Book Club Picks -- Oprah's Book Club & 2.0

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 is a revitalized version of Oprah Winfrey's legendary book club, which first became famous in the early 2000s. After a hiatus, Oprah reintroduced her book club in 2012 with a new format, called Book Club 2.0, focusing on modern digital platforms, particularly the internet, to reach a broader, more diverse audience
 

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1. The covenant of water: a novel

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Author:
Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...

2. The emperor of gladness: a novel

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Author:
Vuong, Ocean, 1988-
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5 stars
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One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering...

3. From here to the great unknown: a memoir

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Author:
Presley, Lisa Marie, 1968-2023
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3.4 stars
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"Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this ... one-of-a-kind memoir, faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough"-- In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and...

4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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Author:
McBride, James, 1957-
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3.8 stars
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows"--

5. The invisible life of Addie LaRue

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Author:
Schwab, Victoria, 1987-
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4.1 stars
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Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

6. Lila

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Author:
Robinson, Marilynne
Series:
Gilead novels volume 3.
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.

7. The tell: a memoir

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Author:
Griffin, Amy (Businesswoman)
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5 stars
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"For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the campus of the University of Virginia, as a student athlete; on the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all looked, in many ways, perfect. But Amy was running from something--a secret she was keeping not only from her family and friends, but unconsciously from herself. ......

8. Tell me everything: a novel

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Author:
Strout, Elizabeth
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3.8 stars
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"It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her husband William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been....