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Le cousin hyperactif
By Jean Gervais. 1996
Sébastien éprouve des problèmes à l'école, chez lui et ailleurs : il est hyperactif. L'auteur trace le portrait, décrit le…
comportement de celui qui souffre d'un tel trouble. Un mot d'une dizaine de pages à l'intention des parents et des éducateurs complète cette présentation. Années 3-6.Transient dancing
By Gale Garnett. 2003
Johnny Reed is a gifted black actor who leaves America for Greece, where he now has a job and a…
family. Theddo Daniels is an African-American civil rights activist and a closeted homosexual in the early stages of AIDS, in Greece to write his memoirs. The two men meet and become friends, while they and Johnny's wife must deal with the secrets and horrors of their pasts. Some strong language. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.A man in love: a novel
By David Dollenmayer, Martin Walser. 2019
1823. Seventy-three-year-old Goethe meets nineteen-year-old Ulrike von Levetzow. They form a connection that has Goethe infatuated with the young woman.…
When another man courts her, he falls apart. Translated from the original 2017 German edition. 2019You had me at hello
By Mhairi McFarlane. 2014
Ten years after they last spoke, Rachel runs into her former best friend, Ben, once again. She has recently broken…
up with her fiancé, but notices that Ben is married. However, the more time they spend together, the more they realize the flame between them has not died. Strong language. 2012An unsuitable bride
By Jane Feather. 2012
England, 1763. Viscount Bradley requires all of his nephews to marry a fallen woman in order to inherit his wealth.…
Peregrine, the last nephew to wed, meets librarian Alexandra, falls in love, and learns her secrets. Sequel to A Wedding Wager (DB 73701). Explicit descriptions of sex. 2012A wedding wager
By Jane Feather. 2011
London, 1762. While trying to fulfill his wealthy uncle's decree--that he must marry a fallen woman if he wants to…
gain his inheritance--Sebastian Sullivan discovers that the woman who broke his heart is back in town and working in an illegal gaming house. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011Rushed to the altar
By Jane Feather. 2010
London, 1761. Viscount Bradley's will decrees that to inherit his fortune, his three nephews must marry fallen women. When the…
eldest, Jasper Sullivan, the earl of Blackwater, collides into Clarissa, he decides she will be the ideal "wife"--and Clarissa agrees to the charade. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2010What is love? (What is?)
By Etan Boritzer, Robbie Marantz. 1996
The second book in the series on character education and social values by Etan Boritzer. Explains love as an "inside…
rainbow feeling" experienced by all the different people "held together by love" in the same world. For grades 3-6Near to the wild heart
By Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin. 2012
Once upon a blind date
By Wendy Markham. 2004
New York City ad executive Maggie O'Mulligan is determined to find a wife for her buddy Dominic. Columnist Charlie Kennelly…
seeks a husband for his neighbor Julie. When their friends go on a date, Maggie and Charlie tag along and fall in love instead. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2004Mutant message from forever: A Novel of Aboriginal Wisom
By Marlo Morgan. 1999
Australia, 1930s. Aboriginal twins are taken from their mother at birth and raised separately outside their culture. Beatrice becomes a…
church ward, Geoff is adopted by Americans. Years pass before Beatrice reconnects with her brother, then in a California jail. Companion to Mutant Message Down Under (RC 39560). Some violence. 1998Man of the house: The Dreamers One In A Million Father At Heart
By Felicia Mason, Doris Johnson, Adrianne Byrd. 2003
Three contemporary romances featuring African American fathers in love. In Adrianne Byrd's "One in a Million," successful businessman Gregory Woods…
reunites with a former lover and the nine-year-old son he never knew he had. Includes Felicia Mason's "The Dreamers" and Doris Johnson's "Father at Heart." Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003Bittersweet rain
By Sandra Brown. 2000
As a young girl Caroline Dawson loved Rink Lancaster, but he deserted her. Years later she married Rink's widowed father,…
Roscoe, the leading citizen in Winstonville. Now Roscoe is dying and has summoned Rink, and Caroline realizes her passion for him is still strong. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1984With this ring
By Marian Wells. 1984
Rebecca is rescued by her longtime friend Joshua Smyth following near death at the hands of her Mormon husband, Andrew…
Jacobson. Rebecca is cared for by Eagle and Solali at an Indian camp, and they all move on to Joshua's home in Oregon before Andrew learns that Rebecca is not dead. Rebecca is happy to be with Joshua, but she has difficulty recapturing her Christian faith. Sequel to The Wedding Dress (DB 40253)Butterflies in November
By Auður A. Ólafsdóttir, Auour Ava Olafsdottir, Brian FitzGibbon. 2014
Joseph and Emma: a love story, volume I
By Marsha Newman, Buddy Youngreen. 2001
A novelist and an historian team up to write this historical novel from the perspective of the Smiths' personal lives.…
This is the story of how Joseph and Emma met, fell in love, married, and then went on to the divine work Joseph was called to doMilk and honey
By Rupi Kaur. 2015
The princess bride: S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure
By William Goldman. 2007
Buttercup, the most beautiful woman in the world, falls in love with Westley, the perfect man. Their pending romance, however,…
is interrupted by fate and the wicked Prince Humperdinck, ruler of Florin. This thirtieth-anniversary edition of the classic fairy tale spoof features a 2003 introduction. 1973The mothers: a novel
By Jennifer Gilmore. 2013
Brooklyn. Thirty-eight-year-old Jesse and her Spanish/Italian husband have difficulty conceiving a child and decide to adopt. But Jesse's past cancer…
diagnosis, her Jewish heritage, and new laws regulating international and open-adoption processes create complications. 2013L'autre fille (Les affranchis)
By Annie Ernaux. 2011
"Yvetot, un dimanche d'août 1950. Annie a dix ans, elle joue dehors, au soleil, sur le chemin caillouteux de la…
rue de l'Ecole. Sa mère sort de l'épicerie pour discuter avec une cliente, à quelques mètres d'elle. La conversation des deux femmes est parfaitement audible et les bribes d'une confidence inouïe se gravent à jamais dans la mémoire d'Annie. Avant sa naissance, ses parents avaient eu une autre fille. Elle est morte à l'âge de six ans de la diphtérie. Plus jamais Annie n'entendra un mot de la bouche de ses parents sur cette soeur inconnue. Elle ne leur posera jamais non plus une seule question. Mais même le silence contribue à forger un récit qui donne des contours à cette petite fille morte. Car forcément, elle joue un rôle dans l'identité de l'auteur. Les quelques mots, terribles, prononcés par la mère ; des photographies, une tombe, des objets, des murmures, un livret de famille : ainsi se construit, dans le réel et dans l'imaginaire, la fiction de cette " aînée " pour celle à qui l'on ne dit rien. Reste à savoir si la seconde fille, Annie, est autorisée à devenir ce qu'elle devient par la mort de la première..." -- 4e de couv