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Oprah Gail Winfrey , often known simply as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from ...
May 3, 2023 · The 101st Oprah's Book Club selection is The Covenant of Water by best-selling author Dr. Abraham Verghese ( Cutting for Stone, 2008). Inspired by his great-grandmother, who, as a child, married a widower, Verghese introduces the fictional Big Ammachi, matriarch of a Christian community in Kerala, India. We follow three generations from 1900 to ...
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May 7, 2024 · This morning, Oprah announced on CBS Mornings that her 105th Book Club pick is…. Long Island, by Colm Tóibín. This novel centers around Eilis Lacey, an Irish immigrant living in New York’s Long Island (hence the book’s title), surrounded by her husband’s extended Italian American family. Within the first few pages, Eilis gets some ...
Apr 7, 2020 · Oprah's new book club selection, Hidden Valley Road by best-selling author Robert Kolker, tells the heartrending story of a mid-century American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand—and even cure—the disease. "This is a riveting true story of an ...
May 7, 2024 · Oprah just announced her 105th Book Club selection! It's Long Island by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín. The story centers on Eilis Lacey, an Irish immigrant living on a Long Island cul-de-sac with her husband and his large, extended Italian American family. Within the first few pages, Eilis gets some truly devastating news that forces her to ...
Feb 15, 2023 · Oprah's 99th book club selection is Bittersweet, the latest work of nonfiction by best-selling author Susan Cain. It explores a new method for dealing with sadness—not by denying it or by surrendering to it, but by acknowledging it. "This book has the power to transform the way you see your life and even the world," Oprah says. "I have ...
Since her eponymous talk show began in 1986, Oprah Winfrey’s fortune has soared. She earned an estimated $37 million in 2019, and Forbes estimates her net worth is $2.6 billion.
