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A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

I have read this book twice, once on my own and once for a book group. Mistry does an amazing job of illustrating the utter misery of living in poverty in India while showing the beauty of...more »

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer was a survivor of the Everest disaster who writes at times with the dispassionate descriptive air of the journalist that he is, but intertwines it with his clearly emotional...more »

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Prayer for Owen Meany

Prayer for Owen Meany

Irving John

This is one of those books that everyone talked about, so I was hesitant to read, thinking it was just some kind of pop trash. Despite the unlikelihood of so much of the story and...more »

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The Devil in the White City:  Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

In the late 1800's, Chicago, the "also-ran" of American cities...always struggling in the shadow of New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, decided to throw its hat in the ring to...more »

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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield

The Thirteenth Tale pulls you in within a few pages. We are readers, so of course when the heroine Margaret Lea is working in her father's shop which is filled with old books is asked to be...more »

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