Recreational Reading

Genre: Love and Romance

207 titles found

	Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. PQ2288.E5 K7 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This translation of Notre-Dame de Paris offers Victor Hugo's epic view of mankind's history, which assumes even more importance than the novel's compelling story.
	Murasaki Shikibu, b. 978? PL788.4.G4 E5 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world's first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, allia...
	Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. PQ2227 .H6813 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Actual Bellow, Saul. PS3503.E4488 A63 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A witty tale of love in what the novel's protagonist describes is the late phase of his maturity. He is Harry Trellman, an expatriate businessman who returns to Chicago dreaming of his high school sweetheart, the only woman he ever loved but who married another. Fate is kind, the woman is...
	Adam Bede Eliot, George, 1819-1880. PR4656 .A1 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Arthur's seduction of an innocent, young country girl results in remorse, suffering, and regret.
	Age of innocence Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. PS3545.H16 A7 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Alburquerque Anaya, Rudolfo A. PS3551.N27 A79 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Abran Gonzalez is a homeboy from the barrio, a young boxer whose world is shattered the night he is summoned to the deathbed of his biological mother, a woman he has never known. He learns he is the son of a wealthy Anglo woman and an unknown Mexican man--a father whose identity Abran fee...
	Altered states Brookner, Anita. PR6052.R5816 A77 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An English lawyer's obsession with Sarah, a beautiful cousin. Unable to have her, he marries another, then when Sarah gives him the signal rushes to her side, only to be disappointed. He returns to his wife, but once again the cousin beckons.
	American tragedy Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. PS3507.R55 A7 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On one level, An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, the novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ta...
	Andorra Cameron, Peter, 1959- PS3553.A4344 A83 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A man's unsuccessful attempt to flee his past. For his new life Alexander Fox, who is an American, chooses Andorra, a quiet spot sandwiched between France and Spain. But loneliness leads him into new relationships--he becomes a suspect in a murder--and has to flee once more.
	Animal dreams : a novel Kingsolver, Barbara. PS3561.I496 A86 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Hallie Nodine fights for justice in Nicaragua while her sister, Codi, returns to Arizona to confront her dying father, as myths, dreams, and flashbacks blend to examine life's commitments.
	Annotated Lolita Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. PS3527.A15 L6 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Presents the degeneration which results from a middle-aged professor's desperate obsession with a precocious, callous teenager whose mother he marries just to be near the young girl.
	Antelope wife : a novel Erdrich, Louise. PS3555.R42 A8 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In an attack on an Indian village, a U.S. cavalryman takes a baby girl, but later gives her back. So begins a multi-generation saga on the girl's descendants as they navigate between modern life and ancient tradition. By the author of The Bingo Palace.
	Antiquary Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. PR5317.A68 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Anything but love Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, 1949- PS3566.E69138 A84 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	As a man grows older Svevo, Italo, 1861-1928. PQ4841.C482 S8413 2001b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina-except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins ...
	Asphodel H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961. PS3507.O726 A93 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	At fault Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904. PS1294.C63 A63 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In rural Louisiana after Reconstruction, Therese Lafirme, a thirty-year-old widow, falls in love with David Hosmer, but rejects his marriage proposal because of her religious opposition to divorce.
	Atomic romance : a novel Mason, Bobbie Ann. PS3563.A7877 A88 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship.
	Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- PQ8498.32.A65 T513 2007 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She f...
	Bebe's by golly wow Joe, Yolanda. PS3560.O242 B4 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Chicago, a black fireman who has been abandoned by his wife falls in love with a black banker. But the fireman's daughter, Dash, 13, is not interested in a second mother and sparks fly.
	Bel canto : a novel Patchett, Ann. PS3566.A7756 B4 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect e...
	Belle du Seigneur Cohen, Albert, 1895- PQ2605.O24 B413 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In 1930s Geneva, an official who rose high in the League of Nations by concealing his Jewish roots sets out to seduce a colleague's wife who represents his ideal of absolute love. A look at the mores and manners of the day.
	Bengal nights Eliade, Mircea, 1907- PC839.E38 M313 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A semi-autobiographical romance between a French engineer and the daughter of a Hindu family with which he stayed in India. A case of East meets West with all the joys and woes that such encounters bring. For her version of the story see her novel, It Does Not Die.
	Bertrams Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. PR5684 .B4 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Beso de la mujer araña Puig, Manuel. PQ7798.26.U4 B4 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In a Latin American jail cell, two radically different men develop a friendship as the one man entertains the other with narratives from old movies.
	Best intentions : a novel Bergman, Ingmar, 1918- PT9875.B533 G6413 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In this original, extraordinarily moving, and highly personal novel, world-renowned stage and film director Ingmar Bergman goes back to the time of his parents and grandparents, to the years shortly before, during, and just after World War I. Set in the decade beginning in 1908, The Best ...
	Beulah Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909. PS3332 .B48 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Blue Calhoun Price, Reynolds, 1933- PS3566.R54 B55 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Since the publication of his famous first novel, A Long and Happy Life, Price has been accorded the praise and admiration reserved for America's most distinguished writers. Now he has written the most searching, most passionate novel of his rich and varied career. Blue Calhoun, the narrat...
	Blue flower Fitzgerald, Penelope. PR6056.I86 B58 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized biography of the 18th Century German poet, Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg, who wrote under the nom de plume, Novalis. The novel centers on his philosophy ("My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.") and on his romance with Sophie von Kuh...
