What is "Romance fiction?"
In the novels below "the plot revolves around the love relationship and the inevitable happy ending. The genre encompasses a wide range of books — from historical to contemporary and futuristic, from gentle to racy, from paranormal to realistic — but no matter what the setting, all else is secondary to the love story." (Description from Novelist Plus.)
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Description | Added | |
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Atonement |
Thirteen-year-old Briony Tallas has written a new play but she discovers that her cousins are not able to help her with its performance, and she continues to write and suddenly becomes responsible for a criminal act in her family |
2013-03 |
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The awakening and selected short stories |
A reprint of the 1899 novel about Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother who is awakened to the full force of her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation. |
2010-08 |
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The best exotic marigold hotel |
When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. |
2012-03 |
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The best of me |
This is the story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they have taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined, and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past |
2011-10 |
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Big Stone Gap |
"Ave Maria, who's satisfied if not exactly happy in her role as the town pharmacist, begins questioning her quiet, country life after a posthumous letter from her mother reveals a jarring secret. Ave Maria soon faces a crisis of identity, the advances of a surprising suitor and the threat of her acerbic, money-grubbing Aunt Alice. |
2012-07 |
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The bungalow |
In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fiancé, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. Under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow, the two share a private world-until they witness a gruesome crime, Westry is suddenly redeployed, and the idyll vanishes into the winds of war. |
2012-01 |
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Butterface |
The scars on Beth's face aren't nearly as deep as the ones she nurses on the inside. She was born with hemifacial microsamia and was supposed to feel "lucky" that she wasn't as disfigured as some people.One boy, Lucky O'Leary starts to find the cracks in her hard shell and finds himself falling for her. Only Lucky has a secret--he needs to bring Beth to a "dog dinner" or lose his spot on the team. She can't find out that the guy who brings the ugliest date wins a prize. |
2011-04 |
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Candide |
Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759) is a French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. |
2010-09 |
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Dear John |
John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else |
2010-09 |
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Eden Close |
A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation. |
2010-12 |
