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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Matt Bomer |Hanya Yanagihara |Margaret Atwood |Valerie Martin
These star-studded listens include all-time classic literature, immersive audio dramas, and buzzy contemporary favorites. Do you have a favorite actor, or several, you can’t wait to see in a new movie or series—the kind where you’ll watch just about anything they’re in? What if that person was also an acclaimed audiobook narrator, and you didn’t even know it? Consider this a friendly PSA, because we know firsthand how thrilling it can be to find a great story with a famous voice behind the mic.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Valerie Martin |Curtis Sittenfeld |Jane Smiley |Attica Locke
Books have the incredible power to bridge the gap between distant places and our imaginations. No matter how fresh or familiar, a book can always take you somewhere new, introducing new perspectives and viewpoints. We take a dive into the Women’s Prize library for this trip to America. From Indiana to the Hollywood Hills, this list takes you through the United States via the very best books written by women.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
bigissue.com | Valerie Martin
Its title may be Mrs Gulliver but – set on tropical ‘Verona Island’ and with epigraphs from Romeo and Juliet – Valerie Martin’s new book owes more to Shakespeare than Swift. In this hymn to carnality, the not-so-star-crossed lovers are Carità, a blind prostitute, and Ian Drohan, the rebellious son of a judge, determined to save her.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
thefreelibrary.com | Valerie Martin
* Mrs. GulliverBy Valerie MartinHISTORICAL FICTIONValerie Martin's captivating new novel, Mrs. Gulliver (Doubleday, $28, 9780385549950) lies just beyond the horizon. The year is 1954. Verona Island floats a longish ferry ride away from the mainland. Lila Gulliver's clients enter through a side door behind a hedge, unseen from the street, though prostitution is legal on the island. Lila, who tells this tale, is a keen observer of surfaces.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Lisa Unger |Valerie Martin
Rosie and Chad are married, she’s a writer, having one book published, and working on her second. He’s a struggling actor, looking for his big break. They are barely surviving financially, and when Uncle Ivan dies, who they have been watching over, they inherit his apartment, in the historic, haunted, Windermere apartment building. Since it was built in the early 30s, there have suicides and deaths, and the building is reportedly haunted.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Valerie Martin |Claire Jimenez
The book is in stores on Tuesday, Feb. 20th from Grand Central. Click on the link to buy a copy. The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Valerie Martin |Claire Jimenez
The book is in stores on Tuesday, Feb. 20th from Ace. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4b9lDa1Exes Ward Dunbar and Camille Buhay thought they would never see each other again. They had broken up to pursue their dream jobs on opposite sides of the country—her to New York City, and him to Los Angeles. But years later, they unexpectedly reconnect in London, where they are interviewing for similar jobs.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Valerie Martin |Claire Jimenez
The book is in stores on Tuesday, Feb. 20th from Doubleday. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3SGTpwcIt’s 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business, a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. When Carità Bercy, a young, destitute, and beautiful blind woman arrives at her door seeking employment, Lila decides to give her a chance.
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Oct 21, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Valerie Martin |Kristin Hannah |Barbara Kingsolver
In Martin’s cheerful new novel about sex and economics, the madam of an upscale bordello hires a blind 19-year-old as a prostitute, a decision that proves life-changing for both. When the novel opens in 1954, narrator Lila, who identifies herself as the widow of a far-flung traveler named Gulliver (whom she’s actually met only in the pages of a comic book), has been running her business for 10 years in the main city of a tropical island, where it’s legal.
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Mar 15, 2023 | 
lakewoodobserver.com | Valerie Martin
The author doing what she loves. On my 74th birthday, in 2018, I rented a single engine Cessna 172 airplane and a Certified Flight Instructor. I hadn't flown since 1975, so I was not Current, which is why I took a Flight Instructor. My grandmother DIED at 74; I FLEW at 74! You could say that I GOT HIGH ON MY BIRTHDAY!I flew from Zone Aviation at Burke Lakefront Airport. I got my Flight Training from Freedom Field Airport in Medina, Ohio, back in the 1970's.