	Bob the gambler Barthelme, Frederick, 1943- PS3552.A763 B63 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An architect and his wife living near a casino in Mississippi become hooked on gambling and lose everything they own. They move into his mother's house and embark on a new life, discovering happiness in simplicity and insecurity.
	Book of Promethea = Le livre de Promethea Cixous, Hélène, 1937- PQ2663.I9 L5813 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Book of knowledge : a novel Grumbach, Doris. PS3557.R83 B66 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The struggle of four people--two men and two women--to come to terms with their sexuality. The novel picks them up in childhood on the brink of puberty and follows them as they turn to homosexuality, lesbianism, incest and in one case celibacy. By the author of Fifty Days of Solitude.
	Brazil Updike, John. PS3571.P4 B48 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability John Updike's sixteenth novel takes place in a stylized Brazil where almost anything is possible, if you are young and in love. Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year-old black child of the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach; their f...
	Briar rose Coover, Robert. PS3553.O633 B75 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An allegorical retelling of Sleeping Beauty. It features a princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, and a fairy who inhabits her dreams, regaling her with legends of other sleeping beauties. A look at the power of romantic desire.
	Bride of Lammermoor Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. PR5317 .B7 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy's beautiful da...
	Briefcase Kawakami, Hiromi, 1958- PL855.A859 S4613 2012 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei" in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relati...
	Carson Valley : a novel Barich, Bill. PS3552.A6163 C37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel of California featuring a romance between the manager of a vineyard and the boss' daughter. He is Arthur Atwater, she is Anna Torelli and they meet when she returns home from New York. Several social issues are treated, including the life of California's Italians and illegal immig...
	Castle Richmond Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. PR5684 .C3 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. PR5202 .C3 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Catherine Carmier : a novel Gaines, Ernest J., 1933- PS3557.A355 C36 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Catherine, a young Louisiana Black woman, is caught up in the racial tensions between white, Black, and Cajun in the rural plantation area.
	Chance to see Egypt Scofield, Sandra Jean, 1943- PS3569.C584 C48 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Widowed pet store owner Tom Riley of Chicago goes to Mexico to drown his grief. His fellow tourists annoy him so he tries to meet the locals. A resident American painter introduces him to her model, Consolata Arispe, a widow who runs a cafe. Love follows.
	Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal, 1783-1842. PQ2435.C4 E5 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, amidst the golden landscapes of northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-sta...
	City of light : a novel Colter, Cyrus. PS3553.O477 C58 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Clairvoyant Thurm, Marian. PS3570.H83 C57 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Katha Randall meets the clairvoyant, Victor Mackenzie, during a fortune-telling seance in New York and they are immediately attracted to each other. But love between them is not easy, she unsettled by knowing he can tell her innermost thoughts, he not sure where his heart will take him, b...
	Cold mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- PS3556.R3599 C6 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability 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?
	Dark bride : a novel Restrepo, Laura. PQ8180.28.E7255 N6813 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
	Dark princess : a romance Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. PS3507.U147 D37 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The problem of "the color line," W. E. B. Du Bois's ever-present polemical theme, is at the core of this novel of sensual love, radical politics, and the quest for racial justice. Originally published in 1928, Dark Princess has a fantastical storyline, heavy with propagandist overtones. D...
	Daughter of fortune : a novel Allende, Isabel. PQ8098.1.L54 H5513 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
	Dirt music : a novel Winton, Tim. PR9619.3.W585 D57 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Despite her marriage to Jim Buckridge, Georgie Jutland has never really become a part of his inbred fishing community, and her tentative link to conventional life is further jeopardized when she begins a love affair with Luther Fox, the local poacher andoutcast.
	Disappearing acts McMillan, Terry. PS3563.C3868 D57 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When Franklin, a young construction worker, meets Zora, a struggling singer from Ohio, neither is certain they can make the sacrifices and commitments needed to build love.
	Dry spell Moloney, Susie. PR9199.3.M592 D78 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In North Dakota, a rain maker is hired by a woman banker to combat an evil spirit, blamed for a drought which has almost destroyed the economy. The result is mayhem--and love.
	Elegy of Lady Fiammetta Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. PQ4272.E5 F38 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .E5 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--To arrange the lives of others. Considered by most critics to be Austen's most technically brilliant achievement, "...
	Erased faces : a novel Limón, Graciela. PS3562.I464 E7 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Adriana Mora, a Latina photojournalist born and raised in Los Angeles, haunted by childhood memories of her parents death, abuse and displacement, journeys south to Chiapas, Mexico, in search of images to record on film. Initially, Mora finds a place in a small village where her path als...
	Eve's apple : a novel Rosen, Jonathan, 1963- PS3568.O767 E93 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on food disorders. The protagonists are a young woman starving herself and her boyfriend who tries to find a cure. The boyfriend researches fasting over the centuries, including that practiced by saints, and analyzes the philosophy of fasting. A novel of ideas and a debut in ficti...
	Evening class Binchy, Maeve. PR6052.I7728 E94 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death...
	Fairly honourable defeat Murdoch, Iris. PR6063.U7 F3 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A ten guinea wager between a woman and her former lover threatens to disrupt the lives of all those close to them.
	Far from the madding crowd Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. PR4745 .A1 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Bathsheba Everdene and the three men who love her move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution, and the encroachment of modern life"--Prelim.
