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Pamuk's international reputation continued to increase when he published My Name is Red in 2000. The novel blends mystery, romance, and philosophical puzzles in a setting of 16th century Istanbul. That book won international literature's most lucrative...
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garnering three Academy Awards. (From Wikipedia.) Book Reviews Part historical novel, part fairy tale, part Dickensian romance, Memoirs of a Geisha is not only a richly sympathetic portrait of a woman, but a finely observed picture of an anomalous and...
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the advances of a nubile, "apple-breasted" co-cyclist after seeing a vision of his dead sister; and nurtures a telephone romance with a paraplegic family friend as he processes his rocky past. McLarty, a playwright and television actor, propels the plot...
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Oscar and Lucinda (Carey)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/oscar-and-lucinda-carey
443 pp. ISBN-13: 9780679777502 Summary Winner, 1988 Booker Prize This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent—a...
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Not My Daughter (Delinsky)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/not-my-daughter-delinsky
Boston College • Awards—Romantic Times Magazine: Special Achievement (twice), Reviewer's Choice, and Best Contemporary Romance Awards; from Romance Writers of America: Golden Medallion and Golden Leaf Awards. • Currently—lives in Newton, Massachusetts...
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Notebook (Sparks)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/notebook-sparks
with common thoughts," reads a love story from a notebook; it is his own story.... If you want to read a novel in which the romance is grounded in something real, and the magic is truly magical, read the work of Alice Hoffman. If you want to read an...
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daughter of one of Tito’s partisans. She’s in her twenties but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And although she’s not a hooker, when she’s propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway. Over the...
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book written by the enigmatic Deliverance Dane. During Connie's investigation, she relies on a handsome steeplejack for romance and her mother and an expert on American colonial history for clues and support. While the twisty plot and Howe's habit of...
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that Mr. Darcy wars an indication of his real character? Or has Elizabeth's pride gotten in the way of her chance for true romance? (From Norton Critical Editions .) Author Bio • Born—December 16, 1775 • Where—Steventon in Hampshire, UK • Death—July 18,...
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Little Stranger (Waters)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/little-stranger-waters
How does Mrs. Ayres’s personal history affect her feelings about Hundreds? 12. Do you find Caroline and Dr. Faraday’s romance a strange one? Do you think Caroline was ever invested in the relationship? Was Faraday? Do you think their marriage could have...
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Raw Shark Texts (Hall)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/raw-shark-texts-hall
who tells Eric he is afflicted with a "dissociative condition." Eric learns about his former life—specifically a glorious romance with girlfriend Clio Aames, who drowned three years earlier—and is soon on the run from the Ludovician, a "species of...
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with stylists and costumes, literally fighting for her life in the arena. Intense, graphic action, along with a touch of romance, makes this dystopic adventure a great choice for older reluctant readers. Although the plot mimics both Stephen King's The...
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- Category: Young Adult Fiction
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Rossetti Letter (Phillips)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/rossetti-letter-phillips
is more than a little bit thrilling to read. The alternate story lines, each including intrigue, adventure, and a touch of romance, are nicely woven together; the details are seamlessly blended. Recommended for all fiction collections. Anna M. Nelson -...
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creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal. Swarup's Q & A [Slumdog Millionaire] is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know — not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its...
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Swan Thieves (Kostova)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/swan-thieves-kostova
packet of letters and the testimony of Robert's ex-wife and ex-girlfriend as guides, Marlow dives into a mystery of romance and impressionist art dating back to late 19th-century France. Love and obsession are the primary themes of Kostova's...
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Swimming Pool (LeCraw)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/swimming-pool-lecraw
2010 Knopf Doubleday 320 pp. ISBN-13: 9780385531931 Summary A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: welcome to summer on the Cape in this powerful debut. Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey,...
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Then She Found Me (Lipman)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/then-she-found-me-lipman
Sam Sacks of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Lipman "has long been one of our wittiest chroniclers of modern-day romance." The author was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. She graduated from Simmons College in Boston where she studied...
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recipes for a few of the dishes with which she charmed the stranger. Publishers Weekly Venice is almost synonymous with romance, and in this charming account de Blasi spares no detail in telling us how she fell under its spell. A journalist, restaurant...
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blue, and from the title sprang the characters, and from the characters came the story." The Time Traveler's Wife, a sci-fi romance about the mercurial time traveler Henry and Clare, the wife who patiently awaits his return to the present, became a...
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True Colors (Hannah)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/true-colors-hannah
that she believed I would become a writer. For the next few months, we collaborated on the worst, most cliched historical romance ever written. After my mom's death, I packed up all those bits and pieces of paper we'd collected and put them in a box in...
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