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Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen


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An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate...
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The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
by Khaled Hosseini


(18 club reviews)

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A deluxe collector's edition of the phenomenally bestselling The Kite Runner, filled with striking and memorable photographs that bring Khaled Hosseini's compelling story to life.

Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has shipped over four million copies and spent more...
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A Thread of Grace
by Mary Doria Russell


(16 club reviews)

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Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand....
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The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield


(15 club reviews)

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Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin


(11 club reviews)

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The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti- American reaches of Asia

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram...
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Edges: O Israel, O Palestine
by Leora Skolkin-Smith


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"Edges" was selected by Grace Paley for "Glad Day Books", a new publishing house founded by Ms. Paley and Robert Nichols.

"Edges" takes the reader to an Israel before high walls formed a border, when, instead, metal wires hung "like hosiery lines" across the land. Liana Barish is fourteen years...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee


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The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic that has been translated into more than 40 languages. Available for the first time in a trade paperback edition....
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee


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The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic that has been translated into more than 40 languages. Available for the first time in a trade paperback edition....
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Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett


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Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now, The Pillars of the Earth is available for...
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Cloud Atlas : A Novel
by David Mitchell


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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan


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The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life.

Now with photos and new material


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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee


(6 club reviews)

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Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus's children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of...
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)
by Loung Ung


(4 club reviews)

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One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained...
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
by Kris Holloway; Consulting Editor John Bidwell


(4 club reviews)

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What is it like to live and work in a remote corner of the world and befriend a courageous midwife who breaks traditional roles? Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Mali Midwife is the inspiring story of Monique Dembele, an accidental midwife who became a legend, and Kris Holloway, the young...
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The Screwtape Letters (Gift Edition)
by C. S. Lewis


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In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life.
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Laura Hillenbrand


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A deluxe illustrated edition of one of the most beloved books of our time, with nearly 150 historic photographs personally selected by the author

The spellbinding true story of how three men and a great racehorse captivated a nation, Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit: An American Legend...
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Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
by Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund


(3 club reviews)

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“Engrossing. . . . Riveting. . . . This may be the most honest account of life within Saddam's circle so far . . . an enlightening revelation of how, by barely perceptible stages, decent people make accommodations in a horrific regime.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Zainab Salbi was eleven...
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Cane River (Oprah's Book Club)
by Lalita Tademy


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Lalita Tademys New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick, the compelling saga based on the lives of four generations of African American women, is now in paperback.Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey...
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker


(3 club reviews)

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This critically acclaimed modern American novel is analyzed and summarized, and Alice Walker's distinct writing style is discussed. Titles in this growing series for middle school and high school students analyze novels and plays that are included in most schools' English Lit. curricula. Literature...
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The Lake of Dead Languages: A Novel
by Carol Goodman


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In the evocative tradition of Donna Tartt’s first novel, The Secret History, comes this accomplished debut of youthful innocence drowned by dark sins. Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson left the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. Now she has returned...
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A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines


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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 of resisting.


From...
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid


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At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting . . .



Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton,...
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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle


(3 club reviews)

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A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life.
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Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.)
by Sena Jeter Naslund


(2 club reviews)

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From the opening line -- "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last" -- you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling...
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The Descendants: A Novel
by Kaui Hart Hemmings


(2 club reviews)

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Narrated in a bold, fearless, hilarious voice and set against the lush, panoramic backdrop of Hawaii, The Descendants is a stunning debut novel about an unconventional family forced to come together and re-create its own legacy.
Matthew King was once considered one of the most fortunate men...
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Dragonfly in Amber
by Diana Gabaldon


(2 club reviews)

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With her now-classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters — Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser—delighting readers with a story of adventure and love that spanned two centuries. Now Gabaldon returns to that extraordinary time and place in this vivid,...
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Garden Spells (Bantam Discovery)
by Sarah Addison Allen


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The Gift
by Richard Paul Evans


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There is no hurt so great that love cannot heal it.

Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood until a snowstorm, a cancelled flight and...
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The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott


(2 club reviews)

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Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.

Of this...
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Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work
by Tad Waddington


(2 club reviews)

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Lasting Contribution demonstrates how to create meaning in your life, take sophisticated action, manage your career, and make a lasting contribution to the world. It synthesizes the thought of Aristotle, Sun Tzu, Gödel, Frankl, Confucius, and many others. It draws insights from information theory, sociology,...
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The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love
by Douglas Carlton Abrams


(2 club reviews)

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It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, marriage, and love itself. In the midst of these treacherous times, Juan Tenorio is born and then abandoned in the barn of a convent. Raised secretly by the...
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Redeeming Love
by Francine Rivers


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Can God's Love Save Anyone? Bestselling author Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea in a tale set against the exciting backdrop of the California Gold Rush. The heroine, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea is a godly...
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Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
by Ron Hall, Denver Moore


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Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas, Texas. No longer a slave, Denver's life was still hopeless-until God moved. First came a godly woman who prayed,...
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The Scarlet Thread
by Francine Rivers


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This best-selling novel by popular author Francine Rivers is now available in mass paper. When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds that their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty...
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White Oleander
by Janet Fitch


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A New York Times Bestseller

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery -- but their idyll is shattered when Ingrid falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection,...
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Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books
by Lisa Adams, John Heath


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What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common?

We readers have many dirty little secrets-and our bestselling books are spilling them all. We cant resist conspiratorial crooks or the number 7. We have bought millions of books about cheese. And over a million of us read...
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World Without End
by Ken Follett


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The 72 Names of God Meditation Book: Technology for the Soul
by Yehuda Berg


(1 club review)

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Yehuda Berg’s The 72 Names of God Meditation Book is your personal torch to highlight the areas of your life where you need to shine. Through the practice of meditating on the 72 Names of God, you will stir the Light within your soul to help you. See the impact of your decisions before you...
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Abarat
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A journey beyond imagination
is about to unfold. . . .

It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.

When the answer comes,...
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Agnes Browne Trilogy Boxed Set--The Mammy, The Chisellers, The Granny
by Brendan O'Carroll


(1 club review)

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The Agnes Browne Trilogy includes:

* The Mammy
* The Chisellers
* The Granny

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The Agony and the Ecstasy
by Irving Stone


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Alias Grace: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood


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In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century.

Grace...
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The Alphabet Of Manliness
by Maddox


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From the publisher:

This is the only sentence in the entire book that will give you a chance to adjust your face; take your time, because it's about to be rocked off—permanently.

Finally, a book that guarantees your balls will be stomped; a book so manly that it will make even the burliest...
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Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
by Jenna Bush


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Ana's life is a collection of bits and pieces of her past. Infected with HIV at birth, she's unaware of many details of her early childhood and barely remembers her mother. Living with her strict grandmother, she learns how to keep secrets – secrets about her infection and about the abuse she endures...
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt


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At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


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Knitting finally takes its rightful place on the spectrum of personal obsessions, alongside golfing, fishing, and gardening. The tangled life of the knitter is the subject of inspired nuttiness in these 300 tongue-in-cheek meditations from the self-proclaimed yarn harlot, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.

As...
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Audition: A Memoir
by Barbara Walters


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The Beach House
by Mary Alice Monroe


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Known for her moving characters and emotional honesty, Mary Alice Monroe brings readers a beautifully rendered story that explores the fragile yet enduring bond between mothers and daughters.

Carette Rutledge thought she'd left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request...
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Becoming Madame Mao
by Anchee Min


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In a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders a powerful tale of passion, betrayal, and survival and creates a finely nuanced and always ambiguous portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified,...
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Bittersweet Diary
by Saundra Seward


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Black & White
by Dani Shapiro


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Blessed Are The Cheesemakers
by Sarah-Kate Lynch


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