	Farewell to my concubine : a novel Li, Bihua. PL2877.P48 P2713 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Farewell to My Concubine is a story of jealousy and passion set against the exhilarating spectacle of the Peking opera. One of the most unusual epic romances of all time, the novel moves swiftly from the decadent glamour of 1930s China through the horrors of the Japanese occupation right ...
	Faults : a novel Peña, Terri de la, 1947- PS3566.E448 F3 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Fiery pantheon Lemann, Nancy. PS3562.E4659 F53 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young woman proud of her Southern heritage is torn between two men. Grace Stewart of New Orleans must choose between a stuffy journalist, possessing the noble qualities of the South, and a slightly nutty Wall Street banker who is fun. While she debates her parents take her on a tour of ...
	First love : a Gothic tale Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- PS3565.A8 F57 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the course of a summer holiday in upstate New York, an innocent 11-year-old girl is initiated into sexual perversion by a 25-year-old cousin, a seminary student preparing for the Presbyterian ministry. The experience ruins her.
	Flower drum song Lee, C. Y., 1917- PS3523.E3158 F5 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Four letters of love : a novel Williams, Niall, 1958- PR6073.I43273 F68 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The hero is William, son of an Irish painter who committed suicide and burned his paintings. Only one survived, sold to a poet, and William travels to buy it back. In this way he meets the poet's daughter, Isabel, married for 24 hours and unhappy.
	Fourth hand : a novel Irving, John, 1942- PS3559.R8 F68 2001b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A well-known Boston hand surgeon wants to perform the first hand transplant on the reporter, but the problem is there is no hand available. ...
	Frequency of souls Zuravleff, Mary Kay. PS3576.U54 F74 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Game : a novel Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- PR6052.Y2 G36 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Two estranged sisters are brought by a friend back into an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance that they visited as little girls.
	Giant's house : a romance McCracken, Elizabeth. PS3563.C35248 G5 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A platonic romance between a librarian and a teenage boy. The boy is James, who suffers from giantism--never stops growing--while she is Peggy, a spinster 14 years his senior. During their 10-year relationship she redoes a house and a car to fit him. Only when he dies is there sex--with h...
	Glass Palace : a novel Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- PR9499.3.G536 G58 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Tells of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who creates an empire in the Burmese teak forest. During the British invasion of 1885, when soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, the woman whose l...
	Glimpses of the moon Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. PS3545.H16 G57 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Golden bowl James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .G6 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Henry James' story of a pair of adulterous lovers who are married, respectively, to a rich American collector of European art and to his inexperienced daughter provides-beyond its expensive, burnished, beautifully appointed exteriors-an understanding of the rises and betrayals inherent in...
	Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. PS3511.I9 G7 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. Bathtub gin, flappers and house parties that last all week enliven Fitzgerald's classic tale, a startling portrait of Gatsby...
	Ground beneath her feet : a novel Rushdie, Salman. PR6068.U757 G76 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Gut symmetries Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- PR6073.I558 G87 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Aboard the QE2 and under the stars, three lives converge. Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Jove's wife, Stella, a poet. Winterson captures all three sides of this triangle of desire - and the...
	Hallucinating Foucault Duncker, Patricia, 1951- PR6054.U477 H35 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An English student is so impressed by a book of philosophy that he travels to France to meet its author, now in an insane asylum. In describing the relationship which grows up between the two men, the novel looks at the bonds that are created between reader and writer, even though they ne...
	He say, she say Joe, Yolanda. PS3560.O242 A4 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Four characters illuminate how African Americans relate to each other through romance, friendship, and family.
	Heart of Hyacinth Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954. PR9199.3.W3689 H42 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Heartbreak tango; a seria Puig, Manuel. PQ7798.26.U4 B67 1973 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Heat wave : a novel Lively, Penelope, 1933- PR6062.I89 H43 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An editor of romance novels goes to a cottage for the summer, taking her daughter and son-in-law. As she pencils scenes of romantic bliss she realizes the son-in-law is cheating on his wife, just as her ex-husband cheated on her. A story with a violent end.
	Heaven's edge Gunesekera, Romesh. PR9440.9.G86 H43 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	I'll take you there : a novel Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- PS3565.A8 I17 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "In those days in the early Sixties we were not women yet but girls. This was, without irony, perceived as our advantage." So begins I'll Take You There, an astonishingly intimate and unsparing self-portrait of a nameless young student who, though, gifted with a penetrating intelligence, ...
	If I die in Juárez Duarte, Stella Pope. PS3554.U236 I38 2008 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Duarte's latest novel is based on a string of real-life murders in Ciudad Jurez in the 1990s. Forced out of the house by her alcoholic mother, 13-year-old Evita takes to the streets, glimpsing newspaper columns about the murders, while struggling to survive. Petra, Evita's comely 19-year-...
	Image of Josephine Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. PS2972 .I48 1945 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	In another place, not here Brand, Dionne, 1953- PR9199.3.B683 I5 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Two lesbian women participate in an unsuccessful revolution in the Caribbean. They flee to Canada and begin thesad life of exiles, encountering racism.
	Inez Fuentes, Carlos. PQ7297.F793 I6713 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In "Inez, " readers find Carlos Fuentes at the height of his magical and realist powers in a tale of two couples. This profound and beautiful work confirms his standing as MexicoUs preeminent novelist.
