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  The Kite Runner

  by Khaled Hosseini

  In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, the author accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his... (more)
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  The Secret History

  by Donna Tartt

  Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond... (more)
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  The Poisonwood Bible

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic... (more)
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  The Penderwicks: Book 1

  The Penderwicks

  A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

  by Jeanne Birdsall

  This summer, the Penderwick family is vacationing in a new place. Not their old cabin at Cape Cod that they used to visit every year, but a cottage, which to their surprise, is alongside the mansion of the dreaded Mrs. Tifton, but also the home to a new friend. New friendships, new crushes, new disastrous situations are all in the Penderwick family's summer this year!