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I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club #23)
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A 40-year-old housepainter named Dominick Birdsey, from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, is the narrator of this long novel about the search for self-acceptance. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005.
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East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club #47)
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John Steinbeck's last significant work of fiction (1952), a huge family saga based on the book of Genesis, is set in the Salinas Valley of the author's youth. Beginning with the purchase of a parcel of rich California farmland by Samuel Hamilton, ...
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The Bluest Eye (Audio, CD) (Oprah's Book Club #33)
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In this novel about the nature of black identity, narrated by Pecola`s friend Claudia, we learn that Pecola was raped by her father, and is plagued with a desire to be white. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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Middlesex (Audio, CD) (Oprah's Book Club #58)
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Cal Stephanides, hermaphrodite, recounts the history of his family, starting in 1922 in Smyrna, from where his grandparents embark for America, moving to Detroit where the family settles, and ending up in San Francisco, where Cal`s sexual ambiguity f...
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The Poisonwood Bible (Audio, CD) (Oprah's Book Club #27)
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In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from the locals, particularly a vengeful witch doctor. They also face...
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The Good Earth (Audio, CD) (Oprah's Book Club #52)
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Pearl Buck (1892-1973) wrote THE GOOD EARTH in three months, based on her observations of Chinese life and culture while she lived in China as the daughter of American missionaries.
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