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Here you can see what library staff are recommending and read a summary of each book.

How To Use:
  • Select a title link to find that book's library location and availability.
  • Select the Full Review link to read the entire summary and view the book cover, both in a popup window.
  • To read previous recommendations by category, pick a category from the table to the right.

List 1 - 10 of 11 records in Romance

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When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
-- also available in Large Print Book format --
Michael Stirling, best friend and cousin to John, 8th Earl of Kilmartin, has fallen deeply in love with his cousin’s wife, Francesca. He manages to keep it to himself at great cost, ...
Full Review (September 2009)

The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
-- also available in Book on Cassette format --
The Antelope Wife is a non-linear tale linking contemporary and historical events with families of the Ojibwan tribes in the area around Minnesota. It is essentially a love story, but it is ...
Full Review (July 2006)

Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
Daphne Pembroke has arrived in Cairo, Egypt, to solve the mystery of the hieroglyphics. As a female, her expertise is disregarded, so her brother, Miles, pretends to be the scholar of the ...
Full Review (May 2005)

Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
-- also available in Large Print Book format --
Many know Nora Roberts as a romance author. Others know her as J.D. Robb, the mystery writer. Northern Lights is both a romance and a mystery along with a little adventure. Nate ...
Full Review (February 2005)

Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh
The first five books in the "Slightly" series of Regency England romances relate the romances of each sibling of the Duke of Bedwyn. The sixth book Slightly Dangerous, about Wulfric, the Duke ...
Full Review (June 2004)

Orchid by Jayne Castle (aka Jayne Ann Krentz)
-- also available in Book on Cassette format --
This is a space age love story set on the space colony of St. Helens, in the city of New Seattle. Orchid Adams is an exotic who will not settle for just ...
Full Review (May 2004)

Golden Leopard (1st in trilogy) by Lynn Kerstan
Lady Jessica Carville turned to the study of antiquities after her heart was broken by Lord Hugh Duran. Years later, Hugh turns up on her doorstop asking for help in finding a ...
Full Review (April 2004)

Heart of the Tiger (2nd in trilogy) by Lynn Kerstan
Mercernary Michael Keynes has just returned from India where he has ruined his evil brother’s financial enterprises. He meets Mira Holcombe and her father who also have reason to hate and fear ...
Full Review (April 2004)

Silver Lion (3rd in trilogy) by Lynn Kerstan
Derek Leighton, the Earl of Varden, makes a deal with Helena Pryce, a supremely self-possessed young woman and secretary to the heroine in the first book (Golden Leopard) to gain him a ...
Full Review (April 2004)

It Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Phoebe Summerville looks like a blonde bombshell but has a brain she doesn’t advertise. She is willed a professional football team by her estranged father. The catch? She loses the team if ...
Full Review (March 2004)

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