18 books like Back When We Were Grownups

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The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 662p · ≈ 22h · Moderate More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal... Shares Novela hogareña, Novela psicológica, Widows, Psychological fiction
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Sanctuary Edith Wharton · 1903 · ★ 4.0 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiance, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and marry Denis, however, as a selfless gesture to protect any children he may conceive from inheriting their father's moral weakness. The couple does have a child, Dick, and in a… Shares Widows, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction
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Une page d'amour Émile Zola · 1878 · 406p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Je me decide a joindre a ce volume l'arbre genealogique des Rougon-Macquart. Deux raisons me determinent. La premiere est que beaucoup de personnes m'ont demande cet arbre. Il doit, en effet, aider les lecteurs a se retrouver, parmi les membres assez nombreux de la famille dont je me suis fait l'historien. La seconde raison est plus compliquee. Je regrette de n'avoir pas publie l'arbre dans le… Shares Women, Social life and customs
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Act of will Barbara Taylor Bradford · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Audra is an impoverished children's nanny from Leeds who sacrificed everything for her only daughter. Christina is a talented art student who won world renown as a fashion designer – yet who has known pain and heartache. Kyle is a rebellious young woman who chafes against her mother's success – and in whom her grandmother's spirit of duty and sacrifice is reborn. Moving from the bleak Yorkshire… Shares Ficción, Domestic fiction, Women
Off Season
Off Season Anne Rivers Siddons · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 407p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss. For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's… Shares Widows, Psychological fiction, Women
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Cell Stephen King · 2006 · ★ 3.7 · 477p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals. Shares Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction
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You Can Have An Amazing Life In Just 60 Days John F. Demartini · 2005 · 213p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Self-actualization with this book.
Key to Living the Law of Attraction
Key to Living the Law of Attraction Jack Canfield · 2008 Shares Self-actualization with this book.
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False memory Dean Koontz · 1999 · ★ 3.9 · 784p · ≈ 26h · Challenging "Martie Rhodes helps her friend Susan Jagger, who suffers from agoraphobia, attend visits to psychologist Dr. Ahriman. Martie's husband, Dusty Rhodes, tries to help his brother Skeet, by providing employment in his painting business. Skeet was in rehab for drug use, and when he first appears in the story, he is high and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a roof. Dusty decides to take him back… Shares Psychological fiction, Women
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Where are you now? Mary Higgins Clark · 2008 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ten years ago, twenty-one-year-old Columbia University senior Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") walked out of his Manhattan apartment without a word to his roommates and disappeared. He calls his mother once a year, on Mother's Day, but refuses to answer her frantic questions. This year when he calls, Mack's sister Carolyn, now twenty-six, announces her intention to track him down, no matter what it… Shares Psychological fiction, Ficción, Domestic fiction
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Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon · 2012 · ★ 3.4 · 474p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The new novel from Michael Chabon, his first in 5 years, is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. One street, two families. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, longtime friends, band mates and co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary nurse… Shares Ficción, Domestic fiction
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The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This deluxe trade paperback edition of Alice Sebold's modern classic features French flaps and rough-cut pages.Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. The Lovely Bones is such a book - a phenomenal #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its narrative artistry, its luminous clarity of emotion, and its astoniishing… Shares Novela psicológica, Psychological fiction, Ficción
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The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray · 1853 · ★ 3.7 · 801p · ≈ 26h · Demanding The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action… Shares Domestic fiction, Social life and customs
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He knew he was right Anthony Trollope · 1869 · ★ 3.9 · 938p · ≈ 31h · Demanding Widely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels,He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast against a background of agitation for women's rights. Shares Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Social life and customs
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44 Charles Street Danielle Steel · 2011 · ★ 3.8 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Francesca Thayer es copropietaria de una galería de arte y de una casa antigua en el Village neoyorquino. Ambos proyectos los inició con Todd, su pareja durante años. Ahora que la relación ha terminado, Francesca deberá decidir si lo vende todo o hace frente a los pagos ella sola. Finalmente su padre la ayudará a sacar adelante la galería, pero para mantener la casa, tendrá que alquilar tres de… Shares Ficción, Domestic fiction
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Ladder of Years Anne Tyler · 1993 · ★ 3.7 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who… Shares Identity, Psychological fiction, Women
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A thousand tomorrows Karen Kingsbury · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In this mass market edition, #1 bestselling author Karen Kingsbury weaves a powerful story of a young couple whose love must face the ultimate challenge.Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking… Shares Psychological fiction
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Unless Carol Shields · 2002 · ★ 3.6 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and… Shares Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Women

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