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Owl Book Group Selections 2010-2011
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The liar's club : a memoir
by Mary Karr
A trenchant memoir of a troubled American childhood from the child's point of view describes growing up in a an East Texas refinery town, life in the midst of a turbulent family of drunks and liars, a schoolyard rape, and other dark secrets.
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The uncommon reader : A Novella
by Alan Bennett
Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy.
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Ghost train to the Eastern star : on the tracks of the great railway bazaar
by Paul Theroux
The best-selling author of The Great Railway Bazaar revisits the past as he journeys through Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Siberia on a train ride of adventure, political observations, and cultural curiosities that reveals the dramatic changes that have occurred since the writing of the original travelogue.
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Two old friends, Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday, both former lovers of the late Molly Lane, meet to pay their last respects and make a pact that will have unforeseen consequences.
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The help
by Kathryn Stockett
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project against a backdrop of the budding civil rights era.
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The cruelest month : a Three Pines mystery
by Louise Penny
When the charming, seemingly idyllic town of Three Pines is rocked by a killing during an impromptu Easter séance at a local haunted house, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is confronted by a web of baffling questions as he searches for a killer. By the author of A Fatal Grace.
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The elegance of the hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
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Noah's compass : a novel
by Anne Tyler
Preparing to retire early from an unfulfilling teaching job that supplanted his dream of becoming a philosopher, Liam Pennywell struggles to remember missing memories of the night before he awoke in the hospital with a head injury, an effort that leads to unexpected discoveries. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons.
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Henry's sisters
by Cathy Lamb
Reunited in their Oregon home town when their mother undergoes major surgery, three sisters take over the near-bankrupt family bakery while caring for their disabled brother and grandmother, a situation that forces them to confront their pasts, their prospects, and their relationships with each other. By the author of Julia's Chocolates.
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Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city
by Greg Grandin
This never-before-told story of the auto magnate's attempt to recreate small-town America, along with a rubber plantation, in the heart of the Amazon details the epic clash between Ford and the jungle and its inhabitants, as the tycoon attempted to force his will on the natural world. By the award-winning author of The Blood of Guatemala.
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