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Für Elise
Magda Szabó

Für Elise

Ostensibly, however, descriptions of her youth have been missing in her autobiographical oeuvre. Now, at long last, a unique confession has been in the spirit of St. Augustine and even Rousseau, Szabo opens all the locks and unleashes an incisive story of her life--peopled with family, friends, and teachers--and the surrounding world from 1927 to 1935.
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The House of the Spirits (new edition)
Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits (new edition)

In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies.
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<span>My Name is Emilia Del Valle</span>
Isabel Allende

My Name is Emilia Del Valle

The year is 1866. An Irish nun, seduced and abandoned by a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a girl, Emilia del Valle. 
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Black Heart
Silvia Avallone
★★★★★

Black Heart

Emilia and Bruno meet in Sassaya, a small village nestled in the Biella mountains. In this God-forgotten corner of the world, they realize that they have lost everything - although for very different reasons - and that Sassaya is a plac
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The Next Day
M&#233;lissa Da Costa
★★★★★

The Next Day

Amanda has lost her husband and the child she was expecting. Isolated in a secluded house in the countryside, she lives with the shutters down and without contact with the outside world, unable to overcome her grief from her misfortune. Th
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Like Hot Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel

Like Hot Water for Chocolate

Each chapter of Esquivel's utterly charming interpretation of life in turn-of-the-century Mexico begins with a recipe -- not surprisingly, since so much of the action of this exquisite first novel (a bestseller in Mexico) centers around the kitchen,
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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
Holly Ringland

The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation. 'On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year
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In Amber's Wake
Christine Leunens

In Amber's Wake

Ethan Grieg, a film student, is in love with his close friend Amber Deering, an environmental activist, who lives at her family’s seemingly picture-perfect stud farm. Amber loves Ethan dearly, but not the way that Ethan longs for. Instead,
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The Wind Knows My Name
Isabel Allende

The Wind Knows My Name

This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United
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Hello Sadness / Do you like Brahms...
Fran&#231;oise Sagan

Hello Sadness / Do you like Brahms...

The novel "Hello Sadness" received the Critics' Award in 1954. The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard, À peine défigurée. An English-language film adaptation was released in 1958, directed by Otto Preminger.
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Afraid of the Light
Douglas Kennedy

Afraid of the Light

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing
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The Wild Roses
Carole Martinez

The Wild Roses

This is what Carol Martinez herself tells about her latest novel, filled with both joy and sorrow, but also with a lot of poetry: “Shortly after The Threads of the Heart came out, a reader told me about a Spanish custom observed in Andalusia,
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Florida
Olivier Bourdeaut

Florida

A middle-class American family. Domineering mother, listless father and beautiful daughter. Nothing foreshadows the powerful hurricane that will change their lives. There's everything in sunny Florida except maybe common sense. The world of Mini Mis
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Superheros
Paolo Genovese

Superheros

"Superheroes" is the story of Anna and Marco, who fall in love with each other and fight for their love, going through hardships and separations, through happy and sad moments. Anna is an artist, a writer with free spirit and an enemy of
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A Reluctant Hero
Fran&#231;oise Sagan

A Reluctant Hero

In occupied France, a young divorcee and her lover, the head of a Resistance network, choose the country home of the lover's childhood friend as a cover for their political activities.
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Isabelle in the Afternoon
Douglas Kennedy

Isabelle in the Afternoon

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, o
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Violeta
Isabel Allende

Violeta

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu
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The Doll Factory
Elizabeth Macneal

The Doll Factory

The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession. London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iri
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The Painted Lady
Fran&#231;oise Sagan

The Painted Lady

A group of hedonistic passengers enjoy nightly musical entertainments and their own impromptu activities on a Mediterranean cruise aboard a luxury yacht.
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The Lost Daughter
Elena Ferrante

The Lost Daughter

“Elena Ferrante will blow you away.” — Alice Sebold Leda is a middle-aged divorcée devoted to her work as an English teacher and to her two children. When her daughters leave home to be with their father in Canada, Leda ant
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Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life
Dubravka Ugre&#353;i&#263;

Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life

Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life charts the life of a typist for a lonely hearts column. Laid out like a sewing pattern, with instructions, diagrams, and helpful hints in the margin, it juxtaposes the cliches and trite advice of stereotypical
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Hairdresser's Stories
Elvira Seminara

Hairdresser's Stories

A reader who writes next to her favorite magazine. A husband refusing to accept infidelity. A girl who hears more than she would like. A nun on her way to her first convent. An immigrant from Sri Lanka with a dream to be a blonde. A divorced
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The Slander
Rosa Ventrella

The Slander

In this family saga, the author builds the story of two sisters and their family, the story of the struggle of women and men against the abuse of powerful landowners in Puglia in the '40s and' 50s. A powerful novel in which the beauty and stren
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The Stories of Eva Luna
Isabel Allende

