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Turtle Moon (Hoffman)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/turtle-moon-hoffman
know that she's written better. Frederick Busch - New York Times Book Review Combining aspects of a suspense thriller and a romance, and including such surefire elements as an abandoned baby, a youngster on the verge of juvenile delinquency who is...
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Turn of the Screw (James)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/turn-of-the-screw-james
widely with forms and methods, generally narrating from a conventionally omniscient point of view. Plots generally concern romance, except for the three big novels of social commentary that conclude this period. In the second period, as noted above, he...
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Edith B. Gelles, 2009 HarperCollins 338 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061354120 Summary The story of Abigail and John Adams is as much a romance as it is a lively chapter in the early history of this country. The marriage of the second president and first lady is...
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Unless (Shields)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/unless-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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Up Island (Siddons)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/up-island-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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Virgin Blue (Chevalier)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/virgin-blue-chevalier
popular Girl with a Pearl Earring and previously published in England, this brilliant hybrid historical novel/contemporary romance/mystery has the signature Chevalier touches of fluid language, strong characters, and imaginative plotting. At loose ends...
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an elephant who only responds to Polish commands. He also falls in love with Marlena, one of the show's star performers-a romance complicated by Marlena's husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski...
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Weight of Water (Shreve)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/weight-of-water-shreve
the increasingly twisted murder mystery and the escalating tensions unleashed by the threat of a dangerous shipboard romance. Written with assurance and grace, plangent with foreboding and a taut sense of inexorability, The Weight of Water is a...
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What Was Lost (O'Flynn)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/what-was-lost-oflynn
and the people transformed by it. It's also a mordantly funny depiction of the contemporary retail workplace. And it's a romance. These pieces should not fit together, but they do. O'Flynn is able to capture a character or a scene with a few perfect...
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White Queen (Gregory)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/white-queen-gregory
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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Wicked (Maguire)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/wicked-maguire
to protect the Animals—even it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Even wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself...
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money and now has oodles of it; and resourceful Sukie, who has channeled her pert sexuality into a string of bestselling romance novels. Deflecting mortality's momentum by compulsive traveling (Canada, China, Egypt—each "done" memorably, thanks to...
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Woman's Place (Austin)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/womans-place-austin
Cindy Crosby - Faithful Reader.com A very compelling story, A Woman's Place has found a place on my 'keeper' shelves. Romance Designs.com In an engrossing read, three-time Christy Award-winner Austin (All She Ever Wanted; Hidden Places) explores the...
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to Kingsbridge 200 years after Pillars and focuses on lives devastated by the Black Death. A Column of Fire (2017), a romance and novel of political intrigue, is set in the mid-16th century — a time when Queen Elizabeth finds herself beset by plots to...
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job is to create a marketing campaign for his urban wear. Jake’s job, it seems, is to distract her from her long-distance romance with Airic. When Venus’s mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, her entire world seems to crumble. Everything she thought...
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Year of the Flood (Atwood)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/year-of-the-flood-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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2000, etc.) returns with an alternate-history novel that succeeds as both a hardboiled detective story and a softhearted romance. In the aftermath of World War II, a Jewish homeland has been established in Alaska rather than Israel. Amid the mean...
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Zorro (Allende)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/zorro-allende
in Santiago, Chile, then in Brussels, Belgium, and elsewhere in Europe. Returning to Chile in 1996, Allende translated romance novels (including those of Barbara Cartland) from English to Spanish but was fired for making unauthorized changes to the...
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Stolen Innocence (Wall)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/stolen-innocence-wall
came in the form of a rugged stranger named Lamont Barlow. Their chance encounter set in motion a friendship and eventual romance that gave her the strength she needed to break free from her past and sever the chains of the church. But though she was...
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Ape House (Gruen)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/ape-house-gruen
because those apes put to shame our beloved Homo sapiens. Newark Star Ledger Part expose, part thriller, part gothic romance and part comedy and farce.... Gruen is a master at the popular novel plot. Asheville Citizen Times Gruen enjoys minimal luck in...
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