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Sashenka (Montefiore)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sashenka-montefiore
ventures successfully into fiction with the epic story of Sashenka Zeitlin, a privileged Russian Jew caught up in the romance of the Russian revolution and then destroyed by the Stalinist secret police. The novel's first section, set in 1916, describes...
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meets Augustus Waters, a former basketball player who has lost a leg to cancer. The connection is instant, and a (doomed) romance blossoms. There is a road trip—Augustus, whose greatest fear is not of death but that his life won't amount to anything,...
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- Category: Young Adult Fiction
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Home Front (Hannah)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/home-front-hannah
that she believed I would become a writer. For the next few months, we collaborated on the worst, most clichéd historical romance ever written. After my mom's death, I packed up all those bits and pieces of paper we'd collected and put them in a box in...
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combines exquisite writing, vivid personalities, and imaginative storylines while subtly contemplating race, romance, family, and self. 2005 - Gods in Alabama 2006 - Between, Georgia 2008 - The Girl Who Stopped Swimming 2010 - Backseat Saints 2012 - A...
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Backseat Saints (Jackson)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/backseat-saints-jackson
combines exquisite writing, vivid personalities, and imaginative storylines while subtly contemplating race, romance, family, and self. 2005 - Gods in Alabama 2006 - Between, Georgia 2008 - The Girl Who Stopped Swimming 2010 - Backseat Saints 2012 - A...
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Available Man (Wolitzer)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/available-man-wolitzer
that it's not a childish insistence on finding everything delightful but the full complexity of experience that gives a romance, late-life or otherwise, its real beauty. Minneapolis Star-Tribune Families are Wolitzer’s turf, and she’s an observant and...
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Older Readers—Australian Children's Book Council Meet Ed Kennedy—underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he’s hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey....
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- Category: Young Adult Fiction
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roommate Allegra is a supportive friend until Frankie wins the literary prize (read snippet of Frankie's story about Jamie romance). After graduation, Frankie moves to Greenwich Village and finds a job at True Story. Allegra's brother Oliver, working at...
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2011 HarperCollins 256 pp. ISBN-13: 9780062033321 Summary At eighty-five, Teo is ready to retire from the bombast and romance of life as one of the world's most influential choreographers. But when he meets Vivi, a fortyish waitress at a Tel Aviv cafe,...
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- New York Times Book Review the best new work of fiction to cross my desk in many moons. Mason…has written an unabashed romance, a classic story of a young man who rises from unprepossessing circumstances to win the favor of the rich and...
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of any of them. While trying to stay on course toward a strict deadline—and with an ex-boyfriend back in the picture, a new romance on the scene, and her son’s rehab not going as planned—Lucy discovers that Marva isn’t just hoarding, she is also hiding...
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Dressmaker (Alcott)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/dressmaker-alcott
about one of the most documented and researched tragedies in human history Library Journal It's Titanic revisited, in a romance focused on the survivors and the scandal, seen from the perspective of an aspiring seamstress whose fortunes intertwine with...
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La Cucina (Prior)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/la-cucina-prior
mysterious seasons and the treasures found in each one. It celebrates family, food, passion, and the eternal rapture of romance. (From the publisher.) Author Bio Lily Prior is the author of La Cucina, Ardor, and Nectar and she divides her time between...
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Newlyweds (Freudenberger)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/newlyweds-freudenberger
York Times Book Review [A] delight, one of the easiest book recommendations of the year.... The cross-cultural tensions and romance so well drawn here recall the pleasures of Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew's Last Stand......
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Red House (Haddon)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/red-house-haddon
and come to the attention of other characters. How do the involved parties deal with the divulgence of these intimacies? 7. Romance, lust and longing weave themselves through the novel. Discuss the romantic and sexual urges of Louisa, Alex, Dominic, and...
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Angel Time (Rice)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/angel-time-rice
Book World Full of provocative moral reflections, this kickoff to bestseller Rice's new Songs of the Seraphim religious romance series centers on hired assassin Toby O'Dare, a one-time aspirant to the priesthood until personal tragedy unmoored his life....
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American novelist searching for pieces of her family history. Verdict: Bohjalian powerfully narrates an intricately nuanced romance with a complicated historical event at the forefront. With the centennial of the Armenian genocide fast approaching, this...
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Porch Lights (Frank)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/porch-lights-frank
complement each other? 5. Would you call Annie a romantic? Early on in the novel she admits, "Maybe I was too old for romance or a new love. But I refused to completely believe such a depressing thought because of Deb. She says that on the day you stop...
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Next Best Thing (Weiner)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/next-best-thing-weiner
a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book—in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.... I think it's irrefutable that when...
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Dog Stars (Heller)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/dog-stars-heller
exact their toll, along with his sorrow for the dying world.... Heller’s surprising and irresistible blend of suspense, romance, social insight, and humor creates a cunning form of cognitive dissonance neatly pegged by Hig as an "apocalyptic parody of...
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