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Ladies' Man (Lipman)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/ladies-man-lipman
The Ladies' Man Elinor Lipman, 1998 Knopf Doubleday 260 pp. ISBN-13: 9780375707315 Summary From the bestselling author of The Inn at Lake Devine ("Rivals her own best work for its understanding of the way smart, opinionated people stumble toward...
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- Category: Fiction
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Falling Together Marisa de los Santos, 2011 HarperCollins 384 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061670886 Summary What if saying hello to an old friend meant saying good-bye to life as you know it? It’s been six years since Pen Calloway watched her best friends walk...
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- Category: Fiction
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Flora (Godwin)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/flora-godwin
Flora Gail Godwin, 2013 Bloomsbury 288 pp. ISBN-13: 9781620401200 Summary Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final...
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- Category: Fiction
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Home Fire (Shamsie)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/home-fire-shamsie
Home Fire Kamila Shamsie, 2017 Penguin Publishing 288 pp. ISBN-13: 9780735217683 Summary Longlisted - 2017 Man Booker Prize The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences...
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- Category: Fiction
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Vanishing Half (Bennett)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/vanishing-half-bennett
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett, 2020 Penguin Publishing 352 pp. ISBN-13: 9780525536291 Summary From the author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different...
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- Category: Fiction
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Birth House (McKay)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/birth-house-mckay
The Birth House Ami McKay, 2006 HarperCollins 400 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061135873 Summary The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn...
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- Category: Fiction
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Birth House (McKay)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/birth-house-mckay
The Birth House Ami McKay, 2006 HarperCollins 400 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061135873 Summary The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn...
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- Category: Fiction
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Little Bee (Cleave)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/little-bee-cleave
Summary Little Bee, a young Nigerian refugee, has just been released from the British immigration detention center where she has been held under horrific conditions for the past two years, after narrowly escaping a traumatic fate in her homeland of...
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- Category: Fiction
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Magus (Fowles)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/magus-fowles
The Magus John Fowles, 1966 Little, Brown & Co.; Random House ~650 pp. (varies by publisher) ISBN-13: 9780316296199 (Little, Brown & Co.) ISBN-13: 9780440351627 (Random House) Summary Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork...
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The Man in My Basement Walter Mosley, 2004 Little, Brown & Co. 272 pp. ISBN-13: 9780316159319 Summary Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris, 2000 Little, Brown & Company 288 pp. ISBN-13: 9780316776967 Summary Me Talk Pretty One Day contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays—it quite well registers as a manifesto about...
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- Category: Non-Fiction
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001 Henry Holt & Company 240 pp. ISBN-13: 9780805088380 Summary Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was...
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Pope Joan (Cross)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/pope-joan-cross
Pope Joan Donna Woolfolk Cross, 1996 Crown Publishing 448 pp. ISBN-13: 9780307452368 Summary For a thousand years men have denied her existence—Pope Joan, the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity for two years. Now this...
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Say You're One of Them Uwem Akpan, 2008 Little, Brown & Company 384 pp. ISBN-13: 9780316086370 Summary Uwem Akpan's first published short story, "An Ex-mas Feast," appeared in The New Yorker's Debut Fiction issue in 2005. The story's portrait of a...
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Sea of Poppies (Ghosh)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sea-of-poppies-ghosh
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, 1) Amitav Ghosh, 2008 Macmillan Picador 528 pp. ISBN-13: 9780312428594 Summary Turning his eye to the nineteenth-century opium trade, the acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh has crafted a novel that is by turns witty and...
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Song Yet Sung (McBride)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/song-yet-sung-mcbride
Song Yet Sung James McBride, 2008 Penguin Group USA 368 pp. ISBN-13: 9781594483509 Summary In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland's eastern...
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Maggie O'Farrell, 2007 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 256 pp. ISBN-13: 9781443420105 Summary In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend's attempts at...
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Zeitoun (Eggers)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/zeitoun-eggers
Zeitoun Dave Eggers, 2010 Knopf Doubleday 368 pp. ISBN-13: 9780307387943 Summary When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and...
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- Category: Non-Fiction
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Conversation (Hill)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/conversation-hill
The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships Harper Hill, 2009 Penguin USA 288 pp. ISBN-13: 9781592405787 Summary Only 34 percent of African-American children today are raised in two-parent households, a sharp...
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Steve Jobs (Isaacson)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/steve-jobs-isaacson
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson, 2011 Simon & Schuster 656 pp. ISBN-13: 9781451648539 Summary Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries,...
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- Category: Non-Fiction