[CLClist] Random House - Book Group Interest - March

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March 2008

 


 


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In This Issue:

- Spotlight on: Other Press

- New & Noteworthy for book groups

- This month's featured discussion guide: American-Made

- Contest! Win a free advanced copy of Nilita Vachani's new novel, Homespun 

 


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Thought-provoking Summer 2008 titles from Other Press

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As one of the newest members of the Random House Publisher Services group,
Other Press has made a big impression. The books they produce are
consistently original, inspiring, and multi-cultural, pushing their readers
in new directions and into new perspectives.

Which, of course, makes them perfect for reading groups. 

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King of Corsica - The 18th-century rise and fall of a seductive and
opportunistic King-for-a-summer. 
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- A cinematic saga of three generations growing up in modern India.
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the King - Rich and poor clash in this story of the newly wealthy and a
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Comes to America - Secret prisons. Disappearances. An eye-opening look at
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Open Door - An elegantly conceived projected life of remarkable author,
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Parme - Young, Caulfield-esque Julien Parme's not fitting in, so he decides
to get out for a long, hard "night of the soul."

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



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978-0-8129-7714-1 | $14.00 | Random House | TR

In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us
on a journey into the heart of one of American literature's most brutal and
mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply
original tour de force that springs from Twain's classic but takes on a
fully realized life of its own.
An ALA Notable Book

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The Dark Lantern

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978-0-307-39534-4 | $24.95 | Crown | HC

London, 1893. Elderly Mrs. Bentley is on her deathbed, and her son Robert
has returned from France. But in the Bentleys' luxurious home, everyone has
her secrets, including Robert's beautiful and elusive wife, the orphan maid
she hires from the country, and the mysterious young woman claiming to be
the bride of Robert's drowned brother.

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Daniel Mason
A Far Country 

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978-1-4000-3039-2 | $13.95 | Vintage | TR

Fourteen-year-old Isabel was born in a remote village with the gift and
curse of "seeing farther." When drought and war grip the backlands, her
brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming city in the south. Soon
Isabel must follow, forsaking the only home she's ever known, her sole
consolation the thought of being with her brother again.

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Freeman
Go With Me

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978-1-58642-139-7 | $21.95 | Steerforth | HC 

The Vermont hill country is the stark, vivid setting for this tale of daring
and conquest starring Lillian, a young woman from parts elsewhere, who
refuses to back down in the face of threats from the potentially lethal
local villain, Blackway. Her boyfriend has fled the state in fear and local
law enforcement can do nothing. Lillian is determined not only to stand her
ground, but to fight back.

 


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Heathens 

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978-0-553-38424-6 | $12.00 | Bantam | TR 

Growing up on her grandparents' Iowa farm during the depths of the Great
Depression with her father banished from the household for mysterious
transgressions, five-year-old Mildred could easily have been overwhelmed by
the challenge of simply trying to survive. This, however, is not a tale of
suffering.

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Jonathan Coe 
The Rain Before It Falls

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Uses of Enchantment

978-0-307-26803-7 | $23.95 | Knopf | HC 

Evacuated during the Blitz, eight-year-old Rosamond forged a bond with her
cousin that augured the most treasured and devastating moments of her life.
She recorded these memories sixty years later, just before her death, on
cassettes she bequeathed to a woman she hadn't seen in decades. When her
beloved niece plays the tapes in hopes of locating this heir, she instead
hears a family saga swathed in promise and betrayal.

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Smolinski 
The Next Thing on My List

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978-0-307-35129-6 | $13.95 | Three Rivers Press | TR

After a car accident in which her passenger, Marissa, dies, June Parker
finds herself in possession of a list Marissa has written: "20 Things to Do
by My 25th Birthday." To assuage her guilt, June races to achieve each goal
herself before the deadline, learning more about her own life than she ever
bargained for.

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The Summer Book 

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Intense, fleeting, and perfect, Tove Jansson's slender novel is a season
told in episodes in the lives of a six-year-old girl, awakening to
existence, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of hers. The two
traipse over coastline and forest in easy companionship, discussing the
things that matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God
and of love.





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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation To
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by Nick Taylor

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takes us back to the thirties, examining the controversial era of the WPA
and the treasures it has left behind.

If you've traveled the nation's highways, flown into New York's LaGuardia
Airport, strolled San Antonio's River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from
the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have experienced some part of the
legacy of the Works Progress Administration. This is the first history of
one of the most controversial, humane, and enduring programs to come out of
the terrible Depression years of the 1930s: the jobs program, known as the
WPA, that for 8 years restored pride and paychecks to many millions of
hungry, homeless and jobless Americans.

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Spanning three generations, from India's struggle for independence against
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traces the lasting imprints of war and the search for peace at levels that
are both historical and familial. Setting in motion an irreversible chain of
events, a cast of unforgettable characters criss-cross and affect one
another in unlikely ways: a Bombay movie producer with a love for pakoras; a
fighter pilot who never should have been one; a war correspondent who
stumbles upon a disquieting truth; and at the heart of the story, a young
girl on a fractured quest for family.

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, "Homespun" 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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