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FROM: "dfrykber" <[removed]@lakeco.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/26/01, 5:32 PM

My patron is looking for a nonfiction book that was mentioned on Oprah
sometime ago. It is about a young woman who is confined to a nursing
home and although she is fully aware of what's going on around her,
everyone thinks she is in a coma. The patron thinks the title has the
name Julia or Julie in it. Any ideas? Thanks for your assistance.

Dru Frykberg
Cedar Lake Branch
Lake County Public Library
[removed]@lakeco.lib.in.us

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/27/01, 7:30 AM

In a message dated 1/26/2001 6:30:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@lakeco.lib.in.us writes:

<<

My patron is looking for a nonfiction book that was mentioned on Oprah
sometime ago. It is about a young woman who is confined to a nursing
home and although she is fully aware of what's going on around her,
everyone thinks she is in a coma. The patron thinks the title has the
name Julia or Julie in it. Any ideas? Thanks for your assistance.

Dru Frykberg
Cedar Lake Branch
Lake County Public Library
[removed]@lakeco.lib.in.us
>>

The back files of the Oprah book club list the following title. Maybe it's
what your patron is looking for.

A - E

Back Roads
by Tawni O'Dell
Announced on March 28, 2000
Book Club Show Discussion

The Best Way to Play
by Bill Cosby
Announced on December 8, 1997

Black and Blue
by Anna Quindlen
Announced on April 9, 1998

The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
Announced on April 27, 2000
Book Club Show Discussion

The Book of Ruth
by Jane Hamilton
Announced on November 18, 1996

Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Danticat
Announced on May 22, 1998

Daughter of Fortune
by Isabelle Allende
Announced on February 17, 2000
Book Club Show Discussion

The Deep End of the Ocean
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Announced on September 17, 1996

Drowning Ruth
by Christina Schwarz
Announced on September 27, 1996
Book Club Show Discussion

Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
Announced on October 27, 1997

F - P

Gap Creek
by Robert Morgan
Announced on January 18, 1999
Book Club Show Discussion

The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou
Announced on May 9, 1997

Here on Earth
by Alice Hoffman
Announced on March 6, 1998


House of Sand and Fog
by Andre Dubus III
Announced on November 16, 2000
Book Club Show Discussion

I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
Announced on June 18, 1998

Jewel
by Bret Lott
Announced on January 19, 1999
Book Club Show Discussion

A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest Gaines
Announced on September 22, 1997

A Map of the World
by Jane Hamilton
Announced on December 3, 1999
Book Club Show Discussion

The Meanest Thing to Say
by Bill Cosby
Announced on December 8, 1997

Midwives
by Chris Bohjalian
Announced on October 20, 1998

Mother of Pearl
by Melinda Haynes
Announced June 15, 1999
Book Club Show Discussion

Open House
by Elizabeth Berg
Announced on August 23, 2000
Book Club Show Discussion

Paradise
by Toni Morrison
Announced on January 16, 1998

The Pilot's Wife
by Anita Shreve
Announced on March 31, 1999
Book Club Show Discussion

Poisonwood Bible, The
by Barbara Kingsolver
Announced on June 23, 2000
Book Club Show Discussion

R - S

The Rapture of Canaan
by Sheri Reynolds
Announced on April 8, 1997

The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
Announced on February 26, 1999
Book Club Show Discussion

River, Cross My Heart
by Breena Clarke
Announced on October 14, 1999
Book Club Show Discussion

Hope this helps.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "dfrykber" <[removed]@lakeco.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/27/01, 3:37 PM

Sorry I was not clear. This is not an Oprah Book Club title. Apparently,
the nonfiction book about a young woman in a nursing home who was
thought to be in a coma was mentioned on Oprah. I have searched Oprah's
web site and the show archives, although the archives only go back
through 1999. Again, my patron thinks Julia or Julie is in the title.
Unfortunately, many titles feature those names, but so far I have found
no matches.

Thanks again.

Dru Frykberg
Cedar Lake Branch
Lake County Public Library
[removed]@lakeco.lib.in.us

FROM: Charlotte Bradshaw <[removed]@pls.lib.ca.us>
REC'D: 1/27/01, 4:14 PM

There is a title Good Morning Judy by Jeanine Steuck from 1978. Have no
idea if that's right...found it by doing coma biography on amazon.com.

Charlotte Bradshaw
Sanchez Branch
San Mateo County Library
[removed]@pls.lib.ca.us

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