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Lament For a Lost Lover
by Philippa CarrUnder the sway of the puritanical Oliver Cromwell, England simmers with religious persecution and political unrest. Like their exiled king, Arabella Tolworthy and her parents have retreated to France but yearn for their native country. When Arabella is separated from her family, she makes her way alone in an increasingly dangerous world and meets two people who will change her life: an actress named Harriet Main and the dashing nobleman Edwin Eversleigh. As the British king is restored to his rightful throne, Arabella’s odyssey mirrors the strife and turbulence of her beloved homeland. As she tries to make peace with her past, she’s confronted with an unexpected threat to her future—and a second chance at lasting love.
Marble Heart
by Gretta MulrooneyA riveting story that illuminates the lives of men and women at the heart of the troubles in Belfast Ireland starts out as a simple story of the friendship between Joan, a hard-working caregiver and her newest client, Nina, an upper class British woman separated from her devoted husband, Martin, who can't understand why his wife feels unworthy to be loved. Joan who has mourned the loss of her brother, Eddie, who was like a father to her and disappeared many years ago, thinks she has found happiness and a partner at last in Rich who is soon to be released from prison. Though she is rapidly becoming weaker because of a terminal illness, Nina teaches Joan about the finer points of decorating, raising plants, cooking and other sophisticated elements of domestic life. In turn, Joan gives Nina extra kind and careful care. When she is alone, Nina is preoccupied writing a series of letters to a former friend now living in Africa about their days together as radicals fighting for Irish Freedom, living with the leader of a small communist group and operating totally under his influence. The sincere and insincere motives of activists is revealed along with their romantic entanglements. Most startling is the planning, and execution of violence and its short and long term aftermath. As Nina nears death the characters come together in surprising ways, and whatever justice is possible is accomplished.
Mistress Of Mellyn
by Victoria HoltAn impoverished Victorian girl must take a position as a governess to a resentful, eight-year-old girl and her distant, enigmatic father.. The house in which the child lives, the child herself, and the child's father are hiding dark secrets. The governess puts her life in danger as she tries to unravel the mysteries and falls in love with the child and her father.
Fallen Hearts (Casteel #3)
by V. C. AndrewsProud and beautiful, Heaven came back to the hills -- to rise at last above her family's shame! As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and cherished wife. But after a wedding trip to Boston's Farthinggale Manor and a lavish, elegant party, Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay...lured by Tony Tatterton's guile to live amidst the Tatterton wealth and privilege. Then the ghosts of Heaven's past rise up once more, writhing around her fragile happiness...threatening her precious love with scandal and jealousy, sinister passions and dangerous dreams!
The Discovery of Chocolate
by James Runcie[from inside dust jacket flaps] When Diego de Godoy leaves his native Seville and takes ship for the New World, he is hoping to find a treasure that will make him worthy of the hand in marriage of the beautiful Isabella de Quintallma. He finds more than he bargained for. Fighting alongside Cortes and his conquistadors, Diego falls in love with a Mexican woman and she initiates him into the sensuous secret of chocolate. From the moment he is separated from his lover, however, Diego and his ever-faithful greyhound Pedro are destined to wander throughout the world and down the centuries in search of the fulfilment they knew for that brief time, seeking the perfection of chocolate and the meaning of life. Full of excitement, humour and not a little sadness, the drama of Diego's quest is played out against the background of many great cities, by a cast of richly colourful characters, including the Marquis de Sade and Sigmund Freud, to name but two. The Discovery of Chocolate is a fabulous delight, as rich and exotic as the luxurious confections that Diego himself creates.
Wish Upon a Star
by Olivia Goldsmith. . . leaves all decisions up to us, including whether we wish to make any at all. It is up to us whether we wish to make any application to our life from a fairy tale, or simply enjoy the fantastic events it tells about. Our enjoyment is what induces us to respond in our own good time to hidden meanings as they may relate to our life experience and present state of personal development.
