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Owl Book Group Selections 2003-2004
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Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
by Eric Schlosser
Analyzing the influence of the fast food industry on American society, an award-winning journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture, entertainment, food production, and more.
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A doll's house
by Henrik Ibsen
The play follows the ordinary life of a housewife. Gradually the tensions within her marriage become clear and build to a final, stunning action. The play is widely studied because of its sharp critique of 19th century marriage norms, and its feminist tendencies.
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The majesty of the law : reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
by Sandra Day O'Connor
America's first female Justice on the Supreme Court provides a fascinating history of the American legal system, describing the evolution of such fundamental legal institutions as the Bill of Rights, people and landmark cases that have shaped American democracy, the inner workings of the Supreme Court, and her own experiences as a Justice.
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Atonement : a novel
by Ian McEwan
The Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam creates a richly textured coming-of-age novel, set in 1935 England, that follows thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, who witness an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, as she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which tears her family apart and leads her on a lifelong search of truth and absolution.
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Love in the time of cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
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John Paul Jones : sailor, hero, father of the American Navy
by Evan Thomas
Traces the naval hero's modest Scottish origins, the circumstances that brought him to America under a charge of murder and a false name, his sea battle achievements, and his acclaim by such figures as Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin.
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Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
At once a conformist and a rebel, George F. Babbitt represents an ordinary man whose life turns upside down during one of the most profound sea changes in American cultural history: the mechanization and hucksterism of the Roaring Twenties.
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World's Fair
by E. L. Doctorow
A nostalgic novel evokes a world where fiction and reality meet within the 1930s Bronx childhood of Edgar, growing up through the intensity of the Depression and the dazzling hope of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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