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What do readers say about Love in the Time of Cholera?
lush and beautiful lovely and descriptive dense, poetic, and romantic third person flashbacksA poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics.
Florentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic w... More details on Love in the Time of Cholera
IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he had hurried on ...
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What do readers say about The Poisonwood Bible?
lyrical & beautiful extremely subdues and subtle greatly layered and well-written southern gothic fictionThis story is 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 1959.They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that a... More details on The Poisonwood Bible
IMAGINE A RUIN so strange it must never have happened. First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark like muscular an...
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What do readers say about The Bear and the Nightingale?
evocative and atmospheric a russian folktale evocative and beautiful dark, lyrical, mysticKatherine Arden's bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.
"A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up."-Naomi Novik,... More details on The Bear and the Nightingale
It was late winter in northern Rus’, the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow. The brilliant February landscape had given way to the dreary gray of March, and the household of Pyotr Vlad...
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What do readers say about The Birth of Venus?
great historical fiction made for tv movie late 15th century florence sparser prose styleAlessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind ... More details on The Birth of Venus
LOOKING BACK NOW, I SEE IT MORE AS AN ACT OF PRIDE than kindness that my father brought the young painter back with him from the North that spring. The chapel in our palazzo had recently been complete...
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What do readers say about A Court of Thorns and Roses?
epic romance intrigue and magic epic story new adult/fantasyWith bits of Buffy, Game Of Thrones and Outlander, this is a glorious series of total joy - Stylist
The tantalising start to a seductive fantasy series from global #1 bestselling author Sarah J. Maas
Feyre is a huntress. And when she sees a deer in t... More details on A Court of Thorns and Roses
I’d been monitoring the parameters of the thicket for an hour, and my vantage point in the crook of a tree branch had turned useless. The gusting wind blew thick flurries to sweep away my tracks, but ...
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What do readers say about The Last Namsara?
lush and beautiful nice and comfy twisty turny tale epic dragon fantasyKristen Ciccarelli's debut fantasy explores an intricately woven world of deception, inner darkness, and dragons that fantasy fans won't be able to resist.
In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and la... More details on The Last Namsara
She hated to do it. Telling such stories was forbidden, dangerous, even deadly. But after stalking this dragon through the rocky lowlands for ten days now, her hunting slaves were out of food. She had...
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What do readers say about Black Rabbit Hall?
an outstanding first novel a dual timeframe novel haunting, gothic feel interesting but not captivating"For fans of Kate Morton and Daphne du Maurier, Black Rabbit Hall is an obvious must-read."-Bookpage
A secret history. A long-ago summer. A house with an untold story.
Amber Alton knows that the hours pass differently at Black Rabbit Hall, her Lond... More details on Black Rabbit Hall
It is one of those journeys. The closer they get to their destination, the harder it is to imagine that they’ll ever actually arrive. There is always another bend in the road, a judder to the dead end...
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What do readers say about The Merchant of Venice?
lush and beautiful attitudes at the time antisemitic as hell very memorable and quotableHere are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's origin... More details on The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare endures through history. He illuminates later times as well as his own. He helps us to understand the human condition. But he cannot do this without a good text of the plays. Without editi...
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What do readers say about Green Mansions?
lush and vivid beauty of nature love of jungle nature ancient styleIllustrated, A romance of the Tropical Forest... More details on Green Mansions
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What do readers say about The Night Circus?
magical circus exhibitions almost dreamlike quality style over substance non-linear plot lineThe circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads:
Opens at Nightfall
Closes at Dawn
As dusk shifts to twili... More details on The Night Circus
The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also t...
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