Before the Decade Ends, Here Are the Best Novels of the 21st Century

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy (2005)

The UK’s first female poet laureate won the TS Eliot prize for Rapture in 2005, a moving, book-length poem exploring all the stages of a failed romance—falling in love, betrayal and separation.

There's such a thing as a fear of buttons.
The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
Donkeys and dolphins are sometimes used as guard animals.
After Hitler ordered the deportation of Denmark's Jewish population, Danish citizens organized a massive evacuation of the Jews to neutral Sweden, despite the risks. In the end, 99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust.

Before the Decade Ends, Here Are the Best Novels of the 21st Century

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy (2005)

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