Romance/Love Stories

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.

By Danielle Jackson
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

When she finds herself in front of the camera for once, modeling her best friend’s new lingerie line, photographer—and proud plus-size Black woman—Cassie Harris is forced to work with her long-time competitor who wants their professional relationship to develop into something more personal.

By Anne Tyler

A travel writer who hates to travel, and to whom "things just happen," becomes involved with an unusual woman following the desertion of his wife.

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.

By Toni Jordan

Carefully controlling her world through obsessive counting practices, OCD sufferer and former teacher Grace finds herself increasingly unable to relate to others. Estranged from her family, her life is disrupted by potential romance when a kind stranger invites her to share a café table.

By Susannah Nix
Series Chemistry Lessons
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

After four lousy boyfriends in a row, chemical engineer Penny Popplestone swears off men until she can figure out why they keep cheating on her. But her no-men resolution hits a snag when the mysterious and superhumanly hot barista at her favorite coffee shop strikes up a friendship with her. Penny strives to keep things platonic, but when Caleb gives her the kiss of her life, she realizes he wants to be more than just friends. Tired of always being "good little Penny," she throws caution to the wind and pursues a no-strings fling with the hottie barista. It's not like they have anything in common beyond scorching physical chemistry, so what does she have to lose? Only her heart. Now, this fanfic-reading, plus-size heroine faces an unsolvable problem. What do you do when being apart is unbearable...but being together is impossible?

By Melanie Benjamin
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Octogenarian Alice, who as a child inspired Lewis Carroll’s famous Wonderland character, looks back on a life marked by an implacable mother, her halcyon days in Oxford and the sons who went off to war.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Betrayed by her longtime vampire lover, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every kind of undead and paranormal creature, as well as the new man in her life, the shapeshifter Quinn, and the upcoming vampire summit (From the Publisher).

By Jules Moulin

Ten years after single mother and college professor Ally Hughes decides against a relationship with Jake, one of her students who challenges her to open up her life to love, Jake reenters her life--as her grown daughter's new boyfriend.

By Rita Mae Brown

Victoria "Vic" Savedge is enjoying the perfect romance with football star Charly Harrison, until she meets and embarks on a passionate love affair with Chris, a beautiful transfer student, and is forced to make a difficult choice.

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.

By Mark Mills

It is 1947 and GI Conrad Labarde has returned to his east end Long Island home. One day he finds the body of a beautiful young millionairess tangled in his fishing nets.  Initially appearing as a drowning, the autopsy raises the possibility of murder, with Lebarde as a main suspect.  Taut and engrossing.

By Ward S. Just

Harry Sanders is a young foreign service officer in 1960s Indochina when a dangerous and clandestine meeting with insurgents—ending in quiet disaster—and a brief but passionate encounter with Sieglinde, a young German woman, alter the course of his life.

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Separated by respective ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America while exploring new concepts of race, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland 15 years later, where they face the toughest decisions of their lives.

By Jonathan Rabb

After surviving the Holocaust, Yitzhak Goldah arrives in Savannah, Georgia, to live with his only remaining relatives, Abe and Pearl Jesler, but discovers a fractured world where Reform and Conservative Jews live separately.

By Leo Tolstoy
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A translation of the classic Russian novel tells the tale of rebellious Anna and her ill-fated, adulterous romance with Count Vronsky amid the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia.

By James Baldwin

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

By Sally Koslow

Reimagines the affair between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his longtime lover, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, detailing how she helped revitalize Fitzgerald's career in the years before his tragic death.

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).”

By Jan-Philipp Sendker
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 28, 2015. 1:30 PM.

"When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter has any idea where he might be—until they find a love letter he wrote many years before, to a Burmese woman who is unknown to them (From the Publisher)."

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.

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).”

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.

By Nora Roberts
Series Guardians Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Space and time traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to Capri, where mermaid Annika will search for the missing water star, while their enemy lurks in the darkness, waiting for the chance to use a dangerous new weapon.

