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Susan Meissner Author Read Alikes April 27, 2017 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Susan Meissner try these authors.
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First Impressions by Margaret ThorntonWhen widowed Jane Redfern finally decides to take a vacation on her own she finds herself falling for fellow traveler, Dave Falconer
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island
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The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenFollows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life on 1975 Los Angeles.
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The Valley of Amazement by Amy TanViolet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.
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Americanah : A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSeparated by differing ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland fifteen years later
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The Horse Dancer : A Novel by Jojo MoyesA headstrong teen quietly training to become an elite equestrian to fulfill her ailing grandfather's ambitions is taken in by a struggling lawyer and her estranged husband, whose lives are thrown into turmoil by a devastating secret.
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Fingersmith by Sarah WatersGrowing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, Gentleman, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lily, but Sue's growing pity for their helpless victim could destroy the plot.
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Lady Vernon and Her Daughter : A Novel of Jane Austen's Lady Susan by Jane RubinoAn interpretation of Austen's novella Lady Susan finds a woman and her daughter struggling for survival in a society in which their security is at the mercy of an entail, a situation throughout which a romantic prospect becomes subject to personal finances and a complicated misunderstanding.
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Stardust : A Novel by Joseph KanonHaving returned from war-torn Europe in 1945 and discovered the mysterious death of his brother, Daniel, Ben Collier delves deep into the seedy world of the movie business to discover the truth behind Daniel's death, in a novel set during the Communist witch hunts in Hollywood.
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House of the Hunted : A Novel by Mark MillsHaving retired to 1930s French Rivera, former intelligence operative Tom Nash finds his respite broken when someone tries to kill him in his sleep, and must pretend to live the normal life of a retiree as he tries to flush out those who want him dead.
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The Long Song by Andrea LevyA tale inspired by the years on either side of 19th-century Jamaica's emancipation finds the willful slave Miss July moving into her mistress's great house, where she becomes a valuable confidante, learns to read and witnesses the Baptist War.
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Among the Living by Jonathan RabbAfter arriving in Savannah, Georgia, to live with his only remaining relatives, Yitzhak Goldah, a concentration camp survivor complicates the lives of his liberal, Reformed Jewish family by falling for a young, widowed Conservative Jew.
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The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon ApelfeldFollows the story of Erwin, a young Holocaust survivor, who travels from a refugee camp to a kibbutz in Haifa to begin a new life while still desperately clinging to his memories of the past.
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The Aftermath by Rhidian BrookAssigned to oversee the reconstruction of Hamburg in the tumultuous year following World War II, Colonel Lewis Morgan grieves the loss of his son while living with his family in the home of a German widower, an arrangement that forces both families to confront their passions and true selves.
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The Italian Wife by Kate FurnivallAn architect for Italy's fascist leaders witnesses a woman's death from the clock tower she designed and investigates the truth with the help of a propaganda photographer.
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All the Stars in the Heavens : A novel by Adriana TrigianiA reimagining of the career of Tinsel Town star Loretta Young traces the decades she shared with her former nun assistant, from her early screen successes through the scandals and obstacles that tested their bond. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Shoemaker's Wife. 200,000 first printing.
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