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Owl Book Group Selections 2000-2001
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The dazzle of day
by Molly Gloss
A group of people who set out from Earth to settle a new world and literally grew up on their ship must reconcile the society and culture they have developed in space with the environment of their new home planet.
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Hole in the sky : a memoir
by William Kittredge
The descendant of three generations of a frontier family describes his frontier childhood and details the end of that way of life, offering an understanding of the West as it was and as it is now.
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Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
From the unsettled lives of a small-town teacher struggling to raise two boys alone in the face of their mother's retreat from life, a pregnant teenage girl with nowhere to go, and two elderly bachelor farmers emerges a new vision of life and family as their diverse destinies intertwine.
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Spoon River anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters
The dead arise from their sleep in the cemetery of a small town to tell their individual stories about an entire community caught in a web of scandal, sin, and vice in the early twentieth century.
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Interpreter of maladies : stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, this collection of short fiction blends elements of Indian traditions with the complexities of American culture in such tales as "A Temporary Matter," in which a young Indian-American couple confronts their grief over the loss of a child, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
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A handful of dust : a novel
by Evelyn Waugh
Lord Tony Last is preoccupied with restoring his family home, Hetton Abbey, while his wife, Lady Brenda Last, becomes bored and engages in an affair with John Beaver, a shallow social climber, with dire consequences for all.
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The ugliest house in the world : stories
by Peter Ho Davies
A British writer presents a collection of short stories--two of which have appeared in the annual anthology The Best American Short Stories--that span the globe and mix the fantastic and the ordinary, and politics and humor.
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The good negress
by A. J. Verdelle
Rejoining her family in 1963 Detroit in order to help prepare for a new baby, Denise Palms witnesses her two older brothers' painful entrance into the adult world and questions her own heritage in the light of a tutor's relentless instruction.
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