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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Bookclub in a Box Discussion Guide)

by Jonathan Franzen

Published: 2006-02-01

Paperback: 85 pages

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The Bookclub-in-a-Box guide to FranzenÂ's novel takes readers deeper into the world of Enid and Alfred Lambert and their family of three children: Gary, Chip and Denise. It is EnidÂ's goal to bring her grown and dispersed family back together for a Christmas celebration; a last chance to...

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* * Dark,
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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

Published: 2002-09-01

Paperback: 576 pages

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A comic, tragic masterpiece of an American family breaking down in an age of easy fixes, Franzen's third novel brings an old-time America into wild collision with the era of home surveillance and New Economy speculation. Winner of the National Book Award.

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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

Published: 2003-07

Paperback: 775 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller 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 to Parkinson's disease, and their children have flown the family nest to live their own lives. Desperate for some plea...

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* * * * * Romantic,
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Corrigans' Pool

by Dot Ryan

Published: 2009-04-24

Paperback: 424 pages

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Ella Corrigan has the weight of four generations laid burden solely on her shoulders. After her mother's accident, her father drifted to alcohol, leaving Ella to manage Greenpoole. She runs the plantation efficiently and treats her slaves with dignity. But marriage, expected for a belle of...

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* * * Adventurous,
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Corsair (Oregon Files)

by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

Published: 2010-02-23

Paperback: 560 pages

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For five novels, Clive Cussler has brought readers into the world of the Oregon, a seemingly dilapidated ship packed with cutting edge technology and captained by the daring Juan Cabrillo. Now, the Oregon and its crew face their biggest challenge yet-with a danger torn from today's headlin...

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Cosmopolis: A Novel

by Don DeLillo

Published: 2003-03-25

Hardcover: 224 pages

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It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end -- those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his ...

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* * Poorly Written,
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The Cosmopolitans

by Nadia Kalman

Published: 2010-12-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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Fiction. Jewish Studies. Equal parts Jane Austen and Gogol, THE COSMOPOLITANS casts a sharp and sympathetic eye on the foibles and rewards of family and life in America. This warm and exuberantly comic debut tells the story of the Molochniks, Russian-Jewish immigrants in suburban Connecticut. Daughters...

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The Cossacks and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 2007-01-19

Paperback: 480 pages

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Tolstoy's powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army?the latest in our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most signifi...

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The Cost of Discipleship

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Published: 1995-09-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What d...

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The Cost of Hope: A Memoir

by Amanda Bennett

Published: 2012-06-05

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir?a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett's quest to save her husband's life.   When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda Bennett m...