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      THE SCENT OF RAIN AND LIGHTNING by Nancy Pickard    A mystery? Or a romance? Or a family drama?  The November title for Book Circle is an intrguing book writtten by a well-known Kansas author and set in a small Kansas town in modern times.  Is the wrongly convicted killer really guilty?   [...]

NEXT BOOK CIRCLE TITLE:      The “Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck was published in 1931, it won the Pulitzer Prize  and not been out of print since then.  A modern classic, this novel tells the story of farmer Wang Lung and his wife O-lan.  Set in pre-revolutionary China, a simple man goes through his life with [...]

  Nebraska author featured for January -     Born in Central City, Nebraska, Wright Morris is the author of eighteen books.  The Home Place is a  first-person narrative of the return of a man to his “home place”.  It is told in a combination of text and photographs that was quite revolutionary in 1948.  It has been [...]