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Last Queen (Gortner)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/last-queen-gortner
Flanders, France and Tudor England, Juana of Castile reveals her life and secrets in this captivating historical novel of romance, grandeur, power and treachery by the acclaimed author of The Secret Lion. (From the publisher. Author Bio • Birth—N/A •...
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shredded with loss, A Visit From the Goon Squad is often darkly, rippingly funny. Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart. Certainly the targets are plentiful in rock 'n' roll and public relations, the twinned cultural industries...
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might seem redundant to dismiss the fourth and final Twilight novel as escapist fantas—but how else could anyone look at a romance about an ordinary, even clumsy teenager torn between a vampire and a werewolf, both of whom are willing to sacrifice their...
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- Category: Young Adult Fiction
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Fall of Giants (Follett)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/fall-of-giants-follett
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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Secret Kept (de Rosnay)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/secret-kept-rosnay
though one of the novel’s big secrets is revealed mid-tale). Expect demand among fans of both literary mystery and high-end romance. —Allison Block Booklist The story of an emotionally distant family as it struggles to come to grips with changing...
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Stern Men (Gilbert)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/stern-men-gilbert
smart and crafty woman can take charge and end decades of feuding, that sleeping with the enemy can be a good idea. Theres romance here, but little sentimentality and, mercifully (considering that this is a first novel by a young urban woman), no trendy...
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tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self- discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances,...
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professionally in Hollywood. Can Trista, the hyper-driven celebrity agent, find the time to schedule a meaningful romance? Will Amaya, the sexy starlet, convince the married hip hop-label exec she has been seeing to leave his wife, or will the NBA star...
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Red Hook Road (Waldman)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/red-hook-road-waldman
and portrait of grief, no matter how bleak, others felt hoodwinked by an overly depressing, cliched story of fairytale romance and family relationships gone terribly awry. Bookmarks Magazine [A] lyrical tale of love and loss...Waldman's startling...
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Cleopatra (Schiff)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/cleopatra-schiff
of her life; a relationship with Julius Caesar, forged while under siege in her palace, launched her into a deadly mix of romance and strategy; a pleasure cruise down the Nile followed, a child, and a trip to Rome, which ended in Cleopatra's flight....
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- Category: Non-Fiction
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savvy Parrot. Carey exploits this comic material only fitfully, though he cooks up some adventures for the odd couple and a romance for Olivier, who falls for the daughter of a Connecticut landowner ("I had arrived, quite unexpectedly, in Paradise.")...
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and vows to rescue her, whatever the cost. Again, Grady's earlier Mexican adventures motivate and inform this desperate romance. McCarthy's prose is mesmerizing, and his descriptions of the Southwest and the vanishing cowboy lifestyle are superb. This...
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How to Start a Book Clubhttps://www.litlovers.com/start-a-book-club
of difficulty. First, consider a mix of genres. Fiction—general, current or classic, historical, mystery, sci-fi, western, romance. Nonfiction—memoir, biography, history, current events, science, travel, cooking. Others—poetry and drama. Next, vary your...
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world building, the acute social commentary and the large cast of fully realized characters, there's action, intrigue, romance and some amount of hope in a story readers will find completely engrossing. Collins weaves in enough background for this novel...
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- Category: Young Adult Fiction
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Week in December (Faulks)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/week-in-december-faulks
the closing chapters. What determines whether the novel's characters are "immune" to love or open to it (both in terms of romance and familial love)? 15. In what ways does A Week in December represent a departure for Sebastian Faulks? In what ways does...
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from the mailbag: My best friend and I started a book club together. But it turns out that she just wants to read light romances. The rest of us like variety—bios, historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy—and novels a little more challenging. Any...
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- Category: Book Club Blues
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First Family (Ellis)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/first-family-ellis
Ellis (Founding Brothers) gives "the premier husband-wife team in all American history" starring roles in an engrossing romance. His Abigail has an acute intellect, but is not quite a protofeminist heroine: her ambitions are limited to being a mother...
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Vintage Affair (Wolff)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/vintage-affair-wolff
two children, Alice and Edmund. In my spare time I play table football with them. (From the author's website.) Book Reviews Romance in a vintage clothes shop—we were sold from line one. Luckily, this book lives up to its hype, and is filled with all the...
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Innocent (Turow)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/innocent-turow
only son, more of a legal scholar than his father though with some of his mother's emotional instability, and the whirlwind romance between the junior Sabich and the former clerk for the senior Sabich. To reveal more would undermine the reader's own...
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pp. ISBN-13: 9780802145338 Summary The extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world. When...
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- Category: Non-Fiction