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by Audrey Niffenegger

Published: 2006-02-21

Paperback: 77 pages

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Audrey Niffenegger's romantic novel The Time Traveler's Wife tells the tender story of Henry and Clare, a married couple, whose relationship is as unique as is every love affair. Niffenegger takes the concept of time out of the linear sequence that we are familiar with, and turns it inside...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses the Novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2008-02-11

Perfect Paperback: 89 pages

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A Thousand Splendid Suns, the spectacular new novel by Khaled Hosseini, follows on the heels of The Kite Runner, Hosseini's best-selling first novel. This book tells the dramatic story of an unlikely friendship between two women, Mariam and Laila, who are married to the same man. The story takes us...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Poisonwood Bible, the Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

by Barbara Kingsolver

Published: 2005-08-01

Paperback: 93 pages

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Discusses the novel, The Poisonwood Bible.

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Book Thief, a novel by Markus Zusak (Bookclub in a Box Discusses)

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2009-11-01

Paperback: 90 pages

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1939 is a tough time for everyone in Germany. Ten-year old Liesel and her brother are on their way to be adopted into a foster home, but sadly, the brother dies en route. After his burial, Liesel steals her first book, The Grave Diggers Handbook. The remarkable thing is that Liesel cannot ...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows

by Marilyn Herbert, Sheli Myers

Published: 2010-06-01

Perfect Paperback: 78 pages

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Guernsey is one of four British Channel Islands occupied by the Nazis for five years, 1940-1945. This extraordinary story is one that few people, except for historians, were aware of until Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows recreated the wartime atmosphere of postwar London and Guernsey th...

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Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen

Published: 2007-12-17

Perfect Paperback: 84 pages

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Running away with the circus is one of the most enduring and romantic ideas in the world. However, circus life during the Depression era was, in reality, hard and painful. Jacob Jankowski, now over ninety years old, looks back on that time of desperation, cruelty and prejudice, but at the same time,...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel by Mohsin Hamid

Published: 2008-09-03

Perfect Paperback: 74 pages

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist is more than the usual immigrant book of adaptation, struggle, and identity. Mohsin Hamid has written a gripping tale of a young man who comes to America from Pakistan just prior to 9/11. The protagonist, Changez, is a Harvard educated businessman who works for a high-profile...

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Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses The Memory Keeper's Daughter, the novel by Kim Edwards

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2008-09-01

Paperback: 81 pages

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The Memory Keeper s Daughter by Kim Edwards is a thoughtful and provocative novel that uses the idea of secrecy as a moral backdrop for people s motives, choices, behavior, and interactions. David and Norah Henry are expecting their first child, but they do not know that Norah is actually expecting twins....

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Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway Novels)

by John Dunning

Published: 2001-01-02

Paperback: 394 pages

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Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Ne...

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Bookends

by Liz Curtis Higgs

Published: 2005-05-04

Paperback: 350 pages

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Opposites attract? Maybe not. Emilie Getz and Jonas Fielding are as different as two people?of the same age, with the same faith, living in the same charming Pennsylvania town?could be. She loves history; he loves new ideas. She sticks to the rules; he likes to break them. She's into sav...