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Fortune is a Woman (Adler)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/fortune-is-a-woman-adler
Using standard rags-to-riches ingredients, she gives us a trio of Cinderellas who suffer and survive their way to fortune, romance and a predictable happy ending. Set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and Hong Kong, the novel tells the stories of...
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them or do you intend to? How do they compare to your own recipes... or you own way of cooking? 9. Were you expecting the romance between Joey and Loretta to develop? When Joey returns why does Francesca begin to develop reservations about what she's...
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is universally regarded as a modern classic. (From the publisher.) The French Lieutenant's Woman, on one level a historical romance, is on another level an audacious, innovative experiment in storytelling. The novel portrays Victorian characters living...
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Friend of My Youth (Munro)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/friend-of-my-youth-munro
and Comox, British Columbia Even though Alice Munro is known for her love stories, don't mistake her for just another romance writer. Munro never romanticizes love, but rather presents it in all of its frustrating complexity. She does not feel impelled...
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Gate at the Stairs (Moore)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/gate-at-the-stairs-moore
noticer. Tassie's instincts are sound, but her comic innocence takes a tragic turn, as she falls into her first serious romance, finds a job as nanny for an adopted, biracial baby and suffers some aftershocks from 9/11 a long way from Manhattan. The...
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Gates of Fire (Pressfield)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/gates-of-fire-pressfield
Culminating in the electrifying and horrifying epic battle, Gates of Fire weaves history, mystery, and heartbreaking romance into a literary page-turner that brings the Homeric tradition into the 21st century. (From the publisher.) Author Bio •...
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combines exquisite writing, vivid personalities, and imaginative storylines while subtly contemplating race, romance, family, and self. 2005 - Gods in Alabama 2006 - Between, Georgia 2008 - The Girl Who Stopped Swimming 2010 - Backseat Saints 2012 - A...
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to know them so well. The central question—what happened to Harriet?—is answered in due course, and other matters involving romance and revenge are wrapped up as well. It's a book that lingers in the mind. Patrick Anderson - Washington Post It’s like a...
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Girls in Trucks (Crouch)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/girls-in-trucks-crouch
her lifelong friend, Georgia. How would you reconcile Sarah’s mother’s staunch Southern gentility with this unconventional romance? 12. Toward the end of the book we meet J.T., a classic Southern man from Sarah’s youth, with the truck to prove it. How...
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Glass Castle (Walls)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/glass-castle-walls
fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town—and the family—Rex Walls had...
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Glass Palace (Ghosh)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/glass-palace-ghosh
lush, dangerous atmosphere of teak camps in the Burmese forest with fine detail—a perfect balance for the broad strokes of romance and serendipity that drive the story forward. The book's memorial power is so strong that, near the end, when Rajkumar, an...
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Golden Mean (Lyon)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/golden-mean-lyon
offers us that rarest of treats: a book about philosophy, about the power of ideas, that chortles and sings like an earthy romance. Jury - Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, 2009 top of page Book Club Discussion Questions 1. What do you believe is the...
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Goldengrove (Prose)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/goldengrove-prose
detail, Nico relates the subsequent events of that summer. Nico was a willing confidant and decoy in Margaret's clandestine romance with a high school classmate, Aaron, and Nico now finds that she and Aaron are drawn to each other in their mutual...
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Good Soldier (Ford)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/good-soldier-ford
essays, poetry, memoir and literary criticism, and collaborated with Joseph Conrad on two novels, The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). His novel Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1911, extensively revised in 1935) is, in a sense, the reverse of Mark...
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Handling Sin (Malone)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/handling-sin-malone
to #11. (From Wikipedia.) Book Reviews Demonstrating a spirited grasp of the genre, Malone (Dingley Falls) has written a "romance novel'' in the original sense: a long tale of chivalrous heroes and extraordinary events. This madcap book bubbles with a...
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Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/handmaids-tale-atwood
further graduate studies at Harvard University for two years but did not finish her dissertation, “The English Metaphysical Romance." She has taught at the University of British Columbia (1965), Sir George Williams University in Montreal (1967–68), the...
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lawyer in Silicon Valley, Elinor is addicted to writing lists and sorting the laundry, leaving little room for romance or even dinner with her husband. Ted wonders why she's no fun anymore and readily succumbs to Gina's seduction. Winston doesn't...
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Heart and Soul (Binchy)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/heart-and-soul-binchy
met children's author Gordon Snell, then a freelance producer with the BBC. Their friendship blossomed into a cross-border romance, with her in Ireland and him in London, until she eventually secured a job in London through the Irish Times. She and...
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mother to six-year-old Charlie—a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance—and even to some degree, friendships—believing that it is always safer not to expect too much. Although both women live in...
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Heartbreak Hotel (Siddons)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/heartbreak-hotel-siddons
the region is loving, but realistic. "It's like an old marriage or a long marriage. The commitment is absolute, but the romance has long since worn off...I want to write about it as it really is: I don't want to romanticize it." • Siddons' debut novel...
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