Oprah Book Club

TITLE & AUTHOR

Back Roads

19-year-old Harley Altmyer, newly orphaned, must shoulder the burden of caring for three younger sisters and struggle with his growing obsession for the sexy mother of two living just down the road.

Breath, Eyes, Memory

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village in Haiti to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti.

Daughter Of Fortune

ALLENDE, I

Drowning Ruth

Set at the end of World War I, this is a beautifully written mystery, as well as a story of a family love, sibling rivalry, duty, loyalty and a possible murder.

Fall On Your Knees

MACDONALD, A

The sweeping saga of a deeply troubled Nova Scotia family, the Piper clan.

Gap Creek

The gripping story of a young woman's courage in the face of the hardships of 19^th century country life.

Lesson Before Dying

Set in the 1940's, this is a heartbreaking story of friendship between two black men, one condemned to die.

Map Of The World

HAMILTON, J

A drama about a rural American family filled with grief after their child drowns.

Mother Of Pearl

Set in the Deep South in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl vividly brings to life the extraordinary inhabitants of the small town of Petal, Mississippi.

Open House

When Samantha's husband leaves her, she has to reconstruct a life for herself and her son. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. But in order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness.

Pilot’s Wife

When Kathryn Lyon’s husband, Jack, a pilot, is killed in a plane crash, she must deal with her grief while simultaneously discovering that her husband was not the loyal man she thought.

Poisonwood Bible

The story of an American missionary and his family in 1959. A compelling exploration of religion, conscience, imperialist arrogance, and the many paths to redemption.

Stones From The River

At the beginning of WW I, Trudi Montag, a dwarf, is born to an unstable mother and a gentle father in a small Rheinish town. Through the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich into the era following WW II she first struggles with - and later draws strength and wisdom from - her inability to fit into a conformist and repressive society.

Sula

Traces the lives of two black women from their youth in small-town Georgia, through their divergent paths of womanhood to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.

Tara Road

Two women, one from Dublin, one from New England, exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed.

Vinegar Hill

When Ellen Grier and her family return to Holly's Field, Wisconsin, it is not exactly a happy homecoming as her husband, James, has been laid off from his job in Illinois. For the time being, the family has moved in with Ellen's in-laws, Fritz and Mary-Margaret, an unhappy pair who dislike their daughter-in-law almost as much as they despise each other:

We Were The Mulvaneys

Saga about a seemingly ideal family that is suddenly rocked by the date-rape of 16-year-old Marianne Mulvaney. This shattering event brings about an extraordinary journey into 25 years of shameful secrets and despair, culminating in the unforeseen miracles that can bring a family closer together.

Where The Heart Is

17-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation finds herself stranded at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. In this small southwestern town she discovers the hidden treasures of a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people willing to help a homeless, jobless girl.

White Oleander