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Oprah's Book Club: Will Nelson Mandela's Memoir Nab The Honor?

First Posted: 09/10/10 02:29 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:35 PM ET

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Oprah Winfrey won't officially announce her 64th book club selection until Sept. 17, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be Conversations With Myself, a memoir of Nobel winner Nelson Mandela assembled from journals, diaries, letters, and records of private conversations that he kept over the course of his storied life as an activist turned prisoner turned president of South Africa.

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Oprah Winfrey won't officially announce her 64th book club selection until Sept. 17, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be Conversations With Myself, a memoir of Nobel winner Nelson Mandela ...
Oprah Winfrey won't officially announce her 64th book club selection until Sept. 17, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be Conversations With Myself, a memoir of Nobel winner Nelson Mandela ...
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09:52 AM on 09/29/2010
A Small way to Say Thank You to Oprah:
http://youtu.be/H9ATXxyOGGI
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Anastasia Giselle
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01:47 PM on 09/16/2010
Nelson Mandela's memoir I'm sure will be amazing. I'm going to go get it actually...:)
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Nicole Dixson
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04:31 PM on 09/10/2010
That will probably be the only worthwhile one. I have read some of Oprah's picks. Ugh!
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