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Book |
Author |
Dewey Number |
Description |
The Longest Ride |
Sparks, Nicholas |
FIC SPA |
Two couples who have little in common, yet whose lives
will converge with unexpected poignancy |
‘Til the Well Runs Dry |
Francis-Sharma, Lauren |
FIC SHA |
From the Caribbean island of Trinidad comes a saga ripe
with heartbreak and joy. Sharma delivers a rich and satisfying debut on the
ties of family, love and culture—and how those ties are sometimes better when
broken. |
My Name is Memory |
Brashares, Ann |
FIC BRA |
A magical, suspenseful, heartbreaking story of true love, My
Name is Memory proves the power and endurance of a union that was meant
to be. |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
Simonson, Helen |
FIC SIM |
“This dryly
delightful debut novel is the most endearing love story I've read in a long
time.” |
Wuthering Heights |
Bronte, Emily |
FIC BRO |
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost
demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted
by Catherine's father |
A Touch of Stardust |
Alcott, Kate |
FIC ALC |
A
Hollywood love story centered on a true event. What could be bigger, grander,
more legendarily troubled and exultant and expensive—more Hollywood—than the
making of the 1939 Civil War-era film Gone With the Wind? |
Nothing But A Smile |
Amick, Steve |
FIC AMI |
Amick’s expertly crafted novel combines an unusual love
story with an intriguing, atmospheric peek into the American graphic-art
world in the 1940s. |
Lily and the Octopus |
Rowley, Steven |
FIC ROW |
In his funny ardent, and staunchly kooky way, Rowley expresses
what it is like to love a dog. |
The Japanese Lover |
Allende, Isabel |
FIC ALL |
Honored last year with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
for her inspiring fiction and soul-baring memoirs, Allende (Ripper,
2014, etc.) offers a saga of a couple that keeps its affair secret for the
better half of a century. |
To The Bright Edge of the World |
Ivey, Eowyn |
FIC IVE |
Set again in the Alaskan landscape Eowyn Ivey's new novel
is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the
nineteenth century, and of a marriage tested by a closely held secret. |
Mrs. Hemingway |
Wood, Naomi |
FIC WOO |
Naomi Wood’s Mrs. Hemingway tells the story of how
it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and dashing writer of his
generation. |
Along the Infinite Sea |
Williams, Beatriz |
FIC WIL |
Imagine The Sound of Music for big girls, flavored with a dash of Mad Men bitters. |
Whiskey Beach |
Roberts, Nora |
FIC ROB |
As the sole author of more than 200 novels, Roberts knows a thing or two about writing page-turning romances, and Whiskey Beach is a sure bet. |
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories |
FIC OXF |
Traces the lineaments of “English Love” through the fiction of 200 years. |
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The Time Traveler’s Wife |
Niffenegger, Audrey |
FIC NIF |
Henry works as a rare-books librarian and recites Rilke; Clare is an avant-sculptress and papermaker; they appreciate the best of punk rock, opera, and Chicago, live in a beautiful house, and have better sex than you. |
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats |
Sendker, Jan-Philipp |
FIC SEN |
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago. |
The Longest Ride |
Sparks, Nicholas |
FIC SPA |
Two couples who have little in common, yet whose lives
will converge with unexpected poignancy |
‘Til the Well Runs Dry |
Francis-Sharma, Lauren |
FIC SHA |
From the Caribbean island of Trinidad comes a saga ripe
with heartbreak and joy. Sharma delivers a rich and satisfying debut on the
ties of family, love and culture—and how those ties are sometimes better when
broken. |
My Name is Memory |
Brashares, Ann |
FIC BRA |
A magical, suspenseful, heartbreaking story of true love, My
Name is Memory proves the power and endurance of a union that was meant
to be. |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand |
Simonson, Helen |
FIC SIM |
“This dryly
delightful debut novel is the most endearing love story I've read in a long
time.” |