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Note the title change for September. Read the book before the movie comes out next month!
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August 25
2013 PEN/Hemingway Award
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The Yellow Birds: A Novel
Kevin Powers
Pages: 240
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A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, "The Yellow Birds" is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year... |
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September 29
2012 Goodreads Choice Award
for Best Historical Fiction
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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
M. L. Stedman · Scribner
Pages: 352
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The years-long New York Times bestseller, soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks, is "irresistible ... seductive ... with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine) .
After four harrowing years... |
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October 27
2012 National Book Award
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The Round House
Louise Erdrich · Harper; First Edition edition
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A brilliant chronicler of Native-American life, Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist, "The Plague of Doves", transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood... |
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November 17
2012 LA Times Bestseller
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San Miguel
T.C. Boyle · Viking
Pages: 384
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On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary stories, full of struggle and hope, are the subject of T. C. Boyle's... |
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December 8
2011 Orange Prize
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The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
Tea Obreht · Random House
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In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfathers recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of "The Jungle Book", and the stories he told her of his encounters... |
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