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The Glitter and the Gold

by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

Published: 2012-10-02

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir?the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downton AbbeyConsuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to marry an English Duke. She ...

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* * * * Beautiful,
Dark

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Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood

by Elif Shafak

Published: 2012-07-31

Paperback: 288 pages

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A thoughtful and incisive meditation on literature, motherhood, and spiritual wellbeing from Turkey's leading female authorAfter the birth of her first child, Elif Shafak experienced a profound personal crisis. Plagued by guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about her new maternal role, the ac...

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* * * * Epic

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Enduring Love: A Novel

by Ian McEwan

Published: 2009-07-01

Kindle Edition: 274 pages

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The calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air balloon accident. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helping to bring the balloon to safety, but unknown to Rose, something passes between Parry and himself on that day—someth...

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* * * * * Dramatic,
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The Remains of the Day (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Published: 2012-10-02

Hardcover: 248 pages

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From the Nobel Prize–winning author, here is an elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller, and the basis for an award-winning film—with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and an introd...

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* * * Dramatic,
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The Book of Evidence, The Sea (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

by John Banville

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 360 pages

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Two essential novels from one of the most imaginative writers of our time: The Sea, winner of the Man Booker prize, and The Book of Evidence, an unforgettable literary mystery short-listed for the Booker prize. The Book of Evidence is a brilliantly disturbing portrait of an improbable mur...

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* * * * * Interesting,
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The Sea by John Banville (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide (BrightSummaries.com)

by Bright Summaries

Published: 2018-06-12

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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Sea with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Sea by John Banville, a contemplative novel which is narrated by the recently widowed Max Morden. His overwhelming grief has led him to wi...

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* * * Epic,
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The Red-Haired Woman (Vintage International)

by Orhan Pamuk

Published: 2018-07-10

Paperback: 272 pages

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From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a well digger and his young apprentice—a boy fleeing the confines of his middle class...

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* * * Dramatic,
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The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery

by Amitav Ghosh

Published: 2001-01-23

Paperback: 320 pages

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From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lo...

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Ancestor Stones

by Aminatta Forna

Published: 2007-09-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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Aminatta Forna, whose moving and gorgeously written memoir garnered international attention, has seamlessly turned her hand to fiction in Ancestor Stones a powerful, sensuous novel that beautifully captures Africa’s past century and her present, and the legacy that her daughters take wit...

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Land Where I Flee

by Prajwal Parajuly

Published: 2015-06-02

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, Prajwal Parajuly has established himself as a distinctive voice in literature about the South Asian diaspora. Now in his debut novel, Land Where I Flee about returning home, Parajuly demonstrates that he is, as Manil Suri noted, "a master capturing, ...