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In 2010 Monitor reviewers critiqued hundreds of books. Here's a list of the 11 fiction titles they considered the most outstanding. To assist you with your holiday shopping, each title here has a link that allows you to purchase the book – even as you help to support The Christian Science Monitor
4. "Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand," by Helen Simonson
"Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand," by Helen Simonson (Random House, 368 pp., $25). Jane Austen meets Alexander McCall Smith in this charming tale of a late-in-life love story set in an English village. (CSMonitor.com, 3/19/10)
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