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January 27:
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
Fiction

• The Willa Cather Electronic Archive, University of Nebraska Lincoln

March 2:
Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner
Fiction

• Vintage Books Reading Guide

March 23:
Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand
798.4 HIL

• Random House: reading guide
• PBS: American Experience: An interactive site with interviews, radio broadcasts of races and more
• Bookreporter.com: book review by Mei-Ling Fong

April 27:
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Fiction

• Sue Monk Kidd's website
• Reader's Guide
• BookPage.com: interview with the author
• Book Magazine.com: "Sweet As Honey" by Beth Kephart, January/February 2002
• Books in Brief by Adam Mazmanian,The New York Times, March 31, 2002
• Book Review by Ann-Janine Morey, Christian Century, February 22, 2003

Date Change: May's meeting has been moved to June 29:
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Fiction

• Biography, University of Pennsylvania
• Review by David Denby, The New Yorker
• Library of America

August 24:
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Fiction

• Official Website of Dan Brown
• Random House Doubleday Reading Guide
• Pop Matters
• Review by Nadia Cornier, The Mystery Reader
• Review by Charles Taylor, Salon.com
• Review by Marissa Ain, the Yale Review of Books
• "Da Vinci: Father of Cryptography?" by Michelle Delia, Wired.com
• Review by Janet Maslin, New York Times
• "Unequal Treatment: The Da Vinci Code vs. The Passion" by Jennifer C. Braceras, National Review Online

September 28:
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson
977.311 LAR

• Random House.com: interview with the author
• Random House Vintage Reader's Guide
• "Murder most foul, and frequent, as Chicago welcomed the world in 1893," review by Roger LaMay, The Philadelphia Inquirer (www.philly.com), March 2, 2003
• Powells.com: interview with the author
• 2003 National Book Award Finalist
• BookPage: interview with the author

October 26:
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Fiction

• Random House Reading Guide

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Last updated: 8/15/2006