Romantic Fiction

TITLE & AUTHOR

Alice In Rapture, Sort Of*

Ancient Child

Set, a Native American raised far from the reservation by his adoptive father, returns to tribal lands for the funeral of his grandmother. When he meets Grey, a beautiful young medicine woman with a visionary gift, his world is turned upside down.

But What About Me?

Cider House Rules

The story of Dr. Wilbur Larch - obstetrician, director of St. Cloud's orphanage, ether addict and abortionist - and his favorite orphan, Homer Wells.

Emma

Classic novel about a self-assured young lady whose capricious behavior is dictated by a romantic fantasy.

Everlasting

Not even the success of her East Side flower shop can save Catherine Eliot from the love, lust, intrigue and betrayal she finds in a Boston lawyer and a street-wise seducer.

Hard Love*

John's friendship with Marisol helps him deal with his buried feelings about his family in this honest and engaging look at a teenage boy's first love.

Hey Kid! Does She Love Me?

Honk And Holler Opening Soon

The "Honk" is a roadhouse - a little run-down, the center of a small universe. A young drifter happens upon the Honk and, in no time, brings more business and vitality to the place than it's seen in the last dozen years. A feel-good story, centered in America's heartland, where dreams can still come true and people still care enough about each other to give a leg up when it is needed.

Horse Whisperer

Teenager Grace Maclean loses a leg in a terrible accident while riding her horse, Pilgrim. Grace and Pilgrim are both emotionally scarred as well as physically devastated by the accident. Realizing that the fates of her daughter and the horse are linked, Grace's mother launches a campaign to find a '"horse whisperer'", someone who can cure troubled horses with only a calm voice and a soothing touch.

How I Created My Perfect Prom Date*

If Beale Street Could Talk

Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous (prison) tombs. His girlfriend, Tish, is determined to free him, and to have his baby.

If You Come Softly*

For 15-year-old Jeremiah, who is black, and Ellie, who is Jewish, the love they find is special and rare. But can it withstand the prejudice the world around them feels towards a mixed relationship?

Leopard Lord

Lessons Of The Game

Likes Of Me*

Cordelia is a Chinese American young woman isolated from the world in a remote lumber town in 1918. When she meets a young man, and falls in love, she is determined to follow him.

Love In The Time Of Cholera

The story of Florentino Ariza's prolonged passion for Fermina Daza, a passion that is only consummated after more than half a century. The novel traces the story of their love and separation.

Love Is A Missing Person

Suzy watches everybody around her falling in and out of love, and how it changes them as a result. Some of them change for the better because of love, some worse.

Love Me, Love Me Not

Mr. And Mrs. Bo Jo Jones

North Of Hope

Notebook

When he returns home from World War II. Noah Calhoun is haunted by images of the girl he met 14 years earlier whom he loved like no other. Then Allie Nelson unexpectedly returns to town. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future.

Of Nightingales That Weep*

Takiko, whose warrior father was killed in battle, accepts a position at the Japanese imperial court. Her beauty and nightingale voice captivates the handsome young warrior, Hideo - who also turns out to be an enemy spy. Takiko is forced to choose between loyalty to her people and her love for Hideo.

Open House

When Samantha's husband leaves her, she has to reconstruct a life for herself and her son. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. But in order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness.

Phantom Of The Opera

A half-crazed musician hides in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House and orchestrates a number of events to further the career of a beautiful young singer.

Primrose Way

In 1633 16-year-old Rebekah comes to know the Pawtucket people and questions whether these "savages" really need salvation. When she is attracted to the Pawtuckets’ defiant medicine man, she must make the most difficult choice of her life.

Sense And Sensibility

AUSTEN, J

Two high-spirited sisters search for true love in a straight-laced society.

Sweetgrass*

Sweetgrass, a 15-year-old Blackfoot girl, longs to marry a young warrior, Eagle-Sun, but her father feels she is too young for marriage. Then a smallpox epidemic breaks out, and Sweetgrass is one of a few women left to fight for the survival of the tribe. It is a chance to prove her maturity, but is she strong enough to fight cold, hunger and disease?

Till Death Do Us Part*

Diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, 18-year-old April faces an uncertain future with her fiancee. Mark, a race car driver with cystic fibrosis, suffers a terrible accident and this forces April to make a difficult decision

Time Enough For Drums*

Tower Room*

Two Moons In August

After her mother dies, Sidonie's father retreats into his work, leaving Sidonie and her older sister, Bobbi, to their own devices. Sidonie gets involved in an ornery - but finally rewarding - romance with Kieran, the new boy in town. Gradually, the grief that has frozen Sidonie and her family begins to thaw.

Two Suns In The Sky*

In the summer of 1944 when Christine meets 15-year-old Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew in a refugee camp in upstate New York, they fall in love. But will the narrow-mindedness of their parents tear them apart again?

Until Angels Close My Eyes

West Side Story*

SHULMAN, I

A novel based on the stage play and movie.

What Dreams May Come

What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him abruptly from his beloved wife. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death.

Where The Fire Burns

Although Poland is liberated from the Nazis, horror spreads as Stalinism entrenches itself in the country. Jasiu and Piotr Piekarz grow up under the crushing weight of persecution, with one following his parents’ faith, while the other one rebels and gets involved in the underground, helping to organize workers’ strikes. Both capture the heart of the daughter of an American spy who is deeply rooted in the Communist government.

Where The Heart Is

17-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation finds herself stranded at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. In this small southwestern town she discovers the hidden treasures of a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people willing to help a homeless, jobless girl.

Whistle Me Home*

Will You Be My Brussels Sprout? *