Featured Novels

Current Novel
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Chosen as the 2003-2004 All America Reads featured selection. The Bean Trees is a "novel about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places."

-- from www.kingsolver.com

• Author's Website: www.kingsolver.com
• Excerpt: www.kingsolver.com/bookshelf/bean_trees.asp
• Publisher: HarperCollins (1988)
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Previous Novel
Wish You Well by David Baldacci

Chosen as the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 All America Reads featured selection. Wish You Well is a "a heart-wrenching yet triumphant story about family and adversity from times past that resounds forcefully today."

-- from www.david-baldacci.com

• Author's Website: www.david-baldacci.com
• Excerpt: www.allamericareads.org/resources/wyw
• Publisher: Warner Books (2000)
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