[Clclist] Random House's Book Group Interest - February

Fri Feb 15 17:17:25 GMT 2008

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February 2008

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In This Issue:

- Spotlight on the contemporary Middle East

- New & Noteworthy for book groups

- This month's featured discussion guide: The Long Run

- Contest! Win a free finished hardcover copy of Sue Miller's new novel, The
Senator's Wife 

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Explore the contemporary Middle East

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With the presidential election fast approaching, the topic of the Middle
East is ubiquitous. Here are a few select books from Random House, Inc. that
are fertile ground for triggering discussion in your reading groups about
everything from war to women's rights to religion in perhaps the world's
most volatile region.

Penned by a key figure in Arab-Israeli peace efforts, The
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Too Promised Land explores the questions of why the US has failed to broker
a solution in the Middle East, what it would take to do so, and why
Americans, after so much failure, should even care.

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Beauty School takes a look at the lives of women in Afghanistan through the
once-misshapen lens of an American hairdresser. 

In two dazzling works of fiction, Alan Drew and Mary Doria Russell explore
the invisible barriers and the secrets of the Middle East. A forbidden
relationship across religions throws a family into turmoil in
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Dreamers of the Day, plainspoken American Agnes Shanklin gets caught in the
midst of historical luminaries and world-altering decisions. 

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This month's newest and most exciting titles for book groups!

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Callanan
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Saints 

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Saints

978-0-385-33697-0 | $13.00 | Bantam | TR

The acclaimed author of The Cloud Atlas returns with a wondrous second
novel. Set in a small beachfront Catholic high school, narrated by a
beautifully complex theology teacher, All Saints is at once a mystery, a
love story, and a powerful rumination on secrets, temptation, and faith.

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Munro 
The View from Castle Rock

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View from Castle Rock

978-1-4000-7792-2 | $14.95 | Vintage | TR 

Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to
rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through
uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hope,
adversity, and wonder. Perhaps Munro's most personal collection yet.

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Kris Radish
Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA 

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978-0-553-80530-7 | $22.00 | Bantam | HC 

>From the bestselling author of The Sunday List of Dreams comes a poignant,
funny, and uplifting novel of a woman at midlife whose search for happiness
within her marriage-and within herself-turns a whole town upside down. 

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Glenda Burgess 
The Geography of Love: A Memoir

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Geography of Love

978-0-7679-2859-5 | $22.95 | Broadway | HC 

Falling in love is arguably the greatest risk and leap of faith any of us
take. There's no guarantee for future happiness, no protection from the ugly
scars of the past, no shield from tragedy--this powerful memoir reminds us
why we bother in the first place.

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Pauline W. Chen
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Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

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978-0-307-27537-0 | $13.95 | Vintage | TR 

Final Exam follows Dr. Pauline Chen over the course of her education and
practice as she struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her
innate sense of empathy and humanity. A meditation on mortality and a superb
addition to the best medical literature of our time.

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Julavits 
The Uses of Enchantment

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Uses of Enchantment

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One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her
Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with
little memory of what happened to her--or at least little that she is
willing to share. Was Mary abducted, or did she fake her disappearance?

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Maragret Atwood 
Moral Disorder

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Disorder

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By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, shocking, and deeply personal, this book
displays Atwood's celebrated storytelling gifts. As the New York Times has
said: "The reader has the sense that Atwood has complete access to her
people's emotional histories, complete understanding of their hearts and
imaginations."

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Gregg Gilmore
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

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Shaye Areheart | HC 

A teenager, determined to escape her small town, packs her bags on her
eighteenth birthday for a new life in Atlanta. But when tragedy brings her
home, she discovers that the importance of a community is greater than she'd
anticipated. 

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by Leo Furey

Good news! The library marketing department at Random House, Inc. will now
be featuring a "Discussion Guide of the Month"! This month we're starting
strong with  <http://www.shambhala.com/thelongrun/> The Long Run by Leo
Furey. 

By day, the boys at the Mount Kildare Orphanage are obedient students, but
when the sun goes down the Dare Klub rules the night: raiding the bakery;
stealing sacramental wine; and talking endlessly about girls, sex, and the
merits of Floyd Patterson versus Willie Mays. The society is their haven.
However, when the Brothers grow suspicious of them, they must find the
courage to stick with it, which they find buried in the most unlikely of
activities: running. Dead Poets Society meets Chariots of Fire in this
classic coming-of-age story. 

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Senator's Wife.
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highly charged, superlative new novel about marriage and forgiveness: Meri's
new neighbor Delia, wife of a notoriously unfaithful senator, keeps a
surprisingly strong and complicated bond with her husband. As newlywed Meri
wonders what keeps them together, she begins to see that Delia's life and
her own are running strangely parallel, both reckoning with the contours and
mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated
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Be entered to win one of a dozen copies when you answer this question: What
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Please email your answer along with your address to library at randomhouse.com
with the suject line, "Senator" for your chance to win. Don't forget to
include your address! (Offer open only to librarians in the U.S.)

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