Tag Search: Oprah's Book Club

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel

poppiezoe — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:35:40 +1000

Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: It's gutsy for a debut novelist to offer a modern take on Hamlet set in rural Wisconsin--particularly one in which the young hero, born mute, communicates with people, dogs, and the occasional ghost through his own mix of sign and body language. But David Wroblewski's extraordinary way with language in The Story of Edgar Sawtelle immerses readers in a living, breathing world that is both fantastic and utterly believable.

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

LeBard — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:16:04 +1100

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While I Was Gone (Oprah's Book Club)

LeBard — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:43:46 +1100

Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 2000: In her still startling debut, The Good Mother, Sue Miller explored the premium we put on passion--and the terrible burden it places on a mother and child. Her fourth novel, While I Was Gone, is another study in familial crime and punishment. But this time, her wife and good mother is accessory to more than emotional malfeasance. Jo Becker has everything a woman could desire: a loving spouse, contented children, and a nice dog or two.

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Oprah's Book Club)

LeBard — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:42:25 +1100

In a remarkable debut novel that sizzles with sensuality, crackles with life-affirming energy and moves the reader to laughter and tears, author Pearl Cleage creates a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding. After a decade of luxe living in Atlanta, Ava Johnson has returned to tiny Idlewild, Michigan -- her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth: Ava has tested positive for HIV. Bur rather than a sorrowful end, her homecoming is a new beginning.

We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club)

LeBard — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:41:51 +1100

Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 2001: A happy family, the Mulvaneys. After decades of marriage, Mom and Dad are still in love--and the proud parents of a brood of youngsters that includes a star athlete, a class valedictorian, and a popular cheerleader. Home is an idyllic place called High Point Farm.

A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club)

LeBard — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:40:51 +1100

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 shape of Jack Stokes, hadn't crossed her path. The daughter of prosperous farmers, Ruby runs off with a migrant worker who treats her badly, then abandons her far from home. When she meets Jack, a man 20 years her senior, she's working as a cleaning woman in another prosperous farmer's house.

Vinegar Hill (Oprah's Book Club)

LeBard — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:38:35 +1100

The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 (Oprah's Book Club)

LeBard — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:37:41 +1100

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 baseball card collection. Bill wants something special, too--something that he can call his own. But what does he have?

Tara Road

LeBard — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:36:21 +1100

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. "They laughed and hugged each other.

Sula (Oprah's Book Club)

LeBard — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:35:34 +1100

In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s.