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and the climactic scene, where he does something unwontedly brave, is forced. The subplot about a banker's self-regarding wife who allows herself to be seduced by a Chinese-born butcher is too coy by half. These elements are only disappointing because...
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I'm Down (Wolff)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/im-down-wolff
her younger (equally white) sister; other black kids accepted her as an equal or pitied her confusion; her father's second wife (black) rejected her cruelly; and her mother was willing to take her in but not to confront her former husband's careless...
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and the Duke University School of Law. He is also the author of two novels and a nonfiction work, co-authored with his wife, Amy Chu. Education Rubenfeld was a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University (A.B., 1980) and a magna cum laude graduate...
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arrives in Haiti from France to take over his dying father's plantation. He buys the child Zarite to be his new Spanish wife Eugenia's maidservant and has her trained by the mulatto courtesan Violette Boisier, whose charisma could carry a book on its...
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Jim the Boy (Earley)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/young-adult-fiction/jim-the-boy
Short Stories. The author's previous novel, Here We Are in Paradise (1994), received critical acclaim. He lives with his wife and dogs in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University (From the publisher.) More Tony...
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Kite Runner (Hosseini)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/kite-runner-hosseini
from some local bullies. After establishing himself in America, Amir learns that the Taliban have murdered Hassan and his wife, raising questions about the fate of his son, Sohrab. Spurred on by childhood guilt, Amir makes the difficult journey to...
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Times. This classic tale of love and discovery pits the paralyzed and callous Clifford Chatterley against his indecisive wife and her persuasive lover. (From the publishers and Barnes & Noble.) Author Bio • Birth—September 11, 1885 • Where—Eastwood,...
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Last Child (Hart)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/last-child-hart
library writing what would become his first published work, The King of Lies. Initially rejected by publishers, he and his wife Katie, also a North Carolinian, moved to Greensboro where Hart worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch. That was when he...
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Last Empress (Min)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/last-empress-min
Tzu Hsi's first-person, the early chapters encompass her trials as a young "widow," as co-regent with the late emperor's wife and as a mother. An engaging domestic drama gives way to pedestrian political history; Tzu Hsi lectures like a popular...
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Last Orders (Swift)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/last-orders-swift
son, Vince, the story starts gradually to move forward, cohere, and deepen. The reader learns in time why it is that no wife comes along, why three marriages out of three broke apart, and why Vince always hated his stepfather Jack and still does—or so...
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hailed him as "one of America's best-kept literary secrets...like an American Nick Hornby." Perrotta lives with this wife and two children in Belmont, Massachusetts. (Adapted from the publisher.) More That Tom Perrotta struggled into his early 30s to...
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Course 2—Storyhttps://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/course-2-story
the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of course,...
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Booktini Girlshttps://www.litlovers.com/featured-clubs/booktini-girls-joey
in and let him choose a book. He picked The Quickie by James Patterson — and we loved it! So he's in...but only when his wife doesn't come. And the other part of the name—"Booktini"? We love our books—we love reading! We share book conversation over...
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Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. A graduate of Harvard University, Tom lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer, and their three sons. (From the author's website.) Book Reviews Following Ezra is a revelation. I...
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Penny, 2009 St. Martin's Press 336 pp. ISBN-13: 9780312614164 Summary It is the height of summer, and Armand Gamache and his wife are celebrating their wedding anniversary at an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But...
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Winter Palace (Stachniak)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/winter-palace-stachniak
the Great, she is 14-year-old Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, brought by her mother to Empress Elizabeth as a potential wife for Elizabeth’s nephew and heir, the future Peter III. Sophie quickly realizes that to achieve her marital ambitions, she must...
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happens to beautiful young women who are born in the provinces? What is their fate? 6. Jun Do tells the Second Mate's wife that he can no longer distinguish dream from reality: that the Second Mate was devoured by sharks or that he floated away on a...
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the not-yet-sexual affair is discovered, Mrs. Pingree gives Frankie a $1,000 check (see society-pages article about Jamie's wife). Soon Frankie heads off to Vassar, a haven of socialites and bluestockings (see bridge score card, pack of bobbed hair...
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Long Walk Home (North)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/long-walk-home-north
writer for Jimmy Carter, walks like a pall bearer from Heathrow Airport to North Wales to scatter the ashes of his late wife. Along the way, he meets and begins an affair with Fiona Edwards, the spirited and married operator of a Welsh...
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Lone Wolf (Picoult)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/lone-wolf-picoult
them for extended periods of time. In many ways, Luke understands wolf dynamics better than those of his own family. His wife, Georgie, has left him, finally giving up on their lonely marriage. His son, Edward, twenty-four, fled six years ago, leaving...
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