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Moving as one
By Elizabeth Rees. 1998
Pennsylvania high school junior Sophy Bartlett realizes her plans to be a ballerina are in jeopardy when the Ballet Academy…
has to close for financial reasons. But she also hates the alternative: Carlos Vargas's suggestion that the institution should merge with the ballroom dance school he attends. For junior and senior high readersThe age of innocence
By Edith Wharton. 1996
A novel of manners set in New York society in the 1870s, an age of convention, propriety, and tribal solidarity.…
Newland Archer is torn between his attraction to Countess Olenska, a femme fatale, and his security in a bland, but proper, marriage to her cousin May. Pulitzer Prize. 1920Honor's pledge
By Kristen Heitzmann. 1998
Seventeen-year-old Abigail Martin falls in love with southerner Montgomery Farrel, who has moved to Colorado after the Civil War. He…
returns her love but is committed by oath to another. Abigail trusts in God to find a solution. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 1998Don't die, my love
By Lurlene McDaniel. 1995
High school juniors Julie and Luke have known each other for years and are in love. Luke is the star…
football player and Julie's father is his coach. Julie is waiting to see where Luke gets a football scholarship so she can apply to the same school. Then Luke is diagnosed with cancer. For junior and senior high readersStands a Calder man
By Janet Dailey. 1983
Montana, 1909. With the passing of the Enlarged Homestead Act, newcomers threaten the old way of ranching. Webb Calder resists…
the immigrants fencing in the range. Then he falls in love with one of their wives. Sequel to This Calder Range (BR 13464). Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 1983Marry me: a romance
By John Updike. 1999
Lighthearted novel of well-to-do suburbia and adultery in the 1960s. Jerry and Sally are in love, though married to others.…
Jerry's nice wife, Ruth, is having an affair with Sally's quirky husband, Richard. Strong languageI'll be seeing you
By Lurlene McDaniel. 1996
Carley Mattea is in the hospital yet again when Kyle Westin is admitted. Kyle has been temporarily blinded by a…
chemistry experiment gone awry, so he cannot tell that Carley's face has been disfigured by cancer. Kyle falls in love with the Carley he knows, but she is determined that he will never see her after he recovers. For senior high and older readersJézabel
By Jean-Jacques Gagné. 2008
"Montréal, 1964. Un jeune homme de dix-sept ans, Jacques Juneau, qui fait son cours classique chez les jésuites, tombe amoureux…
fou de l'épouse de son professeur d'anglais : Valérie, jeune femme éblouissante de vingt-sept ans qui cache un douloureux secret et tente, en fumant de la marijuana et en buvant de l'alcool, de s'évader. Mais Jacques, totalement immature, fantasque, prêt à faire pour elle les pires folies, ne lui laisse aucun répit. Issu d'une famille imbue de principes rigides, il voit la société québécoise changer et l'aventure le tente. Le nom de Jézabel, la princesse aux moeurs dissolues, surgit soudain dans sa tête. Pour gagner du temps, Valérie, psychologiquement instable, le soumet à différentes épreuves insensées. Pourra-t-il franchir le cap qui mène au monde des adultes? Au moment d'y arriver, un drame survient. C'est le début de la descente en enfer..." -- 4e de couvLove me tomorrow
By Rosanne Bittner. 1998
1850. When her wealthy husband Edward decides to leave Pittsburgh for the west, young Maggie McCahan has no choice but…
to accompany him. Maggie and their guide, Rafe Morrisey, are immediately attracted to each other. The hardships they endure only increase their love. Some violence and some explicit descriptions of sexAnnie's rainbow
By Fern Michaels. 1999
Annie Clark finds a cache from a bank robbery and keeps it to help her family and start a business.…
After becoming wealthy and falling in love, Annie anonymously repays the money. But years later a determined insurance investigator and a paroled bank robber remain suspicious. Some strong languagePrincesse: roman
By Danielle Steel. 2008
"Jeune princesse moderne, Christianna a grandi dans son royaume du Liechtenstein, puis fait de longues études à Berkeley. Depuis son…
retour au palais, elle supporte mal le protocole strict de la cour. Aussi lorsqu'une prise d'otage a lieu en Russie et qu'elle assiste au travail de la Croix-Rouge, elle n'a plus qu'une seule idée : s'engager elle aussi dans une organisation humanitaire. Elle extorque à son père la permission de partir comme volontaire en Érythrée sous une fausse identité et, dans un camp de réfugiés, rencontre un jeune médecin américain..." -- 4e de couvPlein ciel: roman (Grands romans)
By Danielle Steel. 1995
Dearly beloved
By Mary Putney. 1990
Following a hasty marriage--the result of youthful passion--Gervase Brandelin deserts Diana Lindsay. But fate takes Diana to London and places…
her in a position to make Gervase pay for his cruelty. Gervase is unaware of Diana's disguise as a courtesan, but she will make sure he finds out--at the right time. Descriptions of sexA gown of Spanish lace
By Janette Oke. 1995
Ariana Benson, a religious young schoolteacher, never knew her birth mother. But she does have her mother's wedding dress--a gown…
of imported Spanish lace. Laramie Lawrence, the adopted son of an outlaw boss, didn't know his mother either. Thrust together through unusual circumstances, they eventually fall in love and plan to marry. But when Ariana brings out her mother's gown, it appears she and Laramie may be siblingsRedemption
By Howard Fast. 1999
Isaac Goldman, seventy-eight, is driving across the George Washington Bridge just as a young woman attempts to jump. He stops,…
changing the course of his life and that of forty-seven-year-old Elizabeth Hopper. They fall in love and are planning to marry when she is suddenly accused of murdering her ex-husband. Some strong languageThe house on Hope Street
By Danielle Steel. 2000
California divorce lawyers Liz and Jack Sutherland have five children and an idyllic marriage. But after Jack is killed by…
the deranged husband of a client, the family gradually learns to cope without him. Then an accident brings a new person into their lives. Some strong language. 2000On the bright side, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god: further confessions of Georgia Nicolson
By Louise Rennison. 2001
Following Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging (BR 12902), fourteen-year-old Georgia continues writing her journal. She worries about moving to New…
Zealand, keeping her sister and cat out of trouble, and being in love with an older boy. For senior high readers. 2001Wanting you
By Nan Ryan. 1999
Father Fitzgerald discovers a young woman living in an Arizona convent. He believes that she is the long-lost heiress Anna…
Regent Wright. Anna's grandmother is delighted. But Brit Caruth, who wants the inheritance promised to him, claims the woman is an imposter. Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1999Ask Mariah
By Barbara Freethy. 1997
Michael Ashton is raising his six-year-old twin daughters alone following their mother's death. The girls think she is coming back,…
and the crystal ball from their grandmother says they can find their mother at school. When they arrive at summer school, they find Joanna Wingate, a look-alike of their mother. Some descriptions of sexNuits blanches à Manhattan
By Robyn Sisman. 1999
Sur le principe des jeunes filles au pair, une situation où une jeune graphiste anglaise va échanger son bureau de…
Londres avec un publicitaire américain qui lui cédera le sien à New York, durant un mois. Ils sont de "parfaits inconnus" selon le titre original, mais des circonstances mystérieuses vont les rapprocher. [SDM