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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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Committed (Gilbert)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/committed-gilbert
attitudes toward matrimony. All the while she and Felipe deepened their commitment to one another, putting their beachside romance to a stronger test—living out of bags in foreign countries, under the emotional duress of indeterminate exile, for months...
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marrying Edgeworth because she thinks he fathered a housemaid's illegitimate child. Mary also resents that he broke off her romance with a man he found unsuitable. Mary and Jane/Courtney travel the Austen map, first to Bath, then to London, along the...
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letters arrive from creditors demanding payment on her delinquent accounts. We won't spoil the surprise ending (think romance, not drudgery!), but Sophie Kinsella is sure to delight Americans with her savvy debut novel, a main line into the heartbeat of...
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Conjurer (Biddle)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/conjurer-biddle
prisoner, Ruth; the ritual slayings of several young girl prostitutes; and Eusapio Paladino, a conjurer and necromancer who claims to communicate with the dead. (From the publisher.) Author Bio • Other name—Nero Blanc (with her husband Steve Zettler)...
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Copper Beech (Binchy)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/copper-beech-binchy
met children's author Gordon Snell, then a freelance producer with the BBC. Their friendship blossomed into a cross-border romance, with her in Ireland and him in London, until she eventually secured a job in London through the Irish Times. She and...
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Creation of Eve (Cullen)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/creation-of-eve-cullen
of the Inquisition while handling these vivid characters with prodigious control. The Creation of Eve is a historical romance that teaches as it touches. Eugenia Zuckerman - Washington Post Cullen's previous books include I Am Rembrandt's Daughter and...
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cancer strikes M'Dear, who dies with noble grace in 1970. Grief-stricken Calla remains plucky, buoyed by her long-term romance with Tuck, who lives with his grandparents in La Luna to escape his alcoholic mother and sadistic father. As she graduates...
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and change over the course of the novel? 9. A passionate, unique love affair sets Cutting for Stone in motion, and yet this romance remains a mystery—even to the key players—until the very conclusion of the novel. How does the relationship between...
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Daisy Miller (James)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/daisy-miller-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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Dear John (Sparks)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/dear-john-sparks
hard to picture John Tyree. We can simply imagine his predecessors, men in uniform staring pensively from earlier wartime romances. Apart from the occasional detail—e-mail, cellphone, Outback Steakhouse—Dear John could take place in any modern American...
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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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Dearly Departed (Lipman)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/dearly-departed-lipman
Sam Sacks of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Lipman "has long been one of our wittiest chroniclers of modern-day romance." The author was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. She graduated from Simmons College in Boston where she studied...
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Daisy identifies the murderer, suggests a solution pleasing to most of the family and secures the possibility of romance in her future. Publishers Weekly Discussion Questions Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any...
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Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. (From the publisher.) Author Bio • Birth—January 3, 1954 •...
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Divine Husband (Goldman)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/divine-husband-goldman
an Indian tribe on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. Certain sequences (a journey to the interior of the republic, the romance between Maria and the "king" of the Mosquitos, etc.) are beautifully written. The narrative, however, loses his sense of what...
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Dracula (Stoker)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/dracula-stoker
Dracula. Inspired by the folk legend of nosferatu, the undead, Stoker created a timeless tale of gothic horror and romance that has enthralled and terrified readers ever since. A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation,...
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Early Bird (Rothman)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/early-bird-rothman
who plans on becoming an old person will enjoy joining Rodney on his strange journey, as he reconsiders hisnotions of romance, family, friendship, and ultimately, whether he's ever going back to work. (From the publisher.) Author Bio Rodney Rothman is...
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Emma (Austen)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/emma-austen
and Emma's absurd father Mr. Woodhouse—a memorable gallery of Austen's finest personages. Thinking herself impervious to romance of any kind, Emma tries to arrange a wealthy marriage for poor Harriet, but refuses to recognize her own feelings for the...
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Emperor's Children (Messud)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/emperors-children-messud
in the book she's supposedly writing, about children's clothing, living with her parents after the breakup of a long-time romance. Their uneasy stasis is disrupted by two new arrivals. Australian Ludovic Seeley, funded by a Murdoch-like mogul to edit a...
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