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Owl Book Group Selections 1999-2000
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In the deep midwinter
by Robert Clark
When Richard MacEwan's brother dies in 1949, a victim of a suspicious hunting accident, troubling secrets kept by some women in the family begin to emerge and paint a moving picture of infidelity, faith, and starting over.
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On to Oregon : the diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eells
by Mary Richardson Walker
In 1838, two missionary couples, the Walkers and the Eellses, joined the party going west as a reinforcement to the Oregon Mission. Just married when the trip began, Mary Walker and Myra Eells rode on horseback from Missouri to Oregon, keeping diaries throughout the months on the hazardous trail. After spending a winter at the Whitman mission in present-day Washington, the Walkers and Eellses moved north to do missionary work among the Spokane Indians.
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Charming Billy
by Alice McDermott
When the late Billy Lynch's relatives and friends gather together to keep his memory alive, stories are woven and memories relived detailing his life in the close Irish-American community and the intricate feelings that resurface.
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The reader
by Bernhard Schlink
At the age of fifteen, Michael Berg falls in love with a woman who disappears, and while observing a trial as a law student years later, he is shocked to discover the same woman as the defendant in a horrible crime.
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The poisonwood Bible : a novel
by Barbara Kingsolver
In 1959, Nathan Price, a evangelical Baptist who has taken his wife and four daughters on a mission to the Belgian Congo, finds that their traditions are no longer secure in this very different world, in a powerful story set against the backdrop of the Congo's battle for independence from Belgium.
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Monkey bridge
by Lan Cao
Mai Nguyen, a young Vietnamese woman, comes of age in America after leaving Saigon in 1975, while her mother has difficulty adjusting to life in their new country, in a moving novel filled with Vietnamese lore.
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