	Instinto de Inez Fuentes, Carlos. PQ7297.F793 I5 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Offers the intertwining love stories of a man and a woman in the prehistoric world, and of conductor Gabriel Atlan-Ferrera and singer Inez Prada during a production of Berlioz' opera "The Damnation of Faust."
	Into the great wide open Canty, Kevin. PS3553.A56 I58 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Two teens from the opposite side of the tracks fall in love. She is June, wealthy, with permissive parents. He is Kenny, socially inferior and his father beats him. They attend the same school and he is proud he saved her from a lesbian relationship. Unfortunately, he gets her pregnant. A...
	Irrawaddy tango Law-Yone, Wendy. PS3562.A862 I77 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	It does not die : a romance Maitraye Devi, 1914- PK1718.M24244 A26 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An Indian writer gives her version of the romance which Mircea Eliade, the Romanian writer, described in his novel, Bengal Nights. "Why did you not tell the truth, Mircea?" she asks, not at all pleased that he portrayed her as an Oriental vamp.
	Itch : a novel Little, Benilde. PS3562.I78276 I83 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The amours of two black women in the film world of Los Angeles. One of them leaves her unfaithful husband and finds herself falling for a white man, only to conclude the cultural gap is too wide for marriage.
	Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. PR4167 .J3 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
	Jazz Morrison, Toni. PS3563.O8749 J38 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Harlem, 1926, Joe Trace, a door-to-door salemsan in his fifties, kills his teenage lover. At the funeral, his wife Violet slashes the dead girl's face and then desperately searches to find why Joe was unfaithful. The profound love story is immersed in the sights and sounds of Black urb...
	Jennie Gerhardt Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. PS3507.R55 J4 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Jennie Gerhardt was Theodore Dreiser's second novel and his first true commercial success. Today it is generally regarded as one of his three best novels, along with Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. But the text of Jennie Gerhardt heretofore known to readers is quite different from ...
	John's wife : a novel Coover, Robert. PS3553.O633 J6 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A small town in the Midwest is enthralled by its first lady. She is the wife of a wealthy builder and everyone has an opinion on her, though few have actually met her. A look at fame and fortune in a small pond by the author of Pinocchio in Venice.
	Jude the obscure Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. PR4746 .A1 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason, aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves in Victorian society." *** "Marriage, the Church of England, and the British university system all come under criticism in a story about two cousins w...
	Kalimantaan Godshalk, C. S. PS3557.O3145 K35 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A 19th century British officer carves out for himself a kingdom in Borneo. He is Gideon Barr of the East India Company who is ordered to the Far East to combat pirates. After defeating them, he makes a fortune in trade and proceeds to create a colonial society with all the trappings of ho...
	Kiss of the spider woman Puig, Manuel. PQ7798.26.U4 B413 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love...
	Le divorce Johnson, Diane. PS3560.O3746 D58 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A witty look at French and American cultures. It begins when an American woman arrives in Paris to help her sister divorce an aristocratic husband who has taken off with another woman. The couple have a child and the two families, French and American, clash over its future. By the author ...
	Lolita Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. PS3527.A15 L6 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability With an Introduction by Martin Amis. When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes ...
	Long fatal love chase Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. PS1017 .L66 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An Englishwoman falls for an older man who takes her to France where she discovers he is already married. When she leaves him, he pursues her and confines her to a lunatic asylum in Germany. But she will escape. The novel was written in 1866 and was rejected by the publisher as too sensat...
	Lost dog : a novel De Kretser, Michelle. PR9619.4.D4 L67 2008 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Tom Loxley, an Indian-Australian professor, is less concerned with finishing his book on Henry James than with finding his dog, who is lost in the Australian bush. Joining his daily hunt is Nelly Zhang, an artist whose husband disappeared mysteriously years before Tom met her. Although Ne...
	Lotte in Weimar : the beloved returns Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. PT2625.A44 L62 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Love Morrison, Toni. PS3563.O8749 L68 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The epitome of a group of women's ideals about love, fatherhood, and friendship, wealthy hotel owner Bill Cosey finds his life compromised by his troubled past and his feelings about a spellbinding woman named Celestial.
	Love in the time of cholera García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928- PQ8180.17.A73 A813 1988 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
	Love of the last tycoon : a western Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. PS3511.I9 L68 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Even in its incomplete form, The Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western has achieved a reputation as the best Hollywood novel. When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 he had written seventeen of thirty projected episodes. In 1941 the "unfinished novel" was published in a text for general reader...
	Love warps the mind a little Dufresne, John. PS3554.U325 L69 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A 40-year-old man who always wanted to be a writer finally takes the plunge. He leaves his wife and home, and moves in with his mistress, taking only his typewriter. Unfortunately, she is not much of a muse, the rejection letters pile up, on top of which she develops cancer. A tragicomedy...
	Love, again : a novel Lessing, Doris May, 1919- PR6023.E833 L47 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An old woman falls in love with a man who could be her grandson. She is Sarah Durham, 65, a widow working in the theater in England and she develops a passion for a young actor. A look at love in the golden age by the author of The Golden Notebook.
	Lover Duras, Marguerite. PQ2607.U8245 A62613 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Lover's alman Howard, Maureen, 1930- PS3558.O8823 L68 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Braving the mysteries of the heart's desire, Maureen Howard renders the heady madness of a first kiss while plumbing history, art, genetics, and astronomy to explore the inevitable morning-after question: Why do two people fall in love? The exhilarating flights and emotional depth of Howa...