The Stories of Eva Luna

In 1988 Isabel Allende published Eva Luna, a novel that recounted the adventurous life of a poor young Latin American woman who finds friendship, love and some measure of worldly success through her powers as a storyteller. Her most ambitious novel
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Diary of An Adulterous Woman
Curt Leviant

Diary of An Adulterous Woman

Two old friends reunite at their Jewish day school's reunion. Now in their early forties, Guido, a photographer and Charlie, a psychologist, become interested in the same married woman, the alluring Aviva, a cellist. Unbeknownst to G
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The Balcony
Jane Delury

The Balcony

A "breathtaking" century-spanning portrait of the inhabitants of a French village (Jennifer Egan), revealing the deception, despair, love, and longing beneath the calm surface of ordinary lives. What if our homes could tell the stories of oth
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The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende

The Soul of a Woman

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman. “When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel A
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Bed Bug
Katherine Pancol

Bed Bug

Rose is a young and talented biologist. Her passion is insects and especially a firefly, from which she hopes to get a cure for cancer. Leo is also a biologist, working with her in Paris and New York. Everything seems to be going great, except tha
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Eva Luna
Isabel Allende

Eva Luna

In a very short time, Isabel Allende has won the allegiance and affection of readers and reviewers around the world - first with The House of the Spirits (praised by Alexander Coleman in The New York Times Book Review as “a unique achieveme
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The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante

The Lying Life of Adults

A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. “There’s no doubt the publication of The Lying Life of Adults will be the literar
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Four Corners of the Heart
Fran&#231;oise Sagan

Four Corners of the Heart

"Four Corners of the Heart", an unfinished 200-page story by the author of "Bonjour Tristesse" – which caused a sensation with its portrayal of the empty lives of the idle rich – was found by her son Denis Westhoff after he
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The Nine-Chambered Heart
Janice Pariat

The Nine-Chambered Heart

‘Superb. She had me at page one’ - Chris Cleave, author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven ‘It’s the artful pleating of this subtle, psychologically astute novel that sets it apart’ DAILY MAIL The kaleidoscopic stor
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The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart
Holly Ringland

The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart

Flowers, fire and fairy tales are the elements that will forever shape nine-year-old Alice Hart's life, in The Lost Flower's of Alice Hart, the international bestseller by Holly Ringland. Alice Hart lives in isolati
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A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende

A Long Petal of the Sea

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call
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Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende
★★★★★

Portrait in Sepia

Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende follows up her best-selling novel Daughter of Fortune with a story epic in scope: a portrayal of a woman determined to solve the mystery of a past she cannot remember and a dream she cannot forget.
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Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
★★★★★

Daughter of Fortune

Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her even more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly in
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits

A best-seller and critical success in Europe and Latin America, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family - their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participa
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Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
Lynda Rutledge

Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale

On the last day of the millennium, sassy Faith Bass Darling, the richest old lady in Bass, Texas, decides to have a garage sale. With help from a couple of neighborhood boys, Faith lugs her priceless Louis XV elephant clock, countless T
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The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
Martha Batalha

The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

'Zesty' - Daily Mail 'A real gem of a book' - Stylist A wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de Janeiro Why Euridice and Antenor married, no one knows for certain. Euridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in
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The Wife
Meg Wolitzer

The Wife

"The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling forward but giving the illusion of stillness and tranquility. Just like our marriage." So opens Meg Wolitzer's compelli
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Katalin Street
Magda Szab&#243;

Katalin Street

WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budape
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Three Kisses
Katherine Pancol

Three Kisses

Katherine Pancol once again meets us with her tireless muchachas. Their fates are bewildered, intertwined, marked by plots, betrayals, deceptions, half-truths, family secrets, but also by hopes, shared feelings and small but so important victor
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She and He
Marc Levy

She and He

They meet through a dating website. They do not become lovers, they become friends. And they intend to be just friends ... She is an actress. He is a writer. Her name is Mia. His name is Paul. She is English. He is American. She hides in Montmart
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The Door
Magda Szab&#243;

The Door

A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of an oddity. Stubborn, foul-mouthed and wit
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The Porcelain Nymph. A Colouring Book
Isabel Allende

The Porcelain Nymph. A Colouring Book

An unpublished Isabel Allende story released as a colouring book 30 years later Don Cornelio is a grey man whose life holds no surprises or variations. One day, on his way to work at a notary’s office, he feels mysteriously prompt
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The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante

The Story of a New Name

The second book, following last year’s My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-disc
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&#304;stanbul Red
Ferzan Ozpetek

&#304;stanbul Red

"Istanbul Red" (2013) is the literary debut of the famous Italian director of Turkish origin Ferzan Ozpetek. The book is an explanation of love for his native Istanbul, a nostalgic tale, dyed in the red of the Istanbul sunsets, the old t
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The Blazing World
Siri Hustvedt

The Blazing World

With The Blazing World, internationally best­selling author Siri Hustvedt returns to the New York art world in her most masterful and urgent novel since What I Loved. Hustvedt tells the provocative story of the artist Harriet Bur

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