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The Hotel Alleluia

by Lucinda Roy

Published: 2001-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Joan's quest to find her sister following their mother's death sets off a whirlwood of events in Africa.  They reunited sisters join forces with the unlikely duo of Gordon Delacroix, Joan's former lover, and Jeremy Scott, a troubled English writer.  The days they spend together in the vi...

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Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

by Erik Larson, Jamie Ford, Deb Caletti, Mary Guterson, Kathleen Alcala, Die, Elizabeth George, Julia Quinn, Susan Wiggs, Jennie Shortridge, Kevin O'Brien, Garth Stein, Carol Cassella, Erica Bauermeister

Published: 2011-05-03

Kindle Edition: 260 pages

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Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.  Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former m...

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Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel

by Edmund White

Published: 2008-10-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the propriet...

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Hotel Du Lac

by Anita Brookner

Published: 1995-10-03

Paperback: 192 pages

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In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plo...

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Hotel For Dogs

by Lois Duncan

Published: 2008-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages

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The Walkers are moving to a new town, and staying with an aunt who's allergic to dogs. Too bad for Andi and her brother Bruce, who love dogs -- and happen to meet a stray that needs help. Soon, Andi hatches a plan, turning the abandoned house down the block into a hotel for dogs. But as mo...

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The Hotel New Hampshire (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by John Irving

Published: 1997-06-23

Paperback: 432 pages

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“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the liv...

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* * * * Romantic,
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

by Jamie Ford

Published: 2009-01-27

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take hee...

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Hotel World

by Ali Smith

Published: 2002-01-15

Paperback: 256 pages

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Woooooooo-hooooooo.Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in ...

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Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire: A Novel

by Margot Berwin

Published: 2009-06-16

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In the heart of New York City, hidden in the back room of an old Laundromat, are nine rare and valuable plants. Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire tells the story of this legendary garden, and the distance one woman must travel?from the cold, harsh streets of Manhattan to the lu...

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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

by Alina Bronsky

Published: 2011-04-26

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Rosa Achmetowna is the outrageously nasty and wily narrator of this rollicking family saga from the author of Broken Glass Park When she discovers that her seventeen-year-old daughter, “stupid Sulfia,” is pregnant by an unknown man she does everything to thwart the pregnancy, employing...