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Letters to Milena: First Complete Edition

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar · 209 pages

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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

Abigail Adams, John Adams · 528 pages

A collection of letters between Abigail and John Adams written from 1762 to 1801 covering topics of revolution, independence, and nation building, along with those that reflect their love for one another.

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The Light and the Dark

Mikhail Shishkin · 368 pages

Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. But now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 177 pages

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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

Orlando Figes · 352 pages

Just Send Me Word is a powerful and moving experience. It is the story of the relationship between Lev and Sveta, two young Muscovites separated by the Second World War and then the Gulag, where the Soviet state sent Lev for ten years on absurd and arbitrary charges.

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Love, Rosie

Cecelia Ahern · 475 pages

From the author of PS, I LOVE YOU, a simultaneously funny and tender novel about what happens when two people who are destined to be together can never seem to get it right.Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone but them seems to realize it. Rosie’s best friend since childhood, Alex never did live down the fact that he didn’t invite her to his all-boys 10th birthday party. But t

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The Letters of a Portuguese Nun

Mariana Alcoforado, Gabriel de Guilleragues · 53 pages

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From A to X: A Story in Letters

John Berger · 197 pages

"In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of

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Dear Mr. You

Mary-Louise Parker · 240 pages

"A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved

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Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke · 109 pages

Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (p. 81-123).

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The Color Purple

Alice Walker · 274 pages

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particula

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates · 155 pages

An Amazon Best Book of July 2015: Readers of his work in The Atlantic and elsewhere know Ta-Nehisi Coates for his thoughtful and influential writing on race in America. Written as a series of letters to his teenaged son, his new memoir, Between the World and Me, walks us through the course of his life, from the tough neighborhoods of Baltimore in his youth, to Howard University—which Coates dubs “

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Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb · 400 pages

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Loneliness on the Net

Janusz Leon Wisniewski · 328 pages

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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Pierre Abelard, Heloise d'Argenteuil · 218 pages

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A Tangle of Gold

Jaclyn Moriarty · 467 pages

**HIS VISIT TURNED OUT TO BE RIDICULOUSLY BRIEF.** Madeleine and Elliot barely talked before word came that he and his father would be bundled back to Cello. On the train platform, Elliot didn't snap out of the distant fog he seemed to be in. And Madeleine's nose bled -- again! -- just as she tried to say good-bye. Now she's mortified, heartbroken, lost -- and completely cut off from Cello. Cel

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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh · 351 pages

Most unusually among major painters, Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was also an accomplished writer. His letters provide both a unique self-portrait and a vivid picture of the contemporary cultural scene. Van Gogh emerges as a complex but captivating personality, struggling with utter integrity to fulfil his artistic destiny. This major new edition, which is based on an entirely new translation, rein

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Letter to D: A Love Story

Andre Gorz · 144 pages

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Goodnight Tweetheart

Teresa Medeiros · 222 pages

Abigail Donovan has a lot of stuff she should be doing. Namely writing her next novel. A bestselling author who is still recovering from a near Pulitzer Prize win and the heady success that follows Oprah'stamp of approval, she is stuck at Chapter Five and losing confidence daily. But when her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account, she's intrigued. What's all the fuss? Taken under the win

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5-B Poppy Lane

Debbie Macomber, Sandra Burr · 400 pages

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Love Virtually

Daniel Glattauer, Katharina Bielenberg, Jamie Bulloch

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Love, Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli · 288 pages

LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new

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Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

Ugo Foscolo · 176 pages

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