	Lovesick Mastretta, Angeles, 1949- PQ7298.23.A795 M3813 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this romance knits the passion of a strong, independent woman into the history of a country, much in the manner of the 19th-century costumbrista tradition. Which of two men and their opposing paths will she choose? Peden's seamless tra...
	Loving Che Menéndez, Ana, 1970- PS3563.E514 L68 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An elderly woman looks back on the world of revolutionary Cuba as she recalls her secret affair with revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in the story of a young Cuban woman who searches for details about her birth mother.
	Macaria, or, Altars of sacrifice Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909. PS3332 .M33 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability First published in 1864, Marcia is the story of Irene and Electra, two Confederate women who struggle to find their place in a society where so many men have left to fight the war.
	Mail Medwed, Mameve. PS3563.E275 M35 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Love blooms between a struggling writer and the postman who delivers her rejection slips. Katinka and Louie meet by the mail box, an affair follows and he enrolls in her writing class, intending to become a writer as well. The setting is Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	Mama, do you love me? Joosse, Barbara M. PZ7.J7435 Mam 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional.
	Manual of painting & calligraphy : a novel Saramago, José. PQ9281.A66 M313 2012 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the last years of Salazar's dictatorship, a struggling young artist is commissioned to paint the portrait of a wealthy client and struggles to capture his likeness while acknowleging his artistic limitations.
	Margins Peña, Terri de la, 1947- PS3566.E448 M3 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Master Butchers Singing Club Erdrich, Louise. PS3555.R42 M37 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Returning to his quiet German village home after World War I, trained killer Fidelis Waldvogel, accompanied by his wife, leaves to start a new life in America and finds his life irrevocably changed by a new relationship.
	Matters of chance : a novel Haien, Jeannette. PS3558.A3255 M37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of the Shurtliffs of Ohio, an upper-crust family which practices noblesse oblige, including setting an example. He is a lawyer who does his duty in World War II in the navy, she is a faithful wife, they have two adopted daughters who are well brought up and there are no scandals...
	Medicine men : a novel Adams, Alice, 1926- PS3551.D324 M44 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The trials of a woman with cancer. The doctors she sees attribute her fatigue and headaches to everything but cancer until, finally, one of them discovers a tumor. Which is how she falls into the clutches of Dr. Mark Jacobs whose treatment is accompanied by bullying and proposals of marri...
	Meshugah Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904- PJ5129.S49 M4713 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A romantic triangle involving survivors of the Holocaust, set in New York City in the 50s. It was serialized in the Yiddish newspaper, Forward, under the title Lost Souls.
	Middle age : a romance Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- PS3565.A8 M45 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The heroic death of sculpture Adam Berendt causes everyone who knew him in the affluent suburb of Salthill-on-Hudson to reevaluate their lives.
	Milk in my coffee Dickey, Eric Jerome. PS3554.I319 M55 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A romance between a black man and a white woman. The hero is Jordan Greene, an engineer, the heroine is Kimberly Chavers, an artist. They meet in a taxi and fall quickly in love, but both have a past and are not sure if the other will accept it.
	Miss Numè of Japan : a Japanese-American romance Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954. PR9199.3.W3689 M57 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The first known novel by an Asian-American, Miss Nume of Japan charts the romantic history of two couples, one Japanese and one American. The Japanese couple, though not really in love, has been betrothed since childhood. The relationship of the second couple, a beautiful American and he...
	Montenegro : a novel Lawrence, Starling. PS3562.A9155 M66 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on the Serbian struggle for independence. The protagonist is Auberon Harwell, a British botanist spying on the Turks on the eve of World War I. Harwell falls in love with the wife of a Serbian resistance leader. By the author of Legacies.
	Mother tongue Martínez, Demetria, 1960- PS3563.A7333337 M6 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Nineteen-year-old Mary, longing for something meaningful in her life, agrees to help José Luis, a refugee from El Salvador who has been smuggled into the United States as part of a sanctuary movement, and immediately falls in love with both the movement and the man.
	Mother tongue Martínez, Demetria, 1960- PS3563.A7333337 M6 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Mary is nineteen and living alone in Albuquerque. Adrift in the wake of her mother's death, she longs for something meaningful to take her over. Then José Luis enters her life. A refugee from El Salvador and its bloody civil war, José has been smuggled to the United States as part of ...
	Narrows Petry, Ann Lane, 1911- PS3531.E933 N3 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	News from Paraguay : a novel Tuck, Lily, 1938- PS3570.U236 N49 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Pursued by the future dictator of Paraguay, Irish courtesan Ella Lynch struggles with isolation in spite of her power as his mistress, and witnesses the nation's victimization due to her lover's arrogant ambitions.
	Nocturnal butterflies of the Russian Empire : a novel Prieto González, José Manuel, 1962- PQ7390.P76 L5813 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. Offered a commission to illegally tra...
	None to accompany me Gordimer, Nadine. PR9369.3.G6 N6 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The novel is set in South Africa during the last days of the white regime. The heroine is Vera Stark, a white lawyer who works to restore land taken from blacks by the government. Her political work is played out against a background of family problems, among them an overbearing husband, ...
