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Topic
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Title
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Author
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Selector
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Meet Where
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| Our Reading Selections of the 20th century - 1991 - 1999 | Year 2000 + | |||||
| 12/07/99 |
Mystery
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Patricia Cornwell
Author's Site |
Barbara
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Michael
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| 9/16/99 |
Science Fiction
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The Illustrated Man
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Ray Bradbury
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Alex
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Barbara
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| 8/3/99 |
Science
Fiction
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Restaurant
at the end of the Universe
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Douglas
Adams
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Louis
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Alex
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| 6/24/99 |
Science
Fiction
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The
Lathe of Heaven
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Ursula
Le Guin
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Linda
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Louis
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| 5/20/99 |
Science
Fiction
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The
Physiognomy
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Jeffery
Ford
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Mike
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Linda
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| 4/22/99 |
Science
Fiction
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Idoru
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William
Gibson
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John
Rice
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Mike
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| 3/99 |
US
Civil War
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Charles
Frazier
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Alex
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John
Rice
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| 1/99 |
US
Civil War
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General
Lee's Civil War
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Bevin
Alexander
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Louis
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Alex
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| 10/29/98 |
US
Civil War
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For
Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought the US Civil War
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James
McPherson
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Linda
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Louis
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| 8/27/98 |
US
Civil War
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Killer
Angels
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Mike
Shaara
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Mike
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John
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| 7/23/98 |
US
Civil War
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Red
Badge of Courage
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Stephen
Crane
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John
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Mike
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| 6/11/98 |
General
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Quarantine
(1997 Booker Award)
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Jim
Crace
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Linda
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John
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| 4/23/98 |
Southern
Writers
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Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil
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John
Berendt
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Louis
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Linda
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| 3/26/98 |
Southern
Writers
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Thank
You for Smoking
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Christopher
Buckley
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Beannie
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Louis
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| 2/12/98 |
Southern
Writers
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A
Lesson Before Dying
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Ernest
Gaines
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Linda
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Beannie
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| 11/21/97 |
Southern
Writers
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Farewell,
I'm Bound to Leave You
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Fred
Chappell
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John
R
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Pauline
at Linda's
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| 9/18/97 |
General
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Accordion
Crimes
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E.
Annie Proulx
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Mike
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John
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| 8/14/97 |
General
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Stones
From the River
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Ursula
Hegi
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Linda
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Mike
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| 7/2/97 |
Occult
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The
Power of Silence
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Carlos
Castañeda
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Louis
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Linda
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| 5/14/97 |
Occult
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Ghost
Singer
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Anna
Lee Walters
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Beannie
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Louis
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| 4/10/97 |
Occult
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Under
the Lake
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Stuart
Woods
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John
Rice
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Beannie
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| 3/6/97 |
Hispanic
Issues
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Law
of Love
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Laura
Esquivel (author of 'Like Water for Chocolate')
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Michael
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John
R
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| 1/23/97 |
Hispanic
Issues
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Santa
Evita
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Tomás
Eloy Martínez
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Linda
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Michael
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| 12/15/96 |
Hispanic
Issues
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How
the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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Julia
Alvarez
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Louis
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Linda's
Sunday Brunch
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| 11/14/96 |
Hispanic
Issues
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Paula
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Isabel
Allende
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Beannie
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Louis
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| 10/2/96 |
Hispanic
Issues
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The
Tortilla Curtain
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T.
Coraghessan Boyle
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Rita
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Beannie
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| 9/5/96 |
Hispanic
Writers
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No
Happy Ending
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Paco
Ignacio Taibo II
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John
R
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Rita
@ Beannie
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| 8/8/96 |
Irish
Writers
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The
Butcher Boy (1992 Booker award)
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Patrick
McCabe
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Linda
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John
Rice
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| 6/6/96 |
Irish
Writers
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How
the Irish Saved Civilization
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Thomas
Cahill
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Louis
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Linda's
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| 5/2/96 |
Irish
Writers
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A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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James
Joyce
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Beannie
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Louis
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| 3/28/96 |
Irish
Writers
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House
of Splendid Isolation
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Edna
O'Brien
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John
R
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Beannie
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| 2/28/96 |
General
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What
the Deaf-Mute Heard
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G.D.
Gearino
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Cris
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John
R
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| 2/1/96 |
General
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Crossing
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Cormac
McCarthy
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Linda
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Cris
@Louis
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| 12/28/95 |
General
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The
Hundred Secret Senses
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Amy
Tan
|
Louis
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Linda
|
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| 11/2/95 |
General
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The
Serpent and the Rainbow
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Wade
Davis
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John
R
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Beannie
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| 9/21/95 |
General
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Madeleine's
Ghost
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Robert
Girardi
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Cris
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John's
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| 8/18/95 |
Black
Issues
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The
Content of Our Character
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Shelby
Steele
|
Linda
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Cris
@Louis
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| 7/20/95 |
General
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Paradise
of the Blind
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Duong
Thu Huong
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Louis
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Linda
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| 6/8/95 |
Black
Issues
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Faces
at the Bottom of the Well
|
Derrick
Bell
|
Beannie
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Louis
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| 5/04/95 |
Black
Issues
|
Monster:
The Autobiography of an LA Gang Member
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Sanyika
Shakur, AKA Monster Kody Scott
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Rita
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Rita
@Beannie's
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| 04/06/95 |
Black
Issues
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African
Women
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Mark
Mathabane
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John
R
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John
R @Beannie's
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| 2/20/95 |
Japan
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Blueprint
for a New Japan
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Ichiro
Ozawa
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Linda
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Linda
@Beannie's
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| 12/20/94 |
Japan
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Made
in Japan
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Akio
Morita
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Beannie
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Linda
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| 11/20/94 |
Japan
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Shinju
|
Laura
Joh Rowland
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Louis
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Louis
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| 10/26/94 |
Japan
|
The
Japanese Today
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Edwin
Reischauer
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Linda
R
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John
@Beannie's
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| 09/28/94 |
Far
East
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Imperial
Woman
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Pearl
S. Buck
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John
R
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Beannie
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| 08/17/94 |
Japan
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The
Decay of the Angel
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Yukio
Mishima
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Rita
Keeton
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Beannie
@Louis
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| 07/13/94 |
Japan
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Kitchen
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Banana
Yashimoto
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Beannie
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John
R @Rita's
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| 06/09/94 |
Japan
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Chrysanthemum
and the Sword
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Ruth
Benedict
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Louis
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Beannie
@Rita's
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| 05/11/94 |
Literature
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All
The Pretty Horses
|
Cormac
McCarthy |
John
G
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Louis
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| 04/06/94 |
Literature
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The English Patient (1992 Booker co-winner with Sacred Hunger
by Barry Unsworth)
|
Michael
Ondaatje
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Linda
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GIORGINA'S
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| 03/09/94 |
Romantic
Literature
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When
Heaven And Earth Changed Places
|
Le
Li Hayslip
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Rita
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Linda
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| 02/09/94 |
Romantic
Literature
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Bastard
Out Of Carolina
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Dorothy
Allison
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Beannie
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Rita
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| 01/06/94 |
Romantic
Literature
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My
Antonía
|
Willa
Cather
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RVC
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Louis
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| 11/29/93 |
General
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Travels
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Michael
Crichton
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John
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Beannie
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| 10/27/93 |
General
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Our
Man In Havana
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Graham
Greene
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Louis
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John
@Mich
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| 09/26/93 |
Mythology
|
A
World Lit Only By Fire
|
William
Manchester
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Rita
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RVC@Sausalito
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| 07/26/93 |
Mythology
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Elmer
Gantry
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Sinclair
Lewis
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Beannie
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John
G @Michelangelo's
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| 06/30/93 |
Mythology
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Monsignor
Quixote
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Graham
Greene
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John
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Louis
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| 05/26/93 |
Mythology
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Edith
Hamilton's Mythology
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Edith
Hamilton
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Beannie
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John
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| 03/07/93 |
Romantic
Literature
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The
Great Gatsby
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F.
Scott Fitzgerald
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Louis
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Beannie
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| 01/27/93 |
Romantic
Literature
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Hunchback
Of Notre Dame
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Victor
Hugo
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Richard
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Richard
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| 11/12/92 |
Literature
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Ship
of Fools
|
Katherine
Anne Porter
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Beannie
|
Louis
|
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| 09/26/92 |
Literature
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Daisy
Fay and The Miracle Man
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Fannie
Flagg
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Louis
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Beannie
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| 06/24/92 |
Literature
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The
Bostonians
|
Henry
James
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Rita
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Rita
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| 05/24/92 |
Literature
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Howard's
End
|
EM
Forster
|
Richard
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Rita
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| 04/29/92 |
Latin
Writers
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Limits
Of Friendship:
Us/Mexico |
Jorge
Castaneda and Robert Pastor
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Beannie
|
Richard
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| 03/25/92 |
Latin
Writers
|
Central
America Since Independence
|
Leslie
Bethell
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Louis
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Beannie
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Worst
Book Selection ?
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| 02/26/92 |
Latin
Writers
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In
Trouble Again
|
Redmond
O'Hanlon
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Rita
Keeton
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Louis
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| 01/22/92 |
Latin
Writers
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The
General In His Labyrinth
|
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
|
Richard
Van C
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Rita
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| 11/15/91 |
Latin
Writers
|
Conversations
With Montezuma
|
Richard
Reavis
|
Al
|
Beannie
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| 10/15/91 |
Latin
Writers
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Eye
of the Heart
|
Various
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Beannie
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AL
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| 09/01/91 |
Middle
East
|
From
Beirut To Jerusalem
|
Thomas
Friedman |
Louis
|
Beannie
|
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| 08/01/91 |
Middle
East
|
Lebanon:
Death Of A Nation
|
Sandra
Mackey
|
Richard
|
Louis
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| 06/15/91 |
Middle
East
|
Respected Sir | Naguib Mahfouz |
Rita
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Richard | |