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Desire Lines

by Elizabeth Kingston

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

Desire Lines by Elizabeth Kingston appears in NPR’s 2019 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, let’s talk about sex, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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