general fiction

general fiction 

2013: #17 – The Jane Austen Book Club (Karen Joy Fowler)

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Title: The Jane Austen Book Club Author: Karen Joy Fowler Format: Paperback Pages: 304 Release Date: April 26, 2005 Publisher: Plume Source: personal copy (PaperbackSwap) Read the back of the book In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her

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general fiction 

2013: #16 – The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey)

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Title: The Snow Child Author: Eowyn Ivey Format: Kindle Pages:  416 Release Date: February 01, 2012 Publisher: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books Source: personal copy Read the back of the book Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling

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general fiction historical fiction 

2013: #9 – The Paris Wife (Paula McLain)

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Title: The Paris Wife Author: Paula McLain Format: Kindle Pages:  352 Release Date: February 22, 2011 Publisher: Ballantine Books Source: personal copy Read the back of the book A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but

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