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The Cross Gardener
Jason F. Wright
Berkley - 3/2/10 - Add to Cart
Grave Goods
Ariana Franklin
Berkley - 3/2/1 - Add to Cart
A Thousand Cuts
Simon Lelic
Viking - 3/4/10 - Add to Cart
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Thu, 04/01/2010
Penguin Reading Group Guides, March 2010:
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Thu, 03/11/2010
Q&A with Bernardine Evaristo, author of Blonde Roots:
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(View entire post here) View the reading group guide How did you decide to create the world of Great Ambossa? It's like London, yet Doris comes from an England-like place as well. Do you feel London is strongly tied to slavery? Or is there some other reason? I wanted to locate the novel in the UK as a way to indicate that it's about the British involvement in the slave trade. It's a little known fact that Britain dominated the transatlantic slave trade from the 1750s onwards and London WAS Britain's largest port and shipping and financial centre for the slave trade. Later Liverpool and Bristol also became prominent slave trading cities. So the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Ambossa is my way to reference this yet of course in my alternate universe of the novel London has become Africanized. And yes, Doris comes from a place that is meant to be like rural England. The novel turns a lot of things on its head. It's not a simple inversion. It's an imaginative inversion, if you like! How did the author come up with the very long Aphrikan names for the characters? Naming places and people was lots of fun. As we know, during slavery people had to forfeit their own names for a foreign, imposed one so in turning everything on its head Doris becomes an exotic-sounding name and Omorenomwara is supposed to sound normal. I got the name from a book of Yoruba names (of Nigeria). Why did you choose a timeline of post-industrial features like the London Underground? |
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Tue, 03/02/2010
Penguin Reading Group Guides, February 2010:
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 The World in HalfCristina Henriquez Riverhead - 2/2/2010 - Add to Cart Riverhead - 2/2/2010 - Add to Cart
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Marry Him
Fri, 01/29/2010
Penguin Reading Group Guides, December 2009 - January 2010:
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(View entire post here) Twenty new reading group guides for December and January bookclubs!
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Mon, 12/07/2009
Q&A with Joseph Bruchac, author of Code Talkers:
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(View entire post here) The Penguin employee book club read Code Talkers by Joseph Bruchac and submitted these questions to the author. The resulting Q&A is here: What inspired you to write about Code Talkers? I was inspired to write the novel, first and foremost, by the story of the Code Talkers that I first heard when it was revealed to the public long after the end of World War II. I then was fortunate enough to meet a number of Navajo Code Talkers--who were without exception the most delightful, lively, intelligent people you could imagine. Unassuming individuals with wonderful senses of humor and great pride in what they and their comrades had done. Just being in their presence should be enough to inspire anyone. How much research did you do for this book? Is the information you received primarily from interviews with real code talkers, or was it from readings? |
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Thu, 11/19/2009
Great Reading Group Guides for August - November 2009 Titles:
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(View entire post here) Bookclubs are in for a real holiday treat! Here are FOURTEEN new reading group guides to keep you busy during those long winter nights.
ISBN 9781594483905| 8/4/2009| Riverhead | Add to Cart View the book page
ISBN 9780452295681| 8/4/2009| Plume | Add to Cart View the book page
ISBN 9781583333488| 8/8/2009| Avery | Add to Cart View the book page
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Mon, 09/14/2009
Q&A with Mahbod Seraji, author of Rooftops of Tehran:
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(View entire post here) The Penguin employee book club read Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji and submitted these questions to the author. The resulting Q&A is here: Is this book published in other countries, or will it be in the future? Yes, as of today, Rooftops is being translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Hebrew, Persian, Korean and Icelandic. We're expecting offers from other countries as well. What is the layout of an alley in Tehran? Is it similar to the cul-de-sac of suburban America? I tried to bury the layout of the alley in different chapters, e.g. The Width of the Alley, My Friends, My Family and My Alley. It would have been odd for a 17-year-old narrator to describe the alley in much detail in a single chapter. Here's what we learn throughout: |
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Mon, 08/17/2009
July Reading Group Guides:
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(View the entire post here) Attention bookclubs: We have SIX new reading group guides for our July titles. Visit our Bookclub Home Page for hundreds of other guides.
Book: Paperback | ISBN 9781594483813 | 7/7/2009 | Riverhead | Add to Cart View the book page
Book: Hardcover | ISBN 9780670020973 | 7/9/2009 | Viking | Add to Cart View the book page |
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Tue, 07/14/2009
June Reading Group Guides:
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Attention bookclubs: We have TEN new reading group guides for our June titles. Visit our Bookclub Home Page for hundreds of other guides.
Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 448 pages | ISBN 9781594483820 | 02 Jun 2009 | Riverhead | 18 - AND UP $16.00 - add to cart View the book page
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Thu, 05/28/2009
May Reading Group Guides:
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(View the entire post here) Attention bookclubs: We have FOUR new reading group guides for our May titles. Visit our Bookclub Home Page for hundreds of other guides.
Reading Group Guide: How to Buy Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson Book: Hardcover | 9.25 x 6.25in | 400 pages | ISBN 9780525951148 | 14 May 2009 | Dutton Adult | 18 - AND UP $25.95 - add to cart Read the author's posts on the Penguin Blog and watch the video.
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