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19th Wife

By David Ebershoff

Intertwining tale of a 20th–century murder mystery in Utah and a women 18th century attempts to rid America of polygamy.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

By Chetan Bhagat
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

“Love marriage around the world are simple: Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. In India, there are a few more steps: Boy loves Girl. Girl loves Boy. Girl’s family has to love boy. Boy’s family has to love girl. Girl’s family has to love boy’s family. Boy’s family has to love girl’s family. Girl and Boy still love each other. They get married (From the Publisher).”

22 Britannia Road

By Amanda Hodgkinson

“Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by eight-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget the past (From the Publisher).”

28 Summers

By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A tale inspired by the film Same Time Next Year follows a man's discovery of his mother's long-term relationship with the husband of a Presidential frontrunner.

30 Lessons for Loving: Advice From the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage

By Karl Pillemer

Based on the most detailed survey of long-married people ever conducted, the author of 30 Lessons for Living presents sage advice from the oldest and wisest Americans that aims to enrich anyone’s relationship life.

Accidentally Engaged

By Farah Heron
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

By Steve Harvey
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming

“Counsels women on understanding the mindset of a man when it comes to relationships, covering topics such as cheating, sex, age, family, money, respect, and commitment (From the Publisher).”

 

Became the movie: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man.

After

By Anna Todd
Series After Series
Recommended By Stacey F., Reference Librarian

Good girl Tessa, just starting out in college, finds herself falling for bad boy Hardin, even though he continues to push her away.

After the End

By Clare Mackintosh
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Disagreeing for the first time when their son falls ill and they receive conflicting doctor recommendations, a devoted couple finds a unique way for both of their preferences to become possible.

All the Old Knives

By Olen Steinhauer

After a failed rescue attempt of a hijacked plane in Vienna, two retired spies, former lovers, can’t help but relive the past and determine if the mission went wrong because of a compromised agent on the inside.

Almost Paradise

By Susan Isaacs
Series Legendary Lovers

This story of Jane and Nicholas Cobleigh, takes a look at the comedy and heartbreak of twenty years of marriage.

Alpha and Omega Series

By Patricia Briggs

Anna, after three years at the bottom of the pack, has learned never to trust dominant males, until Charles Cornick, the enforcer and leader of the North American werewolves, declares her as his mate, revealing her true destiny as a rare and valued Omega wolf.

America America

By Ethan Canin

Corey Sifter is befriended by the wealthy Metarey family, a politically powerful dynasty in New York, and becomes an aide to New York senator Henry Bonwiller as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination during the Nixon era.

American Heiress

By Daisy Goodwin

Presents the story of vivacious Cora Cash, whose early twentieth-century marriage to England’s most eligible duke is overshadowed by his secretive nature and the traps and betrayals of London’s social scene.

American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith and Renewal

By Taya Kyle with Jim DeFelice

The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.

Among the Ten Thousand Things

By Julia Pierpont
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A former ballet dancer struggles to protect her children before receiving an anonymous package revealing her weak artist husband’s infidelities, a discovery that leads to a difficult breakup during a New York summer.

Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage and Why We Stray

By Helen E. Fisher

This revised edition includes the latest research on anthropology and internet-age relationships and examines the brain's role in love and courtship while making recommendations for returning to traditional patterns of romance.

Another Country

By James Baldwin

Eight people become entangled in a web of relationships, doomed to become as destructive as the society which oppresses them.

Another Woman

By Penny Vincenzi
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“When the seemingly elated Cressida Forrest disappears without a trace the night before her lavish wedding, a frantic search for answers reveals a fragile web of sexual and financial secrets involving two families (From the Publisher).”

Arrangement

By Sarah Dunn
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A progressive New York couple with an autistic son move to a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb and immerse themselves in the local community only to have their bond tested by an invitation to become and open-marriage couple.

Attachments

By Rainbow Rowell
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, March 14, 2016. 7 PM.

Gossiping and sharing their personal secrets on e-mail in spite of their company's online monitoring practices, Beth and Jennifer unwittingly amuse Internet security officer Lincoln, who unexpectedly falls for Beth.

Available Man

By Hilma Wolitzer
With Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

The Afternoon and Evening Book Clubs unite for a special evening to celebrate a year of great books and discussions.

 

Tuesday, December 18. 7:30 PM.

“Inadvertently attracting several single women while mourning the death of his adored wife, Edward Schuyler is profiled in a singles ad by his stepchildren... (From the Publisher).”

Bad Girl Reputation

By Elle Kennedy
Series Avalon Bay #2
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Returning home to attend her mother’s funeral, former bad girl Genevieve West vows to avoid her ex-boyfriend, Evan, who has other ideas, in the second novel of the series following Good Girl Complex.

Bad Romance

By Heather Demetrios

Desperate to escape her small California town and the home of her controlling parents, aspiring artist Grace falls in love with Gavin, a charming young man who gradually reveals a controlling and dangerous nature.

Beach Club

By Elin Hilderbrand
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

"Mack Petersen, a hotel manager at a beach resort, knows something has to give: his boss is pressuring him, his girlfriend wants to get married, the bellman is after his girlfriend, an old rival is making deadly threats, and, on top of it all, a hurricane is headed their way (From the Publisher)."

