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The Love of a Good Woman Reading Group Guide

The Love of a Good Woman Reading Group Guide

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
Enhance your Book Club experience:
• Read a conversation with Alice Munro
About this guide
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Alice Munro’s collection The Love of a Good Woman. In these eight stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies [...]

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A Guide to Ha Jin’s First Novel and Two Short Story Collections

A Guide to Ha Jin’s First Novel and Two Short Story Collections

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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Ha Jin’s first novel, In the Pond, and two of his short fiction collections, Ocean of Words and The Bridegroom.

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A Guide to the Works of William Faulkner

A Guide to the Works of William Faulkner

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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group’s reading of three of William Faulkner’s greatest novels: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom! We hope that they will provide you with new ways of thinking and talking about three works that [...]

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Straight Man Reading Group Guide

Straight Man Reading Group Guide

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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s experience of reading Richard Russo’s Straight Man. We hope they will provide interesting new angles from which to examine this funny, poignant, and compassionate novel by one of the most compelling storytellers of our day.
William Henry Devereaux, [...]

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The Unconsoled Reading Group Guide

The Unconsoled Reading Group Guide

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The questions, discussion topics, author biography, and bibliography that follow are meant to enhance your group’s reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled. We hope that they will provide you with new ways of looking at—and talking about—this mysterious and infinitely provocative new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of [...]

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The Road from Coorain Reading Group Guide

The Road from Coorain Reading Group Guide

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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Jill Ker Conway’s The Road from Coorain. We hope they will aid your understanding of the many rich themes that make up Conway’s story of her youth in mid-century Australia.
Conway recounts the successive phases of her [...]

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An Equal Music Reading Group Guide

An Equal Music Reading Group Guide

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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music.
While a music student in Vienna, violinist Michael Holme falls in love with pianist Julia McNicholl. They play together in a string trio, but when Michael has a nervous breakdown because of [...]

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No Great Mischief Reading Group Guide

No Great Mischief Reading Group Guide

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The following questions, discussion topics, and author biography are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Alistair MacLeod’s first novel, No Great Mischief. This beautiful, elegiac novel portrays a tightly-knit Scottish family plagued by loss and clinging loyally to the legacy of its heroic past.
In 1779, 55-year-old Calum Ruadh, or the red Calum [...]

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Our Guys Reading Group Guide

Our Guys Reading Group Guide

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The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group’s experience of reading Bernard Lefkowitz’s Our Guys. We hope they will provide you with a number of interesting angles from which to approach this harrowing and deeply revealing story of the violent undercurrents that exist within [...]

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A Fine Balance Reading Group Guide

A Fine Balance Reading Group Guide

An Oprah’s Book Club® Selection
“Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life.” —The Wall Street Journal
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The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group’s experience of reading [...]

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