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1999
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A Map of the
World by Jane Hamilton ~
In this superb 1994 novel, a toddler's accidental drowning
shatters a quiet Midwestern community--and saddles
Hamilton's heroine with a series of truly biblical
tribulations.
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Vinegar
Hill by A. Manette Ansay ~
Set in a Wisconsin hamlet, Vinegar Hill explores the
mysteries of small-town life, the deep scars of familial
cruelty, and one woman's tenacious struggle for redemption. ~
Other books by A. Manette Ansay
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October 1999
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River, Cross My
Heart
by Breena Clarke ~
River, Cross My Heart is set in the African American
community of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., circa
1925. Clarke's debut is a superb piece of storytelling--and
a powerful meditation on tragedy and redemption.
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September 1999
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Tara
Road
by Maeve Binchy ~
Maeve Binchy's Tara Road is a deeply satisfying big-canvas
novel that revolves around two newlyweds who buy a Victorian
fixer-upper on a shabby Dublin street--and are surprised to
see how their new digs transform the entire neighborhood.
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June 1999
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Mother of
Pearl
by Melinda Haynes ~
Mother of Pearl, the moving debut novel by Melinda Haynes,
is a deep-focus portrait of a tiny Mississippi town, circa
1956. In musical, memorable prose, Haynes animates an entire
community--and shares more than a few of its secrets with
the reader.
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May 1999
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White
Oleander
by Janet Fitch ~
White Oleander is the stunning debut novel by Janet Fitch
about a teenage girl's search for her identity. With her
headstrong mother serving a life sentence in prison, Astrid
Magnussen must learn to survive on her own, and this story
brilliantly traces her journey from the streets through a
series of foster homes and ultimately to a greater
understanding of life. Hardcover - 390 pages (May 6, 1999)
Little Brown & Company;
Other Editions: Paperback,
Audio
Cassette (Abridged), Large
Print
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April 1999
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The Pilot's
Wife
by Anita
Shreve ~
When a plane piloted by her husband crashes off the coast of
Ireland, Kathryn Lyons's life goes into a tailspin. Her
grief turns to shock, however, when she begins hunting for
clues about the cause of the disaster and discovers that her
husband was not the man she knew, in Anita Shreve's gripping
novel, The Pilot's Wife. Paperback
- 293 pages (March 31, 1999)
Little Brown & Co;
Other Editions: Hardcover,
Audio
Cassette (Abridged), Audio
Cassette (Unabridged), Large
Print; Other books
by Anita
Shreve: The
Weight of Water
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March 1999
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The
Reader by
Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
(Paperback - March 1999) Editions: Hardcover
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Cassette (Abridged) | Paperback
(Large Print) | Digital
(Microsoft Reader) | Digital
(Adobe Reader) Oprah Book Club® Selection,
February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully
translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The
Readeris a
brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael
Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an
enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she
disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror,
he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past,
and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As
Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question:
What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We
should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not
compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion,
shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"
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February 1999
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Jewel
by Bret Lott ~
This baby you be carrying be yo' hardship, be yo' test in
this world. Pregnant with her sixth and last child, Jewel
Hilburn discounts a childhood friend's dire prophecy. But
when Brenda Kay is born with Down syndrome, the Hilburn
family discovers that this special child is both a challenge
and a joy, in Bret Lott's Jewel, an extraordinary novel of
family love.
Paperback
- 358 pages (January 19, 1999)
Other Editions: Hardcover,
Audio
Cassette (Abridged)
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January 1999
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Where the Heart
Is
by Billie Letts ~
Seventeen years old, seven months pregnant, 37 pounds
overweight--Novalee Nation, the protagonist of Billie
Letts's novel Where the Heart Is, has never had much luck
with the number seven. But when her boyfriend abandons her
in the parking lot of an Oklahoma Wal-Mart, Novalee's luck
begins to change as she discovers that friends, family, and
a future are always where the heart is.
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