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Bronte, Emily
Wuthering Heights
The passionate love story of stubborn Cathy and wild-as-the-wind Heathcliff has been a favorite since its original publication in 1848.
2003
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Byatt, A. S.
Possession: A Romance
First published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, and winner of the Booker Prize, Possession is both a delicious literary detective story and a triumphant love story. Roland Mitchell is a research assistant obsessed with the Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. When he discovers two of Randolph's letters written to an anonymous woman, he embarks on a detective mission that brings him to Maud Bailey, a fellow academic with literary obsessions of her own. The pair uncover letters, journals, and poems, and follow an exhilarating trail that threatens to unhinge everything they've ever thought about life and Iiterature. What emerges is an extraordinary novel about the intersection of passion and ideas.
1990
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Docx, Edward
The Calligrapher
This fresh, original, altogether winning first novel is centered on a young London calligrapher named Jasper--an engaging, intelligent serial seducer and a breaker of hearts.
2003
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Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
A #1 bestseller in Mexico in 1990, this charming, imaginative, and just plain fun novel of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico includes unique recipes at the beginning of each chapter for a variety of traditional dishes.
As the youngest daughter in a matriarchial turn-of-the century Mexican family, Tia relinquishes love in order to serve her mother and finds her passion in an ingredient in the food she prepares.
1992
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 Classics--Modern
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Fforde, Jasper
The Eyre Affair
Literary detective Thursday Next lives in an alternate universe, where people can not only read a good book but also enter into its world. In this first novel of a series, Thursday must match wits with Acheron Hades, who has kidnapped Jane Eyre, the heroine of Thursday's favorite novel. Thursday teams up with Jane's true love Rochester to save Jane and foil Hades. Full of puns, wordplay, clever names and literary jokes, The Eyre Affair will appeal to fans of many genres.
In Lost in a Good Book, the sequel to The Eyre Affair, Thursday Next has run afoul of the Goliath Corporation by trapping one of its agents inside Poe's poem “The Raven.” In retaliation, Goliath has eradicated all traces of Thursday's new husband Landon. Thursday joins Jurisfiction, a literary police force, where she learns to enter works of literature so she can go inside “The Raven” to retrieve the Goliath agent, thus saving her husband.
2002
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Alternate History
Classics Revamped
Alex Award - Fiction
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Frazier, Charles
Cold Mountain
The impact of the Civil War on lovers. Inman is not the man he used to be, as wounded in battle he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina. His sweetheart, Ada, too has changed, no longer a flighty belle but a hard-working farm woman. Will love be the same?
1997
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Historical Fiction
Classics--Modern
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Gabaldon, Diana
Outlander
First in a series that combines time travel, humor, and passionate romance. While Claire and her husband visit an ancient stone monument in 1945 England, Claire is suddenly thrust back to the year 1743--and becomes torn between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
1991
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Matheson, Richard
Somewhere in Time
Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century.
1999
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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
Doctor Zhivago
By the Nobel Prize winner Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago is an epic set during the Russian Revolution as well as a love story. A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
1991
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Classics
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Shreve, Anita
The Last Time They Met
In a novel about love and forgiveness by the bestselling author of The Pilot's Wife and Fortune's Rocks, a man and a woman sustain a lifelong passionate relationship even though they have been together only three times.
2001
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