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Owl Book Group Selections 2002-2003
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A painted house : a novel
by John Grisham
Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s southern cotton-farming community.
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Last places : a journey in the north
by Lawrence Millman
The author of Our Like Will Not Be There Again and Northern Latitudes recounts his experiences traveling from Norway to Newfoundland via the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador.
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Seabiscuit : an American legend
by Laura Hillenbrand
The author retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
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A bend in the river
by V. S. Naipaul
In an African country that has suffered revolution and civil war and that is headed by a man of almost insane energy and crudity, one restless, reflective, and isolated villager and his friends uneasily submit to the tide of events.
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Victoria's daughters
by Jerrold M. Packard
Explores the nineteenth-century world of a generation of royal women, the five daughters of Queen Victoria--Victoria, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice--and sheds light on their complex, frequently tragic, restricted lives.
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Charles Dickens : a life
by Jane Smiley
Offers a profile of Dickens's life, interpretations of his major works, and a study of his narrative techniques, themes, characters, and style.
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Bel canto : a novel
by Ann Patchett
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.
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True West
by Sam Shepard
Two very different brothers--Austin, a stable, successful Hollywood screenwriter, and Lee, a menacing vagabond--attempt to trade lives.
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