	Northanger Abbey : backgrounds, criticism Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .N7 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Norwegian wood Murakami, Haruki, 1949- PL856.U673 N6713 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Toru and Naoko struggle to deal with the death of their best friend, but as Naoko finds life unbearable and "retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman."--Cover.
	Notebook Sparks, Nicholas. PS3569.P363 N68 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their fifty-year journey to happiness.
	Novellas of Hortense Calishe Calisher, Hortense. PS3553.A4 A6 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The novellas are characterized by their unfailing intelligence and by the technical surehandedness and acuity of the writing. Each has a strong sense of place - New York City, the Hudson Valley, Saratoga Springs - and an eclectic cast of characters who inhabit regions where our most acute...
	Now is the time to open your heart : a novel Walker, Alice, 1944- PS3573.A425 N69 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A well-published, numerous-times-divorced woman leaves her lover to embark on a personal journey that begins on the Colorado River and traverses through her past and into her future, while her lover begins his own parallel voyage. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.
	Nowhere else on earth Humphreys, Josephine. PS3558.U4656 N69 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the midst of the Civil War and its effects on the citizens of Robeson County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Rhoda Strong has fallen in love with Henry Berry Lowrie who is hunted as an outlaw.
	Of love and other demons García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928- PQ8180.17.A73 D4513 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In colonial South America, the doomed love of a 12-year-old girl and a priest thrice her age sent to exorcise her. She is a nobleman's daughter who has been bitten by a rabid dog. The authorities decide she is possessed by the devil and lock her up in a convent. By the author of Love in t...
	Old man's love Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. PR5684 .O4 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Old scores Delbanco, Nicholas. PS3554.E442 O43 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A teacher-student romance at a Vermont college ends when Elizabeth, the student, leaves Paul without telling him she is pregnant. Subsequently, she gives up their baby for adoption and leaves the country. Years later, now a divorced mother with children, Elizabeth finds Paul and they go t...
	Only the good times Bruce-Novoa, 1944- PS3552.R793 O55 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A man's obsession with his first love. He is a Mexican-American filmmaker who cannot forget the romance, which was platonic, even after a string of love affairs and marriage to a famous actress. Wherever he points his camera or mind's eye, he thinks of her. The obsession and the possibili...
	Oryx and Crake : a novel Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- PR9199.3.A8 O79 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated gy ecological and scientific disasters.
	Page turner : a novel Leavitt, David, 1961- PS3562.E2618 P34 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A homosexual love affair between a concert pianist and his young page turner. The affair becomes complicated when the youth's mother misconstrues the pianist's attention in her son as an interest in her. The settings are Rome and New York. By the author of While England Sleeps.
	Part of his story Corn, Alfred, 1943- PS3553.O655 P37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "After his life partner dies from AIDS-related illness, New york playwright Avery Walsh travels to London [and meets] Maeve Findlater, a young woman active in political causes, and her brother Derek."--Jacket.
	Part of the furniture Wesley, Mary. PR6073.E753 P37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After seeing two childhood friends off to war--having slept with both the night before--Juno Marlowe, 17, is caught by an air raid. The setting is London during World War II. While taking refuge in an air raid shelter Juno meets a man who gives her a letter for his father and soon after h...
	Peel my love like an onion : a novel Castillo, Ana. PS3553.A8135 P44 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on a plucky flamenco dancer in Chicago. It follows her from her rise to fame despite a crippled leg from polio, to her descent as the polio returns, her two lovers abandon her and she is reduced to working in a sweatshop. But Carmen will recoup. By the author of So Far from God.
	Persuasion Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .P4 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed ...
	Plan for women Naumoff, Lawrence. PS3564.A8745 P57 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When a woman refuses the advances of an ex- boyfriend, he threatens to send a video of them making love to her husband. On learning this the husband is unperturbed, that was before the marriage. But his cool does not stand the test of reality, on seeing the video the marriage disintegrate...
	Poor things : episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless, M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer PR6057.R3264 P66 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Portrait of a lady James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .P6 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A romantic New England girl inherits an English fortune and marries an American living in Italy. Her subsequent disillusionment is described through her tragic marriage.
	Price of salt Morgan, Claire, 1921- PS3558.I366 P7 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Pride and prejudice Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .P7 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
	Pride and prejudice : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .P7 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series, Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text, which has been thoroughly annotated for undergraduate readers." ""Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by b...
	Properties of light : a novel of love, betrayal and quantum physics Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950- PS3557.O398 P76 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Three physicists, a father, daughter, and her lover, struggle with problems of quantum mechanics and the nature of light as well as feelings of love end envy.
	Purple hibiscus : a novel Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- PR9387.9.A34354 P87 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Growing up in a wealthy Nigerian home under the domain of a harsh, demanding, and tyrannical father, Kambili and her brother, Jaja, find new happiness during a visit to their Aunty Ifeoma outside the city, but as Kambili enjoys her newfound freedom and falls in love for the first time, th...
	Quiet days in Clichy Miller, Henry, 1891- PS3525.I5454 Q5 1987 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Ramona Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. PS2107 .R4 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Red thread : a love story Jose, Nicholas, 1952- PR9619.3.J73 R44 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This book is an unforgettable story of love and destiny, art and beauty, and passion that ties one person to another forever.
	Resistance : a novel Shreve, Anita. PS3569.H7385 R47 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In World War II, an American flier is shot down over Belgium. He is rescued by a farmer and his wife who are in the resistance. The wife cares for the airman's wounds and while the husband is away they have a doomed affair which ends in betrayal.
