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Gap Creek: A Novel
Robert Morgan
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Algonquin Books
January 18, 2000
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 2000: Robert Morgan's Gap Creek opens with one wrenching death and ends with another. In between, this novel of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life works in fire, flood, swindlers, sickness, and starvation--a truly biblical assortment of plagues, all visited on the sturdy ...
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A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club)
Jane Hamilton
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Anchor
December 3, 1999
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1999: In A Map of the World, appearance overwhelms reality and communal hysteria threatens common sense. Howard and Alice Goodheart, the couple at the center of Jane Hamilton's 1994 novel, have labored mightily to create a pastoral paradise in a Wisconsin ...
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Vinegar Hill (Oprah's Book Club)
A. Manette Ansay
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Harper Perennial
March 1, 1998
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1999: Vinegar Hill is an appropriate address for the characters who populate A. Manette Ansay's novel of the same name. After all, when Ellen Grier and her family return to the rural hamlet of Holly's Field, Wisconsin, it's ...
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River, Cross My Heart: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
Breena Clarke
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Back Bay Books
October 14, 1999
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1999: Breena Clarke's first novel takes place in Georgetown in 1925, where a large and close-knit African American community took shape beneath the shadow of segregation. At the center of the story is baby Clara, who is swallowed by the Potomac ...
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Tara Road: Oprah Selection #26
Maeve Binchy
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Delacorte Press
September 1, 1999
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1999: Against all odds, two newlyweds manage to buy the house of their dreams. In 1982, property speculation is beginning to be a big, big thing in Dublin--and their street is very much in an up-and-coming part of town. ...
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Mother of Pearl
Melinda Haynes
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Hyperion
June 2, 1999
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1999: Twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade is a black man who was orphaned as a child; 15-year-old Valuable Korner is a white girl who might as well have been. Petal, Mississippi, circa 1956, seems an unlikely spot for these two to connect, but ...
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The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Book Club)
Anita Shreve
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Back Bay Books
March 31, 1999
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, March 1999: With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his ...
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The Reader (Oprah's Book Club)
Carol Brown Janeway
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Vintage
March 7, 1999
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with ...
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Jewel (Oprah's Book Club)
Bret Lott
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Washington Square Press
January 19, 1999
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 1999: The year is 1943 and life is good for Jewel Hilburn, her husband, Leston, and their five children. Although there's a war on, the Mississippi economy is booming, providing plenty of business for the hardworking family. And even the news ...
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Where the Heart Is (Oprah's Book Club)
Billie Letts
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Grand Central Publishing
June 1, 1998
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1998: A funny thing happens to Novalee Nation on her way to Bakersfield, California. Her ne'er-do-well boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens, abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart and takes off on his own, leaving her with just 10 dollars and the clothes ...
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Midwives (Oprah's Book Club)
Chris Bohjalian
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Vintage
November 8, 1998
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1998: On a violent, stormy winter night, a home birth goes disastrously wrong. The phone lines are down, the roads slick with ice. The midwife, unable to get her patient to a hospital, works frantically to save both mother and child ...
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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Oprah's Book Club)
Pearl Cleage
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Harper Paperbacks
November 1, 1998
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1998: What makes Pearl Cleage's novel so damned enjoyable? At first glance, after all, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day seems pretty heavy going: HIV, suicide, sudden infant death syndrome, and drunk driving all figure prominently in the lives ...
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I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb
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Regan Books
June 3, 1998
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, ...
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Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
Edwidge Danticat
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Vintage
May 18, 1998
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes ...
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Black and Blue: A Novel
Anna Quindlen
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Random House
January 24, 1998
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is ...
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Here on Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
Alice Hoffman
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Berkley Trade
March 6, 1998
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, March 1998: Here on Earth is set in motion when March Murray and her teenage daughter travel from their California home to New England. Their stay is to be brief. Judith Dale, her childhood housekeeper-cum-foster mother, has died, and March must set ...
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Paradise (Oprah's Book Club)
Toni Morrison
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Plume
April 1, 1999
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 1998: Toni Morrison's Paradise takes place in the tiny farming community of Ruby, Oklahoma, which its residents proudly proclaim "the one all-black town worth the pain." Settled by nine African American clans during the 1940s, the town represents a small miracle ...
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The Meanest Thing To Say: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)
Bill Cosby
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Cartwheel
September 1, 1997
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1997: The first three books in Bill Cosby's Little Bill series, which fall somewhere between Fat Albert and Fatherhood in sensibility, are designed to help kids cope with tough social situations. In The Meanest Thing to Say Little Bill must ...
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The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)
Bill Cosby
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Cartwheel
September 1, 1997
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1997: Well-loved comedian Bill Cosby encourages kids to get creative in this simple story of how your own imagination can take you farther into outer space--and help you chase more aliens--than any TV show or video game ever could. In ...
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The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)
Varnette P. Honeywood
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Cartwheel
September 1, 1997
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1997: Little Bill discovers that some of the best treasure cannot be bought or collected. At home on a windy and rainy day, Little Bill is bored. His father has jazz records to listen to, and his brother has a great ...
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Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons
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Vintage
November 5, 1997
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Kaye Gibbons is a writer who brings a short story sensibility to her novels. Rather than take advantage of the novel's longer form to paint her visions in broad, sweeping strokes, Gibbons prefers to concentrate on just one corner of ...
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A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club)
Kaye Gibbons
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Vintage
November 5, 1997
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Gibbons's novel, A Virtuous Woman, takes place in the same hardscrabble part of the world as Ellen Foster. The virtuous woman is Ruby Pitt Woodrow, a woman who might have ended up like Ellen Foster's mother if fate, in the ...
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A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
Ernest J. Gaines
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Vintage
September 28, 1997
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had ...
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Songs in Ordinary Time (Oprah's Book Club)
Mary McGarry Morris
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Penguin (Non-Classics)
August 1, 1996
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1997: A dark secret lies at the heart of Mary McGarry Morris's extraordinary novel, Songs in Ordinary Time. Rooted in the delicate web of emotions, lies, and truths that bind people together, the story takes place in the ...
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The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou
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Bantam
May 9, 1997
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1997: Maya Angelou has had more lives than the proverbial cat, and in The Heart of a Woman she continues the account of her remarkable life begun in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In the first book of ...
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The Rapture of Canaan
Sheri Reynolds
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Berkley Books
April 8, 1997
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture--that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted ...
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Stones from the River
Ursula Hegi
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Simon & Schuster
March 1, 1995
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1997: Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River clamors for comparisons to Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum; her protagonist Trudi Montag--like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath--is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars. To its credit, Stones does not ...
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She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb
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Washington Square Press
December 1, 1996
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 1997: "Mine is a story of craving; an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered." So begins the story of Dolores Price, the unconventional heroine of Wally Lamb's She's ...
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