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)."

By Jane Green

Eccentric widow Nan rents rooms for the summer in her Nantucket home when she discovers her finances are running low. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a bestselling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer–long writing project that challenges them to write well in each others’ styles.

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.

By Kami Garcia
Series Beautiful Creatures

Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

By A.N. Roquelaure

The Prince awakens Sleeping Beauty and brings her to his castle, where she has a series of erotic adventures.

By Sophie Cousens

On the eve of her wedding, Audrey begins questioning whether or not Josh really is “the one,” especially after his sister shows up at the rehearsal dinner with one of her exes and everything that could go wrong, does.

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.

By Sarah Pekkanen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Four old college friends, desperate for an escape from their crazy lives, spend a week at a luxury villa in Jamaica and help each other cope with their problems.

By Claire Cook
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"A professional home stager in the Boston suburbs, Sandy Sullivan, after reading her family the riot act, takes a job staging a boutique hotel in Atlanta where she becomes immersed in other people’s lives while trying to fix up her own (From the Publisher)."

By Jennifer Crusie
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Agreeing not to pursue a relationship after one date, unlikely lovers Min Dobbs and Cal Morrisey are thrown together again in the wake of such factors as a jealous ex-boyfriend, a determined psychologist, and a bizarrely intelligent cat.

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Big Cherry Holler, the extraordinary sequel to Big Stone Gap, takes us back to the mountain life that enchanted us in Adriana Trigiani’s best selling debut novel (From the Publisher).”

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Ave Maria's life in Big Stone Gap, VA, is essentially the same as it's been for all 35 years of her life, but after her mother's will reveals that the man Ave thought was her father isn't, she begins to lose hold of her routine… In between panic attacks and shouting matches, Ave tries to figure out what all these changes mean in her life (Library Journal).”

By Sebastian Faulks

A young English soldier finds a new love interest when he stays with a family in Northern France.

Became the TV Mini-Series: Birdsong

By Sarah Dunant

Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo.

By Kelley Armstrong
Series Women of the Otherworld Series
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.

By Nora Roberts
Series Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

With their love forbidden by history and blood, Finbar and Branna have been separated for years, until a storm of shadows threatens everything they hold dear and they must battle against the evil magic that has haunted their families for centuries.

By Elin Hilderbrand

Having worked for six years in the hotels of exotic resort towns, Adrienne Dealey relocates to Nantucket in the hopes of recouping her finances and gets a crash course in restaurant management at a popular locale that is preparing to close.

By Nora Roberts
Series In the Garden Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in a brand new trilogy from the best-selling author follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn’t, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.

By Deborah Harkness
Series All Souls Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Historian and witch Diana Bishop and her vampire scientist husband Matthew Clairmont return from a trip to the past still searching for the elusive alchemy tome “Ashmole 782."

By Jenny Colgan
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A “literary matchmaker” who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her sense of adventure while searching for a happy ending of her own.

By Meg Cabot
Series Boy

“Twentysomething Kate Mackenzie, who works and lives in New York City, is a typical chick-lit heroine: she hates her boss and has just broken up with her longtime boyfriend because he can't commit. Her job as a human resources representative at the New York Journal brings her to the center of controversy when her boss makes her fire the popular Dessert Cart Lady, Ida Lopez …  The grievance suit that ensues brings Kate in contact with the perfect guy, but he's a lawyer, so it takes Kate a while to realize that they're meant to be together (Library Journal).”

By Meg Cabot

“Cabot relies entirely on highly amusing e-mails to tell a fetching meet-cute story…. Full of clever e-mail banter and tongue-in-cheek humor, this cheeky novel should be enjoyed in one sitting (Publishers Weekly).”

By Alexis Hall
Series Material #1
Recommended By Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

Fabricating a respectable relationship with a man with whom he shares nothing in common when his rock-star father’s comeback leads to unwanted attention, Luc stages publicity-friendly dates that become complicated by all-too-real feelings.

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.