Reading Group Guide About the Book When long-hidden secrets about his past come to light, John Wade — a Vietnam veteran and recent candidate for the U.S. Senate — retreats with his wife, Kathy, to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival, Kathy mysteriously vanishes into the wilderness. As a search [...]
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Reading Group Guide Introduction They carried malaria tablets, love letters, twenty-eight-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated Bibles, each other. And if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb. The Things They Carried is a classic work [...]
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
About The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers’s literary debut, was first published by Houghton Mifflin, on June 4, 1940, the twenty-three-year-old author became a literary sensation virtually overnight. The novel is considered McCullers’s finest work, an enduring masterpiece that was chosen by the Modern Library [...]
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
About the book: “I know of no novel that makes the remote folk of the western prairies more real . . . and I know of none that makes them seem better worth knowing.” — H. L. Mencken, 1919 An enduring literary masterpiece first published in 1918 by Houghton Mifflin, this eloquent novel is an [...]
All the King's Men [2006 Movie Tie-In Edition] by Robert Penn Warren
All the King’s Men [2006 Movie Tie-In Edition] Robert Penn Warren ISBN:9780156031042 About the book: Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize–winning novel traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey “Kingfish” Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes [...]
Girl Sleuth by Melanie Rehak
Girl Sleuth Melanie Rehak ISBN:9780156030564 About the book: A plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by [...]
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf ISBN:9780156628709 About the book: This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. [...]
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple Alice Walker ISBN:9780156028356 About the book: Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course [...]
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren ISBN:9780156012959 About the book: Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King’s Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. It traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey “Kingfish” Long [...]
