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"A lush, involving novel set in the early years of the 20th century, The Age of Desire is the story of writer Edith Wharton's illicit affair and sexual awakening at the age of 45 with journalist Morton Fullerton. Her liaison impacted many lives, including Edith's well-meaning but feckless husband Teddy, and her loyal secretary and dearest friend, Anna Bahlmann. Set mostly in Paris, it recaptures an era of literary salons, chauffeured motorcars and...
2) Atomic love
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"Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special...
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