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Living (Dillard)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/living-dillard
The Living Annie Dillard, 1992 HarperCollins 464 pp. ISBN-13: 9780060924119 Summary Annie Dillard evokes the frontier generation of the 19th century in Washington state's Puget Sound. Focusing primarily on three men and the settlement of Whatcom,...
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Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck, 1937 Penguin Group USA 112 pp. ISBN-13: 9780140177398 Summary An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding,...
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Playing from Memory David Milofsky, 1999 University Press of Colorado 270 pp. ISBN-13: 9780870815263 Author Bio Playing From Memory is a deeply moving, compassionate novel about the power of marriage to survive under stress, a love story that tells of...
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Tortilla Flat (Steinbeck)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/tortilla-flat-steinbeck
Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck, 1935 Penguin Group USA 224 pp. ISBN-13: 9780140042405 In Brief Adopting the structure and themes of Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck creates a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and...
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Hotel World (Smith)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/hotel-world-smith
Hotel World Ali Smith, 2001 Knopf Doubleday 256 pp. ISBN-13: 9780385722100 Summary Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in...
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Course 1—Lecturehttps://www.litlovers.com/litcourse-course1-lecture
Literature Matters: Why we read Why do we love to lose ourselves in a good book? What does literature say to us? In this Lecture, we'll address those questions. We'll also talk about the difference between serious fiction and pulp fiction—and why that...
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The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton, 1920 ~ 300 pp. (varies by publisher) Book Review by Molly Lundquist September 2011 Forbidden love has always found literary expression—as far back as Tristan and Isolde, right up to the present day's Twilight series....
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Jan-Philipp Sendker, 2012 Other Press 336 pp. ISBN-13: 9781590514634 Summary A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a...
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The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton, 1920 ~ 300 pp. (varies by publisher) Book Review by Molly Lundquist September 2011 Forbidden love has always found literary expression—as far back as Tristan and Isolde, right up to the present day's Twilight series....
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Touch & Go (Gardner)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/touch-go-gardner
Touch & Go Lisa Gardner, 2013 Penguin Group USA 480 pp. ISBN-13: 9780451465849 Summary This is my family: Vanished without a trace... Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you’d find in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful...
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History of Us (Stewart)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/history-of-us-stewart
The History of Us Leah Stewart, 2013 Simon & Schuster 400 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061128660 Summary In the newest novel by the celebrated author of The Myth of You and Me (which Claire Messud called “poignant, fierce, and compelling”), three grown siblings...
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Book Lovers of Gainesvillehttps://www.litlovers.com/featured-clubs/book-lovers-gainesville
LitClub: Book Lovers Group of Gainesville Gainesville, Florida IT TAKES COURAGE to put yourself out there in the online world looking for strangers with the same interests as you. That's how this incredibly successful book club got started. One person...
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Angel Chronicles: Undercover Angels Elliot Dylan, 2010 CreateSpace 372pp. ISBN-13: 9781453640098 Summary Conner Forrest is just your average middle school boy. He hangs out with his friend Sarah and obsesses over his favorite TV show. But all that...
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An Obstinate, Headstrong Girl (by a Lady) Abigail Bok, 2014 St. Martin's Press 350 pp. ISBN-13: 9781631320057 Summary Have you ever looked around at the modern world and asked yourself, "What would Jane Austen say?" about the follies of the day. This...
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Invention of Exile (Manko)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/invention-of-exile-manko
The Invention of Exile Vanessa Manko, 2012 Penguin Group (USA) 304pp. ISBN-13: 9781594205880 Summary Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a...
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Oh, those feisty Indo-Europeans. Located some 4,000 years ago on the grassy steppes of Eurasia, just north of the Black and Caspian Seas, this ancient group of people gave us the English language—not just our language but nearly all of Europe's and...
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Perfect Mother (Darnton)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/perfect-mother-darnton
The Perfect Mother Nina Darnton, 2014 Penguin/Plume 240 pp. ISBN-13: 9780142196731 Summary When a beloved daughter acts against her privileged upbringing, her devoted mother’s worst fears play out, as their American family is pulled into the...
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American Queen (Oller)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/american-queen-oller
American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague—Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal John Oller, 2014 Da Capo Press 416 pp. ISBN-13: 9780306822803 Summary Had Peoplee magazine been around during the Civil War and...
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Thorn Birds (McCullough)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/thorn-birds-mccullough
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough, 1977 HarperCollins 673 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061990472 Summary Colleen McCullough's sweeping saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback has enthralled readers the world over....
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Ridge (Hurt)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/ridge-hurt
Ridge (Five Oaks Ranch, 1) Stephanie Payne Hurt, 2015 Horseshoe Publishing 186 pp. ISBN-13: 9781507783566 Summary He’s the oldest son of the Cauthen brood and the hardest of all the siblings. After two tours in Iraq, he returns to the 5 Oaks Ranch to...
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