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Owl Book Group Selections 2015-2016
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Songs of Willow Frost : a novel
by Jamie Ford
Confined to Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage during the Great Depression, Chinese-American boy William Eng becomes convinced that a certain movie actress is actually the mother he has not seen since he was 7 years old, a belief that compels a determined search for answers. By the award-winning author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
by Eve LaPlante
Recounts the life and political achievements of the seventeenth-century feminist, noting her successful reform efforts in spite of the limitations placed on Puritan women and multiple charges of heresy and sedition, in a portrait that also identifies her role in the establishment of modern concepts of religious freedom, gender equality, and civil rights.
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A spool of blue thread
by Anne Tyler
The changing needs of aging parents impact a family gathering during which Abby Whitshank relates how her husband and she fell in love during the summer of 1959 and shared decades of marriage impacted by children and long-held secrets. Reading-group guide available. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons.
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Bring up the bodies : a novel
by Hilary Mantel
A sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell.
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Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end
by Atul Gawande
A prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life while isolating the dying, outlining suggestions for freer, more fulfilling approaches to death that enable more dignified and comfortable choices. By the author of The Checklist Manifesto.
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The unwinding : an inner history of the new America
by George Packer
Paints a picture of the last 30 years of life in America by following several citizens, including the son of tobacco farmers in the rural south, a Washington insider who denies his idealism for riches and Silicon Valley billionaire.
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The narrow road to the deep north
by Richard Flanagan
Haunted by the death of his wife while attending brutally sick and injured soldiers at a World War II Japanese POW camp, surgeon Dorrigo Evans receives a letter that irrevocably shapes the subsequent decades of his life in Australia. By the award-winning author of Gould's Book of Fish.
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Flash boys : a Wall Street revolt
by Michael Lewis
Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.
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The left hand of darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
While on a mission to the planet Gethen, a world whose inhabitants can change their gender, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him.
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Someone knows my name
by Lawrence Hill
Dreaming daily of escaping her life of slavery in South Carolina and returning to her African home, slave Aminata Diallo is torn from her family when she is sold and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, during which she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.
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The nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Firefly Lane.
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Cedar Mill Community Libraries 12505 NW Cornell Road Suite 13 Portland, Oregon 97229 503-644-0043library.cedarmill.org/
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