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61) best way to play

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62) The bluest eye

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Morrison, Toni

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Oprah's book club

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It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

63) The book of Ruth

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Hamilton, Jane

64) The corrections

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Franzen, Jonathan

65) The deep end of the ocean

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Mitchard, Jacquelyn

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The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare—the disappearance of a child—as it explores a family's struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds. Filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life, here is a story of rare power, one that will touch readers' hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one.

66) The good earth

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Buck, Pearl S

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House of Earth trilogy volume 1

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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when...

67) The heart is a lonely hunter

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McCullers, Carson

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Four people in a small Southern mill town find in a mute an answer to the riddles of their lives: tomboy Mick Kelly, growing up with a genius for music and no opportunity to express it; Jake Blount, ranting among half-truths; the disillusioned Negro dreamer, Dr. Copeland; and observing, soft-spoken Biff Brannon. The lives of these four interweave; each gropes for a solution to his problems; each feels that an answer, or at least a kind of inner peace,...

68) The heart of a woman

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Angelou, Maya

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Oprah's book club

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This fourth autobiographical work by Maya Angelou tells of her entry into New York's circle of African-American artists and writers, her involvement in the civil rights movement, and changes in her personal life.

69) meanest thing to say

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70) The measure of a man: a spiritual autobiography

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Poitier, Sidney

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"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite the contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in selfquestioning. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set."

In this luminous memoir, a true American

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71) The pilot's wife: a novel

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Shreve, Anita

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Fortune's Rock Quartet volume 3

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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:...

72) The Poisonwood Bible

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Kingsolver, Barbara

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New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection

"Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver

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73) The rapture of Canaan

Author

Reynolds, Sheri

74) The reader

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Schlink, Bernhard

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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...

75) The road

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McCarthy, Cormac

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger
A father and his son...

76) The story of Edgar Sawtelle: a novel

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A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.

77) The treasure hunt

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Cosby, Bill

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One rainy day while his father listens to his old records, his mother polishes a silver platter, and his brother enjoys his baseball card collection, Little Bill discovers his own treasure, a talent for storytelling.

78) Vinegar Hill

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Ansay, A. Manette

79) We were the Mulvaneys

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Oates, Joyce Carol

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Oprah's book club

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A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace -- there is some question if it was rape -- sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.

80) What looks like crazy on an ordinary day

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Cleage, Pearl