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Let Us Descend: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From Jesmyn Ward - the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow - comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.. "'Let us descend,'... |
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Wellness: A novel
Nathan Hill - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Nix, a witty and poignant new novel about modern marriage, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together. When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold... |
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The Deep End of the Ocean
Jacquelyn Mitchard - Viking
Format: Book
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The disappearance of her three-year-old son Ben threatens to drive a wedge between Beth Cappadora and her husband, Pat, and transforms her older son into a troubled delinquent, until, one day, nine years later, Ben comes back into their lives.
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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison - Vintage International
Format: Paperback
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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul... |
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The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to the human capacity for mercy, compassion and love. |
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She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb - Washington Square Press
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"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...."
Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached... |
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Stones from the River
Ursula Hegi - Simon & Schuster; 1st Scribner Ppbk Ed/7th Printing edition
Format: Paperback
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Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend... |
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The Rapture of Canaan
Sheri Reynolds - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback
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At the Church of Fire and Brimstone and Gods Almighty Baptizing Wind, Grandpa Herman makes the rules for everyone, and everyone obeys, or else. Try as she might, Ninah hasnt succeeded in resisting temptation her prayer partner, James and finds herself pregnant. She fears the wrath of Grandpa... |
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The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou
Format: Book
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Angelou’s autobiography of her move to New York from California with her son and the Black artists that shaped her.
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Songs in Ordinary Time
Marry McGarry Morris - Penguin Books
Format: Book
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It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen -- involved with a young priest; Norm,... |
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A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J Gaines - Vintage Books
Format: Book
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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism... |
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The Meanest Thing to Say: Little Bill Books for Beginning Readers
Bill Cosby - Scholastic
Format: Book
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When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest things possible to one another, Little Bill shows him a better way to make friends. Not owned: The Treasure Hunt or The Best Way to Play by... |
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A Virtuous Woman
Kaye Gibbons - Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died... |
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Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons - Algonquin Books
Format: Book
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An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy.... |
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Paradise (Vintage International)
Toni Morrison - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present - in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic... |
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Here on Earth
Alice Hoffman - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback
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In a review of Hoffman's previous novel, Practical Magic, Booklist wrote, "magic, fantasy, and full-tilt love-at-first-sight have figured in all of Hoffman's sexy, funny, and endearing novels. . . . in Hoffman's universe, all boundaries between inner and outer realms are erased.... |
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Black and Blue: A Novel
Anna Quindlen - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father, and because, in spite of everything, she loved him. Then one night, when she saw the look on her ten-year-old son’s face, Fran finally made a choice—and... |
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Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
Edwidge Danticat - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's... |
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I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.)
Wally Lamb - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling - with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. Its hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget." - USA Today... |
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What Looks LIke Crazy On an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, 1)
Pearl Cleage - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild - her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead,... |
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Midwives
Chris Bohjalian - Vintage Books
Format: Book
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With a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity, this compulsively readable novel explores what happens when a woman who has devoted herself to ushering life into the world finds herself charged with responsibility in a patient's tragic death. The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth... |
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Where the Heart Is
Billie Letts - Warner Books
Format: Paperback
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Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures... |
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Jewel
Bret Lott - Atria; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. Jewel is the story of how quickly a life... |
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The Reader
Bernhard Schlink - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael... |
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The Pilot's Wife: A Novel
Anita Shreve - Back Bay Books
Format: Print book
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A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plan flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable-one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom... |
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White Oleander (Oprahs Book Club)
Janet Fitch - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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The unforgettable story of a young womans odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter,... |
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Mother of Pearl
Melinda Haynes - Pocket; Reprint edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambiavalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950's, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. Mother of Pearl revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black... |
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Tara Road
Maeve Binchy - Delacorte Press
Format: Book
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Tara Road, her first full-length novel since The Glass Lake, again shows her incomparable understanding of the human heart in the tale of two women, one from Ireland, one from America, who switch lives, and in doing so learn much about each other, as well as much about themselves.Ria lived... |
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River, Cross My Heart: A Novel
Breena Clarke - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.Five-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of a seemingly haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters.... |
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Vinegar Hill
A Manette Ansay - Avon Booksg
Format: Audiobook
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In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's... |
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A Map of the World
Jane Hamilton - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. |
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Gap Creek
Robert Morgan - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; Audiocassettes edition
Format: Paperback
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There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. She is just... |
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Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
Isabel Allende - Harper Collins Publishers
Format: Book
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Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andieta, a lowly clerk who works... |
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Back Roads
Tawni O'Dell - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer is charged with caring for his three sisters in a backwards Pennsylvania coal town, but despite his fatherly responsibilities, he is still a teenage boy and lusts after the mother of two who lives down... |
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison - Knopf
Format: Book
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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays... |
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While I Was Gone
Sue Miller
Format: Book
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When a housemate from Jo Becker's youth moves into her community, the darkest moment of her past imperils all that she loves.
