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Spokane is Reading selection for October 2012, and Moran Prairie Library Book Club selection for Thursday, October 25th, at 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Abulhawa, Susan | | Mornings in Jenin: a Novel | | After being forcibly removed from their beloved village of Ein Hod and transported to the Jenin refugee camp in 1948, four generations of the Abulheja family struggle with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, fighting to preserve their history along the way. |
|  | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | | Half of a Yellow Sun | | Three lives are swept up in the turbulence of Biafrai in 1967, weaving together the end of colonialism, moral responsibility, and ethnic allegiances, as eastern Nigeria secedes to form an independent republic and civil war ensues. |
|  | Cantrell, Rebecca | | A City of Broken Glass | | A Swiss journalist in 1938 Poland learns that 12,000 Jews have been rounded up and deported to Germany. As she rushes to expose the story she promises a friend she’ll search for her refugee daughter, putting herself in grave danger with the Gestapo. |
|  | Kingsolver, Barbara | | The Lacuna | | A poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they struggle to create their modern identities - taking readers on an epic journey from Mexico City to America during the 1930s-1950s, through some of the twentieth century’s most tumultuous events. |
|  | Levy, Andrea | | Small Island | | With heart-wrenching detail Levy relates the immigrant experience through the lives of four very different characters in 1948 England, exposing their very human flaws as they navigate discrimination, classism, and war. |
|  | Mengestu, Dinaw | | The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears | | An Ethiopian immigrant leads a lonely and secluded life as a grocery store owner in a poor Washington D.C. neighborhood – until a white woman and her biracial daughter move in next door and he begins to feel a sense of hope and family that has eluded him for years. |
|  | Moorehead, Caroline | | Human Cargo: A Journey among Refugees | | Human rights activist Moorehead takes a two year journey across several continents in order to understand why millions are forced to abandon families and homes in order to merely survive, stressing that global refugee issues are on par with terrorism and world hunger. |
|  | Rubin, Emily | | Stalina: a Novel | | Fleeing Leningrad after the fall of the Soviet Union, a former chemist for the KGB takes a job in a run-down hotel, eventually transforming it into a high-end destination stop – as business booms she finds the ghosts of her past threatening her dreams for the future. |
|  | Schoenewaldt, Pamela | | When We Were Strangers | | Circumstances propel 16-year-old Irma from her small mountain village near Naples across the ocean to America in the late 19th century – where her needlework skills take her from a Cleveland sweatshop to Chicago as a dressmaker, and eventually lead her west to San Francisco in pursuit of a new dream. |
|  | Stockett, Kathryn | | The Help | | A deeply moving novel set in 1962 south focuses on three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, and friends - view one another. |
|  | Toibin, Colm | | Brooklyn | | A young woman in 1950s Ireland leaves her family and country behind to pursue a better life in Brooklyn where she falls in love with an American, only to be summoned home once again when tragedy strikes. |
|  | Verghese, A. | | Cutting for Stone | | Twin brothers in Ethiopia become orphaned with the death of their mother, an Indian nun, and the disappearance of their father, a British surgeon. As both grow up to become doctors themselves one flees to America for political and romantic reasons – eventually confronting the family who betrayed him. |
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