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Savannah
Blues |
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The
19th Wife |
David
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Geraldine
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The
Help |
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Stockett |
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Handmaid's
Tale |
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Atwood |
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The
Reliable Wife |
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Tender
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Three
Cups of Tea |
Greg
Mortenson |
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Dogs
of Babel |
Carolyn
Parkhurst |
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| March |
Crashing
Through |
Robert
Kurson |
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The
Story of Edgar Sawtell |
David
Wroblewski |
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Once
Upon a Day |
Lisa
Tucker |
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| June |
The
Shack |
William
Young |
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| July |
The
Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay |
Michael
Chabon |
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| August |
People
of the Book |
Geraldine
Brooks |
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| September |
Skeletons
at the Feast |
Chris
Bohjalian |
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| October |
Bridge
of Sighs |
Richard
Russo |
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| November |
Children
of God |
Mary
Doria Russell |
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| December |
The
Guernsey Literacy & Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary
Ann Schaffer |
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| January |
The
Alchemist |
Paulo
Coelho |
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| February |
Suite
Francaise |
Irene
Nemirovsky |
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| March |
The
Tender Bar |
JR
Moehringer |
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| April |
Lady
Killer |
Lisa
Scottoline |
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| May |
The
Last Days of Dogtown |
Anita
Diamant |
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| June |
Eat
Pray Love |
Elizabeth
Gilbert |
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| July |
Zorro |
Isabel
Allende |
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| August |
The
Double Bind |
Chris
Bohjalian |
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| September |
Of
Men and Their Mothers |
Mameve
Medwed |
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| October |
The
Ride of Our Lives |
Mike
Leonard |
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| November |
Brave
New World |
Aldous
Huxley |
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| December |
Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa
See |
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| January |
Memory
Keeper's Daughter |
Kim
Edwards |
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| February |
Running
With Scissors |
Augusten
Burroughs |
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| March |
The
Blind Side, Evolution of a Game |
Michael
Lewis |
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| April |
Water
for Elephants |
Sara
Gruen |
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| May |
The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Muriel
Spark |
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| June |
The
Glass Castle |
Jeanette
Walls |
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| July |
Post
Secrets |
Frank
Warren |
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| August |
The
Thirteenth Tale |
Diane
Setterfield |
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| September |
High
Spirits |
Dianne
Salerni |
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| October |
Dreams
of My Father |
Barack
Obama |
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| November |
The
Higher Power of Lucky |
Susan
Patron |
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| December |
The
Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
Agatha
Christie |
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| January |
The
Devil in the White City |
Erik
Larson |
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| February |
Atonement |
Ian
McEwan |
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The
Sparrow |
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| April |
Namesake |
Jhumpa
Lahiri |
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| May |
Blindsighted |
Karin
Slaughter |
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My
Sister's Keeper |
Jodi
Piccoult |
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| August |
The
Other Boleyn Girl |
Philippa
Gregory |
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| September |
Broken
For You |
Stephanie
Kallos |
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| October |
The
Wild Girl |
Jim
Fergus |
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| November |
Dick
Whittington's Cat |
Alan
Armstrong |
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| December |
The
Things They Carried |
Tim
O'Brian |
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The
Last Girls |
Lee
Smith |
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| June |
Kite
Runner |
Khaled
Hosseini |
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| July |
Number
1 Ladies Detective Agency |
Alexander
Smith |
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| August |
The
Virgin Blues |
Tracy
Chevalier |
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| September |
East
of Eden |
John
Steinbeck |
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| January |
Three
Junes |
Julia
Glass |
2002
Pantheon |
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| February |
I
Capture the Castle |
Dodie
Smith |
2003
pprbk St. Martin's Press |
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| March |
The
DaVinci Code |
Dan
Brown |
2003
Doubleday |
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| April |
Bel
Canto |
Ann
Patchett |
2001
HarperCollins |
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| May |
Empire
Falls |
Richard
Russo |
2001
Knopf |
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| June |
The Adventures of Flash Jackson |
William
Kowalski |
2003
HarperCollins |
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| July |
The
Crimson Petal and the White |
Michael
Faber |
2002
Harcourt |
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| August |
The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night |
Mark
Haddon |
2003
Doubleday |
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| September |
The
Book Borrower |
Author Conference Call: Alice Mattison (call
did not take place) |
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| October |
Reading
Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
Azar
Nafisi |
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| November |
The
Tale of Despereaux |
Kate
DiCamillo |
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| December |
Gift
Exchange |
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| January |
Chester County Book Company |
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| February |
The
Good Journey |
Micaela
Gilcrest |
2001
Simon & Schuster |
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| March |
Bee
Season |
Myla
Goldberg |
2000
Doubleday |
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| April |
Dive
From Clausen Pier |
Ann
Packer |
2002
Knopf |
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| May |
Our
Lady of the Lost and Found |
Diane
Schoemperlen |
2001
HarperFlamingo |
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| June |
Lovely
Bones |
Alice
Sebold |
2002
Little Brown |
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| July |
Mrs. Dalloway The Hours |
Virginia Woolf Michael Cunningham |
2002 Harcourt Brace (1925) 2000 pprbk Picador |
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| August |
forever
|
Pete
Hamill |
2002
Little Brown |
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| September |
Balzac
and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
Dai
Sijie |
2001
Knopf |
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| October |
Personal
History |
Katharine
Graham |
1997
Knopf |
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| November |
2003 Newbery Award and Honor books Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
Avi |
2003
Hyperion |
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| December |
Peace
Like a River |
2001
Grove/Atlantic |
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| January |
Girl In Hyacinth Blue Girl with the Pearl Earring |
Susan Vreeland Tracy Chevalier |
1999 MacMurray & Beck 1999 Dutton |
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| February |
Frank
McCourt lecture and discussion |
Frank
McCourt |
---- |
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| March |
Killing
Pablo |
Mark
Bowden |
2001
Grove/Atlantic |
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| April |
The
Professor and the Madman |
Simon
Winchester |
1998
Harper Collins |
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| May |
One
Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd |
Jim
Fergus |
1998
St. Martin's Press |
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| June |
The
Bonesetter’s Daughter |
Amy
Tan |
2001
Putnam |
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| July |
The
Book Borrower |
Alice
Mattison |
1999
Morrow William |
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| August |
Pillars
of the Earth |
Ken
Follet |
1989
Morrow William |
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| September |
Lesson
Before Dying |
Ernest
J. Gaines |
1997
Sagebrush |
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| October |
In
the Heart of the Sea - The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex |
Nathaniel
Philbrick |
2000
Viking |
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| November |
2002
Newbery Award and Honor books A Single Shard |
Linda
Sue Park |
2001
Houghton Mifflin |
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| December |
A
Tree Grows in Brookland |
Betty
Smith |
1947
Harper Collins |
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| January |
Bridget
Jones’s Diary |
Helen
Fielding |
1998
Viking |
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| February |
The
Greatest Generation |
Tom
Brokaw |
1998
Random House |
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| March |
D.
W. Cross lecture (Pope Joan) |
Donna
Woolfolk Cross |
---- |
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| April |
Plainsong |
Kent
Haruf |
1999
Knopf |
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| May |
Pull
of the Moon |
Elizabeth
Berg |
1996
Random House |
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| June |
The
Saving Graces: A Novel |
Patricia
Gaffney |
1999
HarperCollins |
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| July |
Eddie’s
Bastard |
William
Kowalski |
1999
HarperCollins |
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| August |
We
Were the Mulvanys |
Joyce
Carol Oates |
2001
Dutton |
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| September |
The
Red Tent |
Anita
Diamant |
1997
St. Martin's Press |
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| October |
Plain
Truth |
Jodi
Picoult |
2000
Simon & Schuster |
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| November |
2001
Newbery Award and Honor books A Year Down Yonder |
Richard
Peck |
2000
Dial |
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| December |
Book
Exchange |
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| January |
Biographies
of Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| February |
A
Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail |
Bill
Bryson |
1998
Broadway |
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| March |
On
the Occasion of My Last Afternoon |
Kaye
Gibbons |
1998
Putnam |
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| April |
Ann
Tyler books |
Ann
Tyler |
---- |
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| May |
A
Map of the World |
Jane
Hamilton |
1999
pprbck 1st Anchor |
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| June |
Joyce
Carol Oates short stories |
Joyce
Carol Oates |
---- |
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| July |
I
Know this Much is True |
Wally
Lamb |
1998
HarperCollins |
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| August |
Legal
Tender |
Lisa
Scottoline |
1997
pprbk HarperCollins |
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| September |
Tuesdays
with Morrie |
Mitch
Albom |
1997
Bantam Doubleday Dell |
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| October |
Chester
County Book Company |
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---- |
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| November |
2000
Newbery Award and Honor books Bud, Not Buddy |
Christopher
Curtis |
1999
Bantam Doubleday Dell |
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| December |
Outlander |
Diana
Gabaldon |
1992
pprbk Bantam Doubleday Dell |
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of Book |
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| January |
Under
the Tuscan Sun: At Home In Italy |
Frances
Mayes |
1996
Chronicle |
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| February |
A
Civil Action |
Jonathan
Harr |
1996
Sagebrush |
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| March |
The
Vanished Child |
Sarah
Smith |
1992
Ballentine |
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| April |
The
Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother |
James
McBride |
1996
Riverhead |
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| May |
Black
Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War |
Mark
Bowden |
1999
Grove/Atlantic |
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| June |
Memoirs
of a Geisha |
Arthur
Golden |
1997
Random House |
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| July |
The
Reader |
Bernhard
Schlink |
1999
pprbk trans. Random House |
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| August |
Boys
Life |
Robert
McCammon |
1992
pprbk reprint Simon & Schuster |
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| September |
Poisonwood
Bible |
Barbara
Kingsolver |
1998
HarperCollins |
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| October |
Where
the Heart Is |
Billie
Letts |
1998
Warner |
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| November |
1999
Newbery Award and Honor books
Holes |
Louis
Sacher |
1998 Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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| December |
The
Pilot’s Wife |
Anita
Shreve |
1998
Time Warner |
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of Book |
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| January |
From
Time to Time |
Jack
Finney |
1995
Simon & Schuster |
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| February |
Angela's
Ashes: A Memoir |
Frank
McCourt |
1996
Simon & Schuster |
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| March |
The
Black Dog of Fate: The Legacy of Genocide in an American Family |
Peter
Balakian |
1997
HarperCollins |
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| April |
Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
Rebecca
Wells |
1996
HarperCollins |
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| May |
Pope
Joan |
Donna
Woolfolk Cross |
1997
Random House |
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| June |
Like
Water for Chocolate |
Laura
Esquivel |
1992
Doubleday |
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| July |
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| August |
The
Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea |
Sebastian
Junger |
1997
Norton |
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| September |
A
Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
Michael
Dorris |
1987
Henry Holt |
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| October |
Cold
Mountain |
Charles
Frazier |
1998
Sagebrush |
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| November |
1998
Newbery Award and Honor books Out of the Dust |
Karen
Hesse |
1997
Scholastic |
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| December |
Nicholas
and Alexandra theme night |
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of Book |
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| January |
Before
and After |
Rosellen
Brown |
1992
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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| February |
Bookman’s
Wake |
John
Dunning |
1995
Simon & Schuster |
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| March |
Waiting
to Exhale |
Terry
McMillan |
1995
Sagebrush |
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| April |
The
Shipping News |
J.
Annie Proulx |
1999
Simon & Schuster |
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| May |
The
Joy Luck Club |
Amy
Tan |
1989
Putnam |
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| June |
The
Deep End of the Ocean |
Jacquelyn
Mitchard |
1996
Viking |
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| July |
The
Killer Angels |
Michael
Shaara |
1974
Mckay, David |
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| August |
The
Mists of Avalon |
Marion
Zimmer Bradley |
1983
Knopf |
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| September |
She’s
Come Undone |
Wally
Lamb |
1992
Simon & Schuster |
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| October |
Midnight
in the Garden Of Good and Evil |
John
Berendt |
1994
Random House |
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| November |
1997
Newbery Award and Honor books A View From Saturday |
E.L.
Konigsburg |
1996
Simon & Schuster |
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| December |
Bean Trees Pigs in Heaven short stories |
Barbara
Kingsolver |
1998 Harper Collins 1993 Harper Collins
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| February |
Charms
for the Easy Life |
Kaye
Gibbons |
1993
Putnam |
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| March |
The
Silent Angel |
Heinrich
Boll |
1994
St. Martin's Press |
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| April |
Animal
Dreams |
Barbara
Kingsolver |
1997
Buccaneer |
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| May |
Beloved |
Toni
Morrison |
1998
Knopf |
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| June |
A
Thousand Acres |
Jane
Smiley |
1991
Knopf |
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| July |
The
Stories of Eva Luna |
Isabel
Allende |
1999
Scribner |
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| August |
Devil
in a Blue Dress |
Walter
Mosley |
1990
Norton |
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| September |
Turtle
Moon |
Alice
Hoffmen |
1992
Putnam |
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| October |
Snow
Falling on Cedars |
David
Guterson |
1994
Harcourt |
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| November |
The
Horse Whisperer |
Nicholas
Evans |
1995
Dellacorte Press |
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| December |
book
share and wine tasting |
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