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Outside Wonderland (Cook)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/outside-wonderland-cook
a strong religious faith in Greece and her belief in fate and purpose makes her put family first yet she longs for love and romance. Griffin knows that families are fragile and he loves his partner Theo deeply but feels parenthood is for other...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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Shantaram (Roberts)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/shantaram-roberts
device work? 10. Some reviewers find Roberts' prose style heavy-handed, even silly, bordering on the purple prose of cheap romance stories. Others find the prose lush, vibrant, and compelling. Can you find examples of either style? Overall, what is your...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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Cold Sassy Tree (Burns)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/cold-sassy-tree-burns
he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel—about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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So Big (Ferber)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/so-big-ferber
of Ferber taken in 1927. Personal life Ferber had no children, never married, and is not known to have engaged in a romance or sexual relationship with anyone of either gender. In her early novel Dawn O'Hara, the title character's aunt is said to have...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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Course 2—Lecturehttps://www.litlovers.com/litcourse-course2-lecture
of St. Augustine's Confessions or The City of God.) The Middle Ages eventually saw the rise of a new art form—the medieval romance. Romances are long meandering tales of knights and high-born ladies, populated with threatening beasts and supernatural...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Course 2
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Course 9—Lecturehttps://www.litlovers.com/litcourse-course9-lecture
them as "conventional" symbols. Conventional symbols • ring—love and marriage • flag—nation and patriotism • heart—love and romance • yellow ribbon—homecoming • owl—wisdom • scepter—power and monarchy LitCourse 9 How to Read: Symbol 3...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Course 9
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Course 4—Study Guideshttps://www.litlovers.com/litcourse-course4-studyguide
funny; at the same time, his jabs are trenchant and insightful. Updike is having fun in this story: think of it as a mock romance—a knight in shining armor who comes to the aid of a damsel in distress. Medieval romances were all about knights and...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Course 4
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BookClubEtc.https://www.litlovers.com/featured-clubs/bookclubetc
Brown (What Mama Taught Me) at Hampton University Library, and we co-sponsored (along with another book club) a panel of romance authors at the University, which included Donna Hill, among others. Our events are always open to the public. You also...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Featured Clubs
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First the Foodhttps://www.litlovers.com/featured-clubs/first-the-food
Father made us wonder how much we connect with our ethnic/racial backgrounds. The Post-Birthday World piqued questions of romance and fidelity. The Sparrow because of its religious and ethical conundrums. Life of Pi got us to consider faith and its role...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Featured Clubs
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Luna Book Clubhttps://www.litlovers.com/featured-clubs/luna
your members? We've evolved over the years. When we first started, we wanted entertainment—plot-driven books with plenty of romance and...uh, sex. Now we look for books that speak to us personally, that have a powerful message relating to our lives....
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Featured Clubs
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settling in new lands, building anew, and often finding that they have not left racism behind. The drama, poignancy, and romance of a classic immigrant saga pervade this book, hold the reader in its grasp, and resonate long after the reading is done....
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Non-Fiction
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and cynical snitches ready to turn them in. In the end, it’s more than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order—it’s a deeply stirring story of two people standing up for what’s right, and...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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In Country (Mason)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/in-country-mason
In Country with another novel in 1988, Spence and Lila. She has since published others: Feather Crowns (1993), An Atomic Romance (2005), and The Girl in the Blue Beret (2011). Mason also published her memoir Clear Springs in 1999. Mason has received a...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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Marriage Plot (Eugenides)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/marriage-plot-eugenides
the finest of contemporary novelists. Kirkus Reviews Discussion Questions Introduction Does modern love have any need for romance, much less marriage? For Madeleine Hanna, an English major writing a senior thesis with the marriage plot as the...
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- Category: Fiction
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in 2005 with the surprise bestseller Love Walked In. Optioned almost immediately for the movies, this elegant "literary romance" introduced Cornelia Brown, a diminutive, 30-something Philadelphian with a passion for classic film and an unshakable belief...
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- Category: Fiction
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and personal tragedies, and provides fertile ground for biographers. Fraser's sizable new portrait avoids the saccharine romance of Evelyne Lever's recent Marie Antoinette, balancing empathy for the pleasure-loving queen with an awareness of the...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Non-Fiction
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Bossypants (Fey)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/bossypants-fey
halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Non-Fiction
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Hedy's Folly (Rhodes)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/hedys-folly-rhodes
book on Hollywood screen legend Hedy Lamarr unveils the inquisitive brain behind the beauty.... [It] reads at turns like a romance novel, patent law primer, noir narrative and exercise in forensic psychology.... Rhodes...ends up shedding valuable...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Non-Fiction
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Christmas Train (Baldacci)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/christmas-train-baldacci
is loaded with cool train lore (Baldacci dedicates the book to "everyone who loves trains and holidays") and plenty of romance and good cheer, though suspense is low who can doubt how things will work out? and the author gets a bit preachy about the...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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tell you about Mr. Rivers? How would you describe his feelings toward Elise as the novel progresses? 4. Kit and Elise’s romance stirs up a great deal of emotion in and around Tyneford. What is your opinion of how Mr. Rivers receives the news of Kit’s...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction