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(Hardback)

By: Lan Dong

ISBN: 9780313355462
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This essential discussion of Amy Tan's life and works is a necessity for high school students and an enriching supplement for book club members.

A tour-de-force in Asian American writing, Amy Tan has created works that are essential to high school and undergraduate literature classes and are often book club selections.


(Hardback)

By: Willard P. Greenwood

ISBN: 9780313356643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Chapters include sidebars of interesting information, along with questions to stimulate book club discussions and student research.

One of today's most important novelists, Cormac McCarthy is at the peak of a long and productive career.


(Hardback)

By: Lynn M. Houston

ISBN: 9780313364037
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is a compelling reference guide for book clubs on the work of Joan Didion, with summaries of her major works and discussion questions.


(Hardback)

By: Alice L. Trupe

ISBN: 9780313383953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's important works and the intentions behind them.

Reading Julia Alvarez reviews the author's acclaimed body of writing, exploring both the works and the woman behind them.


(Hardback)

By: Rebecca Stuhr

ISBN: 9780313355110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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His first book, The Kite Runner, was voted Reading Group Book of the Year in 2006 and 2007 and was made into a major motion picture. Written for book club members and students, this guide overviews Hosseini's works, themes, characters, and contexts and relates his fiction to current events and popular culture.


(Hardback)

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

ISBN: 9780313362934
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book offers an overview of the contributions of author Nora Roberts to the popular literary market.


(Hardback)

By: Rachel Lister

ISBN: 9780313354991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume offers students and book club members a handy and insight-filled guide to Morrison's works and their relation to current events and popular culture.