Bud Werner Memorial Library Book Club Spring/Summer 2009 View other fabulous newsletters | Read books in your email
The Bastard of Istanbul
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In her second novel written in English, one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale about the tangled histories of two families. From one of Turkeyas most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families
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The Distant Land of My Father
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An unusual father-daughter relationship is chronicled through the daughter's eyes during pre-World War II Shanghai and Los Angeles. Through Anna's memories and her father's journals, readers learn of his fall from charismatic millionaire to tortured prisoner in a story of betrayal and reconciliation that spans two continents.... More...
Kindred (Anniversary)
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This 25th anniversary edition, about a modern black woman who is snatched away to the antebellum South, celebrates a classic work with "much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now" ("Los Angeles Herald Examiner"). A whole new look for the classic novel that has sold over 450,000 copies Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South.... More...
Loving Frank
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Fact and fiction are brilliantly blended in this compelling novel about the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, the wife of a couple whose home Wright built in 1904. "I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by.... More...
The White Tiger
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This rambunctious story of contemporary India shows how religion doesn't create morality, and money doesn't solve every problem--but a person can get what he wants out of life by eavesdropping on the right conversations. Introducing a major literary talent, "The White Tiger" offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.... More...
Hello to the Cannibals
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At the end of the 20th century, Lily Austin is writing a play about the famed British explorer and travel writer Mary Kingsley. Through Kingsley's writings, Lily finds in Kingsley's courage and resourcefulness the inspiration she needs to navigate the complicated waters of intimacy and betrayal, kindness and love.... More...
Lark and Termite
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Phillips's first novel in nine years is a rich, many-layered work. Set in the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, it is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain families.... More...
The Glass Palace
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Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life.... More...
The Darwin Conspiracy
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Fact and fiction become intertwined in this novel that explores the mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin. The narrative unfolds through Darwin's view, that of his youngest daughter, Lizzie, and two scholars. In this riveting new novel, best-selling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure.... More...
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
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A series of reflections and meditations on our relationship to the planet, Chickasaw poet and novelist Hogan's first work of nonfiction includes stories about bats, bees, porcupines, wolves, and caves--tales that honor the spirit of all living things, and which explore the human place in the natural world. More...
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