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1 - Becoming
Michelle Obama · Crown Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States 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 America - the first African-American... |
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2 - The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton · St. Martin's Press Pages: 272 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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3 - An American Marriage: A Novel
Tayari Jones · Algonquin Books Pages: 308 Format: Hardcover
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION "Haunting . . . Beautifully written." --The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable." --USA Today "A tense and timely love story . . . Packed with brave... |
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4 - Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Imbolo Mbue · Random House Pages: 382 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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5 - The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · Doubleday Pages: 306 Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.... |
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6 - Ruby: A Novel
Cynthia Bond · Crown Publishing Group Pages: 333 Format: Print book
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The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selectionThe 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... |
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7 - The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd · Viking Pages: 373 Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world... |
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8 - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ayana Mathis · Knopf Pages: 243 Format: Hardcover
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The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie... |
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9 - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 315 Format: Print book
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's... |
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10 - A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels
Charles Dickens · Penguin Books Pages: 834 Format: Paperback
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Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature--together in one extraordinary volume.A TALE OF TWO CITIESAfter 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the two very... |
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11 - Freedom: A Novel
Jonathan Franzen · Farrar Pages: 562 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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12 - Say You're One of Them
Uwem Akpan · Little Pages: 358 Format: Print book
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Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend... |
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14 - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle · Plume Pages: 315 Format: Print book
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Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity.... |
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15 - The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · New American Library Pages: 973 Format: Paperback
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Learn more about The Pillars of the Earth miniseries on Starz. The spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of the lives entwined in the building of the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known - and a struggle between good... |
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16 - Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Vintage Pages: 368 Format: Paperback
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"A love story of astonishing power." - Newsweek The International Bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia MarquezIn their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy,... |
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17 - Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides · Picador Pages: 529 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 driver's... |
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18 - The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Cormac McCarthy · Vintage Books Pages: 287 Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive.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... |
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19 - The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Sidney Poitier · HarperSanFrancisco Pages: 255 Format: Book
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"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated... |
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20 - Night
Elie Wiesel · Hill and Wang; Revised edition Pages: 120 Format: Hardcover
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A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesels masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elies wife and frequent translator, presents... |
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