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Owl Book Group Selections 2009-2010
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
In 1946, as England emerges from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey and his eccentric friends, who tell her about their island, the books they love, German occupation, and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
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The magician's assistant
by Ann Patchett
After the death of a homosexual magician, his female assistant journeys from Los Angeles to Nebraska in search of the man's hidden past and discovers his estranged family, as well as the love she has always been denied.
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Speaking for myself : my life from Liverpool to Downing Street
by Cherie Blair
The personal story of Tony Blair's wife describes the abandonment of her actor father, the obstacles she overcame to become a successful barrister, and the unique challenges of being married to a prime minister while maintaining a young family and a serious career, in an intimate account that also describes her relationships with American presidential families and the British royals.
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The portable Henry James
by Henry James
A collection of the works of this nineteenth-century American writer including selections of his letters, novels, and criticisms.
The Owl Book Group read Daisy Miller, Beast in the Jungle and The Real Thing.
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The Hemingses of Monticello : An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Traces the history of the Hemings family from its origins in early eighteenth-century Virginia to its dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826, in an account that describes their family ties to the third president against a backdrop of Revolutionary America and the French Revolution.
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Whispers in the sand
by Barbara Erskine
Retracing the journey her great grandmother made through Egypt in the 19th century, divorcee Anna Coburn, carrying with her two mementos--an ancient Egyptian scent bottle and a diary of the original Nile voyage--makes a chilling discovery about her grandmother's past.
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A sweetness to the soul : a novel
by Jane Kirkpatrick
After the tragic death of her siblings, Jane Herbert tries to make peace with an emotionally distant mother and finds herself involved in an unusual romance with a dreamer sixteen years her senior, as she struggles to build a family of her own.
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The eaves of heaven : a life in three wars
by Andrew X. Pham
A searing memoir by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala offers a portrait of his father's experiences over the course of three wars--the French occupation of Indochina, the World War II Japanese invasion, and the Vietnam War--as he captures the trials of everyday life in Vietnam amid the tragedy, violence, and turbulence of war.
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Luncheon of the boating party
by Susan Vreeland
Meeting his closest friends for a summer lunch on a café terrace along the Seine, master Impressionist painter Auguste Renoir undertakes the most challenging project of his career while struggling with the issues that are polarizing post-Franco-Paris War France.
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Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
by Barbara Kingsolver
The National Humanities Medal-winning author of The Poisonwood Bible follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet.
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