Summer Reading List - Summer Books
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By Cathleen Medwick
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the July 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine 
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304 pages; Collins Maybe it was the snacks: Who wouldn't row alone across an ocean for the chance to eat like a teenager? Whatever it was that propelled Tori Murden McClure to the far side of the Atlantic in her homemade barge, the American Pearl, she muscled through 12-hour days of rowing, capsizing (she rescued the M&M's), being eyeballed by a hammerhead shark and clobbered by a hurricane. In A Pearl in the Storm (Collins), McClure tells how, on land and sea, she exuberantly bucked the tide. First chapter: Read an excerpt from A Pearl in the Storm Reader's Guide: Get discussion questions for your book club |