The List: A Love Story in 781 Chapters
by Aneva StoutThe blind date with a gluten allergy. The ex who can't stop talking about the French girlfriend who dumped him. The cute young bartender who knows how to make a Manhattan straight up. And, of course, Mr. Right-- who looks like Liam Neeson, writes poetry like e.e. cummings, plays the guitar like Jimmy Page. Until he turns out to be a complete and total jerk. Narrated in 781 chapters-- "The List" is an irresistible look at love, dating, friendship, sex, cats, thongs, and shopping. And a story that's as pleasurable, as interesting, as gossipy, as truthful, as reassuring, as compelling, as sane, as necessary as a late-night phone call to your best friend ever. Pour a cup of tea, curl up on the couch, and read to your heart's content.
A Daughter of the Nobility
by Natasha BorovskyRussian Princess Tatyana is engaged to the Polish Prince Stefan. Due to World War I, the Princess thinks that Stefan has died and marries Holveg but is shocked when Stefan returns.
Amelia and the Outlaw
by Lorraine HeathAMELIA With a strict, eagle-eyed judge for a father and two older brothers to back him up, Amelia Harper is doted upon and protected within an inch of her life. She's not even allowed to have a sweetheart until she's seventeen, for example. Amelia longs for the day she can do as she pleases, but that day doesn't seem to be in any hurry to arrive. THE OUTLAW For a young fellow, Jesse Lawton has a surprisingly shady background. The only wonder is that it took him until the age of fourteen to end up in jail, so wild was the path he'd been on. But five years have passed, and his luck finally seems to have turned: he's been freed. If only he can stay on the straight and narrow ... When Jesse arrives at the Harper ranch to work off the remainder of his sentence, it's no surprise that the judge's pretty daughter catches his eye. What he doesn't know is that this young lady is itching for excitement, and with one look into his haunted eyes, Amelia knows she's found it in Jesse. Without meaning to, Amelia forces the erstwhile outlaw into a choice between his freedom and his heart.
Secret Crush (Mary-Kate and Ashley, So Little Time)
by Jacqueline CarrolSecret Crush: Set up a date between your two friends. Learn how to use power tools. Show the conceited boy who's boss. Hang out with your secret crush!
Stop, Don't Stop, (The Black Book - Diary of a Teenage Stud, Vol II)
by Jonah BlackCecily says: "Jonah Black broke my heart." Woodrow says: "Dude's got integrity, and he dives like a king. He's my idol." Herman says: "Jonah Black cracked his skull open over a girl. You gotta admire a kid who does a thing like that." Northgirl says: "I love Jonah Black, and he has no clue who I am." Volume II reveals why Johan was expelled from boarding school -- but not why he did what he did, or just what that girl meant to him. Volume II reveals why Johan was expelled from boarding school -- but not why he did what he did, or just what that girl meant to him.
The Facts About Flirting (Two of a Kind Diaries #27)
by Judy Katschke Mary-Kate Olsen Ashley OlsenMary-Kate has a crush on a boy named Jordan. A huge crush. But she's too shy to tell him how she feels. So Ashley starts writing love letters for Mary-Kate and sends them to Jordan. She is thrilled when Jordan writes back to Mary-Kate. His letters are so sweet and funny and romantic . . . Uh-oh. Ashley can't help it, but she's falling for Jordan, too -- big-time!
Seven Arrows
by Hyemeyohsts StormA heartbreaking story of victory, defeat, and of a spiritual search in a profane world, this is the story of Night Bear and his people. It is the tale of the land they cherish and the lives they hold sacred, lived until the enemy can no longer be stopped, and the dead have few left to weep for them.
Farewell Summer
by Helen Hooven SantmyerFrom the Publisher: It's a long, languorous, country summer in a small Ohio town. After many years spent away as a scholar and writer, Elizabeth Lane has returned to the setting of her most poignant childhood memories, a town steeped in her family's long history. She comes to Sunbury to work on a book but finds she is haunted by one memory in particular. It was 1905, she was eleven and in love with her cousin, Steve, painfully watching his ill-fated romance with the beautiful Damaris. Looking back, Elizabeth discovers a world of feelings that she knows belong more to adulthood than childhood, and as she sees the tragic, doomed love of Steve and Damaris, she wishes she could be a child forever.
