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Vinegar Hill [Oprah's Picks]

By: A Manette Ansay

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Avon: 1998

Seller ID: 0030224

ISBN: 0380730138

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine--where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service...
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Cry the Beloved Country (Oprah's Picks)

By: Alan Paton

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Scribner: 2003

Seller ID: 0019710

ISBN: 0743262174

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his ...
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Here On Earth (Oprah's Pick)

By: Alice Hoffman

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Berkley Trade: 1998

Seller ID: 0043907

ISBN: 0425167313

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

A seductive and mesmerizing story of obsessive love from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.
After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis--the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her--the past collides with the present as their reckless love is reignited. This dark romantic tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you completely. The a...
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The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Picks)

By: Anita Shreve

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Little Brown And Company: 2001

Seller ID: 0001802

ISBN: 0316788228

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-m...
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The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Picks)

By: Anita Shreve

Price: $9.48

Publisher: Back Bay: 2008

Seller ID: 0009446

ISBN: 0316601950

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-m...
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The Pilot's Wife

By: Anita Shreve

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Back Bay: 1998

Seller ID: 0142093

ISBN: 0316303054

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-m...
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Fall On Your Knees (Oprah's Picks)

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Seal: 2003

Seller ID: 0042753

ISBN: 0770429378

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

What a wild ride -- I couldn't turn the pages fast enough, Oprah Winfrey told her viewers as she announced Fall on Your Knees as her February 2002 Book Club selection. Set largely in a Cape Breton coal mining community called New Waterford, ranging through four generations, Ann-Marie MacDonald's dark, insightful and hilarious first novel focuses on the Piper sisters and their troubled relationship with their father, James. Winner of the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, it was a national bestseller in Canada for two years, and it has been translated into 17 languages.
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Black and Blue (Oprah's Picks)

By: Anna Quindlen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dell Publishing: 1999

Seller ID: 0000726

ISBN: 0440226104

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

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The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie (Oprah's Picks)

By: Ayana Mathis

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Vintage: 2013

Seller ID: 0108742

ISBN: 0307949702

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

A New York Times Notable Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year

In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build a better life. Instead she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment, and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins are lost to an illness that a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit, mettle, and not an ounce of the tenderness ...
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie [Oprah's Pick]

By: Ayana Mathis

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Harper Collins: 2012

Seller ID: 0120736

ISBN: 1443410764

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Picks)

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper Collins: 1999

Seller ID: 0034139

ISBN: 0060930535

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the Belgian Congo -- a place, he is sure, where he can save needy souls. But the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within this complex culture. Set against one of the most dramatic political events of the twentieth century -- the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium and its devastating consequences -- here is "New York Times-bestselling author Barbara Kingslover's beautiful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable epic that chronicles the disintegration of family and a nation.
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The Reader (Oprah's Picks)

By: Bernhard Schlink

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Vintage: 1998

Seller ID: 0030532

ISBN: 0375707972

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be gu...
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Where The Heart Is (Oprah's Picks)

By: Billie Letts

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Grand Central: 2015

Seller ID: 0132240

ISBN: 1455535117

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in this small Southwest town--a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people willing to help a homeless, jobless girl living secretly in a Wal-Mart. From Bible-thumping blue-haired Sister Thelma Husband to eccentric librarian Forney Hull who loves Novalee more than she loves herself, they are about to take her...
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Jewel (Oprah's Picks)

By: Bret Lott

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Washington Square Press: 1992

Seller ID: 0013154

ISBN: 0671038184

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass.
In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome.
In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity a...
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Picks)

By: Carson McCullers

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Mariner: 2000

Seller ID: 0016462

ISBN: 0618526412

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane...
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Great Expectations (Oprah's Picks)

By: Charles Dickens

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Dover: 2001

Seller ID: 0067446

ISBN: 0486453987

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

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A Tale Of Two Cities (Oprah's Picks)

By: Charles Dickens

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Scholastic: 1965

Seller ID: 0079683

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

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Midwives (Oprah's Picks)

By: Chris Bohjalian

Price: $11.48

Publisher: Vintage: 1998

Seller ID: 0038452

ISBN: 0375706771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

A contemporary classic that has sold more than two million copies and was a selection of Oprah's original Book Club, Midwives is a compulsively readable novel that explores questions of human responsibility that are as fundamental to our society now as they were when the book was first published twenty years ago.

On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a seasoned midwife named Sibyl Danforth takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency cesarean section on a mother she believes has died of stroke. But what if--as...
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Drowning Ruth (Oprah's Picks)

By: Christina Schwarz

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Doubleday: 2000

Seller ID: 0033560

ISBN: 038549971X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

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Drowning Ruth (Oprah's Picks)

By: Christina Schwarz

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books: 2001

Seller ID: 0078809

ISBN: 0345439104

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

"POWERFUL . . . SUSPENSEFUL . . . RICHLY TEXTURED . . . A] CHILLING, PRECOCIOUSLY GOOD START TO A BRIGHT NEW NOVELIST'S CAREER."
-The New York Times

" A] gripping psychological thriller . . . In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. . . . Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time, the narrative gradually and tantalizingly reveals the dark family secrets a...
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