Oprah's Book Club 1998 | 1998 | Book | Descripiton | Author | | | | | | 1998 |  Where the Heart Is | Where the Heart Is With a long history of bad luck when it comes to sevens, Novalee Nation is 17, seven months pregnant, 37 pounds overweight, and on her way from Tennessee to a new life in California. While making a stop in eastern Oklahoma, her no-good boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her at a local Wal-Mart, leaving her stranded with only $7.77 in her pocket. But Novalee soon discovers the hidden treasures in this small Southwest town as a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people is willing to help a homeless, jobless girl. From Bible-thumping blue-haired Sister Thelma Husband to eccentric librarian Forney Hull, Novalee embarks on a moving, funny, and unforgettable journey to where the heart is. This wondrous tale of life, love, and the indomitable spirit of one unforgettable girl in this feel-good novel will leave readers cheering for more. | Billie Letts | | 1998 | 
Midwives | Midwives In the pastoral community of Reddington, Vermont, during the harsh winter of 1981, Sibyl Danforth makes a life-or-death decision based on fifteen years of experience as a respected midwife -- a decision intended to save a child, a decision that will change her life forever.
| Chris A. Bohjalian | | 1998 | 
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day | What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day In a remarkable debut novel that sizzles with sensuality, crackles with life-affirming energy and moves the reader to laughter and tears, author Pearl Cleage creates a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding. After a decade of luxe living in Atlanta, Ava Johnson has returned to tiny Idlewild, Michigan -- her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth: Ava has tested positive for HIV. But rather than a sorrowful end, her homecoming is a new beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since she left, all the problems of the big city have invaded the sleepy community of her childhood. Because dear friends and family sorely need her help in the face of impending trouble and tragedy, and Ava cannot turn her back on them. And because, most importantly, Ava Johnson is inexplicably and undeniably falling in love. | Pearl Cleage | | 1998 | 
I Know This Much is True | I Know This Much is True On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. . . . One of the most acclaimed novels of our time, Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True is a story of alienation and connection, devastation and renewal, at once joyous, heartbreaking, poignant, mystical, and powerfully, profoundly human. | Wally Lamb | | 1998 | 
Breath, Eyes, Memory | Breath, Eyes, Memory At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage.
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people. | Edwidge Danticat | | 1998 | 
Black and Blue | Black and Blue Now in paperback comes the bestselling novel about a marriage that begins in passion and becomes violent, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of Thinking Out Loud. | Anna Quindlen | | 1998 | 
Here on Earth | Here on Earth After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up, to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Thrust into the world of her past, March slowly realizes the complexity of the choices made by those around her, including Mrs. Dale, who knew more of love than March could have ever suspected; Alan, the brother whose tragic history has left him grief-stricken, with alcohol his only solace; and Hollis, the boy she loved, the man she can't seem to stay away from. | Alice Hoffman | | 1998 |  Paradise | Paradise "They shoot the white girl first. With the others they can take their time". Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature opens with a horrifying scene of mob violence then chronicles its genesis in a small allblack town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by descendants of free slaves as intent on isolating themselves from the outside world as it once was on rejecting them, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, mother group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.... | Toni Morrison |
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