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The #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to Eat, Pray, Love--an intimate and erudite celebration of love.

At the end of her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) never to marry. However, providence intervened in the form of a U.S. government ultimatum: get married, or Felipe could never enter America again. Told with Gilbert's trademark humor and intelligence, this fascinating meditation on compatibility and fidelity chronicles Gilbert's complex and sometimes frightening journey into second marriage, and will enthrall the millions of readers who made Eat, Pray, Love a number one bestseller.

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The #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to Eat, Pray, Love--an intimate and erudite celebration of love.

At the end of her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) never to marry. However, providence intervened in the form of a U.S. government ultimatum: get married, or Felipe could never enter America again. Told with Gilbert's trademark humor and intelligence, this fascinating meditation on compatibility and fidelity chronicles Gilbert's complex and sometimes frightening journey into second marriage, and will enthrall the millions of readers who made Eat, Pray, Love a number one bestseller.

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Hardcover (304 pages)
Published: January 5, 2010
Publisher: Viking Adult
Imprint: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670021659
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    The Signature of All Things
    A Novel
    A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry’s brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father’s money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma’s research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction—into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist—but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who—born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution—bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.  
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    Eat, Pray, Love

    Eat, Pray, Love
    One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy,...
    A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.
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    Stern Men

    Stern Men
    The wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing (USA Today) from the #1 bestselling writerIn 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert's Stern Men debuted to phenomenal critical attention. Now, Penguin is publishing a new edition of Gilbert's wise and charming novel for the millions of readers who devoured Eat, Pray, Love and remain hungry for more. Off the coast of Maine, Ruth Thomas is born into a feud fought for generations by two groups of local lobstermen over fishing rights for the waters that lie between their respective islands. At eighteen, she has returned from boarding school—smart as a whip, feisty, and irredeemably unromantic—determined to throw over her education and join the stern men working the lobster boats. Gilbert utterly captures the American spirit through an unforgettable heroine who is destined for greatness—and love—despite herself.
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    The Last American Man

    The Last American Man
    Finalist for the National Book Award 2002 In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature. To Gilbert, Conway's mythical character challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America; he is a symbol of much we feel how our men should be, but rarely are.
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  • December 20, 2012
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    I highly recommend this book for every married woman or someone wanted to get married or when you ready for a relationship.I think after the author first book,Eat Pray Love, she is fall in love with a man, then they will getting married, during they are waiting for his Visa, there a lot of things happened, give them more responsible to each other. When you read this book, you will know what is real life, not always flower, when bad things happened, how you two to deal with. What is love,and what is relationship about, what is responsibility,what is tolerance for each other,etc,. I really enjoy this book, and I also bought audible book, the author has great voices.

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    I highly recommend this book for every married woman or someone wanted to get married or when you ready for a relationship.I think after the author first book,Eat Pray Love, she is fall in love with a man, then they will getting married, during they are waiting for his Visa, there a lot of things happened, give them more responsible to each other. When you read this book, you will know what is real life, not always flower, when bad things happened, how you two to deal with. What is love,and what is relationship about, what is responsibility,what is tolerance for each other,etc,. I really enjoy this book, and I also bought audible book, the author has great voices.


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  • November 15, 2012
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    This was great to listen to; Gilbert did a terrific job reading it. The history and ins and outs of marriage throughout history, in various cultures, and what we face in the U.S. SRH

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    This was great to listen to; Gilbert did a terrific job reading it. The history and ins and outs of marriage throughout history, in various cultures, and what we face in the U.S. SRH


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  • November 06, 2012
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    I never read Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love. Committed was an alright book. I did find myself laughing to myself while listening to the book in the car.The book follows Liz and her new love through how they finally got married. It was interesting and yet boring at times. I felt that Elizabeth was over analyzing everything. Checking to see how and if their marriage had a chance of surviving. The information was interesting yet tiresome of hearing after awhile.I still want to read her first book just not sure when I will get the time to.

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    I never read Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love. Committed was an alright book. I did find myself laughing to myself while listening to the book in the car.The book follows Liz and her new love through how they finally got married. It was interesting and yet boring at times. I felt that Elizabeth was over analyzing everything. Checking to see how and if their marriage had a chance of surviving. The information was interesting yet tiresome of hearing after awhile.I still want to read her first book just not sure when I will get the time to.


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