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English Creek (Doig)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/english-creek-doig
English Creek Ivan Doig, 1984 Simon & Schuster 352 pp. ISBN-13: 9780743271271 Summary This novel wa written first as part of Doig's McCaskill Trilogy—Dancing at the Rascal Fair and Ride with Me, Mariah Montana—but read Rascal Fair first, then English...
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- Category: Fiction
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Ethan Frome (Wharton)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/ethan-frome-wharton
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 1911 100-125 pp. (varies by publisher) Summary Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold,...
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Fragile Beasts (O'Dell)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/fragile-beasts-odell
Fragile Beasts Tawni O'Dell, 2010 Shaye Areheart Books 416 pp. ISBN-13: 9780307351685 Summary When their hard-drinking, but loving, father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania...
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The Gravedigger's Daughter Joyce Carol Oates, 2007 HarperCollins 624 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061236839 Summary In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former...
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- Category: Fiction
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Jim the Boy (Earley)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/young-adult-fiction/jim-the-boy
Summary | Author | Book Reviews | Discussion Questions Jim the Boy Tony Earley, 2000 Little, Brown & Co. 256 pp. ISBN-13: 9780316198950 In Brief Selected by Granta as one of America's best young writers and featured in The New Yorker's best young...
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- Category: Young Adult Fiction
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You Shall Know Our Velocity! Dave Eggers, 2002 Knopf Doubleday 400 pp. ISBN-13: 9781400033546 Summary Will has surprisingly come into a large amount of money. His photograph screwing in a lightbulb has been made a silhouette and is being used as a...
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Bitch is the New Black Helena Andrews, 2010 HarperCollins 244 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061778827 Summary Meet Helena Andrews, sassy, single, smart, and, yes, a bitch—but Tina Fey said it best, bitch is the new black! When Helena Andrews heard this declaration...
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- Category: Non-Fiction
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Passage to India (Forster)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/passage-to-india-forster
A Passage to India E.M. Forster, 1924 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 372 pp. ISBN-13: 9780151711413> Summary A New York Times Book of the Century Two women, Mrs. Moore and Adela Quested, her future daughter-in-law, arrive in India during the British Raj...
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- Category: Fiction
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Chaperone (Moriarty)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/the-chaperone-moriarty
The Chaperone Laura Moriarty, 2012 Penguin Group USA 384 pp. ISBN-13: 9781594487019 Summary The Chaperoneis a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them...
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Live By Night (Lehane)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/live-by-night-lehane
Live by Night (Joe Coughlin Novel, 2) Dennis Lehane, 2012 HarperCollins 416 pp. ISBN-13: 9780060004873 Summary Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition...
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Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives Becky Aikman, 2013 Crown Publishing 352 pp. ISBN-13: 9780307590435 Summary In her forties—a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role—Becky Aikman struggled to make sense...
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Delicate Truth (le Carre)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/delicate-truth-le-carre
A Delicate Truth John le Carre, 2013 Viking Adult (Penguin Group USA) 320 pp. ISBN-13: 9780670014897 Summary Nearly five decades ago, John le Carre became an international sensation with the publication of his third novel, The Spy Who Came In from the...
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Bittersweet (Whittemore)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bitersweet-whittemore
Bittersweet Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, 2014 Crown Publishing 400 pp. ISBN-13: 9780804138567 Summary Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider’s hunger to belong. On...
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An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny Laura Schoff with Alex Tresniowski , 2011 Howard Books 272 pp. ISBN-13: 9781451648973 Summary Stopping was never part of the...
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The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty Amanda Filipacchi, 2015 W.W. Norton & Co. 336 pp. ISBN-13: 978039335230# Summary In the heart of New York City, a group of artistic friends struggles with society's standards of beauty. At the center are Barb and...
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Lonely City (Laing)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/lonely-city-laing
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Olivia Laing, 2016 Picador 336 pp. ISBN-13: 9781250039576 Summary A dazzling work of memoir, biography and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of six iconic...
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Separation (Kitamura)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/separation-kitamura
A Separation Katie Kitamura, 2017 Penguin Publishing 240 pp. ISBN-13: 9780399576102 Summary This is her story. About the end of her marriage. About what happened when Christopher went missing and she went to find him. These are her secrets, this is...
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Recovering (Jamison)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/recovering-jamison
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath Leslie Jamison, 2018 Little, Brown and Co. 544 pp. ISBN-13: 9780316259613 Summary With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering...
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The Passion of Artemisia Susan Vreeland, 2002 Penguin Group USA 352 pp. ISBN-13: 9780142001820 Summary Set against the lush tapestry of Renaissance Rome, this is a mesmerizing tale of love, art, and most notably, the love of art. After Artemisia...
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Audition (Walters)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/audition-walters
Audition Barbara Walters, 2008 Knopf Doubleday 448 pp. ISBN-13: 9780307269546 Summary Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.” And now, at...
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