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Outlander : A Novel
Gabaldon, Diana. New York : Delacorte Press, 1991.
In 1945 a former combat nurse is back from the war and reunited with her husband
on a second honeymoon, when she innocently touches a boulder on an ancient stone
circle. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an "outlander," in a Scotland torn
by war in the year 1743. She enters a world of lairds and spies that threaten her
life during the Jacobite Rebellion.
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The Last Time They Met : A Novel
Shreve, Anita. Boston : Little, Brown, c2001. |
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Kindred
Butler, Octavia E. Boston : Beacon Press, c1988. |
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Before Gatsby : The First Twenty-Six
Stories
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2001. |
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Sundays At Tiffany's
Patterson, James, 1947- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2008.
A woman meets her imaginary friend from childhood--and falls in love with him.
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Doctor Zhivago
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, c1990.
Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the
turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes
will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in
the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty
and Strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found,
and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic
times.
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Cold Mountain
Frazier, Charles, 1950- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1997.
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?
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The Time of Our Singing
Powers, Richard, 1957- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. |
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Properties of Light : A Novel
of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics
Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. |
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Possession : A Romance
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- New York : Random House, c1990.
Winner of England's Booker Prize, a coast-to-coast bestseller, and the literary
sensation of the year, Possession is a novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual
mystery and a triumphant love story. Revolving around a pair of young scholars researching
the lives of two Victorian poets, Byatt creates a haunting counterpoint of passion
and ideas.
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Edwards, Kim, 1958- New York : Viking, 2005. |