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To discuss:December 16 to December 31st 2001

Book Synopsis

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Paperback - 295 pages
Bantam Classics; ISBN: 0553213105

Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character, who if provoked is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp -- but always polite -- 18th century wit. The point is, you spend the whole book absolutely fixated on the critical question: will Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy hook up?

To discuss: January 1st - 15th 2001

Book Synopsis

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon

by Billie Letts

Paperback - 305 pages
Warner Books; ISBN: 0446675059
From the award-winning author of "Where the Heart Is" comes the story of a down-and-out cafe owner, Caney, who opens his restaurant after returning from Vietnam in a wheelchair. Then one day Vena Takes Horse, a vibrant young women, enters the cafe, changes the lives of the regulars forever, and, eventually, captures Caney's heart.
Subject: Fiction-General


To discuss: January 16th - 31st 2002

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A Painted House

by John Grisham

Mass Market Paperback - 496 pages
Dell Island Books; ISBN: 044023722X
Hardcover - 388 pages
Doubleday; ISBN: 038550120X
Lucas Chandler is a seven-year-old boy who lives in an unpainted house on an Arkansas farm with his parents and grandparents in the early 1950s. He loves Coca-Cola, baseball, and the St. Louis Cardinals, and he plans on using the money he earns picking cotton to buy a shiny baseball jacket from the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Soon after the hired crews of Mexicans and "hill people" arrive to help pick the Chandler family's 80 acres of cotton, Lucas sees things that cause him to lose his innocence much earlier than he should and long for the days when he did not have to keep secrets or worry about his and his family's safety. Legal thriller master Grisham changes direction with this lawyer-free coming-of-age novel, and the results are stunning. Featuring vivid descriptions, bits of humor, and a thrilling pace, this is a suspenseful and satisfying read.
Subject: Fiction-General


To discuss: February 1st - 15th 2002

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The Cider House Rules

by John Irving

Mass Market Paperback - 598 pages
Ballantine Books; ISBN: 0345387651
Hardcover - 571 pagess
Modern Library; ISBN: 0679603352
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.

Subject: Fiction-General


To discuss: February 16th - 28th 2002

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Pope Joan

by Donna Woolfolk Cross

Paperback - 422 pages
Ballantine Books (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0345416260
There are few historical heroines as fascinating and controversial as Pope Joan, a woman whose hunger for knowledge and independent nature led her to pass as a man and ultimately to attain the high seat in Rome. Pope Joan is a spellbinding tale of a woman who gave up everything, even her very name, for the sake of knowledge.

Subject: Fiction-Historical


To discuss: March 1st - 15th 2002

Book Synopsis

Firefly Beach

by Luanne Rice

Mass Market Paperback - 378 pagess
BBantam Books; ISBN: 0553573209
The daughters of hard-drinking, womanizing, Hemingwayesque artist Hugh Renwick are traumatized by two bloody deaths. When she was five years old, Caroline was standing next to the husband of Hugh's mistress when he shot himself. Intent on protecting his girls, Hugh taught them to hunt and fish, bringing about the second devastating death when Skye shot and killed a young man thinking he was a deer. Years later Skye, a talented sculptor, is an alcoholic and an abused wife. Caroline, who has never married, runs an inn that caters to an artsy crowd. Her life is turned upside down when Dr. Joe Conner, a treasure hunting oceanographer and the son of the man who committed suicide, turns up. As a girl she had felt a deep connection to him, and now they must struggle to make peace with the past. Rice, usually published in hardcover, does a masterful job of telling this powerful story of love and reconciliation.

Subject: Fiction - General


To discuss: March 16th - 31st 2002

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Sister of My Heart

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Paperback - 322 pages
Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap); ISBN: 038548951X
From the bestselling author of "The Mistress of Spices" comes a passionate novel about the extraordinary bond between two sisters and the family secrets, jealousies, and loves that threaten to tear them apart

Subject: Fiction-General


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