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George Burns + Gracie Allen

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Love and Laughs
Born with one blue eye and one green eye and a twinkle in both, Gracie Allen arrived in this world on July 26, 1895 in San Francisco. Her dream was to be on stage, but while on her way there, she attended secretarial school. She was invited by her roommate to Union Hill, NJ, to see if she was interested in working with either member of a comedy act that was splitting up. The act featured Billy Lorraine, and a young man named Nathan Birnbaum. Continue reading →

Sleeping with Dogs and Other Lovers

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Cynthia Amas has her hands full. In the middle of launching a boutique matchmaking service – Second Acts — amid the sun, surf, and celebrities of Southern California, her own romantic life gets a whole lot more complicated…and steamy. While expertly juggling the needs of her exclusive clients,her own maddeningly irresistible bad-boy, sometime lover unexpectedly returns for a hot and heavy reunion.

Meanwhile, her high-maintenance mother busily concocts harebrained schemes for meddling in Cynthia’s affairs.

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1920

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•The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 1920

•Chéri by Sidone-Gabrille Colette 1920

•Women in Love by DH Lawrence 1920

•Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley 1921

•The Fox, by D.H. Lawrence 1923

•A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 1923

•The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

•Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos 1925

•Ali and Nino by Kurban Said 1928

•A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 1929

1930

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•Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon 1932

•Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller 1934

•Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934

•The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann 1936

•Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1936

•Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 1937

•Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier 1938

•The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen 1938

1940

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•The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 1940

•The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico 1941

•Gigi by Colette 1944

•The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 1945

•At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart 1945

•The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer 1946

•The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen 1948

•I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 1948

1950

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•The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 1951

•Love for Lydia by HE Bates 1952

•The Go-Between by LP Hartley 1953

•The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann 1953

•Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan 1954

•Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 1955

•Arturo’s Island: A Novel by Elsa Morante 1957

•Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote 1958