OPRAH BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following Talking Books are listed in the Oprah Book Club.  They are available and may be ordered through the Lee County Talking Books Library.  We will keep you informed of new titles as they become available.

RC 49253: Gap Creek
Author: Morgan, Robert
Julie Harmon, seventeen, can butcher a hog, split a log, and plant a crop; and she watched her brother and father die. When she marries Hank Richards, eighteen, and moves to Gap Creek, South Carolina, she finds some happiness but still faces hard work and sorrow. Some descriptions of sex.

RC 48532: The Pilot's Wife
Author: Shreve, Anita
While Kathryn Lyons is first mourning her pilot husband Jack's death in a plane explosion, she learns that he is suspected of planting the bomb. After finding out there was another woman in his life, Kathryn confronts her in London to solve the puzzle of Jack's hidden self.

RC 47670: Tara Road
Author: Binchy, Maeve
In Ireland, Ria's marriage falls apart when her husband leaves her for his pregnant girlfriend; in Connecticut, Marilyn, unable to cope with her son's death, separates from her husband. A phone call sets in motion a swapping of houses for the summer and the chance for each woman to rediscover herself.

RC 47380: Where The Heart Is
Author: Letts, Billie
Novalee Nation is seventeen and seven months pregnant when her boyfriend abandons her at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. While living in the store, Novalee befriends many of the town's quirky residents who help her out after her baby is born.

RC 47250: Midwives
Author: Bohjalian, Chris
When complications arise during a home birth, an ice storm and downed telephone lines prevent midwife Sibyl from getting Charlotte to a hospital. Charlotte stops breathing and, desperate to save the baby, Sibyl performs a cesarean. But she is later arrested and tried for murder.

RC 46772: The Reader
Author: Schlink, Bernhar
As a teenager in Germany, Michael Berg meets an older woman who becomes his first lover. Frau Hanna Schmitz always has him read to her when he visits. She disappears one day, but he encounters her at a trial for Nazi prison guards years later when he is in law school.

RC 46770: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Author : Cleage, Pearl
Ava had long ago traded her small-town life in Idlewild, Michigan, to be part of the successful crowd in Atlanta. Now, newly diagnosed with HIV, Ava has returned to Idlewood for a short visit. Soon caught up in her sister's good deeds, Ava slowly realizes she's falling in love with a much-changed family.

RC 46124: I Know This Much is True
Author : Lamb, Wally
Thomas Birdsey, a man with schizophrenia, walks into a Connecticut Public Library, prays to God, and then cuts off his right hand. The act changes his life and that of Dominick, his twin brother. Searching for his identity, Dominick struggles with being his brother's keeper and with his own survival.

 

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