1, 2010 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	China 5. Tianjin y Hébei (Guías de País Lonely Planet) by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Alberto Delgado Castro (translator), Roser Soms Tramujas (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China 5. Hénán (Guías de País Lonely Planet) by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Alberto Delgado Castro (translator), Roser Soms Tramujas (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	París 7_3. Campos Elíseos y Grands Boulevards (Guías de Ciudad Lonely Planet) by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Elena García Barriuso (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Urban Vertical Garden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beijing de cerca 3 by Christopher Pitts (Goodreads Author), Robert Isenberg (Goodreads Author), Carmen Gómez Aragón (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Best Fiction: The Financial Lives of the Poets

Best Nonfiction: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Best Historical: Comanche Moon

Best Book Club: No-No Boy

Honorable Mention: The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

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Pet Sematary

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Glacé

by Bernard Minier

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Sidelights on Peking Life

by Robert W. Swallow

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