	Return of the native Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. PR4747 .A1 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An enduring tale of love, desire, and the universal longing both to leave one's home and to return to it, this novel is one of Hardy's greatest and most affecting works. Hardy's passionately drawn characters and his vivid rendering of their valiant but ultimately ineffective struggle in d...
	Riven rock Boyle, T. Coraghessan. PS3552.O932 R58 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A love story early this century on a young millionaire who has gone mad and his loyal wife. For twenty years, suffragette Katherine McCormick awaits a cure while doctors treat Stanley in his palatial mansion in California. They won't allow her visits because he cannot look at a woman with...
	Samurai's garden Tsukiyama, Gail. PS3570.S84 S26 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Shortly before World War II, a Chinese man, sent to Japan to recover from tuberculosis, meets a lovely Japanese girl and four older residents, in a story of passion and sacrifice.
	Saratoga trunk Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. PS3511.E46 S3 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Sense and sensibility Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .S4 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Jane Austen's first published novel, sparkling with wit and artistry, captures the inequities of birth, class, and marriage faced by the sisters Dashwood. Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, El...
	Seven wives : a romance : a novel Baumbach, Jonathan. PS3552.A844 S48 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Sharp teeth of love : a novel Betts, Doris. PS3552.E84 S53 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Medical illustrator Luna Stone dumps her fiance and takes off for the mountains to camp and meditate. While there, she meets a boy who escaped from a porno ring and she also meets a man who planned to be a minister until he went deaf. When the boy is kidnaped by the pornographers, Luna an...
	Silent angel Böll, Heinrich, 1917- PT2603.O394 E5413 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A German soldier returns home at the end of World War II. The novel follows him through the ruins of Cologne, searching for the widow of a man who died in his place. This was the Nobel Prize winner's first novel, only now translated into English.
	Simple Habana melody (from when the world was good) : a novel Hijuelos, Oscar. PS3558.I376 S56 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability It is 1947 and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love and sadness, is returning to Habana, Cuba, from Spain, where he has just recovered from the physical and spiritual malaise resulting from his experiences in Paris, then Buchenwald, during the Naz...
	Simple passion Ernaux, Annie, 1940- PQ2665.R67 P3713 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Without compromises or concessions, Annie Ernaux plots the course of the human heart through her "simple passion" for a young married man from another country living in France for a short time. This is the true story of a physical and emotional journey, not a sentimental one. The passion ...
	Snakebite sonnet Phillips, Max. PS3566.H487 S63 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The romance of Nicholas, 10, who falls in love with Julia, 19. As Julia already has a boyfriend, he has to wait until he goes to college, where she will be a graduate student. What follows is a tempestuous on-and-off affair, narrated by self-deprecating Nicholas, a victim of Julia's fickl...
	South of the border, west of the sun Murakami, Haruki, 1949- PL856.U673 S68 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Japanese novel on a married businessman who has an affair with the girl of his youth. Hajime's relationship with Shimamoto had always been chaste, now they both make up for it--25 years later. By the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
	Spanish lover Trollope, Joanna. PR6070.R57 S7 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability For years Lizzie has given her twin sister Frances an inferiority complex. Both are English career women, but Lizzie is married with four children. One day Frances falls in love with a Spaniard. He refuses to leave his wife, but Frances decides to have a baby anyway, moving to Spain to be...
	Squatter and the don Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, 1832-1895. PS2736.R53 S658 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Starcarbon : a meditation on love : a novel Gilchrist, Ellen, 1935- PS3557.I34258 S73 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A romantic comedy which continues the saga of the Hand family. Olivia returns to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, to explore the Indian half of her family history and resume a romance with her old boyfriend, Bobby, while her half-sister, Jessie, is stuck in New Orleans with a new baby and a rocky mar...
	Summer crossing : a novel Capote, Truman, 1924- PS3505.A59 S86 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Seventeen-year-old Manhattan socialite Grady McNeil is free to pursue her illicit romance with Clyde Manzer, a parking lot attendant from Brooklyn, when her parents decide to leave her alone for the summer.
	Sunrise shows late : a novel Mekler, Eva. PS3563.E423 S86 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Jewish woman in a post-World War II camp for displaced persons in Germany is torn between two men. She is Manya Gerson, a widow after a Communist resistance fighter in Poland who was shot by an anti-Jewish party member. She must choose between two suitors, a microbiologist with a job aw...
	Swimming in the volcano : a novel Shacochis, Bob. PS3569.H284 S94 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Winner of the American Book Award for his collection of stories Easy in the Islands and the Prix de Rome for The Next New World, Bob Shacochis returns to the islands with a first novel possessed of the same beauty as the places and people of the Caribbean." "The volcano at the heart of t...
	Take me home : a novel Leung, Brian. PS3612.E92 T35 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Adele 'Addie' Maine is returning to Dire, a Wyoming coal-mining town, forty years after the deadly events that nearly took her life and drove her away without a word to her husband. Years earlier: headed West to stay with her brother Tommy, a young and feisty Addie arrives in Wyoming hav...
	Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler : Fishke the Lame and Benjamin the Third Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 1835-1917. PJ5129.A2 F513 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Two novellas from the founder of modern Yiddish fiction, depicting smalltown Jewish life in 19th Century Russia. One novella, The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third, describes the comical misadventures of a Quixote-Panza pair who set off to see the world outside their town.
