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New: 2010 Book Club Recommendations for the Book Divas of Hayward (by Bev)

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The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)

By Yoko Ogawa
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312427801
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Published: Picador, 02/01/2009

Tender story of creating family. Sparse and beautiful writing with characters to love. If novels could be Haiku, it’d sound like this writing.

The Help (Hardcover)

By Kathryn Stockett
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780399155345
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Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 02/01/2009

Driftless (Paperback)

By David Rhodes
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781571310682
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Published: Milkweed Editions, 05/01/2009

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Paperback)

By Stieg Larsson
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307454546
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Published: Vintage, 06/01/2009

Hannah's Dream (Paperback)

By Diane Hammond
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780061568251
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Published: Harper Paperbacks, 09/01/2008

Animals as main characters have been a popular genre lately. Add an elephant as that character and it takes on new life. Honest, beautifully written with economy of words. For those who like a well-told story that won’t disturb your sleep. 

The Moonflower Vine (Paperback)

By Jetta Carleton
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061673238
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Published: Harper Perennial, 04/01/2009

The Whistling Season (Paperback)

By Ivan Doig
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780156031646
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Published: Mariner Books, 05/01/2007

My Antonia (Paperback)

By Willa Cather, Murphy, Ph.D., D.D., Joseph (Introduction by), W. T. Benda (Illustrator)
$9.95
ISBN-13: 9780140187649
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Published: Penguin Classics, 01/01/1994

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)

By Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (Translator)
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781933372600
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Published: Europa Editions, 09/01/2008

Olive Kitteridge: Fiction (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Strout
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780812971835
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 10/01/2008

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)

By Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780385341004
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 05/01/2009

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)

By Diane Ackerman
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780393333060
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 09/01/2008

Astrid and Veronika (Paperback)

By Linda Olsson
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780143038078
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 02/01/2007

Out Stealing Horses (Paperback)

By Per Petterson, Anne Born (Translator)
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312427085
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Published: Picador, 04/01/2008

My Life in France (Paperback)

By Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307277695
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Published: Anchor, 10/01/2007

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Paperback)

By Julie Powell
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316013260
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Published: Back Bay Books, 09/01/2006

The Art of Racing in the Rain (Paperback)

By Garth Stein
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061537967
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Published: Harper Paperbacks, 06/01/2009

Still Alice (Paperback)

By Lisa Genova
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781439102817
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Published: Gallery, 01/01/2009

My Stroke of Insight (Paperback)

By Ph.D. Taylor, Jill Bolte
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780452295544
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Published: Plume, 05/01/2009
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