Adult Onset by Ann-Marie Macdonald
Ann-Marie Macdonald | Adult Onset | From the acclaimed, bestselling author of 2 beloved classics, Adult Onset is a powerful drama about motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and
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Lovers At the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
Francine Prose | Lovers At the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 | Paris in the 1920s. It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats,
The Adventures Of King Pausole by Pierre Louys
Pierre Louys | The Adventures Of King Pausole | Fine, funny, highly risque story of the king of a strange country, who has a thousand wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom for everybody excep
Ladies’ Close by Sarah Kilpatrick
Sarah Kilpatrick | Ladies’ Close | The author has devoted herself to the sexual last rites of the over-forty female (The Phoenix Hour; 1962. . . The Cool Meridian; 1965) With their atte
Claudine at School by Colette; Willy
Colette; Willy | Claudine at School | Claudine is a curious, precocious, and rather spoiled girl growing up in the small town of Montigny. Colette’s first novel is about Claudine’s adventu
The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
Cousin Bette (Oxford World’s Classics) by Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette (Oxford World’s Classics) | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
A Girl Named Charlie Lester by Carissa Halston
Carissa Halston | A Girl Named Charlie Lester | Kirkus Reviews: The razory hip Charlie sallies forth from a hateful adolescence to find sex, self-awareness and then, in its many guises, the t
The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
Landfall by Helen R. Hull
Helen R. Hull | Landfall | In a brittle and sarcastic novel of a brittle and sarcastic woman, the heroine, a capable businesswoman, alternately repulses and warms toward her ado