	Talking in bed Nelson, Antonya. PS3564.E428 N45 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Two men meet in hospital where their fathers have died, one is a manual worker, the other a psychologist. The psychologist invites the other home, they have dinner with their wives and adultery follows. A study in characters, class and domestic crisis.
	Tar baby Morrison, Toni. PS3563.O8749 T37 1981 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Winner of the 1978 National Book Critic's Circle Award for fiction. "Beautiful and satisfying . . . an unusually wise and large-spirited book . . . consistently picturesque, charged with startling images".--Baltimore Sun.
	Tender is the night Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. PS3511.I9 T4 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A story of Americans on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability.
	Tender is the night : the broken universe Stern, Milton R. PS3511.I9 T478 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night may or may not be the great American novel, but it is the great novel about American History. It is also a novel about Fitzgerald's life history. In the making for nearly 10 years and the subject of 18 revisions - the last undertaken after the boo...
	There once lived a girl who seduced her sister's husband, and he hanged himself : love stories Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila. PG3485.E724 A2 2013 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Presents a collection of short stories about one-night stands, office trysts, elopements, and serial infidelity.
	Thing around your neck Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- PR9387.9.A34354 T55 2009 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A collection of twelve stories includes the tale of a medical student in hiding with a poor Muslim woman, and a woman who discovers a devastating secret about her brother's death.
	Thirteen moons : a novel Frazier, Charles, 1950- PS3556.R3599 T48 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home...
	This is how you lose her Díaz, Junot, 1968- PS3554.I259 T48 2012 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obssessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
	Ultimate intimacy Klíma, Ivan. PG5039.21.L5 P6413 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As they engage in an adulterous affair in the Czech capital, Prague, a married Protestant minister finds himself losing his faith, while by contrast his atheistic mistress discovers God. By the author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light.
	Universal donor Nova, Craig. PS3564.O86 U55 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A few days before his wedding Rick, a doctor, introduces his fiancee, Virginia, to Terry, another doctor, and it's love at first sight. Virginia decides to wed Rick, anyway, but a snake bite for which she requires treatment throws her in Terry's arms. By the author of The Book of Dreams.
	Up at the villa Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. PR6025.A86 U6 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A wealthy young Englishwoman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.
	Vaporetto 13 : a novel Girardi, Robert. PS3557.I694 V3 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fantasy on an American banker working in Venice who meets a mysterious woman from another age. Under her influence he loses interest in material pursuit, abandons banking and acquires supernatural powers. But one day she has to leave.
	Villa incognito Robbins, Tom. PS3568.O233 V55 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability American MIAs choose to remain missing after the end of the Vietnam War, while four generations of women share a unique link to a mysterious figure from Japanese folklore.
	Villette Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. PR4167 .V5 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Waiting Jin, Ha, 1956- PS3560.I6 W34 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different wome...
	Waiting to exhale McMillan, Terry. PS3563.C3868 W35 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Four African-American women console and support one another in a complex friendship that helps each of them face the middle of her life as a single woman.
	Washington Square James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .W3 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the Washington Square area of New York City in the late nineteenth century, devastating betrayals by both her father and her lover leave shy and fragile Catherine Sloper permanently scarred.
	West of Venus Troy, Judy, 1951- PS3570.R68 W47 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A love story in Kansas between a waitress and a state trooper. She is Holly Parker, a divorcee involved in a miserable affair with a married man and worried by her son's brushes with delinquency. He is Gene Rollison who eats in her restaurant and he is available, but other women have an e...
	When the sons of heaven meet the daughters of the earth : a novel Eberstadt, Fernanda, 1960- PS3555.B484 W48 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young painter's Faustian road to fame, thanks to the generosity of one of America's art patrons. The artist is Isaac Hooker and his benefactor is Dolly Geblers, heiress to a pharmaceutical fortune who believes art can right the world. Matters start deteriorating when her generosity lead...
	Where or when : a novel Shreve, Anita. PS3569.H7385 W47 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After three decades of being apart, Charles Callahan finds his first love Sian and they meet again and again knowning their meetings must end.
	Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean. PR6035.H96 W5 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Beautiful and wealthy Antoinette Cosway's passionate love for an English aristocrat threatens to destroy her idyllic West Indian island existence and her very life; accompanied by notes and criticism.
	Winter's tale Helprin, Mark. PS3558.E4775 W5 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When master mechanic Peter Lake attempts to rob a mansion on the Upper West Side, he is caught by young Beverly Penn, the terminally ill daughter of the house, and their subsequent love sends Peter on a desperate personal journey.
	Women in love Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. PR6023.A93 W63 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Woodlanders Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. PR4750 .W7 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Giles Winterbowne suffers with the many tribulations of his selfless love for a woman above his station in this classic tale of the West country.
	Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. PR4172 .W7 2000b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published ...
	You can't go home agai Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938. PS3545.O337 Y6 1940 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	You can't go home again Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938. PS3545.O337 Y6 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Novelist George Webber is driven from his hometown when his successful autobiographical novel infuriates the family and friends he has depicted in it.
	You don't love me yet Lethem, Jonathan. PS3562.E8544 Y68 2007 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An employee at The Complaint Line who listens to anonymous callers air their random grievances, Lucinda Hoekke falls in love with one of her frequent callers, but her romance has unexpected complications for Lucinda and her fellow members of an alternative rock band.