Bookclub Selections: Feb 04 to Jul 06

Explore our curated Bookclub Selections from Feb 04 to Jul 06. Discover must-read titles, engaging discussions, and top picks for your next literary adventure!

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Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

Sams local 11-4-2003 $14.95.
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One of Ours

by Willa Cather

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles …
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A Town Like Alice

by Nevil Shute

"A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance." HARPER'S A TOWN LIKE ALICE tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a …
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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, …
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World SOON …
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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the …
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Phantastes

by George Macdonald

Anodos enters a dream-like fairyland of tree-spirits and magic, where he searches for the spirit of the Earth.
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How the Irish Saved Civilization

by Thomas Cahill

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages …
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Personal History

by Katharine Graham

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULTIZER PRIZE WINNER • The captivating inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most …
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Ordinary Wolves

by Seth Kantner

Cutuk Hawcly, a white boy living among the natives of the Alaskan Tundra is torn between the culture of the modern cities where his father …
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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Huxley's story shows a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to …
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The Great Divorce

by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis takes us on a profound journey through both heaven and hell in this engaging allegorical tale. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis …
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Possession

by A. S. Byatt

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating …
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar …
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Paradise of the Blind

 

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Quite a Year for Plums

by Bailey White

Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller …
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Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham’s own career. Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the …
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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

Retells the classic story of an orphaned young woman who accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer.
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The moonstone

 

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