Assuming wife is required, the following 1937 results were found.
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Birth of Venus (Dunant)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/birth-of-venus-dunant
the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Fourth and favorite child of a prosperous silk manufacturer and his highly cultured wife, Alessandra Cecchi is far less conventionally attractive than her sister, but she's got her mother's brains and a powerful...
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- Category: Fiction
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Bonesetter's Daughter (Tan)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bonesetters-daughter-tan
of her most popular works. It was adapted to film in 1993. Tan has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of...
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- Category: Fiction
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Book Thief (Zusak)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/book-thief-zusak
creative partnership with Max. Accompanied by Rudy, the girl copes by stealing food from farmers and books from the mayor's wife. There are also good moments as she learns to read and plays soccer, but Hans's ill-advised act of kindness to a Jewish...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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Bridge of Sighs (Russo)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bridge-of-sighs-russo
friend and nemesis, is deeper but more of the same. Morey gives a bit more energy to the third narrator, Sarah, Lou's wife. The result is more soporific than a Thanksgiving turkey, and getting through Russo's sharp account of the factory towns he knows...
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- Category: Fiction
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Certain Girls (Weiner)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/certain-girls-weiner
When readers first met Candace "Cannie" Shapiro, she was 28, overweight and single. Still feisty as ever, Candace is now wife to beloved Peter and mother to 13-year-old daughter Joy. The chapters alternate, sometimes jerkily, between Candace's and Joy's...
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- Category: Fiction
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end, we still hardly know Billy, but we understand all too well the havoc he has wrought. Especially for his long-suffering wife, Maeve, and guilt-ridden cousin, Dennis, whose well-meant lie may have wounded (but not cursed) Billy's already-doomed soul....
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- Category: Fiction
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Cockroach (Hage)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/cockroach-hage
Shohreh Sherazy (lover), the Professor, Sehar (boss's daughter), the Pakistani family downstairs, the landlord, his Russian wife, and the old lady she steals from, Reza the musician, Farhoud, Majeed (Shohreh's uncle's friend), and Mr. Shaheed (the...
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- Category: Fiction
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Color Purple (Walker)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/color-purple-walker
Mr. ____? When does she at last begin calling him by his first name? 3. Why does Albert tell Harpo to begin beating his wife, Sofia? Why is it so important to Harpo that his wife have no will of her own? Is his relationship with Squeak (Mary Agnes)...
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- Category: Fiction
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Commoner (Schwartz)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/commoner-schwartz
and his writing has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times and The New Yorker. He lives with his wife and their son in Brooklyn, New York. (From the publisher.) See author's website for interviews. Book Reviews Out of this...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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and social status. Hard work, hope and the will to succeed as a writer motivate the penurious narrator Larry Morgan and his wife Sally as he begins a term teaching at the university. Equally excited by their opportunities are Sid Lang, another junior...
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- Category: Fiction
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Some critics have seen the book as a thinly-veiled autobiographical novel recounting Fitzgerald's problems with his wife, the corrosive effects of wealth and a decadent lifestyle, his own egoism and self-confidence, and his continuing alcoholism....
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- Category: Fiction
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story, Dallas creates a ripping good read from this fictional journal.... If some of the hooks in the tale, which include wife beating, incest, miscegenation, and adultery, are a bit contrived, the pace is lively and engaging. —GraceAnne DeCandido...
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- Category: Fiction
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Digging to America (Tyler)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/digging-to-america-tyler
airport—the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the instant babies from distant Asia are...
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Dream (Bernstein)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/dream-bernstein
forever. And though he has struggled for so long, there is an incredible bounty waiting for Harry in New York: his future wife, Ruby. It is their romance that will finally bring the peace and happiness that Harry’s mother always dreamed was possible....
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Non-Fiction
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might have been caused by a patient? Among his appointments last week were munitions stockpiler General Farquhar and his wife Adele, who accompanied teenager Julian, their boarder and charity student; and the day before Philip died, he had had lunch...
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Every Last One (Quindlen)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/every-last-one-quindlen
a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes...
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Exit Ghost (Roth)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/exit-ghost-roth
Within a few days of arriving in New York, Zuckerman accidentally encounters Amy Bellette, the woman who was once the muse/wife of his beloved idol, writer S.I. Lonoff; he also meets a young novelist and promptly begins fantasizing about the writer's...
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Firefly Lane (Hannah)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/firefly-lane-hannah
children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn’t know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she’ll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she’ll...
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- Category: Fiction
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settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape. Quiet, dull Sidney, a data collector for an insurance company,...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
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characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised publicfigures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and...
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- Author: interGen support
- Category: Non-Fiction
