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By Edith Wharton. 1996
When Susy Branch and Nick Lansing decide to marry, it is not for the usual reasons. Well-connected but without money,…
the couple plan a honeymoon as guests of wealthy friends. As part of the agreement, Nick and Susy have accorded each other the freedom to divorce and marry a more desirable partner, and neither is prepared when they find themselves genuinely in love.By Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby. 1994
The love story of Hatsue, a wealthy Japanese maiden trained to dive for precious pearls, and Shinji, a poor young…
fisherman. Relates the hazards that must be overcome before they marry. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1994. Uniform title: Shiosai.By Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway. 1997
As a teenager in Germany, Michael Berg meets an older woman who becomes his first lover. Frau Hanna Schmitz always…
has him read to her when he visits. She disappears one day, but he encounters her at a trial for Nazi prison guards years later when he is in law school. Shocked and dismayed, Michael can neither understand nor condemn Hanna, who, he learns, is illiterate. Some descriptions of sex. Uniform title: Vorleser.By Fannie Flagg. 1998
New York TV anchor Dena Nordstrom's career is flourishing, but her private life is not. Then her high-stress job --combined…
with too many nights out on the town-- takes its toll, and Dena goes back to her hometown to recuperate. Pondering her past and wondering about her future, she finds unexpected pleasures in the small Missouri town. Bestseller 1998.By Antanas Sileika. 2004
Tomas Stumbras grew up in war-torn Eastern Europe where he sculpted protective saints out of dead wood for use in…
prayers. Near the end of World War One, caught between the destruction around him and his own drive to create, he moves to Paris. But even as he finds love and becomes successful as an artist, infamy and betrayal aren't far behind. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004.By Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely. 2009
Istanbul - 1975. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter…
of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects - a museum of one man's broken heart. Some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. c2009. Uniform title: Masumiyet müzesi.By Mary Lawson. 2006
Two brothers, stolid farmer Arthur and charming rogue Jake, are in love with the same woman, Laura. The relationship plays…
out over 20 years, until Ian Christopherson, son of the town's only doctor, begins working on Arthur's farm to be closer to Laura. When Jake resurfaces after more than a decade's absence, Ian interprets Laura's changed behaviour in ways that will have devastating consequences. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.By Steven Hayward. 2005
Toronto, 1933. Lucio, age 17, falls in love with a gorgeous Jewish radical, Ruthie, but Dubie, Lucio's best friend, is…
also in love with Ruthie and accidentally cuts off his finger at the moment he realizes it. Add to the mix immigrants, five unmarried Italian brothers, swastika-waving anti-Semites, an entire baseball team, an Irish priest, a plaster saint, the riot at Christie Pits, as well as the second-best ballplayer Toronto would ever see. Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2005.By Catherine Chidgey. 2005
In the hands of master wig-maker Lucien Goulet III, a hair piece is a transformation. Living alone in the Tampa…
Bay Hotel in 1898, he hires 15-year-old Cuban Rafael Méndez to recover hair clippings. An unlikely trio forms between Rafael, Goulet, and Marion Unger, a young widow with white-blond hair whom Rafael loves, and for whom Goulet wants to design the grandest transformation of all. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2005.By Iain Pears. 2002
Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilization - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the…
fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth century, and World War II in the twentieth century - this novel follows the fortunes of three men: Manlius Hippomanes, a Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the preservation of Roman civilisation; Oliver de Noyen, a poet; and Julian Bareuve, an intellectual who joins the Vichy government. 2002.By Sue Monk Kidd. 2005
When fortyish Jesse Sullivan returns to Egret Island to reconnect with her failing mother, she doesn't expect to be overwhelmed…
with passion for a Benedictine monk. Jessie confronts her present confusion while she probes her mother's past. Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2005.By Sarah Dessen. 2009
Auden has always felt like the odd one out. Since her parents' divorce she's shied away, studying lots and staying…
out of the party scene. But now Auden's realized there must be something more and, just like that, she changes everything. Moving to her dad's house opens up a whole new world of beach parties, food fights - and simply having fun. As she gets to know herself - and a secretive boy with dark, brooding eyes - can Auden begin to let go and finally feel like she truly belongs? For senior high readers. 2009.By Virginia Jewiss, Melania G Mazzucco. 2005
12-year-old Diamante and 9-year-old Vita make the journey from Italy to Ellis Island in 1903, only to arrive at the…
squalid boardinghouse owned by Vita's gruff father, where they room with more than a dozen other impoverished immigrants. As they grow older, they increasingly turn to each other for comfort, causing Vita's father to intervene. Mazzucco also interjects nonfiction chapters that relate her search for family members in Italy and the U.S. 2005. Uniform title: Vita.By Marcia Willett. 2016
When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor,…
she senses there is something he is not telling her. But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor, Tim begins to relax again and he discovers that everyone there has their own secrets. As Tim begins to open up, Mattie falls deeper in love. And as summer warms the wild Dartmoor landscape, new hopes begin to bloom. 2016.By Danielle Steel. 2014
Blaise is a famous anchor on morning news and a legend in her field. In order to rise to the…
top, she had to place her blind daughter, Salima, in a boarding school. When tragedy hits, Salima is forced to move in with Blaise. They both have to contend with a new caretaker who has little patience for indulging Salima's handicap. Blaise can't deny that Salima seems to be improving under Simon's supervision, while his movie star looks and attempts at real friendship become difficult to ignore. 2014.By Danielle Steel. 2014
Would you sacrifice your family to have it all? Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech…
company. Devoted single mother, world-class strategist, and tough negotiator, Fiona reserves any personal time for her children. Marshall Weston basks in the fruits of his achievements. To maintain his position, he harbours secrets that could destroy his life at any moment. Both must fight off those who are jealous of their success. Their lives as CEOs of major companies come at a high price. But just how high a price are they willing to pay? 2014.By Danielle Steel. 2013
Jenny and Bill are a married couple whose love is absolute. They're certain they are fated to be together until…
the end of time, but tragedy strikes when they least expect it, cutting their lives and their happiness short. More than 30 years later, Bob, a hardened New York City publisher, will meet his match in Lillibet, a shy Amish girl who is a talented writer. And there's the unshakeable sense that they've known each other for a long time - possibly in another life. 2013.By Sophie Kinsella. 2009
Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just…
don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can't rest without. But Lara's got enough problems of her own. 2009.By Danielle Steel. 2008
Maxine Williams, Manhattan child psychiatrist and mother of three, is divorced from billionaire Blake when she meets Dr. Charles West.…
Blake continues his hedonistic lifestyle--until he funds an orphanage in Morocco. But when Maxine decides to remarry, Blake realizes he wants his family back. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008.By Danielle Steel. 2007
An earthquake in California changes the lives of three women. Socialite Sarah Sloane's husband's illegal hedge-fund scheme is exposed during…
a power outage. Singer Melanie Free volunteers at a quake-refugee camp despite the wishes of her mother and boyfriend. Sister Maggie, a nun, falls in love. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2007.