All My Daughters
by Barbara DelinskyFrom the New York Times best-selling author of More Than Friends and Suddenly comes this touching novel of the many facets and the enduring power of love, the tenadous strength of family, and the choices we make that determine who we are. With a voice as true as our own, Barbara Delinsky tells the story of the St. Clair sisters, whose wealthy, social-climbing mother, Virginia, had little time-and even less feeling-for them. Now adults, the three women have spent their lives trying to escape Virginia's legacy. Caroline, a tough lawyer, has sacrificed much to gain the control she craves above all else. Annette finds great happiness in showering her husband and five children with the kind of love she herself never received. Leah's search for love has led to a life that is somehow filled with nonstop activity and empty at the same time. And while the sisters consider themselves happy, each has lost a part of herself she doesn't even miss.. .one for which the soul aches nonetheless. Then the letters come. It seems that Virginia has a favor to ask of her daughters. She wants them to help her get settled into Star's End, her magnificent new house on the peaceful, wind-blown coast of Maine. We haven't been close, she writes. I'd like to try to rectify that. It would be nice to spend time together. We might talk. Though their first reaction is to turn her down, each of the sisters ultimately decides to go.. .to give to Virginia, for perhaps the last time, that which she asks of them. But it is Virginia who gives to her daughters For amid the glorious beauty of a New England summer, Caroline, Annette, and Leah find answers to questions that have troubled them for years, insights into the men in their lives, and new truths that will stay with them forever.
Reflection
by Diane ChamberlainWhen Rachel Huber learns that her grandmother Helen has fallen ill, she returns to her Pennsylvania hometown of Reflection and is forced to confront her demons head-on for the first time in 20 years.
Love in Another Town
by Barbara Taylor BradfordOn his twenty-ninth birthday, Jake Cantrell feels that his life has completely stalled. Saddened and disappointed by the failure of his marriage to Amy, his childhood sweetheart, wanting to put more distance between them and needing to concentrate on his new business, Jake moves to another town: Kent, Connecticut. A brilliant and imaginative electrical engineer who has an extraordinary talent for creating special lighting effects, Jake becomes involved with an amateur theatrical group in his spare time. At the first meeting of the group, Jake encounters Maggie Sorrell, an attractive, charming woman, who is soon to be forty-four years old. Maggie, an interior designer, works with Jake on the sets of the play. Little does Jake know on the night of their introduction that he has just come face-to-face with his destiny and is about to set out on the journey of his life. Maggie has recently moved from Chicago to Kent, after her lawyer husband left her for a younger woman. Divorced and painfully out of touch with her two grown children, Maggie hopes to start life anew in Kent. In the process of renovating an old farmhouse for a client, Maggie hires Jake to be the electrical contractor. Working together on a daily basis and watching the old farmhouse transform into a warm, enduring home, they fall in love. Ahead lie obstacles--the fifteen-year difference in their ages, (Amy's sudden illness and her reluctance to divorce Jake, and Maggie's own inner turmoil. But together they ultimately overcome the odds and find happiness in another town. A touching and moving story, this dramatic and inspiring page-turner is a rare offering from the pen of bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford.
The Passion Dream Book
by Whitney OttoIn the Italian Renaissance, a girl spies on Michaelangelo. In the 20th century, a descendant of hers is an artist. Historical fiction.
Betty Sweet Tells All
by Judith Minthorn Stacy[From the inside dust jacket flap] Scandal has rocked the small Southern town of Poplar Grove, and it all seems to be about Betty Sweet's daughter, Maggie She's gone and left her husband of nineteen years and taken a job in the local beauty shop. And she's reconnected with her old high school sweetheart, too. No one is more shocked by Maggie's behavior then her tight-knit, by-the-book Southern family. Her twin seventeen-year-old daughters are mortified and her grandmother is refusing to speak to her. Of course, Betty is stuck in the middle of it all. But when Betty unexpectedly meets someone special, she soon discovers for herself that the course of true love is never smooth. With a little encouragement from her best friend and some newly discovered inner strength, Betty comes to grips with her own happiness and helps Maggie do the same. In its heartwarming and uplifting finale, Betty Sweet Tells All proves that even in the most troubled times, true love and family prevail."
