Skipping Christmas

Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
The Foundation Trilogy, one of the touchstones of Science Fiction, began as a magazine serial in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction in November 1949. Respective stories were gathered together into the three volumes: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952) and Second Foundation (1953). Finally, the whole shebang was published as The Foundation Trilogy in 1961 and in 1966, won a Hugo Award as the best science fiction series of all time. I don't know that this last is still true, but it is certainly one of the seminal works in the history of Science Fiction and remains extraordinarily influential.
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Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman 
Oprah's March Book Club selection is Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth.  In this spellbinding novel, a married woman returns to her Massachusetts hometown for a funeral and is instantly drawn back into a long-dormant, destructive passion.  Taking us deep into her characters' hearts, Hoffman creates a powerful fable of loss and control, fear and love. 
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Sights Unseen  by Kaye Gibbons 
Synopsis:  From the best-selling author of Ellen Foster comes a heartfelt story of a family caught in the grip of a mother's erratic and frightening behavior.  To the townspeople of Bend of the River, Maggie Barnes is "that Barnes woman with the problems."  Between her mother's suicidal lows and delirious highs, young Hattie struggles to find a place in her heart. 
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A Virtuous Woman  by Kaye Gibbons 
Gibbons's novel, A Virtuous Woman, takes place in the same hardscrabble part of the world as Ellen Foster.  The virtuous woman is Ruby Pitt Woodrow, a woman who might have ended up like Ellen Foster's mother if fate, in the shape of Jack Stokes, hadn't crossed her path.  The daughter of prosperous farmers, Ruby runs off with a migrant worker who treats her badly, then abandons her far from home.  When she meets Jack, a man 20 years her senior, she's working as a cleaning woman in another prosperous farmer's house.  Jack is a man women don't look at even once, let alone twice; Ruby is a woman who needs someone to take care of her.  Out of this unlikely union grows a quiet kind of love that is no less powerful for being unstated. 
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Drowning Ruth (Oprah's Book Club)

Jim the Boy
by Tony Earley
"Jim the Boy" tells the story of a young boy named Jim, coming of age, in a very remote and peaceful North Carolina town. It's 1934 and during the depression.
Hardcover - 227 pages (June 2000)
Little Brown & Company; ISBN: 0316199648
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I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club)   by Wally Lamb
Paperback - 901 pages  (April 6, 1999)
Regan Books; ISBN: 0060987561 
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