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Featured books recommended by Oprah's Book Club® 1998
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hours List Price: A 17-year-old pregnant woman, abandoned by her no-good boyfriend, hides out at night in a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma, living there until her baby is born.
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hours List Price: A talented midwife is arrested for murder when she saves a baby by performing a Caesarean section once she believes the mother has died--only to have her assistant insist later that the woman was still very much alive. Told in the mesmerizing voice of the midwife's daughter, Midwives depicts the aftermath of the tragedy.
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hours List Price: After a decade of luxe living in Atlanta, Ava Johnson has returned to tiny Idlewild, Michigan--her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth: Ava has tested positive for HIV. Bur rather than a sorrowful end, her homecoming is a new beginning.
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hours List Price: The character (and narrator) is Dominick Birdsey, a 40-year-old housepainter whose subdued life in his hometown of Three Rivers, Connecticut, is disturbed in 1990 when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic whose condition is complicated by religious mania, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
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hours List Price: An unforgettable novel that shimmers with the wonder and terror of its author's native Haiti. Set in the island's impoverished villages and in New York's Haitian community, this is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then summoned to America. In New York, Sophie discovers that Haiti imposes harsh rules on its own.
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in 24 hours List Price: Repeatedly beaten by her husband, a Brooklyn cop, Fran Benedetto secretly relocates to Florida with her 10-year-old son. As Beth, she starts a new life--complete with job, friends and love interest. It's only a matter of time, of course, before she's found, with heart-wrenching consequences.
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in 24 hours List Price: After 19 years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up and reignites her relationship with Hollis. As her past catches up with her, March discovers the heartbreaking and complex truth about the reckless and romantic love with her childhood sweetheart.
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in 24 hours List Price: In this powerful work--extraordinary for its breathtaking drive, stylistic panache and enlivening moral gravitas--four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the 1970s. Each of singular provenance, they together suggest the vicissitudes of the era--of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the counter-culture, generational conflict. The inexorableness of the attack and efforts to avert it lie at the heart of "Paradise".
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