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Persuasion
By Jane Austen. 1818
Anne Elliot has been persuaded to break off her engagement, but meets Wentworth again after some time, and the story…
is concerned with the gradual revival of his passion for her. 1818.Dakota born (Dakota series. #1.)
By Debbie Macomber. 2016
Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, is a dying town. Lindsay Snyder used to visit her grandmother there, and now she has…
become the town's only schoolteacher. As Lindsay comes to know the town and its people, she learns she has a serious disadvantage--she's not a native. Followed by "Dakota home". 2016.Dakota home (Dakota series. #2.)
By Debbie Macomber. 2016
People have started moving to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota--people like Lindsay Snyder, who came as a teacher and stayed, marrying…
local farmer Gage Sinclair. And now Lindsay's best friend, Maddy Washburn, has decided to pull up stakes and join her in Buffalo Valley, hoping for the same kind of satisfaction. And the same kind of love. Jeb McKenna is a rancher, a solitary man who's learned to endure. Maddy--unafraid and openhearted--is drawn to Jeb, but he rejects her overtures. Until one of North Dakota's deadly storms throws them together. Sequel to "Dakota born"; followed by "Always Dakota". 2016.Always Dakota (Dakota series. #3.)
By Debbie Macomber. 2016
A few years ago, Buffalo Valley in North Dakota was a dying town. Now it's come back to life! People…
are feeling good about living here again--the way they used to. They're feeling confident about the future. Stalled lives are moving forward. People like Margaret Clemens are taking risks on new ventures and on lifelong dreams and happiness. Margaret is a local rancher who's finally getting what she wants most: marriage to cowboy Matt Eilers. Her friends don't think Matt's such a bargain; neither did her father. But Margaret is aware of Matt's reputation and his flaws--she wants him anyway. And she wants his baby. Sequel to "Dakota home". 2016.The beautiful and damned
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1922
A story of the reckless life of the twenties in which Anthony Patch, grandson and heir apparent to millions, falls…
in love with and marries a glamour girl from Kansas City. Because of their extravagant style of living, their marriage fails, and Grandfather Patch decides against the intended inheritance. 1922.The old curiosity shop (Everyman Dickens Ser.)
By Charles Dickens, Paul Schlicke. 1995
Rob Roy
By Walter Scott. 1995
In early eighteenth-century England, the son of a rich London merchant refuse to adopt his father's profession and is banished…
to the home of his fox-hunting, hard-drinking uncle, Sir Hildebrand. He and his cousin become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl. Rob Roy, a powerful outlaw, comes to his defense. 1995.Rob Roy (Classics Library)
By Walter Scott. 1995
This novel is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first…
Jacobite rising in 1715. Rob Roy is a swashbuckling chieftain of the clan MacGregor who is forced to become an outlaw for his alleged espousal of the Jacobite cause.Pride and prejudice (Classics Library)
By Jane Austen. 2002
The entertaining novel has been popular since its original publication in 1813. The observation and characterization are more important than…
the plot, which deals with the five daughters of an English country family and their romantic affairs. 2002.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Saddleback classics #Set Ii)
By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
A kind and well-respected doctor can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.…
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", first published in 1886. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.The hunchback of Notre Dame (Tor Classics Ser.)
By Victor Hugo. 1996
Once upon a mattress: The Wrong Bed (Harlequin temptation ; #927)
By Kathleen O'Reilly. 2003
Employment in a new locale should help engineer Hilary Sinclair forget about her broken heart. Meeting the firm's security director,…
Ben MacAllister, is certainly a welcome distraction - until he makes her want things she shouldn't. Ben's not a "forever" guy, but could she be his reason to stay? Explicit descriptions of sex. 2003.Treacherous longings (Dangerous Liaisons Ser.)
By Anne Mather. 1995
When Quinn Marriott is asked to track down Julia Stewart he knows he should give the assignment to someone else.…
He knew Julia ten years ago and believes that he is the reason she has tried to disappear. What he doesn't know is that Julia has a ten year old secret she has been keeping from him and if he finds her he'll get the shock of his life.Tainted love (Dangerous Liaisons Ser.)
By Alison Fraser. 1994
Clare had a good idea of how Fen Marchand saw her: his opinion was totally coloured by her past. Although…
Fen was prepared to try her out as his housekeeper - because he desperately needed one - she wasn't good enough for the likes of him! But that didn't stop there being an intense physical attraction between them. However, Clare's past had taught her to keep her distance.Anne's house of dreams (Anne of Green Gables. #5.)
By L. M Montgomery. 1989
Anne is now 25 and about to be married to Gilbert Blythe, who is setting up in practice 60 miles…
away at Four Winds Harbour. He has found the house of her dreams, and the young couple are to meet and love a whole new set of characters. Grades 5-8. 1989. (Anne of Green Gables ; 5)The professor (Penguin Popular Classics Ser.)
By Charlotte Brontë, Heather Glen. 1989
This first novel by the famous author of "Jane Eyre," is based on Bronte's experience as a young woman studying…
in Belgium, where she fell hopelessly in love with a married teacher. Many scholars acknowledge it as a study for her later novel, "Villette." 1989.The mill on the Floss (Penguin Popular Classics Ser.)
By George Eliot. 1994
Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill on the River Floss, and her brother Tom are united by a strong…
bond. But when Maggie is pursued by the son of the lawyer who ruined their father, Tom forbids their friendship. Later, Maggie falls in love with the fiancé of her cousin Lucy Deane. Repenting, her life is made desperately unhappy. 1860.Great expectations (Penguin Popular Classics Ser.)
By Charles Dickens. 1994
A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip, a young boy adopted by a blacksmith and his wife, with the chance to…
escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by the expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. 1861.Old mortality (Forsyte chronicles)
By Walter Scott. 1975
Set in 1679 during the Scottish populist rebellion known as the Covenanter uprising, Henry Morton of Milnewood is compelled to…
take up arms against the royalists, who are led by Claverhouse, a true villain in Scottish history. A moderate Covenanter, Morton is one of the "people's heroes" who challenge King Charles II and change the course of Scottish history. 1816.Lady Chatterley's lover
By D. H Lawrence. 1973
An earthy love story, once banned in the United States, of the affair between Lady Chatterley and her gamekeeper, Mellors.…
Married to an impotent, disabled husband, she is attracted to Mellors’s strength and independence from industrial society. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1973.