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love and their attendant complexities. San Francisco Chronicle Giffin, a former lawyer turned debut novelist, infuses this romance with dead-on dialogue, real-life complexity, and genuine warmth. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Both hilarious and...
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she ponders “the sins of the Midwest.” She says, “flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?” How do these sentiments resonate throughout the story? Why did the author choose...
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Topics in Calamity Physics, the dazzling debut of Marisha Pessl, is a buoyant combination of comedy, tragedy, mystery, and romance, a story of disturbing secrets and the eccentric high school student who uncovers them. In vivid prose sprinkled with...
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Staying On (Scott)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/staying-on-scott
exploring with passionate, concentrated attention a subject still generally treated as taboo, or fit only for historical romance and adventure stories. However Scott saw things other people would sooner not see, and he looked too close for comfort. His...
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Stone Diaries (Shields)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/stone-diaries-shields
Carnival and other titles). Though she often covered serious topics, she rarely did so without humor. Her novel of mid-life romance, Republic of Love, was called by the New York Times a "touching, elegantly funny, luscious work of fiction," an...
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Stone Creek (Lustbader)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/stone-creek-lustbader
desperate attempts to plug life's gaps give Lustbader's second novel its emotional edge, while there's plenty of steam for romance readers. Publishers Weekly Lustbader's second novel (after Hidden) is a story of troubled lives and misunderstandings in...
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Story Sisters (Hoffman)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/story-sisters-hoffman
the love they had for each other? 11. When Annie hires Pete to track down Elv, the two strike up a friendship that leads to romance. What do you make of Pete’s decision to stay with Annie and pursue a relationship with her even though he knows he...
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Sugar Queen (Allen)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sugar-queen-allen
settled into an uneventful life in her mother’s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night. Until she finds her closet harboring Della Lee Baker, a local waitress who is one part...
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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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Sweetwater Creek (Siddons)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sweetwater-creek-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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a young woman influenced and aided by a group of older female friends. Kate has been deeply shaken by the collapse of her romance with longtime boyfriend Ethan. She takes her deceased mother's advice to heart and travels to Ireland, hoping to gain a...
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love with Poldi Kosiner, the son of Polish refugees, but he could find work only in Italy, and they had to continue their romance by correspondence. When the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, the Karpels were immediately affected by the new anti-Jewish...
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Stef Penney deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelation, and humor into an exhilarating thriller; a panoramic historical romance; a gripping murder mystery; and, ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, an epic for the ages....
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These Is My Words (Turner)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/these-is-my-words-turner
familial triumphs and tragedies, Jack must leave for the last time—in a super weeper of a death scene. A lushly satisfying romance, period-authentic, with true-grit pioneering. Kirkus Reviews Discussion Questions Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources;...
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Setterfield's sensible heroine is, like Jane Eyre, full of repressed feeling-and is unprepared for both heartache and romance. And like Jane, she's a real reader and makes a terrific narrator. That's where the comparisons end, but Setterfield, who lives...
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Thirteen Moons (Frazier)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/thirteen-moons-frazier
past magnificently to life, indicts America with painful bluntness for the betrayal of its native people and recounts a romance rife with sadness. In a departure from Cold Mountain's Inman, Will Cooper narrates his own story in retrospect, beginning...
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and a book that was shorter, leaner and freer of fawning. Pamela Constable - Washington Post Laced with drama, danger, romance, and good deeds, Mortenson's story serves as a reminder of the power of a good idea and the strength inherent in one person's...
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love starts to blossom for both of them, and they find themselves struggling with the dueling demands of reason and romance. (From the publisher.) Author Bio • Birth—1953 • Where—Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA • Education— B.A., Barnard College •...
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Tis the Season (Landvik)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/tis-the-season-landvik
good will out the window—the one and only "Buzz," who has been shish-kabobbing Caro for years. Will everyone get along? Is romance in the air? Will the spirit of giving triumph? The story, a succession of page-long messages followed by longer e-mails...
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teacher and divorced mother of a teenage daughter, meets Dana, she feels she's at the beginning of an intense, ideal romance. But Dana reveals that he's always felt himself to be a woman and plans to have the surgery that will make that feeling a...
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