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Owl Book Group Selections 2005-2006
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Winterkill
by Craig Lesley
An American Indian rodeo rider is reunited with his teenage son and struggles to earn his love and trust.
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The kite runner
by Khaled Hosseini
The best-selling first novel by the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns traces the period between the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the horrific rule of the Taliban and follows the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan boy and the son of his father's servant.
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable secrets about the family of preachers.
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Beowulf : a new verse translation
by Seamus Heaney
The Nobel Prizewinning Irish poet presents a faithful translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.
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The Beggar
by Naguib Mahfouz
A complex tale of alienation and despair. Unable to achieve psychological renewal in the aftermath of Nasser’s revolution, a man sacrifices his work and family to a series of illicit love affairs that intensify his feelings of estrangement. A passionate outcry against irrelevance.
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The bookseller of Kabul
by Åsne Seierstad
Capturing the harsh realities of life in modern-day Afghanistan and plight of Afghan women, the Norwegian journalist provides a portrait of a committed Muslim man, a bookseller, and his family living in post-Taliban Kabul, Afghanistan.
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In the beauty of the lilies
by John Updike
Through four generations--from Clarence Wilmot, a lapsed minister-turned-encyclopedia salesman, in 1910, to the present day--one family pursues the American obsession with God and the unreal world of the motion picture.
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