are not quite as academically oriented as the achievers or don't have the same opportunity of the cheevers. the secrecy of the military as a way to see the wide world. young people who never leave our stares, have no idea to go beyond the confines of a small town, for whom life is just fine where they are. who is working lives start early and revolve around these small towns. of the returners there are two groups. one we call boomerangs. people who go away for a short time always intending to come back, and the come back to small towns usually but not always with associate's degrees or some college education and settle the last group is the smallest group of all, the high flyers, basically the small number of achievers who come back to small towns. doctors, dentist, the young people who are very sought after and in many small towns trying to dream up ways of bringing these people back. when we spoke with them it was interesting how nearly every single scheme that a state or local jurisdiction can dream up to bring highfliers back, they focus on -- people moved back for very much effective

factors between stayers and particularly the achievers and some of their terms but the stayers and the cheeversor the bookends, the stayers worked during high school and worked early and worked a lot and that work was something we heard from them-- when guy put it this way. well, you had your prep retyped ender middle types in your work types and i was the work type. and other people would talk about how working with something i was born to do, and this sort of pride in the work ethic. but the undoing of that or the great irony of that was, one of the things that makes it so attractive to work for stayers is that you can earn a decent wage its 16, working 30 hours a week. you can still go to school and some of these people did, worked 25 or 30 hours and still went to school. kids in suburbs and cities would have no conception of that. they would be dead even thinking about working 30 hours and going to school but again it was a fairly normal thing where a guy would talk about i get up at 4:00 and work here for five hours before going to school and after-school i go to my other job. i would be d

invisible man, gravity's rainbow, the collected stories of eudora welty, the collected stories of john cheeverthe collected stories of william faulkner and the collected stories of flannery o'connor. and what we announced this shortlist in the third week of september, rate between the release of dan brown and the new oprah selection, it's very strategically. at the great thing that happened with this program as we did it all summer, was it brought together, i remember one day in the grove atlantic conference room we had jamie and patricia from barnes & noble. we had just run strauss. either on the phone or in the room we had every major retailer that gave us reporters from amazon, from the aba, most of the major publishers. all sitting together trying to come up with a way to make you aware of the six great books. it was a very inspiring moment. we fan out to hope and i think we really hoped that we might get two or 3000 votes. we set this out online. would a five-week voting. we optimistically said to the board that our goal was 5000 votes. we ended up getting over 10,000 votes. thank you to