Books like Ordinary love and Good will by Jane Smiley

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

A devoted dog reflects on life, love, and racing while watching his owner, a race car driver, navigate family trials and professional ambition.

A powerful Iowa family drama that reinterprets Shakespeare’s *King Lear* as a modern US farm saga about inheritance, sibling rivalry and buried family secrets.

A Connecticut labor nurse is forced to confront racial prejudice when a white supremacist family refuses her care, leading to a legal battle that forces both her and her public defender to re-examine their assumptions about race, justice, and compassion.

245 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

A humorous mystery about a husband who tries his hand at detection, starring the charming and sophisticated Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

It is 1974 when Leni Allbright's impulsive father Ernt decides the family is moving to Alaska. But the Alaskan winter is just as unforgiving as Ernt, and life quickly becomes a struggle for survival.

A young boy discovers music and friendship with the help of a washed-up musician in the summer of 1969.

The true story of a friendship spanning religious divisions and four decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had the door slammed in his face, one found that his old house had been converted into a school. But the third, Bashir, was met at the door by a young woman named Dalia, who invited him in... This poignant encounter is the starting point for the story of two families – one Arab, one Jewish – which spans the fraught modern history of the region. In the lemon tree his father planted in the backyard of his childhood home, Bashir sees a symbol of occupation; Dalia, who arrived in 1948 as an infant with her family, as a fugitive from Bulgaria, sees hope for a people devastated by the Holocaust. Both are inevitably swept up in the fates of their people and the stories of their lives form a microcosm of more than half a century of Israeli-Palestinian history.What began as a simple meeting between two young people grew into a dialogue lasting four decades. The Lemon Tree offers a much needed human perspective on this seemingly intractable conflict and reminds us not only of all that is at stake, but also of all that is possible.

Jane Smiley’s celebratory anthology journeys through 100 key novels, from the ancient Tale of Genji to contemporary works, offering insight into the novel’s history, cultural impact, and craft.

Rachel reflects on two decades of family life, amazed at her children's survival, while Bob’s isolation strains his bonds with the same parents and kids in this American domestic fiction.

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