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The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden... |
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Open House: A Novel
Berg, Elizabeth - Ballantine
Format: Paperback
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In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart.Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's,... |
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Drowning Ruth: A Novel
Christina Schwarz - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. . . . Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back... |
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House of Sand and Fog
Andre Dubus
Format: Book
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A recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—yearns to restore his family’s dignity in California. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold onto the one thing she has left?her home. And her lover, a married... |
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We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates - Plume
Format: Paperback
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Moving away from the dark tone of her more recent masterpieces, Joyce Carol Oates turns the tale of a family struggling to cope with its fall from grace into a deeply moving and unforgettable account of the vigor of hope and the power of love to prevail over suffering. The Mulvaneys of High... |
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Icy Sparks
Gwyn Hyman Rubio - Penguin Books
Format: Book
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Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky during the 1950's. Gwyn Hyman Rubio's beautifully written first novel revolves around Icy Sparks, an unforgettable heroine in the tradition of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird... |
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Stolen Lives : Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Malika Oufkir - Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion
Format: Book
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The daughter of a former aide to the king of Morocco, who was executed after a failed assassination attempt on the ruler, describes how she, her five siblings, and her mother were imprisoned in a desert penal colony for twenty years. (Original title in French: La Prisonnière... |
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Cane River
Lalita Tademy - Warner Books> C/o Little Br
Format: Hardcover
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Lalita Tademy was a successful corporate vice president at a Fortune 500 company when she decided to embark upon what would become an obsessive odyssey to uncover her familys past. Through exhaustive research, interviews, and the help of professional genealogists, she would find herself... |
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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THE CORRECTIONS is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century-a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity... |
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A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
Rohinton Mistry - Vintage; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency,... |
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Fall On Your Knees (Oprahs Book Club)
Ann-Marie MacDonald - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them.Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that... |
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Sula
Toni Morrison - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand... |
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East of Eden, John Steinbeck Centennial Edition
John Steinbeck - Viking Press
Format: Paperback
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Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.... |
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Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
Alan Paton - Scribner Paperback Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry,... |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Format: Book
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This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless,... |
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy - Macmillan Collector's Library
Format: Hardcover
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The sweeping love story of two people who defy the conventions of their age to follow the dictates of their hearts. Trapped in a stifling marriage, Anna Karenina is swept off her feet by the dashing Count Vronsky. When the truth about their passionate liaison comes out, Anna's husband... |
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The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck - Washington Square Press
Format: Paperback
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In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless... |
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner - Vintage; Mti edition
Format: Paperback
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Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As they carry Addie in a homemade coffin, pulled along by a team of mules, the Bundrens are haunted by greed and fear—their journey both mocks... |
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix
William Faulkner - Modern Library
Format: Book
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The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner’s mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and Jason.
Perhaps William Faulkner’s greatest book.... |
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Light in August: The Corrected Text
William Faulkner - Modern Library
Format: Book
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Lena Grove's resolute search for the father of her unborn child begets a rich, poignant, and ultimately hopeful story of perseverance in the face of mortality. It also acquaints us with several of Faulkner's most unforgettable characters, including the Reverend Gail Hightower,... |
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A Million Little Pieces
James Frey - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment facility shortly... |
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Night: A Memoir
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Book
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A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power.
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Sidney Poitier - HarperSanFrancisco
Format: Book
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In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles.... |
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark.... |
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Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides - Picador
Format: Paperback
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"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent... |
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves... |
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The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett - William Morrow
Format: Book
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Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.
