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Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews (Bookclub in a Box)

by Miriam Toews

Published: 2006-08-30

Paperback: 83 pages

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Discusses the novel, "A Complicated Kindness".

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Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2008-01-17

Perfect Paperback: 83 pages

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Oryx and Crake is a work of speculative fiction by the international literary star, Margaret Atwood. Raised in a science-oriented household, Atwood is no stranger to the curiosities of the natural world and to topics concerning the essence of the universe. It is her extensive knowledge of life, as it...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Abraham Verghese's novel, Cutting for Stone: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders (Book Club in a Box: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders)

by Marilyn Herbert, Carol Verburg

Published: 2011-02-03

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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Cutting For Stone is very simply one of the best books ever written and read. The narrative begins in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when twin boys, Shiva and Marion, are born to a nun (who dies) and a surgeon (who runs away). The babies, conjoined at the head, are successfully separated immediate...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Cutting For Stone, the novel by Abraham Verghese

by Marilyn Herbert, Carol Verburg

Published: 2010-12-01

Perfect Paperback: 79 pages

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Bookclub-in-a-box Discusses Life of Pi, the novel by Yann Martel (Bookclub in a Box Discusses)

by Yann Martel

Published: 2006-09-23

Paperback: 79 pages

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The story of a boy, a boat, and a tiger promises an adventure which some may find hard to believe. However, with the Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion companion to Yann Martel's novel, Life of Pi, readers begin to consider how to believe the unbelievable. While Yann Martel takes readers on a vo...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Middlesex, the Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Bookclub in a Box Discusses)

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Published: 2005-01-01

Paperback: 89 pages

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Transformation, identity, fate, destiny, crime, and punishment are some of the fascinating themes that are unraveled for readers in the Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide for Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Middlesex. The guide looks at the central character Callie, a herm...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Never Let Me Go, the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2008-05-07

Perfect Paperback: 80 pages

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In his haunting and important novel, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro introduces cloned children who grow up with a single purpose: to donate their organs for the benefit of others. The narrator, Kathy H., takes us on detailed and analytical journey starting in her early days at the Hailsh...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Someone Knows My Name (The Book of Negroes) by Lawrence Hill (Book Club in a Box: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders)

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2010-05-03

Perfect Paperback: 88 pages

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The history and terror of black slavery has been well documented in literature and film. Lawrence Hill s new book doesn t lessen the awfulness of the times, but adds a unique human dimension. Hill has created an uplifting and highly educational story about a shameful part of history. The Book of Negroes...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses the Novel

by Audrey Niffenegger

Published: 2006-02-21

Paperback: 77 pages

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Audrey Niffenegger's romantic novel The Time Traveler's Wife tells the tender story of Henry and Clare, a married couple, whose relationship is as unique as is every love affair. Niffenegger takes the concept of time out of the linear sequence that we are familiar with, and turns it inside...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses the Novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2008-02-11

Perfect Paperback: 89 pages

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A Thousand Splendid Suns, the spectacular new novel by Khaled Hosseini, follows on the heels of The Kite Runner, Hosseini's best-selling first novel. This book tells the dramatic story of an unlikely friendship between two women, Mariam and Laila, who are married to the same man. The story takes us...