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Owl Book Group Selections 2007-2008
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Water for elephants : a novel
by Sara Gruen
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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The road
by Cormac McCarthy
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
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Keeping watch
by Laurie R. King
On the brink of retirement after years of rescuing children, Alan Carmichael embarks on one last mission--to rescue a teenager from an abusive parent--but after the boy is safely hidden away, Alan begins to doubt his own decision to intervene as he wonders if he has set a killer free to kill again or if his efforts have set in motion a wave of violence that had begun years earlier.
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1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
A groundbreaking analysis of America prior to the European arrival in 1492 describes how the latest research of archaeologists and anthropologists has transformed long-held myths about the Americas, revealing that not only was the population of the hemisphere greater than previously known but that the cultures were far older and more advanced.
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The painted veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend, a married man, is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to accompany him to his new post amid a raging cholera epidemic.
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The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir
by Bill Bryson
The best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods and I'm a Stranger Here Myself describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his his remarkably normal 1950s family life.
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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
by Atul Gawande
Drawing from compelling true accounts of patients and doctors, a provocative examination of the power and limits of modern medicine reveals a world where science is uncertain, information is limited, and deadly mistakes occur.
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Suite française
by Irène Némirovsky
Published more than sixty years following the author's death at Auschwitz, a remarkable story of life under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"A Storm in June, " set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied provincial village rife with jealousy, resentment, resistance, and collaboration.
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