Everything readers... |
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Lifes Purpose (Oprahs Book Club, Selection 61)
Eckhart Tolle - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "A wake-up call for the entire planet . . . [A New Earth] helps us to stop creating our own suffering and obsessing over the past and what the future might be, and to put ourselves in the now." - Oprah Winfrey With his bestselling spiritual guide... |
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
David Wroblewski - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life on his family's farm in remote northern Wisconsin where they raise and train an extraordinary breed of dog. But when tragedy strikes, Edgar is forced to flee into the vast neighboring wilderness, accompanied by only... |
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Say You're One of Them
Uwem Akpan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday.... |
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Freedom: A Novel
Jonathan Franzen - Farrar
Format: Paperback
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Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul -- the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their... |
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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One of Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability. Over the course... |
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A Tale of Two Cities:
Charles Dickens - Signet Classics
Format: Paperback
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The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times...The storming of the Bastille ... the death carts with their doomed human cargo ... the swift drop of the guillotine blade - this is the French Revolution that... |
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Oprah’s Book Club 2.0
In 2012, O, The Oprah Magazine, teamed up with TV channel Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) to launch a new, online version of what had been the very influential monthly pick on Oprah’s own wildly popular show.
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training,... |
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ayana Mathis - Knopf
Format: Book
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In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have... |
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The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd - Viking
Format: Book
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Hetty "Handful" Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world,... |
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Ruby: A Novel
Cynthia Bond - Crown Publishing Group
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The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her - this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long... |
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground... |
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Love Warrior: A Memoir
Glennon Doyle Melton - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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The highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.
Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out -- three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing... |
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Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Imbolo Mbue - Random House
Format: Print book
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A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economyJende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant... |
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An American Marriage: A Novel
Tayari Jones - Algonquin Books
Format: Book
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could... |
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World
Format: Book
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Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her - but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring... |
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Olive, Again: A Novel
Elizabeth Strout - Random House
Format: Book
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Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is "a compelling life force" (San Francisco Chronicle) . The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,"... |
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with... |
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Deacon King Kong: A Novel
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range.
The... |
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Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson - Random House
Format: Book
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In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system,... |
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Home: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearHailed as "incandescent,"... |
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Lila: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardNational Book Award FinalistA new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable... |
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Jack: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the black sheep of his family, the beloved and grieved-over... |
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Gilead: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction 2004 National Book Critics Circle Winner In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Amess life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young... |
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The Sweetness of Water: A Novel
Nathan Harris - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry - freed by the Emancipation Proclamation - seek refuge on the homestead of white farmer George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their... |
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The 2020 National Book Award-nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic - an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer - that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries... |
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Bewilderment
Richard Powers - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled... |
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The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
Martha Beck - Penguin Life
Format: Hardcover
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As Martha Beck says in her book, "Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period." In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering.... |
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Finding Me: A Memoir
Viola Davis - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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Finding Me is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey. Deeply personal, brutally honest, and riveting, Finding Me is a timeless... |
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Nightcrawling: A novel
Leila Mottley
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system - a debut that announces a blazingly original voice.Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment... |
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That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
Jarvis Jay Masters - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022"When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to the place in my heart that wants so desperately to feel human, still connected to this world, as if I have a purpose."The moving... |
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Demon Copperhead: A Novel
BARBARA KINGSOLVER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Kingsolver is a writer who can help us understand and navigate the chaos of these times." - Minneapolis Star TribuneFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes... |
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan Cain - Crown
Format: Book
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Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain. If we don't acknowledge our own heartache, she says, we can end up inflicting it on others via abuse, domination, or neglect. But if we realize that all humans... |
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Hello Beautiful: A Novel
Ann Napolitano - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes an emotionally layered and engrossing family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him - so he's... |
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The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, and following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secretThe Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel... |
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Controversies
Controversial books from the orginal list are still listed above and by the O, the Oprah Magazine website. These were proposed for the 2.0 list and recinded: American Dirt by Jeannie Cummins and My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell.
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More: by and about Oprah Winfrey
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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America
Kathleen Rooney - University of Arkansas Press
Format: Book
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Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprahs Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. Reading with Oprah explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and commerce and tells the engaging and in-depth... |
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Oprah: A Biography
Kitty Kelley - Crown Archetype; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guests - often the biggest celebrities in the world - to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts,... |
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The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy
Deborah Davis - Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Oprah Winfrey Show came to an end on May 25, 2011, after 25 years on television. Arguably the most influential television personality of all time, Ms. Winfrey and her show have had an impact on American culture that cannot be overstated. This beautifully illustrated book will explore... |
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The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
Oprah Winfrey
Format: Book
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Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, "Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and begin to honor your calling in the best way possible."
That journey starts right here.
Pairs with her books "What... |
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Finding Oprah's Roots - Finding Your Own
Oprah Winfrey - PBS
Format: DVD
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Finding Oprah's Roots, a companion to the book by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., features Oprah, showing by her example, that it is possible to build an African American family tree. Excerpts from the Oprah's Roots documentary are combined with comments from many of the experts featured... |
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