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Outlander : a novel
Gabaldon, Diana.
First in a series that combines time travel, humor, and passionate romance. While
Claire and her husband visit an ancient stone monument in 1945 England, Claire is
suddenly thrust back to the year 1743--and becomes torn between two vastly different
men in two irreconcilable lives.
Subjects Time travel -- Fiction. Scotland -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction. Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746 -- Fiction. Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The last time they met :
a novel
Shreve, Anita.
A man and a woman sustain a lifelong passionate relationship even though they have
been together only three times.
Subjects Married people -- Fiction. Women poets -- Fiction. Forgiveness -- Fiction. Adultery -- Fiction. Poets -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Kindred
Butler, Octavia E.
A woman is pulled back in time to a plantation in the early 1800s. There,
she saves the life of Rufus, a young, white, slave-holding boy. Dana is then pulled
back in time again and again in order to help save Rufus's life, their relationship
growing both closer and more contentious as time goes on.
Subjects Time travel -- Fiction. African American women -- California -- Fiction. Slaveholders -- United States -- Fiction. Slavery -- United States -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Before Gatsby : the first
twenty-six stories (includes The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre
consequences.
Subjects United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Sundays at Tiffany's
Patterson, James, 1947-
As a little girl, Jane has no one. She does have one friend-a handsome, comforting,
funny man named Michael-but only she can see him. Years later, Jane is in her thirties
and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and perfect
as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they've really
been reunited.
Subjects Imaginary companions -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Doktor Zhivago. English
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960.
An epic set during the Russian Revolution as well as a love story. A poet and surgeon,
husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many,
including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Subjects Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Cold mountain
Frazier, Charles, 1950-
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.
Subjects United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The time of our singing
Powers, Richard, 1957-
German Jewish emigrant David Strom and Delia Daley, a young black voice student,
meet in 1939 at Marian Anderson's famed Washington, DC, concert and eventually marry.
Despite their aspirations, their three children take remarkably different paths
through the turbulent years that follow.
Subjects African American women singers -- Fiction. Parent and adult child -- Fiction. Racially mixed people -- Fiction. Interracial marriage -- Fiction. Interfaith marriage -- Fiction. Immigrants -- Fiction. Jewish men -- Fiction. Scientists -- Fiction. Singers -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Properties of light : a novel
of love, betrayal and quantum physics
Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950-
Chronicles the quest of three physicists seeking to reconcile quantum mechanics
and relativity theory in this epistemological gothic romance. It's soon evident
that the narrator, Justin Childs, a physicist at one time skeptical of the soul's
existence, is now, ironically, a ghost haunting his former lover, Dana Mallach,
whom he blames for his death.
Subjects Quantum theory -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Possession : a romance
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-
The tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets.
As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from
London to Yorkshire -- from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far
west of Brittany -- what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and
ideas.
Subjects Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction. Literary historians -- Fiction. England -- Fiction. Poets -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The memory keeper's daughter
Edwards, Kim, 1958-
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his
own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born,
he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. He makes a split-second decision
that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away
to an institution and never to reveal the secret.
Subjects Twins -- Fiction. Down syndrome -- Fiction. Brothers and sisters -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction. Abandoned children -- Fiction. Custody of children -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |