If you liked The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, you might like:
Moran Prairie Library Book Club selection for Thursday, December 10, 2009, at 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Benioff, David | | City of Thieves : a Novel | | When the Germans circled 1941 Leningrad starving its citizens, the author’s grandfather -- then 17-years-old -- heeded the call for every able-bodied man to come to the defense of his country. |
|  | Dunn, Mark | | Ella Minnow Pea : a Novel in Letters | | When the letter "Z" falls from the monument erected to honor the island’s founder, it also disappears from this book, starting a chain of events which threatens the very foundation of the state. |
|  | Fowler, Karen Joy | | The Jane Austen Book Club | | A group of five women and one man, meeting to discuss Jane Austen’s novels, find themselves sharing much more than just book notes and cookies. |
|  | Hanff, Helene | | 84, Charing Cross Road | | For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carry on an increasingly touching correspondence, discussing books, and then sharing family news. |
|  | Kuipers, Alice | | Life on the Refrigerator Door : a Novel in Notes | | Rarely sharing the same space, Claire and her mom often find that the only thing they can count on are notes to each other left on the refrigerator door. |
|  | O’Brien, Tim | | The Things They Carried : a Work of Fiction | | Depicts the men of Alpha Company who fought in Viet Nam -- battling the enemy, isolation, loneliness and fear -- told by a veteran reflecting on what it meant to survive. |
|  | Potok, Chaim | | The Chosen : a Novel | | An accident throws two Jewish boys together in 1940s Brooklyn -- despite their differences they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, and the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge. |
|  | Robinson, Marilynne | | Home | | What does it mean to come home? -- a moving and healing book about family secrets, the passing of generations, and the prodigal son’s return. |
|  | Schlink, Bernhard | | The Reader | | Recounts a German youth’s clandestine affair with an older woman, who inexplicably disappears -- when he sees her next, she’s on trial for a hideous crime, and won’t defend herself. |
|  | Shaara, Jeff | | The Steel Wave : a Novel of World War II | | Chronicles the events of D-Day in Europe, assigning its success to the actions of ordinary soldiers, who combined courage and the ability to improvise when the best laid plans broke down. |
|  | Turtledove, Harry | | The Man with the Iron Heart | | What if V-E Day didn’t end WWII in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance led by the notorious Man with the Iron Heart? |
|  | Zusak, Markus | | The Book Thief | | "Death" narrates a World War II-era story of nine-year-old Liesel, who, taken to live with a German foster family, collects stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends. |
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