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Summary of Terry McMillan's I Almost Forgot About You, a novel by Terry McMillan, follows protagonist Georgia Young as she reevaluates her life between the ages of 53 and 55. An African American optometrist in the San Francisco Bay area, Georgia is a single woman who is in a dating rut. Bored with her work and tired of rattling around her big empty house, she is inspired by the news of a former paramour's death to make some changes in her unhappy...
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Summary of Susan Meissner's Secrets of a Charmed Life is the story of how two young sisters survived World War II in London.
In 2015, at Stow-on-the-Wold in the English countryside, Kendra Van Zant, a history major, interviews ninety-three year old Isabel MacFarland. Kendra quickly realizes Isabel is not her subject's real name, nor is she ninety-three. Isabel, a well-known artist, tells Kendra the tale of two young girls living in London just before...
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Summary of Richard Russo's Everybody's Fool is set in the fictional town of North Bath in upstate New York. There, over the course of one weekend, a crew of local eccentrics juggle long-standing grudges, acute crises, and surreal weather events to the best of their limited abilities. Along the way, readers learn about their troubled pasts.
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Summary of John Grisham's Gray Mountain is a legal thriller by John Grisham that is set during the recession of 2008. The book begins when associate lawyer, Samantha Kofer, is furloughed, or laid off, due to the recession, from a New York City law firm. Samantha is hired by Mattie Wyatt, a lawyer and the executive director of the Mountain Legal Aid Clinic in Brady, Virginia, as a volunteer at the clinic.
Samantha meets Mattie's nephew, Donovan Gray,...
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Summary of Danielle Steel's Prodigal Son is the story of a man who loses everything that he considers important in his life only to discover how much more there is to happiness. His process of self-discovery includes reconciling with his long estranged twin brother, divorcing his wife, and then discovering a shocking secret that changes everything. The story has twists, turns, and revelations and the main character evolves along with the story.
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Summary of Stephanie Danler's Sweetbitter is a coming-of-age story set in New York City. Over the course of a year, 22-year-old Tess, a girl straight out of small-town middle America, arrives in New York City, creates a niche for herself in the glitzy, fast-paced Manhattan restaurant scene, falls in love, and has her heart broken.
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Summary of J.R. Ward's The Bourbon Kings sets up a rip-roaring family saga that twists and turns through money, murder, a myriad of affairs, and more. So much more, in fact, that two sequels are planned to sort it out.
Lizzie King, chief horticulturalist, works at a frenzied pace to get Easterly, the Bradford Family Estate, ready for the annual Derby Brunch before Saturday's big race at Steeplehill Downs in Charlemont, Kentucky. The Bradford family...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2021), Quentin Tarantino's debut novel, follows the characters Rick Dalton, an actor who feels like he is washed up; Cliff Booth, a stuntman who has never had a problem taking away someone else's life; Sharon Tate, who left Texas to become a movie star; and Charles Manson, the leader of a cult of hippies who wants nothing more than...
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Summary of Jessica Knoll's Luckiest Girl Alive is a dark and gripping novel that reveals the traumatic past of TifAni FaNelli, a writer for a popular woman's magazine. This book shows how the strong desire to belong and to be liked makes people do things they would not ordinarily do.
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Summary of Paula McLain's Circling the Sun is a novelized account of the life of Beryl Markham written by Paula McLain. Beryl broke all the rules for a proper young lady as she grew up in colonial Kenya, then broke ground for women everywhere, first as a horse trainer and then as an aviator. Her headstrong determination did not serve her as well, however, when it came to her personal life. She plunged into two youthful marriages that imploded and...
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Summary of Philippa Gregory's Three Sisters, Three Queens is a novel that follows more than 30 years in the life of Margaret Tudor. Starting in 1501, when she's 11 years old, the story traces Margaret's movements between England and Scotland, where she struggles to maintain her grip on power after the death of her husband, the king. Through moments of triumph and sorrow, she maintains an impassioned correspondence with Mary and Katherine, her sister...
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The unusual family of French Impressionist master Jacob Abraham Camille Pizzarro takes center stage in The Marriage of Opposites. Summary of Alice Hoffman's The Marriage of Opposites is set in the early to late 1800s, focusing on the artist and his equally strong-willed mother, Rachel Monsanto Pomié Petit Pizzarro.
Rachel longs for Paris although her grandparents long ago fled France for St. Thomas, an island in what is now the US Virgin Islands,...
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As society has experienced the recent deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner through media coverage, it has begun a dialogue regarding the treatment of young men of color and the attitude of law enforcement and lawmakers in regards to the safety and security of the urban black population. Between the World and Me is a letter Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his teenage son, one that describes the tragedy and truth of the black experience...
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Summary of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees is a coming-of-age novel narrated by 14-year-old Lily Owens, a young white teen who runs away from home. In equal parts fleeing her abusive father and pursuing a lead on her late mother, whose final days are shrouded in mystery, Lily travels to a nearby town where she finds a new home with a black family.
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Summary of Heidi Murkoff & Sharon Mazel's What to Expect When You're Expecting a best selling, step-by-step guide to pregnancy, covering everything from before a woman starts trying to conceive to six weeks after the birth. Over the course of that time, a woman's body undergoes numerous changes, as does her personality and her relationships with her partner, doctors, and colleagues…
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Summary of Emily Bleeker's Wreckage, a plane crash shatters the lives of two families, raising complex issues of love, loyalty and loss, in Wreckage, the debut novel by Emily Bleeker.
Lillian Linden takes a much-needed vacation to Fiji with her mother-in-law, Margaret, who won the trip in a contest sponsored by Carlton Yogurt. Lillian has two young sons and a busy life in Missouri, so she relishes the break. However, Margaret can often be overbearing....
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kristin Hannah's The Four Winds
Elsa Wolcott and her family live through the unrelenting harshness of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression in Kristin Hannah's novel The Four Winds (2021). Elsa unexpectedly gets pregnant and quickly married in one of the worst times of the twentieth century. She becomes a farmer, has two kids, learns the difficulties of surviving as a single mother, and struggles with unending...
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Summary of Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls, follows a married couple, Matt and Beth Kelly, and their best friends, Jimmy and Ash Dillon, through five years of their lives. As young politicians, Matt's and Jimmy's careers are on different trajectories; Matt's career is flagging while Jimmy's star is on the rise.
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Summary of Elin Hilderbrand's Here's to Us, a novel by Elin Hilderbrand, follows the aftermath of the death of celebrity chef Deacon Thorpe, who succumbed to an unexpected heart attack at the age of 53. The present-day action takes place over a long weekend in June 2016, six weeks after his death. Deacon's best friend gathers the three women to whom Deacon had been married, as well as their children, for a long weekend at the family's summer home...
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