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Late nights on air
By Elizabeth Hay. 2007
Harry Boyd, a refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North.…
There, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Soon Dido and Harry become part of the cast of eccentric characters at the station. Winner of the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.L'allée du roi: souvenirs de Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, épouse du Roi de France (Folio Ser. #Vol. 34121)
By Françoise Chandernagor, Madame De Maintenon. 1982
À partir d'une documentation considérable, Françoise Chandernagor nous parle de Françoise D'Aubigné (Madame de Maintenon), qu'on surnomma " La belle…
Indienne ". Elle fut la seconde épouse de Louis XIV. 1982.Come from afar: A Novel
By Gayla Reid. 2011
During the Spanish Civil War, Clancy Cox, a volunteer nurse from Australia, works tirelessly to assist Republican soldiers in their…
fight against fascism, but the conflict does not go as well as planned: the Popular Front’s swift victory grows ever more unlikely, and famine has taken hold. But Clancy finds hope in the person of Douglas Ross, a Canadian soldier from the International Brigade who Clancy nurses back to health, physically and spiritually. But with the defeat of the Republic looming, Ross chooses to return to war, leaving Clancy alone and pregnant - but determined to reunite with her lost lover. Some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. c2011.Fix you
By Beck Anderson. 2013
When Kelly Reynolds' husband died, he left her - the awkward, cautious one - to raise their two young boys.…
She's pieced herself back together, barely. Now she takes refuge in her routine: running her kids around and running the trails near her Idaho home. Two years after her husband's death, a chance encounter on a run brings Andrew into her life. But Andrew is Andy Pettigrew, the famous actor. Kelly hates risk, and a love affair with someone like Andy is certainly tempting fate. 2013.Celebration
By Fern Michaels. 1999
After her parents' deaths, Kristine married her boyfriend, Logan, and followed him around the world during his military career. Now…
she and their three children have returned to her Virginia family home, where Logan will soon join them. Then he disappears - with the millions Kristine inherited. 1999.Defying gravity
By Jennifer Wynne Webber. 2000
When Miranda was left by her fiancé on top of Whistlers Peak in Jasper, Alberta, it looked like another dispiriting…
trip back home to heal her wounds and wonder what went wrong this time. Instead, a chance encounter with a mysterious young guide set in motion a dramatic and moving voyage of emotional and spiritual self-discovery. 2000.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.Bellewether
By Susanna Kearsley. 2018
1759. The North American colonies of Britain and France are pulled into war, and the loyalties of many New York…
merchants, who have secretly been trading with the French for years, are divided. When captured French officers are brought to Long Island to be billeted in private homes, it upends the lives of the Wilde family. Lydia Wilde, struggling to keep the peace in her fracturing family following her mother’s death, has little time or kindness to spare for her unwanted guests. And Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran has little desire to be there. But by the war’s end they’ll both learn love, honour, and duty can form tangled bonds that are not broken easily. In the present day, Charley Van Hoek comes to Long Island to be the new curator of the Wilde House Museum. She doesn’t believe in ghosts, but as she starts to delve into the history of Lydia and her French officer, it becomes clear that the Wilde House holds more than just secrets. Bestseller. 2018.Honeymoon with the boss
By Jessica Hart. 2009
Top tycoon Tom Maddison is used to calling the shots - until his convenient marriage falls through. But rather than…
waste his honeymoon he'll take his boardroom to the beach and bring his oh-so-sensible PA Imogen on a tropical business trip! 2009.Heart of the sea (Irish trilogy. #3.)
By Nora Roberts. 2001
Wealthy American Trevor Magee returns to his ancestral village of Ardmore, Ireland, and falls in love with ambitious Darcy Gallagher.…
But the native ghosts have their own plans. Sequel to "Tears of the moon." Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2000. (The Irish trilogy ; 3)Forgiving
By LaVyrle Spencer. 1992
1876. Sarah Merritt has come to Deadwood in the Dakota Territory for two reasons - to find her sister Addie…
and tell her that their father is dead, and to start the town's first daily paper. Addie, who ran away from home five years ago, is working at Rosie Hossiter's boardinghouse as an "upstairs girl." Finding Addie is easy, but everything else Sarah tries lands her in big trouble. Some strong language. Descriptions of sex and violence. Bestseller. 1992.Excessive joy injures the heart
By Elisabeth Harvor. 2000
Claire Vornoff is recently separated and plagued with insomnia. Her search for alternative healing leads her to meet, and eventually…
fall in love with, doctor Declan Farrell. As their relationship deepens and goes through multiple changes, Claire finds her life turned upside down by her conflicting emotions. Some descriptions of sex.Fascination: stories
By William Boyd. 2005
A collection of fourteen stories about the need for love and the pain that can arise when that need is…
not met. In "Notebook No. 9" a film director's journal details his obsession with his leading lady. "Fantasia on a Favorite Waltz" has a prostitute finding an unexpected friend in a brothel's piano player. 2005.Curiosity: a love story
By Joan Thomas. 2010
In the early 1800's, 12-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric dolphin-like creature,…
and spent a year chipping it from the soft cliffs near Lyme Regis, England. Henry de la Beche, son of a gentry family and living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of the area. One morning on an expedition to see an extraordinary discovery - a giant fossil - he meets a young woman unlike anyone he has ever met. 2010.Crossings
By Danielle Steel. 1982
Wealthy Nick Burnham and Liane, wife of the French ambassador to the United States, fall in love at first sight,…
but they must face the futility of their passion. Some strong language. 1982.Code name: A Novel (Dell contemporary romance #6)
By Christina Skye. 2004
Jess Mulcahey, a hotel evaluator, does her job pretending to be a minor European princess. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Hawk Mackenzie…
is at the same hotel, searching for a kidnapped and very special research animal. Jess has to leave quickly after filing her report, but a storm causes the claustrophobic inspector to find herself locked in an elevator with Hawk, who is experiencing the libido of a teenager because of an experimental medication. 2004.Between mountains
By Maggie Helwig. 2004
Daniel, a cynical Canadian journalist and Lili, a conscientious Serbian-Albanian interpreter who grew up in Paris, meet again at the…
International Criminal Court in The Hague. Lili is sworn not to betray the confidences of the court while Daniel, as a journalist hungry for his next story, uses every means at his disposal to reveal the truth. They are drawn into a fragile relationship that could destroy everything they have both worked for. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004.Autumn bridge
By Takashi Matsuoka. 2004
In the mid-19th-century, the inheritor of his clan's visionary power to see the future is Lord Genji, a powerful samurai…
warlord who favours western style modernization for Japan but faces fierce opposition from the antiforeigner element. Compounding his political troubles is his love affair with an American missionary, Emily Gibson, who has been in Japan for six years, doing her missionary work, trying to hide her feelings for Genji, and translating a series of mysterious scrolls recounting the history of the clan. As she reads the scrolls, she discovers inexplicable references to her own life and her association with Genji's family. Some descriptions of sex, some violence. 2004.