Salvation: Black People and Love
by Bell HooksAcclaimed visionary and intellectual, Bell Hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling "All About Love: New Visions". Here she continues her love song to the nation with the groundbreaking and soul-stirring "Salvation: Black People and Love". Intimate and revolutionary, "Salvation" is a gift as provocative as it is healing. Written from a historical and cultural perspective, "Salvation" takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African-Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships, and marriage in black life, the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou, the liberation movements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, sexual pain or pleasure, hip-hop and gangsta rap culture, addiction, greed, or the failure of black leadership, Hooks lets us know what love's got to do with it. Combining the passionate politics of W E. B. DuBois with fresh, contemporary insights, Hooks brilliantly offers new visions that will heal our nation's wounds from a culture of lovelessness.
The Reluctant Suitor
by Kathleen E. WoodiwissThe bestselling author of "A Season Beyond a Kiss" makes her hardcover original debut with this story of a dashing colonel and the aristocratic lady he once spurned. For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood. As a young girl, she was wounded by Colton's stubborn refusal to comply with his father's wishes and by his angry departure. He was too proud and too stubborn to accept a future not of his own choosing. Rather than submit, he fled from his ancestral home for a life of adventure and danger as an officer in the British army. The years have been immensely kind to Lady Adriana. No longer the plain, thin tomboy Colton had spurned, she has blossomed into an uncommon beauty desired by nearly every eligible bachelor in the land. Yet the only man she desires is the decorated hero who has finally come home to claim his rightful title. Arrogant, unmoved, and seductive as ever, he remains averse to the idea of their betrothal in spite of his growing desire for her. To demonstrate his belief that love cannot be forced, Colton agrees to court Lady Adriana for ninety days, after which time he will be allowed to keep his precious freedom if he so wishes. But much has changed since he balked at his father's plans. Forced into a courtship with this stunning, spirited woman, who is as different today from the young chit he left behind as spring is to winter, the heroic heart that was once closed to Adriana is moved by her charm, her grace, and her sensuality ... and begins to yield. But a secret from Colton's past may doom their burgeoning love ... even as the treacherous schemes of a sinister rival threaten to steal the remarkable lady from his arms forever.
Bachelor Girl (The Rose Years #8)
by Roger Lea MacbrideIn this eighth and final book of the Rose Years series, Rose has become an independent young woman. She leaves Rocky Ridge Farm, first for Kansas City to learn how to be a telegrapher, then for San Francisco. Her dream is to work for a year or two, save a little money, and then marry Paul Cooley, her childhood sweetheart. But the big city has all sorts of surprises in store for Rose, and she finds that she's destined to travel a road she never even imagined.
Why Can't I Fall in Love? A 12-step Program
by Shmuley Boteach"Something's missing in my life." "Everyone I meet is imperfect." "I date and date, but I just can't commit." "I'm so busy all the time." "Who needs love, anyway?" Sound familiar? For every such plea, Shmuley Boteach -- author of the international bestseller "Kosher Sex" -- has the answer. In "Why Can't I Fall in Love?" Boteach blends time-honored wisdom with practical tips and anecdotes from his private counseling practice. Boteach presents a radical program designed to help singles (and even those in long-term relationships) make their dreams of love a reality.
Breaking All the Rules
by Sue Civil-BrownIn the sunny climes of Paradise Beach, anything is possible... and the more outrageous it is, the more likely it is to happen! For Erin Kelly, her indomitable friend Mary is a role model, a mentor. So when attorney Richard Wesley III fails to prevent Mary from being declared incompetent, Erin decides to fight him and the courts -- using every devious trick the older woman ever taught her. But for Richard, Erin's outlandish plots may cause more trouble than they solve. Yes, he finds her exciting -- and her sparkling green eyes and fiery spirit make his head spin. And it's true, a little "war" never hurt anyone, especially in Paradise Beach. But although he's secretly on Erin's side in all this, he is bound by the law to do what he must -- even if it costs him her love. But, maybe, it's time for this upstanding citizen to break the rules . . .