Books like Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
12 books with a reading profile close to Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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The House of Eve
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In 1948 Philadelphia, high school student Ruby Pearsall strives to become the first in her family to attend college until a forbidden relationship with a local boy threatens her scholarship prospects.
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Uncommon Type
by Tom Hanks
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Tom Hanks's debut book of fiction contains seventeen stories, each in some way featuring a typewriter, whether as the object at the centre or just in passing.
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Mary Jane
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Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Duer grows up in a strictly conservative, religious household in 1970s Baltimore.
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Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
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Budo is the imaginary friend of Max, a boy with autism, and he has lasted far longer than most imaginary friends because Max still needs him.
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Miss Benson's Beetle
by Rachel Joyce
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In 1950s London, Margery Benson, a lonely domestic science teacher, abandons her stifling life to find a mythical golden beetle on the island of New Caledonia.
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Moon Over Manifest
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In 1936, twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker arrives in Manifest, Kansas, after her father sends her away to live with an old friend for the summer.
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On the Come Up
by Angie Thomas
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Sixteen-year-old Brianna wants to be a legendary rapper, following the path of her late father, an underground hip-hop star.
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The Music of Bees
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In the high desert of Hood River, Oregon, forty-four-year-old widow Alice Holtzman fills her solitary life with the meticulous labor of beekeeping.
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The Paris Library
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In 1939 Paris, Odile Souchet secures her dream job at the American Library in Paris, but her life fractures when the Nazis occupy the city.
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This Tender Land
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In 1932, orphans Odie and Albert O’Banion flee the Lincoln School in Minnesota, a state-run institution where Native American children face systemic abuse.
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Evening Class
by Maeve Binchy
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In late-twentieth-century Dublin, a schoolteacher named Aidan Lynch organizes an evening Italian language course to escape his stagnant career.
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
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In 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson returns to his foreclosed Nebraska farm after serving time at a juvenile work farm for involuntary manslaughter.
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