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Featured Books for 2011-12

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2011-12 Reading Together recommended text:
Vintage Lopez

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"Lopez has such great narrative skill and uses his words so carefully the simple intensity is often nearly overwhelming." —The Oregonian


Vintage Lopez is divided into two parts, nonfiction and fiction. It includes "Landscape and Narrative" ; the prologue to Arctic Dreams; and such classic short stories "The Entreaty of the Wiideema" and "The Mappist."

Also included, for the first time in book form, the essay "The Naturalist."

Alternate Reading Together recommendation: Crossing Open Ground (1988)

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