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Learned By Heart: A Novel
Par Emma Donoghue. 2023
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love…
at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen.Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.The second summer of the sisterhood (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants #Bk. 2)
Par Ann Brashares. 2003
In this sequel to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (DB 53252), four lifelong friends--Bridget, Lena, Tibby, and Carmen--continue to…
share a pair of magic blue jeans over the summer vacation. Although miles apart, they all experience family problems, romance, friendship, and betrayal. For senior high readers. 2003Knock me off my feet
Par Susan Donovan. 2002
Autumn Adams, a.k.a. "Homey Helen," Chicago's version of Martha Stewart, receives threatening letters. Detective Stacey Quinn, assigned to the case,…
is determined to thoroughly examine Autumn's past. He just doesn't expect to find himself falling in love. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. 2002A wanted man
Par Nancy J Parra. 2002
Feisty librarian Brianna McGraw needs a thousand dollars to buy the freedom of her little brother and other orphans who…
were "adopted" by unscrupulous Nevada miners. To get the money, Brianna sets out to collect the bounty offered for capturing fugitive Trey Morgan. She captures his heart instead. 2002The guide dog mystery (The boxcar Children Mysteries Ser. #53)
Par Gertrude Chandler Warner. 1996
When Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny visit a guide dog training school, mysterious things begin to happen. After someone breaks…
into the kennel, all the dogs are still there, but Ginger's pen is covered with scratch marks. The Boxcar Children investigate. For grades 3-6. 1996The outlaw and the lady
Par Lorraine Heath. 2001
Fortune, Texas; 1891. Outlaw Lee Raven and his gang kidnap a bank robbery witness and realize later that beautiful Angela…
Bainbridge is blind. At Raven's Mexican home the two fall in love before the Texas Rangers arrive. Explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2001The fruit of stone
Par Mark Spragg. 2002
Late-twentieth-century Wyoming. McEban has been in love with his best friend's wife all his life. Gretchen loved McEban first but…
married Bennett. Now two decades later she leaves them both for another man, and McEban and Bennett set out together to find her. Some violence and some strong language. 2002Beachcomber
Par Karen Robards. 2003
Christy Petrino quits her job when she discovers that the law firm she works for and her fiancé are involved…
with the mob. Now, with her life at stake, she must deliver a package to Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, where she faces more danger--a serial killer. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2003The silent spillbills
Par Tor Seidler. 1998
Thirteen-year-old bird watcher Katerina, plagued by stuttering and lack of self-confidence, stands up to her cantankerous grandfather, head of Farnsworth…
Aeronautics, to save the unique Connecticut wetland birds that inspired the design of his latest airplane but twice caused it to crash. For grades 5-8. 1998Rugby and Rosie
Par Nan Parson Rossiter. 1997
A young boy tells about his beloved dog, Rugby, and what happens when Rosie, a puppy, comes to stay with…
them. After a year, Rosie leaves for training to become a guide dog for a blind person. For grades K-3. 1997Come home, my heart
Par Phyllis Campbell. 1988
Dr. Susan Perry, an obstetrician, becomes blind after a brain tumor is removed. Once rehabilitated, she moves to a poor,…
rural Virginia town. In her new career as a social worker, she becomes an integral part of the community and falls in love. 1988Fifteen love
Par Robert Corbet. 2003
Fifteen-year-olds Mia, a violist with family problems, and Will, a tennis player whose brother is paralyzed, gradually fall in love--both…
for the first time. They reveal feelings about each other, school, and friends while struggling to understand the opposite sex. For senior high readers. 2003Entre l'eau douce et la mer (Focus)
Par Louise Tremblay-D'Essiambre. 2006
"Ce livre est un peu le voyage de l'eau d'un lac paisible à l'océan infini. C'est aussi Catherine, la silencieuse,…
la douce épouse, la tendre mère, vivant dans l'ombre et rêvant d'absolu. Et Étienne qu'elle rencontrera lors d'un séjour à la mer. La mer... tumultueuse, entière, déterminée. Une histoire tissée d'émotions et de tendresse, un récit où beaucoup de femmes pourront se reconnaître. Un roman d'espérance et de métamorphose où l'on assiste au triomphe de l'amour." -- 4e de couvThe big sky: a novel
Par A. B Guthrie. 2002
1830s. Seventeen-year-old Boone Caudill leaves Kentucky and heads west after trying to kill his strict father. Traveling the Missouri River…
to the Rockies, Boone joins other mountain men, takes a native wife, and becomes as harsh as the wilderness. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Some violence and some strong language. 1947The Chili Queen: A Novel
Par Sandra Dallas. 2002
On the train to Nalgitas, New Mexico, brothel owner Addie French meets Emma Roby, a mail-order bride. When Emma's prospective…
husband fails to show, Addie takes her in at her "boarding house"--The Chili Queen. There Emma meets Welcome, the African American cook, and Ned, an outlaw. Together, they devise a moneymaking scheme. Spur Award. 2002Suddenly you
Par Lisa Kleypas. 2001
London, 1836. To end her never-loved spinster status, novelist Amanda Briars hires a male prostitute for one night of fantasy…
on her thirtieth birthday. She is appalled to again encounter Jack--aka John Devlin, a notorious publisher--at a dinner party. He then makes her an offer she can't refuse. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2001The heart remembers
Par June Masters Bacher. 1990
Oregon Territory, nineteenth century. After ten years in prison Julius Doogan returns to Lordsburg, and Yolanda fears he will jeopardize…
her marriage to Maynard Killjoy. She relies on her faith in God and the strength of her best friend, Rachel, as she and Maynard face several crises. Sequel to My Heart's Desire (BR 14935). 1990A week in winter
Par Marcia Willett. 2002
Despite her family's objections, elderly widow Maudie Todhunter decides to sell Moorgate, her old English farmhouse. Prospective buyers include Rob…
Abbot, the home's renovator, and Melissa, a young woman hiding a tragic secret. For one glorious week, Moorgate enchants these strangers, who fall in love with the house and each other. 2001Lynching at Broken Butte ; Sunblade
Par Lewis B Patten. 1995
Traveling to pick up a prisoner, U.S. Marshal August Cragg overnights at Broken Butte, where someone tries to kill him,…
and Cragg intends to find out who. In Sunblade, in the 1870s a greedy rancher, who has more enemies than friends, winds up dead. Some violence and some strong language. 1952The silent boy
Par Lois Lowry. 2003
America, early 1900s. Katy Thatcher recalls her early childhood as the daughter of a country doctor. She had befriended Jacob…
Stoltz, a teenager "touched in the head," who, though silent, cared for animals and seemed kind. But then Jacob was accused of a terrible crime. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2003