Sentences with phrase «beautiful novel about»

ROOTS, RUMOR & WRATH is a tragic yet beautiful novel about war, mystery and refugee struggle.

From the acclaimed author of Splinters of Light and Pack Up the Moon comes a beautiful novel about two very different women who are about to get a second chance at creating a family...

Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II.

Praised for writing that is «vivid and distinct» (Library Journal, starred review) and «exquisite in its simplicity and eloquence» (Kirkus Reviews), Favel Parrett delivers a stunningly beautiful novel about the bond forged between two unlikely and unforgettable strangers.

I read Rachel Lyon's sharp and achingly beautiful novel about art and fame and loneliness and death in a frenzy, full of a deep and urgent need.

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In his novel High Fidelity, Nick Hornby asks why people worry so much about sexy, violent, and perverse rock songs, and so little about the many more rock songs that luxuriate in beautiful sadness, usually a sadness fueled by love.

t seems like every movie that's based on a young adult novel about a supernatural romance is destined to be lazily compared to the «Twilight» series (and there are plenty more to come this year), but in the case of «Beautiful Creatures,» the comparisons are totally valid.

The River — Jean Renoir's beautiful adaptation of a Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) novel (she wrote the screenplay as well) about a British colonial family in India is lushly romantic while managing to, for the most part, avoid the pitfalls of imperialism that drag down The Darjeeling Limited.

In Todd Haynes» unspeakably beautiful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's semi-autobiographical novel about a 1950s Manhattan shopgirl (Rooney Mara) who is thunderstruck by a mutual infatuation with a well - to - do housewife (Cate Blanchett), the film illustrates — among other things — how falling in love is an act of looking, while being in love is an act of seeing.

Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) directs his own graphic novel, and the result is a beautiful and impressive looking film that lacks substance and fails to develop any characters for us to care about.

Some cinema - goers were furious about the ending of this Oscar - winning crime saga, in which Javier Bardem's remorseless contract killer walks away scot - free having wiped out practically everyone in the film we care about, but the Coen brothers were being faithful to the spirit of Cormac McCarthy's bleak and beautiful novel.

A stunning debut novel about an extended Sri Lankan family - a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life, by turns darkly funny, sad, poignant, and uproariously beautiful.

Lepore is a fascinating observer of history and contemporary life — recently she's written about everything from Paul Revere's ride to the politics of breastfeeding — and she's also the author of a historical novel (with Jane Kamensky) that we said was «full of beautiful narrative and wonderfully quotable lines» back in 2008.

This is a beautiful, sad novel about race and loneliness, filled with lines that demand to be reread for their elegance.

They are certainly three times as complex as a regular novel, and about 10 times as ambitious (and maybe 20 times as beautiful).

It takes considerably more literary skill to write a beautiful, fascinating novel about one ordinary person to whom very little happens.

Henderson's new novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams, is a beautiful literary novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father's mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town.

Beautiful Maria of My Soul is the title of both Oscar Hijuelos» new novel and the song Nestor Castillo writes about his lost love in Hijuelos» Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.

And finally, Penguin Books bought the trade paperback rights to my novel, and this summer, Penguin produced a beautiful trade paperback version of Beneath a Marble Sky that is available in about every bookstore in North America.

This expertly rendered graphic novel provides both textual and visual information about the wonders (e.g., viewing beautiful landforms and meeting Native Americans) and many more hardships (e.g., accidents, disease, and death).

Us by Michael Kimball (Tyrant Books) A beautiful, heart - wrenching novel about a man whose beloved wife is in a coma; it packs a lasting punch.

Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.

Told in a haunting and powerful first - person narration that casts the streets of Washington, D.C., and Addis Ababa through Sepha's eyes, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears is a deeply affecting and unforgettable debut novel about what it means to lose a family and a country - and what it takes to create a new home.

This novel had it all — characters you felt you knew and cared about, beautiful writing, compelling story!

This beautiful novel examines a Southern tradition — the do - it - yourself, at - home wedding — in all of its intricacies, from the cast of characters who make the big day a reality and the new relationships that form in such intimate settings to the surprises that wedding guests will tell stories about for years to come.

Winner of the British Carnegie Medal as well the Printz Award, Chambers» novel combines WWII romance with an edgy, contemporary story about English teen Jacob, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman even as he's attracted to an openly gay young man.

Wonderfully written and full of profound observations about life, The Story of Arthur Truluv is a beautiful and moving novel of compassion in the face of loss, of the small acts that turn friends into family, and of the possibilities to achieve happiness at any age.

Lisa Genova, who was interviewed about her second novel, Left Neglected, last month, has a «beautiful writing room.

Peter Swanson is back with a new thriller, All the Beautiful Lies, and Meg Wolitzer has penned a new novel about power and femininity, The Female Persuasion.

From Flannery O'Connor and Rona Jaffe Award winner Lori Ostlund, a deeply moving and beautiful debut novel about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a new life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood.

In his heartfelt, heartbreaking novel, translated from the French, award - winning writer David Foenkinos proves that he knows a great deal about men, women, love lost and love found.At the beginning of Delicacy, young, beautiful Natalie appears to have it all: a high - powered job at a growing corporation, an exciting life in...

Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming - of - age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life.

- Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand «A beautiful novel... William's journey is one you'll savor, and then think about long after the book is closed.

Good ol' fiction: The River at Night by Erica Ferencik The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable Before I Go by Colleen Oakley Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan by James Michener We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Since She Went Away by David Bell Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Happy Family by Tracy Barone Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard Saving Grace by Jane Green After You by Jojo Moyes Britt - Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell The Passenger by Lisa Lutz The Girls by Emma Cline Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris California by Edan Lepucki Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak Christmas in London by Anita Hughes

I'm thinking Jennifer Armentrout meets Lululemon as a publisher of erotic romance novels about Shirtless Men Kissing Beautiful Women in Yoga Pants.

Unfortunately for 2K and Turtle Rock, most of the noise around the release is not about the beautiful graphics or novel gameplay concepts.

In addition to How to Find a Woman... Or Not, Gary Morgenstein's books include the novels Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman, a romance about a divorced man who falls in love with a beautiful woman rabbi; Jesse's Girl, a powerful story about a father's search for his adopted teenage son, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, a political baseball thriller, as well as the baseball Rocky The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees.