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Oprah shares her list of perfect summer books, as published in O Magazine. Escape with these stories as they take you from smalltown USA to Italy to South Africa, and across different generations, in exploring the timeless topics of love, relationships and community.
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Andrea Lee
The Italian phrase Mai due senza tre - "never two without three" - forms the basis of this novel. Lost Hearts in Italy revolves around a passionate triangle comprised of two beautiful young Americans and an engimagtic Italian billionaire named Zenin. Years later, they look back in
an attempt to understand their history, while a detached Zenin assesses his own
life and his role in the unlikely love triangle.
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Jami Attenberg
Told through the eyes of three young women and their friends and lovers, Instant Love explores what it means to be in love, what it means to be lonely, and what it means to be both at the same time. Holly, Maggie, and Sarah Lee
have to decide who is worth taking a chance on in a world where things don’t fall into place easily, people are often difficult, and disappointment is the rule.
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Karin Fossum
Teenage troublemakers Zipp and Andreas unwittingly commit murder when they accidentally kill a baby. Unaware, the pair move onto their next crime. Having followed an elderly lady home, Andreas enters her house armed, as always. Zipp waits nervously outside, but his friend never reappears. The author forces us to question the familiar stereotype - that it is always bad people who do bad things.
[Find When the Devil Holds the Candle] |
T.C. Boyle
The bestselling author of The Inner Circle and Drop City with a timely new novel about a woman named Dana who is accused of assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing bad
checks, among other things. With her new boyfriend, Dana is soon in desperate pursuit of a man who has stolen her identity. Talk Talk is both a thrilling road trip across America and a moving story about language, love, and identity.
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Eliza Minot
This is the story of the Bramble family - Margaret, Max, and Edie - three adult siblings careening through wildly different byways of adult life. Over the course of one critical season, a long hidden secret will be revealed, remaking each of them and all they thought.
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Zoe Wicomb
Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Playing in the Light revolves around Marion, a woman of Afrikaner background, who hates traveling but nonetheless runs a travel agency, and her complex relationship with Brenda, the first black woman she has ever employed.
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Margaret Sartor
Set against the backdrop of the deep South in the 1970s, Miss American Pie is the unforgettable account of Margaret Sartor’s life from age twelve to eighteen. She moves with ease between the seemingly trivial concerns of hairstyles and boys to more profound questions of faith and meaning. Miss American Pie reminds us what it feels like to grow up, offering a true and honest look at a teenager grappling with the timeless questions of sex, friendship, God, love, loss, and the meaning of family.
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Aurelie Sheehan
Everyone remembers age thirteen. For Alison Glass, life was about trying to navigate the hypocrisies of an unfamiliar affluent town and figuring out how she might blend in at school, despite being the new girl sporting a back brace. Set against the backdrop of the often hilariously tacky and disturbingly reckless 1970s, History Lesson for Girls is at once an emotional inquest and an elegy for a friendship that meant everything.
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Monica Ali
The author of Brick Lane is back with her sophomore effort. Alentejo Blue is the story of a village community in Portugal, told through the lives of men and women whose families have lived there for generations and some who are passing through.
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Caroline Moorehead
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the Cold War. While her wartime dispatches rank among the best of the century, her personal letters are their equal: as vivid and fascinating as anything she ever published.
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