Beach Club

By Elin Hilderbrand

Mack Petersen, a hotel manager at a beach resort, knows something has to give: his boss is pressuring him, his girlfriend wants to get married, the bellman is after his girlfriend, an old rival is making deadly threats, and, on top of it all, a hurricane is headed their way.

Beach Town

By Mary Kay Andrews
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Given a last chance to salvage her career after being wrongly blamed for property damage, movie location scout Greer Hennessy confronts an environmentally-minded mayor in a sleepy Florida Gulf Coast community.

Beautiful You

By Chuck Palahniuk

Invited by a notorious playboy to a Paris hotel, a Manhattan legal associate discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of sex toys for women.

Beauty in the Broken Places

By Allison Pataki
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Recounts how the author's healthy thirty-year-old husband suffered a life-threatening stroke that placed everything they had worked for in jeopardy, a struggle she navigated by writing daily letters to her husband that helped her make sense of the challenges they faced.

Behind Closed Doors

By B. A. Paris
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The friends of a seemingly perfect socialite couple begin to see cracks in the facade when they realize that the husband and wife are never apart and that there are bars on one of the couple's upstairs windows.

Being Elizabeth

By Barbara Taylor Bradford
Series House of Deravenel

Elizabeth Deravenel rises to become the most powerful managing director in the history of the Deravenel business empire, only to find herself surrounded by corporate intrigue, takeover threats, betrayal, and scandal as she must make a choice between love and duty.

Belle Cora

By Phillip Margulies

A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant and notorious madam-turned revered San Francisco dowager finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.

Bend in the Road

By Nicholas Sparks

Devastated by the death of his wife in a hit-and-run accident, Miles, deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, discovers new meaning in his life when he meets Sarah Andrews, a woman struggling to rebuild her own life.

Best Laid Plans

By Sidney Sheldon

In his rise to the presidency of the United States, lawyer Oliver Russell felt he had to jettison his love, Leslie Stewart. But Leslie also rose, becoming a newspaper tycoon in Washington and now she intends to even the score.

Bodyguard

By Katherine Center
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Hired as superstar actor Jack Stapleton’s bodyguard, Hannah Brooks must pose as his girlfriend while visiting his family’s ranch in Texas where she finds it easy to protect him, but hard to protect her own, long-neglected heart.

Book of You

By Claire Kendal
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

While serving jury duty, university administrator Clarissa realizes that the disturbingly violent crime unfolding in front of her parallels to recent events in her own life as she becomes the obsession of her colleague who has crossed the line between fantasy and reality, love and compulsion.

Bookstore

By Deborah Meyler
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Discovering she is pregnant after her boyfriend dumps her, a young British student in New York takes on a part-time job at a shabby, used book store and finds salvation among the colorful characters who work and shop there.

Bradstreet Gate

By Robin Kirman

The brutal murder of a Harvard senior and rumors about a charismatic instructor haunt the lives of three graduates over the course of a decade-long search for answers.

Brava, Valentine

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Valentine Trilogy
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

When Valentine Roncalli discovers a long-lost shoe design, a family secret unravels that helps her take control of the company from a conniving relative, but first she seeks the counsel of her ex-fiancé, Bret Fitzpatrick, to help re-boot the business.

Bridget Jones's Diary

By Helen Fielding
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

The daily chronicle of a 30-something single English woman who is convinced her life would be perfect if she could lose weight, stop smoking and develop "Inner Poise."

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

By Helen Fielding
Series Bridget Jones

Bridget’s new relationship with Mark Darcy should have improved her self-confidence, but the difficult adjustments of sharing an apartment and Rebecca’s eagerness to cause trouble are making Bridget more uncertain than ever.

By Invitation Only

By Jodi Della Femina

“Nobody knows the Hamptons like Jodi Della Femina, who captures the inside world of love, society, and scandal in this delicious summer page-turner (From the Publisher).”

Carousel

By Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“The Carousel is about what happens when life doesn't turn out the way that we planned. Beyond a love story, it is about faith, loyalty, and sacrifice (From the Publisher).”

Certain Age

By Beatriz Williams
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Falling in love with her paramour but unable to divorce because of societal conventions, married Jazz Age socialite Theresa Marshall tries to make the best of the situation but reconsiders her values when her lover falls for her soon-to-be sister-in-law.

Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul: Inspirational Stories About Love and Relationships

By Jack Canfield

Gathers stories of true love, courtship, commitment, intimacy, family life, love at first sight, and enduring marriages.

Children Act

By Ian McEwan

A highly respected London judge hides her decision to separate from a husband who wants an open marriage, a loss that challenges her beliefs throughout a case involving parents whose faith forbids a life-saving transfusion for their son.

China Rich Girlfriend

By Kevin Kwan
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Feeling incomplete because her unknown birth father cannot walk her down the aisle, Rachel Chu, on the brink of marrying one of Asia's richest bachelors, is brought into the elite circles of Shanghai by a shocking revelation.

Column of Fire

By Ken Follett
Series Kingsbridge Series

A half–century love affair between a man in service to Elizabeth I and a woman on the opposing side of England's religious divide is challenged by violent ideological power shifts, torn loyalties and the queen's circle of spies.