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STR #216 06/02/15 STR Book Club "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
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"A Thousand Splendid Suns",written by Khaled Hosseini, is tonight's STR Book Club selection. Here is the translation of the poem Kabul by Josephine Barry Davis from page 192: "One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls." Here are tonight's STR Book Club questions to give you some time to review and hopefully you'll be able to join us: http://stanatalkradio.com/str-216-06022015-str-bookclub-a-thousand-splendid-suns/ Photo credit/copyright by ATSS Publications, LLC and Riverhead Books published by Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
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"A Thousand Splendid Suns",written by Khaled Hosseini, is tonight's STR Book Club selection. Here is the translation of the poem Kabul by Josephine Barry Davis from page 192: "One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls." Here are tonight's STR Book Club questions to give you some time to review and hopefully you'll be able to join us: http://stanatalkradio.com/str-216-06022015-str-bookclub-a-thousand-splendid-suns/ Photo credit/copyright by ATSS Publications, LLC and Riverhead Books published by Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
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