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Owl Book Group Selections 2008-2009 |
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The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by Debby Applegate
Presents the life of the nineteenth century orator, noted for his support of the abolition of slavery and the suffrage of women, as well as his friendships with some of the century's most famous writers such as Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman.
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Out stealing horses
by Per Petterson
After a meeting with his only neighbor, sixty-seven-year-old Trond is forced to reflect upon a long-ago incident that marks the beginning of a series of losses for Trond and his childhood friend, Jon.
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Defying Hitler : a memoir
by Sebastian Haffner
A memoir on the rise of Nazism in Germany and the lives of ordinary German citizens between the two world wars finds the author witnessing such developments as the rise of the First Free Corps, the Hitler Youth movement, and Stresemann years, and Hitler's coming to power.
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The piano lesson
by August Wilson
When Boy Willie wants to sell the family's prized upright piano to purchase some land, the family must re-evaluate the piano's true worth.
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Oracle bones : a journey between China's past and present
by Peter Hessler
Chronicles the author's 7,000-mile drive across northern China, following the Great Wall, during which he investigated a historically important rural region being abandoned as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast; his five-year stay in a small farming village; and his three years of research in Lishui, a small city slated to become a major industrial center.
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The namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
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The pillars of the earth
by Ken Follett
Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.
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The optimist's daughter
by Eudora Welty
Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral.
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Bridge of sighs
by Richard Russo
After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston with his wife of forty years, indominable mother, and grown son, Louis Charles and his wife Sarah prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy to visit his childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier, where he hopes to come to terms with the secrets of small-town life and their individual fates.
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Cedar Mill Community Libraries
12505 NW Cornell Road Suite 13
Portland, Oregon 97229
503-644-0043library.cedarmill.org/
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