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The Sympathizer: A Novel
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking... |
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel
Anne Tyler - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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"Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment." -The New York Times"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."-The Boston GlobePearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday... |
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Remnant Population
Elizabeth Moon - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here... |
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Ordinary Grace: A Novel
William Kent Krueger - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELWINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARDA SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013"That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty... |
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Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline - William Morrow
Format: Paperback
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Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood... |
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And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices... |
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The Life We Bury
Allen Eskens - Seventh Street Books
Format: Print book
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College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl... |
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True Sisters
Sandra Dallas - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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In a novel based on true events, New York Times bestselling author Sandra Dallas delivers the story of four women---seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land---who come together on a harrowing journey. In 1856, Mormon converts, encouraged by Brigham Young himself,... |
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Sloan Wilson - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. Its title - like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 - has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent... |
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What's Become of Waring
Anthony Powell - Green Integer
Format: Paperback
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This fascinating catalog of the comic relates the ironic and ludicrous adventures of a noted (but mysterious) English travel-book writer whose reported "death" throws the London literary world into a tizzy. Anthony Powell is also the author of O, How the Wheel Becomes It!... |
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The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the countrys last emperor. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: * A concise introduction that gives readers important background information... |
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Lynsey Addario - The Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped... |
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The Invention of Wings: A Novel
Sue Monk Kidd - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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"The moment I finished 'The Invention of Wings, ' I knew this had to be the next Book Club selection... These strong female characters represent the women that have shaped our history and, through Sue's imaginative storytelling, give us a new perspective on slavery, injustice and the search... |
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When Horses Had Wings
Diana Estill - Corncob Press
Format: Book
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A Red Adept Select book (voted "Outstanding in Genre"- Women's Fiction) Pregnant at 16, Renee Goodchild drops out of school and marries. Now she's trapped in rural Texas with Kenny, her violent, garbage-collecting husband. A bleak future seems assured until she meets self-appointed... |
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The Goldfinch: A Novel
Donna Tartt - Little, Brown and Company; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Hardcover
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A young New Yorker grieving his mothers death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King,
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Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood
Horton Foote
Format: Paperback
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For more than five decades, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled the changes in American life -- both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screenplay Tender Mercies earned him |
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen - J. M. Dent & sons
Format: Paperback
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Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood... |
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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation... |
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Horseman, Pass By : A Novel
Larry McMurtry - Scribner Paperback Fiction
Format: Paperback
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes the novel that became the basis for the film Hud, starring Paul Newman. In classic Western style Larry McMurtry illustrates the timeless conflict between the modernity and the Old West through the eyes of Texas cattlemen.Horseman,... |
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences,... |
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth.... |
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Behind the beautiful forevers
Katherine Boo - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NAMED ONE OF TIMES
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Moloka'i
Alan Brennert - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place---and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit.Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like... |
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Lust for Life
Irving Stone - Penguin Group
Format: Paperback
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Since it's initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone's "Lust For Life" has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The most famous of all of Stone's novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh - brilliant painter,... |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The story of modern medicine and bioethics - and, indeed, race relations - is refracted beautifully, and movingly." - Entertainment Weekly. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE * ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL"... |
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.Liesel... |
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One Amazing Thing
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Voice; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." --Junot Diaz Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office... |
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Atonement: A Novel
Ian McEwan
Format: Paperback
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Ian McEwan, Booker Prize -- winning author of Amsterdam, has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation we have come to expect from this master of E |
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All the king's men
Robert Penn Warren - Harcourt Brace
Format: Paperback
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Set in the '30s, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted... |
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All over but the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearThis haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead... |
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel
Helen Simonson - Random House
Format: Book
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You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) , the unlikely... |
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson - Crown Group (NY)
Format: Book
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Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes... |
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The thirteenth tale : a novel
Diane Setterfield - Atria Books
Format: Book
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Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal... |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde - Modern Library
Format: Paperback
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Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it rst appeared... |
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The Hummingbird's Daughter
Luis Alberto Urrea - 2005.
Format: Paperback
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The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico.It is 1889, and civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16-year-old girl, Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful... |
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Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book...
Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from... |
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The Bottoms
Joe R Lansdale - Mysterious Press
Format: Paperback
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When young Harry Collins finds the mutilated body of a black woman bound to a tree with barbed wire, he and his younger sister suspect the legendary Goat Man, who is said to lurk under the swinging bridge crossing Texas's Sabine River. The creature holds the key to a string of brutal murders--and... |
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My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel
Robin Oliveira - Viking; 1st edition
Format: Audiobook
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An enthralling historical novel about a young womans struggle to become a doctor during the Civil War In this stunning first novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon.... |
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Book
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Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) . Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic."Those old cows... |
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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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La Dame aux Camelias
Alexandre Dumas - Oxford University Press
Format: Book
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One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love is based on his own love affair with one of the most desirable courtesans in Paris. This is a completely new translation commissioned for the World's... |
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
Scott Zesch - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life... |
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Cutting for Stone: A novel
Abraham Verghese - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis... |
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-ExupeÌry - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Format: Paperback
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Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupry's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators... |
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Seize the Day
Saul Bellow - Penguin Books
Format: Book
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"What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow's eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow's vision, his uncanny ability to seize the moment and to see beyond it." -Chicago... |
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My Name Is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often... |
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Format: Paperback
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Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
Lisa See - NHLA READS-TO-GO
Format: Paperback
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Click here for discussion questions!
Books-A-Million Book Club February 2007 Selection:
A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives.
This absorbing novel with... |
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A Bell for Adano
John Hersey - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than... |
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The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript
Umberto Eco - Harcourt Brace
Format: Print book
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It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville's investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book |
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The Optimists Daughter
Eudora Welty - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where... |
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Smillas Sense of Snow
Peter Høeg - Delta; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A... |
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience.... |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger - Bantam Books
Format: Paperback
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children.... |
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The Source: A Novel
James A. Michener - Random House
Format: Paperback
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In his signature style of grand storytelling, James A. Michener transports us back thousands of years to the Holy Land. Through the discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, Michener vividly re-creates life in an ancient city and traces the profound history... |
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger - Harvest / Harcourt, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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A powerfully original Love Story |
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones - Amistad
Format: Book
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Click here for discussion questions!
Books-A-Million Book Club April 2007 Selection:
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester... |
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The Sun Also Rises: The Authorized Edition
Ernest Hemingway - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingways masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingways... |
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Hannah Coulter
Wendell Berry - Counterpoint
Format: Paperback
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"Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war and the lives of others... |
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This Side Of Paradise
F Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner Paperback Fiction
Format: Print book
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This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted... |
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My Antonia
Willa Cather - New Millennium Library
Format: Book
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Willa Cather, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, considered My Antonia to be one of her best works, and critic H.L. Mencken claimed it was one of the best American novels ever written. Published in 1918, the novel compassionately and intimately traces the story of a Bohemian family as they settle... |
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized - and sometimes outraged - millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma... |
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The Shipping News: A Novel
Annie Proulx - Scribner Paperback Fiction
Format: Paperback
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When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts... |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
Truman Capote - Vintage
Format: Book
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In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and navet continue to charm.This... |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Hucklberry Finn." (Ernest Heminway) Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story... |
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