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Love Season (Hilderbrand)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/love-season-hilderbrand
Writers' Workshop • Currently—lives in Nantucket, Massachuestts Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer of Summer beach read romance novels, some 20 in all. Her books have been set on and around Nantucket Island where she lives with her husband and three...
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mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late-twentieth-century America returns to the emotional and geographical terrain of acclaimed...
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want to be found and when he is, doesn't want to sign the papers. Meanwhile, there's always time to enjoy good food and romance. Stone and Dino Bacchetti, his former NYPD partner, eat a lot of conch, while a beautiful Swedish doctor, Annika Swenson,...
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March, The (Doctorow)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/march-the-doctorow
near the end of the war, his disdain turns to awe. Discuss the reasons you believe he had this change of heart. 16. The romance between Stephen Walsh and Pearl Jameson stands in stark contrast to the war and destruction surrounding them. Describe their...
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Look at Me (Egan)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/look-at-me-egan
a pair of nightclub owners to track down Z because he absconded with a pile of their money, Halliday carries the scent of romance, but he also kicks off a chain of introductions that bizarrely lands Charlotte in the "mirrored room" of great fame. She is...
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Matrimony (Henkin)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/matrimony-henkin
Journal The second novel from the Brooklyn-based author of Swimming Across the Hudson (1997) is an appealing story of romance, wedlock, personal and spousal conflict and growth. Its principals are handsome, idealistic Julian Wainwright, son of a wealthy...
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My Enemy's Cradle (Young)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/my-enemys-cradle-young
takes great risks to help Cyrla. Despite her initial distrust, she eventually acknowledges she loves him. Their far-fetched romance is at odds with the well-researched description of the Nazi maternity program, and although Young tries toavoid...
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Must Love Dogs (Cook)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/must-love-dogs-cook
St. Louis Dispatch Following up on themes from her debut novel, Ready to Fall, which looked at the pitfalls of cyberspace romance, Cook here chronicles the perils of various tried and true dating ploys, from personals ads to the use of adorable pooches...
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Morality Tale (Brownrigg)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/morality-tale-brownrigg
So when Richard, a kindhearted envelope salesman, walks into the stationery store where Pan clerks, a harmless one-sided romance blooms in the form of letters Richard leaves for her. Of course, when Alan finds Richard's letters, he's less than...
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Gabrielle seeks his help in procuring identity documents falsifying her aristocratic past, and the two rekindle their romance. Gabrielle is again arrested when her employer, whose advances she spurns, informs on her. Pierre-Andre secures her release and...
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described Vickers' novel as a book that stubbornly defies any neat categorization. So what kind of a novel is this? A romance? A mystery? A tale of religious awakening? How does Vickers' novel depart from every genre to which we try to assign it? How...
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lives at Monica and Nate's house, though he is not sure he is her biological father. Deceptions, more killing, a budding romance between Lewis and a social worker—it's a lot of plot in one book. There are some strange, sad moments, as when Freddy and...
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mysterious and different about the way he acted, something masculine). An evening sail, some more hair-tossing, and a new romance is well underway though the question remains whether Garrett can free himself from his grief and love for the tragically...
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Off Season (Siddons)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/off-season-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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Olive Kitteridge (Strout)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/olive-kitteridge-strout
the world at large. But she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational...
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On Chesil Beach (McEwan)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/on-chesil-beach-mcewan
was accused of plagiarism, specifically a passage in Atonement that closely echoed one from a 2012 memoir, No Time for Romance, by Lucilla Andrews. McEwan acknowledged using the book as a source for his work; in fact, he had included a brief note at the...
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One Good Turn (Atkinson)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/one-good-turn-atkinson
Russian dominatrix who even to Gloria seems "like a comedy Russian"; and a mysterious agency named Favors. Brodie's waning romance with Julia and waxing one with Louise; a dying cat; children; dead parents and much more are lengthily considered as...
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Oryx and Crake (Atwood)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/oryx-and-crake-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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appearing alongside Gregory in a documentary about Anne Boleyn, described her work as "good Mills and Boon" (a publisher of romance novels), adding that: "We really should stop taking historical novelists seriously as historians. The idea that they have...
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was formerly married to the television dramatist Ian Curteis. Trollope's books are generally upmarket family dramas and romances that somewhat transcend these genres via striking realism in terms of human psychology and relationships. Several of her...
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