Testament of Mary (Toibin)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/testament-of-mary-toibin

01 October 2012 The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin, 2012 Scribner 386 pp. ISBN-13: 9781451692389 Summary Colm Toibin’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the...

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Ordinary Grace (Krueger)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/ordinary-grace-krueger

22 April 2013 Ordinary Grace William Kent Krueger, 2013 Atria Books 336 pp. ISBN-13: 9781451645859 Summary That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken...

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Invention of Wings (Kidd)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/invention-of-wings-kidd

09 January 2014 The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd, 2014 Viking Press 384 pp. ISBN-13: 9780143121701 Summary Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to...

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Chestnut Street (Binchy)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/chestnut-street-binchy

26 March 2014 Chestnut Street Maeve Binchy, 2014 Knopf Doubleday 197 pp. ISBN-13: 9780385351850 Summary Maeve Binchy imagined a street in Dublin with many characters coming and going, and every once in a while she would write about one of these people. She would...

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Did You Ever Have a Family (Clegg)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/did-you-ever-have-family-clegg

23 September 2015 Did You Ever Have a Family Bill Clegg, 2015 Gallery/Scout Press 304pp. ISBN-13: 9781476798172 Summary A powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy. On the eve of her...

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Migrations (McConaghy)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/migrations-mcconaghy

01 March 2016 Migrations: A Novel Charlotte McConaghy, 2020 Flatiron Books 220 pp. ISBN-13: 9781250204028 Summary A novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world’s last birds—and her own final chance for redemption. Franny Stone has always...

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Bel Canto (Patchett)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bel-canto-patchett

02 July 2010 Bel Canto Ann Patchett, 2001 HarperCollins 318 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061565311 In Brief Winner, 2002 Orange Prize PEN/Faulkner Award Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of...

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Cry, the Beloved Country (Paton)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/cry-the-beloved-country-paton

02 July 2010 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton, 1948 Simon & Schuster 320 pp. ISBN-13: 9780743262170 Summary Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when...

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Happiness Sold Separately (Winston)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/happiness-sold-separately-winston

02 July 2010 Summary | Author | Book Reviews | Discussion Questions Happiness Sold Separately Lolly Winston, 2006 Grand Central Publishing 296 pp. ISBN-13: 9780446699396 In Brief Elinor Mackey has always done the right things in the right order-college, law school,...

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Bel Canto (Patchett)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bel-canto-patchett

02 July 2010 Bel Canto Ann Patchett, 2001 HarperCollins 318 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061565311 In Brief Winner, 2002 Orange Prize PEN/Faulkner Award Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of...

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Cry, the Beloved Country (Paton)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/cry-the-beloved-country-paton

02 July 2010 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton, 1948 Simon & Schuster 320 pp. ISBN-13: 9780743262170 Summary Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when...

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Happiness Sold Separately (Winston)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/happiness-sold-separately-winston

02 July 2010 Summary | Author | Book Reviews | Discussion Questions Happiness Sold Separately Lolly Winston, 2006 Grand Central Publishing 296 pp. ISBN-13: 9780446699396 In Brief Elinor Mackey has always done the right things in the right order-college, law school,...

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We Were the Mulvaneys (Oates)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/we-were-the-mulvaneys-oates

02 July 2010 We Were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates, 1996 Penguin Group USA 464 pp. ISBN-13: 9780452282827 Summary In We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates writes with piercing clarity and deep sympathy of the dissolution of the American family—and an American...

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Wash (Wrinkle)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/wash-wrinkle

27 March 2013 Wash Margaret Wrinkle, 2013 Grove/Atlantic 384 pp. ISBN-13: 9780802122032 Summary Wash introduces a remarkable new voice in American literature. In this luminous debut, Margaret Wrinkle takes us on an unforgettable journey across continents and through...

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So Much for That (Shriver)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/so-much-for-that-shriver

01 March 2016 So Much for That Lionel Shriver Author, 2010 HarperCollins 480 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061978494 Summary Shep Knacker has long saved for "The Afterlife": an idyllic retirement on a tropical island in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever....

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Love Walked In (de los Santos)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/love-walked-in-de-los-santos

02 July 2010 Love Walked In Marisa de los Santos, 2006 Penguin Group USA 307 pp. ISBN-13: 9780452287891 Summary A tribute to classic film and true romance, Love Walked In tells the story of two women—one older, one younger—and the unexpected ways in which their...

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Palace Thief (Canin)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/palace-thief-canin

02 July 2010 The Palace Thief: Stories Ethan Canin, 1994 Random House 224 pp. ISBN-13: 9780812976175 Summary "Character is destiny," wrote Heraclitus—and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the...

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Summer Blowout (Cook)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/summer-blowout-cook

02 July 2010 Summer Blowout Claire Cook, 2008 Hyperion 256 pp. ISBN-13: 9781401340957 Summary A good makeup artist never panics. Bella Shaughnessy knows this. She’s the resident makeup maven in a family of Boston Irish hair salon owners; she has an artful solution...

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Uncommon Reader (Bennett)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/uncommon-reader-bennett

02 July 2010 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett, 2007 Macmillan Picador 128 pp. ISBN-13: 9781616881085 Summary A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen in pursuit of her wandering corgis stumbles upon a mobile library she...

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Yiddish Policemen's Union (Chabon)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/yiddish-policemens-union-chabon

02 July 2010 The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon, 2007 HarperCollins 464 pp. ISBN-13: 9780007149834 Summary For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake...

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