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Bryce Courtenay
Born
in Johannesburg, South Africa
August 14, 1933
Died
November 22, 2012
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The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)
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1989
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6 editions
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Tandia (The Power of One, #2)
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published
1992
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54 editions
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Jessica
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published
1997
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6 editions
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The Potato Factory (The Potato Factory, #1)
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published
1995
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38 editions
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April Fool's Day
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published
1993
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10 editions
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Tommo & Hawk (The Potato Factory, #2)
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published
1998
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6 editions
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Solomon's Song (The Potato Factory, #3)
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published
1999
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34 editions
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The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree, #1)
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2007
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26 editions
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Four Fires
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published
2001
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29 editions
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Matthew Flinders' Cat
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published
2002
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27 editions
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“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.”
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“Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow, and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky. The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous. Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.”
― The Power of One
― The Power of One
Polls
May 2016 New School Group Read
1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 478 pages
1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages
1903, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 172 pages
1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 288 pages
1996, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 835 pages
1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages
1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages
1957, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296 pages
1993, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 448 pages
1949, The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, 276 pages
1922, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 356 pages
1936, Mephisto by Klaus Mann, 272 pages
1924, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 225 pages
1933, Lost Horizon by James Hilton, 241 pages
1989, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 544 pages
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