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The Guernsey Literary and Potato-Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

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Monday, March 16 through Friday, April 3, 2009.Read by Susan Sweeney and Jim Fleming.

A work of fiction in the form of letters about the power of books to nourish people living in hard times. The letters tell the story of the Isle of Guernsey during WWII.

(Dial Press; ISBN-10: 0385340990 / ISBN-13: 9780385340991)

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