Assuming wife is required, the following 1937 results were found.
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Little Children (Perrotta)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/little-children-perrotta
surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms at the playground, and his wife, Kathy, a documentary filmmaker envious of the connection Todd has forged with their toddler son. And there's Sarah, a...
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- Category: Fiction
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his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an...
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- Category: Fiction
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Mercy (Morrison)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/mercy-morrison
slave trade, A Mercy gives voice to a remarkable group of characters: Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch farmer, trader, and lender; his wife, Rebekka, newly arrived from England; their servant woman, the Native American Lina, whose tribe has been wiped out by...
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- Category: Fiction
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Midwives (Bohjalian)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/midwives-bohjalian
harsh winter of 1981, Sibyl Danforth makes a life-or-death decision based on fifteen years of experience as a respected midwife—a decision intended to save a child, a decision that will change her life forever. In the midst of a brutally cold night, cut...
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- Category: Fiction
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New England White (Carter)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/new-england-white-carter
640 pp. ISBN-13: 9780375712913 Summary Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home...
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Europe before landing in Ibiza, where he wrote his second novel, Outer Dark. Afterward he returned to America with his wife, and Outer Dark was published in 1968 to generally favorable reviews. In 1969, McCarthy and his wife moved to Louisville,...
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Notebook (Sparks)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/notebook-sparks
Publishing 256 pp. ISBN-13: 9780446605236 Summary A man picks up a very special notebook and begins reading to his beloved wife, his voice recalling the story of their poignant and bittersweet journey to happiness...so begins The Notebook, a touching...
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- Category: Fiction
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Plainsong (Haruf)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/plainsong-haruf
to "now" than "then." Tom Guthrie is a high—school teacher left raising two young sons after his depressed and disappointed wife moves to the city. His children bake cookies, ride horses, and run a paper route, but at the same time they almost...
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Barbara Kingsolver, 1998 HarperCollins 546 pp. ISBN-13: 9780060786502 Summary The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in...
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- Category: Fiction
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Blindness (Saramago)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/blindness-saramago
'the boy with the squint'), but we learn an enormous amount about them, and the central figure, the ophthalmologist's wife, who pretends to be blind in order to accompany her husband, is triumphantly employed as both viewpoint character and (as a...
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Sacrifice of Tamar (Ragen)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sacrifice-of-tamar-ragen
of Brooklyn's insulated, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Having married the man of her dreams and taken her place as a wife—and hopefully soon-to-be mother—in her community, Tamar feels as though the world is at her feet. But her secure, predictable...
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Sea (Banville)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/sea-banville
who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange...
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the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the tedium and terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their once-trusted housekeeper has turned on them and is now...
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In the mid-1980s, he worked as an account representative for J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in New York. He and his wife lived in a co-op in Brooklyn until March 1986, when the two were riding in a taxicab in which the driver refused to let them...
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Three Junes (Glass)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/three-junes-glass
The Hours. Three Junes opens in 1989 with the story of Paul McLeod, the Scots father of the family, who has just lost his wife to cancer, and his meeting with Fern, an American painter, when he takes a tour of Mediterranean islands. The second section...
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White Queen (Gregory)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/white-queen-gregory
the Tudors, and the Wars of the Roses. Her first book The White Queen (2009), centres on the life of Elizabeth Woodville the wife of Edward IV. The Red Queen (2010) is about Margaret Beaufort the mother of Henry VII and grandmother to Henry VIII. The...
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Widower's Tale (Glass)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/widowers-tale-glass
parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. No longer can he remain aloof from his community, his two grown daughters, or, to his shock, the precarious joy of falling in...
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Sparks, 2004 Time Warner Books 368 pp. ISBN-13: 9780446694858 Summary The day the brochure came was a typical one. With a wife and five small children, a hectic schedule, and a new book due to his publishers, Nicholas Sparks was busy with his usual...
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- Category: Non-Fiction
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man of eighteenth-century English letters, Samuel Johnson, enters the domain of a wealthy Southwark brewer and his wife, Hester Thrale. The melancholic, middle-aged lexicographer plunges into an increasingly ambiguous relationship with the vivacious...
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2010 Knopf Doubleday 320 pp. ISBN-13: 9780385533287 Summary Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
