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Oates,Joyce CarolO’Hagan,AndrewOmaar, RagehBlack Girl WhiteThe novel centres on the events leadingup to the death of Generva Meade’sroommate, 19 year old Minette Swift, atthe Schuyler Liberal Arts College in thespring of 1975. Told from a 15-yearsonpoint of view, Generva (or Genna, asshe is more frequently referred to in thenovel), is looking back at her past, andthat of Minette, in order to understandhow such a terrible death befell herroom-mate.Be Near MeWhen an English priest takes over a smallScottish parish, not everyone is ready toaccept him. He makes friends with twolocal youths, Mark and Lisa, and clasheswith a world he can barely understand.The town seems to grow darker eachnight. Fate comes calling and before thesummer is out his quiet life is the focus ofpublic hysteria. “Be Near Me” is a story ofart and politics, love and change, and abook about the way we live now.Revolution DayRageh Omaar reported from Iraq forsix years prior to the conflict in 2003.He evaded the official minders to meetordinary Iraqis, finding out how theylived under Saddam’s brutal regime.Then war came, and he chose to stay inBaghdad, to see firsthand the countryhe loved crumble beneath the Allied63