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After 15 years, Ron Longe's book club recently transformed their traditional meetings into literary events with the author. They create themed menus and invite other book clubs, publishing professionals, and friends to make it a memorable night of fun, networking, and serious discussion.
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Book Jacket Stalin's Children
by Owen Matthews

Paperback (September 2009)
An indelible portrait of Russia over seven decades and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to...
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Book Jacket Home
by Marilynne Robinson

Paperback (September 2009)
Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families,...
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Book Jacket The Blue Star
by Tony Earley

Paperback (August 2009)
Jim Glass has fallen in love with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has...
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Book Jacket Say You're One of Them
by Uwem Akpan

Paperback (July 2009)
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever...
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Nadeem Aslam. Nadeem Aslam discusses his latest book, The Wasted Vigil, explaining how he approached writing a book which tackles some of the most challenging issues today, such as global jihads, martyrdom, and terrorism.
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