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Outlander : a novel 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.



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Time travel -- Fiction.
Scotland -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746 -- Fiction.
Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 -- Fiction.
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The last time they met : a novel 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.



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Married people -- Fiction.
Women poets -- Fiction.
Forgiveness -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
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Kindred 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.



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Time travel -- Fiction.
African American women -- California -- Fiction.
Slaveholders -- United States -- Fiction.
Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
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Before Gatsby : the first twenty-six stories 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.



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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Sundays at Tiffany's 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.



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Imaginary companions -- Fiction.
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Doktor Zhivago. English 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.



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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction.
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Cold mountain 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.



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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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The time of our singing 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.



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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.
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Properties of light : a novel of love, betrayal and quantum physics 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.



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Quantum theory -- Fiction.
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Possession : a romance 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.



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Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
Literary historians -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
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The memory keeper's daughter 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.
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