February 20: \;Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
\nElinor\, practical and conventional
\, is the perfection of sense. Marianne\, emotional and sentimental\, is t
he embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love.&nb
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Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the
two sisters&mdash\;and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to
sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Jane Austen&rsquo\;s auth
entic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial l
ife\, written with forceful insight and gentle irony\, makes her novels th
e enduring works on the mores and manners of her time.
Mar ch 20: \;Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
\nFor more th an two hundred years\, the Owens women have been blamed for everything tha t has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endur ed that fate as well: as children\, the sisters were forever outsiders\, t aunted\, talked about\, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to e ncourage the whispers of witchery\, with their musty house and their exoti c concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wan ted was to escape. One will do so by marrying\, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back--almost as if by magic...\n
April 17: \;Bel Canto \;by Ann Patchett
\nSomewhere in South America\, at the home of the country's vice presi dent\, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful busi nessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss\, opera's most revered soprano\, has me smerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evenin g&mdash\;until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party ho stage. But what begins as a panicked\, life-threatening scenario slowly ev olves into something quite different\, a moment of great beauty\, as terro rists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different contin ents become compatriots\, intimate friends\, and lovers.
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