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Remember Me? (Kinsella)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/remember-me-kinsella
ensues as Lexi attempts to reclaim her past and negotiate her dazzling present, while contemplating an even more wondrous romance with a black-jeans-clad architect. That Lexi discovers that her transformation from worker to boss turned her from good...
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to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. (From the publisher.) Author Bio • Birth—March 7, 1964 • Where—Los Angeles, California, USA • Education—B.A., Bennington...
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and Chang in a web of crimes as varied as drug trafficking, sexual perversion, and thieving, the young lovers find their romance meeting resistance and complication at every turn. While her characters are engaging and her pacing quick, Furnivall's...
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2nd Chance (Patterson)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/2nd-chance-patterson
with other writers — including Peter de Jonge, Andrew Gross, Maxine Paetro, and Howard Roughan — and has even ventured into romance (Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, Sam's Letters to Jennifer) and children's literature (santaKid). Writing at an astonishing...
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Sacred Hearts (Dunant)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sacred-hearts-dunant
convent's newest novice, Serafina, is miserable, having been shunted off by her father to separate her from a forbidden romance. She also has a singing voice that will be the glory of the convent and-more importantly to some-a substantial bonus for the...
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Saturday (McEwan)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/saturday-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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for allegory, appears to be satire. Andrew Solomon - New York Times A superbly executed, good-hearted farce that is part romance and part mystery....With Tan's many talents on display, it's her idiosyncratic wit and sly observations...that make this...
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Highly recommended. Library Journal Pickard shows her storytelling skills, weaving elements of deception, revenge, and romance into a novel with full-bodied characters who deal with tragedy as best they can; Annabelle Linder’s encounter with Crosby’s...
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The Scent of Rosa's Oil is a captivating reading experience with an original plot and an unusual setting. —Jane Bowers Romance Review Today.com Simoni's juicy debut is the story of Rosa, a young Genoan woman born to a prostitute and orphaned at birth in...
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Screwtape Letters (Lewis)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/screwtape-letters-lewis
Jackson, writing in Salon, called "a fascinating attempt to compress an almost druidic reverence for wild nature, Arthurian romance, Germanic folklore, the courtly poetry of Renaissance England and the fantastic beasts of Greek and Norse mythology into...
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the day. The fact that the characters happen to be African-American adds nothing to this standard woman's empowerment romance. Kirkus Reviews Discussion Questions 1. In the beginning of SFTT, Lena is scattered and no longer able to manage her life. Were...
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that the time-honored ghost story, capably researched, well-paced and fusing the Gothic elements of mystery, madness and romance, can still thrill in the hands of a skilled craftsman. Kirkus Reviews Discussion Questions 1. Before reading the book, take...
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- Category: Young Adult Fiction
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of the Irish myth of the selkie-half-seal, half-woman-as told by Iris's mother. Mystery, folklore, a thoroughly modern romance, a strong sense of place and a winning combination of erudition and accessibility make this second novel a treat. Publisher's...
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stories, and the moral dilemmas they raise, Jane Austen explores in the form of a delightful and dramatically satisfying romance the limitations and pitfalls of the Romantic aesthetic in a world where money matters. Though Northanger Abbey (originally...
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instead her alter-ego Carrie (like the author, a blonde writer from Connecticut in her mid-30s), whose sweet if feckless romance with Mr. Big, a nondescript power player, serves as a foil for the hilarious, unsentimentalized misadventures of her peers....
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The histories of a mysterious book and its enigmatic author are painstakingly disentangled in this yeasty Dickensian romance…. The Shadow of the Wind will keep you up nights—and it'll be time well spent. Absolutely marvelous. Kirkus Reviews Discussion...
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Shell Seekers (Pilcher)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/shell-seekers-pilcher
love stories for women's magazines at her kitchen table using the pen name Jane Fraser. In 1949, Pilcher's first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills and Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. She published an additional ten novels under that...
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Single Thread (Bostwick)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/single-thread-bostwick
illness and recovery are the catalysts that force the others to re-examine their own lives, while hints of a possible romance for Evelyn add a complementary thread to the friendship, community and illness story lines. Bostwick's polished style and...
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and the mysterious Manfred, Wehrmacht corporal. Bohjalian (The Double Bind, 2007, etc.) brings them together for an epic romance based on a true-life World War II diary. Callum and Anna, her family in tow, are fleeing Russian invaders, crossing the...
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To what extent are Guterson's characters defined by their feelings for their natural environment? 16. Ishmael's adolescent romance with Hatsue has been the defining fact of his life, its loss even more wounding than the loss of his arm. Yet when Hatsue...
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