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Say You're One of Them (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Akpan, Uwem

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: September 2009

Seller ID: 138507

ISBN: 0316086371

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances.

A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle's attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees-a microcosm of today's Africa-a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a treacherous rid...
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The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Washington Square Press: September 2004

Seller ID: 108278

ISBN: 0743272935

Condition: Used - Good

Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one family's shifting fortunes.

Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang ...
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Great Expectations (English Library)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: December 1965

Seller ID: 95881

ISBN: 0140430032

Condition: Used - Good

This endearing tale of Pip and the mysterious fortune that changes his life will be in theaters this fall from 20th Century Fox/Knickerbocker Films, starring Robert DeNiro, Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Anne Bancroft.
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A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Dover Publications: March 1999

Seller ID: 130371

ISBN: 0486406512

Condition: Used - Good

It was the time of the French Revolution -- a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds.
Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It would seem that they could take up the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it though, th...
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House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries)

By: Dubus, Andre

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: November 2000

Seller ID: 43419

ISBN: 0375727345

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: October 1990

Seller ID: 129697

ISBN: 067973225X

Condition: Used - Good

"I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall." --William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members--including Addie herself--as well as others the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential nove...
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A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Vintage: June 2005

Seller ID: 136458

ISBN: 0307275329

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a special reader's guide with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey.

Titles include:
As I Lay Dying
This novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members-including Addie herself-the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Originally published in 1930.

The Sound and the Fury
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "hea...
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White Oleander: A Novel

By: Fitch, Janet

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: September 2001

Seller ID: 138510

ISBN: 0316182540

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Gibbons, Kaye

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: November 1997

Seller ID: 138508

ISBN: 0375703063

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.

Kaye Gibbons's first novel, Ellen Foster, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters...
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The Book of Ruth

By: Hamilton, Jane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor Books: January 1990

Seller ID: 132826

ISBN: 0385265700

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Awardfor best first novel, this exquisite bookconfronts real-life issues of alienation and violencefrom which the author creates a stunning testamentto the human capacity for mercy, compassion andlove."
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A Map of the World: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Hamilton, Jane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor: December 1999

Seller ID: 134559

ISBN: 0385720106

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives.

The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, and their little girls, Emma and Claire, live on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Although suspiciously regarded by their neighbors as "that hippie couple" because of their well-educated, urban background, Howard and Alice believe they have found a source of emotional strength in the farm, he tending the barn while Alice works as a nurse in the local elementary school.

But the...
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Mother of Pearl

By: Haynes, Melinda

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hyperion: June 1999

Seller ID: 120909

ISBN: 0786866276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Marking the debut of a stunning new literary talent, Mother of Pearl captures the irony and beauty of life in the Deep South in exquisite prose that brings to mind Kaye Gibbons and Olive Ann Burns. But Haynes creates a wholly distinctive new style by drawing on her own Southern roots and the "noble county" language of her youth in this remarkable first novel.

Set in a small Mississippi town in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl is populated by wonderfully rich and original characters with themes of identity and the true meaning of family interwoven throughout. The story revolves around twenty-e...
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Mother of Pearl

By: Haynes, Melinda

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hyperion: June 1999

Seller ID: 137150

ISBN: 0786866276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Lamb, Wally

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: June 1998

Seller ID: 17981

ISBN: 0671021001

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to t...
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I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Lamb, Wally

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Harper: December 2003

Seller ID: 107578

ISBN: 0061097640

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club( pick is now in mass market paperback. This spellbinding novel of responsibility and family, betrayal and redemption is an exquisitely written, profoundly human masterpiece.
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Jewel

By: Lott, Bret

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pocket: December 1999

Seller ID: 138634

ISBN: 0671042572

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel and her husband are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary Am...
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Fall on Your Knees

By: MacDonald, Ann-Marie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: July 1997

Seller ID: 131555

ISBN: 0099740516

Condition: Used - Good

A story of four sisters tied by inescapable family bonds, of miracles, terrible secrets, attempted murder and an extraordinary love affair. The settings range from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battlefields of World War I, to the emerging jazz scene of New York City.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

By: McCullers, Carson

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mariner: April 2004

Seller ID: 138410

ISBN: 0618526412

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane...
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Gap Creek: A Novel

By: Morgan, Robert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books: January 2000

Seller ID: 133885

ISBN: 1565122968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick

Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.

But Julie and Hank's new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it's hard to tell what to fear most...
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Songs in Ordinary Time (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Morris, Mary McGarry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: August 1996

Seller ID: 138505

ISBN: 0140244824

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelve isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the...
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Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Morrison, Toni

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Plume: September 1987

Seller ID: 138418

ISBN: 0452260116

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Back Roads (Oprah's Book Club)

By: O'Dell, Tawni

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Adult: March 2000

Seller ID: 26423

ISBN: 0670894184

Condition: Used - Good

Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Paton, Alan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Scribner: September 2003

Seller ID: 80550

ISBN: 0743262174

Condition: Used - Good

An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his ...
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Black and Blue: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Quindlen, Anna

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dell: March 1999

Seller ID: 2703

ISBN: 0440226104

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Shreve, Anita

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 1999

Seller ID: 138506

ISBN: 0316601950

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-m...
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Night

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $2.75

Publisher: Bantam Books: November 1987

Seller ID: 131762

ISBN: 0553272535

Condition: Used - Good

"Night" -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as "The Diary Of Anne Frank," "Night" awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
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