As part of BPL’s Tackle Twelve promotion, 16 reading challenges have been issued. This week’s blog takes a closer look at ‘Read an Oprah Book Club Selection' and offers up recommendations.
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Spending the years between the age of thirteen and womanhood watching television and eating the junk food her mother provides, wise mouthed and wounded Dolores Price finally decides to give her life a chance.
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The disappearance of her three-year-old son Ben threatens to drive a wedge between Beth Cappadora and her husband, Pat, and transforms her older son into a troubled delinquent. Until one day, nine years later, when Ben comes back into their lives.
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
It’s the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong, yet vulnerable, divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall.
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation’s Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism.
The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest things possible to one another, Little Bill shows him a better way to make friends.
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
A middle-aged woman, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, returns to her small Massachusetts hometown for the funeral of the housekeeper who raised her and finds herself thrust into the lives of the people she left behind.
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors. Green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died of lung cancer.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape, save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food, and each other.
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.
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