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Fiction | Graphic Novels | Poetry & Short Stories

 

 

Fiction

 

Emma

Austen, Jane

Fiction Au7e 1995

Emma tries to impose her match making ideas on everyone and finds that sometimes she should desist (Novelist).

 

Mansfield Park

Austen, Jane

Fiction Au7m 1996

Sensible, wise, but impovershed Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy cousins, and throughout many trials of their upper-middle-class life, she remains true to her beliefs (Novelist).

 

Persuasion

Austen, Jane

Fiction Au7pe 1996

The story of Anne Elliot and the love she once had for a naval officer. She had been persuaded by her family that he was not suitable, and regretfully, she lets him slip away. Years later, they meet again (Novelist).

 

Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane

Fiction Au7pr 1996 

Wealthy Mr. Darcy and spirited Elizabeth Bennett dislike each other at first sight, and each must contend with their pride and prejudices while Elizabeth's mother plots economically advantageous marriages for all her daughters (Novelist).

 

Sense and Sensibility

Austen, Jane

Fiction Au7s 1997

Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences can they get along (Novelist).

 

Upstate

Buckhanon, Kalisha

Fiction B8559u 

In jail after being charged with his father's murder, seventeen-year-old Antonio finds his love with sixteen-year-old Natasha tested and engages in a ten-year correspondence with her from behind bars (Novelist).

 

Thwonk

Bauer, Joan

Fiction B344th1995

A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.

 

Dare, Truth, or Promise

Boock, Paula

Fiction B64412d

Louie Angelo, a Woodhaugh High prefect who plans to be a lawyer, falls in love with a girl who lives in a pub and just wants to get through her exams so she can become a chef.

 

Jane Eyre

Bronte, Charlotte

Fiction B78j1997

An orphan girl who accepts employment as a governess finds herself involved in a family secret and in love with her employer.

 

Villette

Bronte, Charlotte

Fiction B78v1987

When Lucy Snowe teaches in Brussels, she falls in love with a professor (Novelist).

 

Wuthering Heights

Bronte, Emily

Fiction B782w2000

When Mr. Lockwood has an encounter with the spirit of Catherine Linton at the home of the unsociable Heathcliff, he hears the story of the tempestuous love affair between Catherine and Heathcliff (Novelist).

 

Gai-Jin: A Novel of Japan

Clavell, James

Fiction C573g1994

In 1860, Gai-Jin, foreigners, have arrived to do business with the Japanese. The mighty Struan shipping empire, Noble House, has built a base in Yokohama and the new Tai-Pan stands ready to take over. He finds he must fight Japanese and foreigners, to keep and build his family's fortune (Novelist).

 

Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist

Cohn, Rachel

Fiction C661n

High school student Nick O’Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.

 

Like Water for Chocolate

Esquivel, Laura

Fiction Es692c:E1992

The recipies and wisdom of the author’s great aunt, Tita, are woven into a poignant, funny story of maternal domination, unrequited love, and Mexican ranch life in the early twentieth century.

 

The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fiction F57g1995

Jay Gatsby still adores Daisy Buchanan although she has married someone else, and he risks everything to lure her back (Novelist).

 

The End of the Affair

Greene, Graham

Fiction G83en1975

After a man is almost killed in a bombing raid, the married woman with whom he has been having an affair breaks away from him (Novelist).

 

About a Boy

Hornby, Nick

Fiction H7833a1999

 

Pigs in Heaven: A Novel

Kingsolver, Barbara

Fiction K617p

When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever (Novelist).

 

Blood and Chocolate

Klause, Annette Curtis

Fiction K668b1999

Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

 

Ella Enchanted

Levine, Gail Carson

Fiction L665eL 1998

In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.

 

The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance

Mahy, Margaret

Fiction M279ch1994

Laura attempts to use her own latent supernatural powers to save her brother, Jocko, from an evil possession.

 

Winter Rose

McKillip, Patricia

Fiction M2122wi1997

Two sisters, one delicate and sensible, one rough-hewn and sensual, fall in love with an aristocrat who returns to claim his family's abandoned estate, only to fall victim to the curse of his legendary grandfather (Novelist).

 

Beauty

McKinley, Robin

Fiction M2152be

Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast (Novelist).

 

You & You & You

Nilsson, Per

Fiction N599d:E

Young Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes to protect himself from radiation, touches the lives of all around him, resulting in disillusionment, loss, love, and more than a few surprises.

 

Archangel

Shinn, Sharon

Fiction Sh631an1996

In order to maintain peace on the Utopian planet of Samaria, the archangel Gabriel plans to marry a mortal woman, Rachel. She, however, has other ideas.

 

Summers at Castle Auburn

Shinn, Sharon

Fiction Sh631su2002

Coriel Halsing has spent many summers with her half-sister at Castle Auburn chasing and falling in love with a handsome prince who can never be hers, but now that she is grown she begins to understand the dark side of the magical palace.

 

Rose

Smith, Martin Cruz

Fiction Sm627ro1997

In 1872, Jonathan Blair wants only to return to Africa, but his employer demands that he go to Lancashire to find out about a missing minister, which leads to information on a recent mining disaster (Novelist).

 

Cannery Row

Stienbeck, John

Fiction St346ca1994

Two of Steinbeck's best-known short novels depict an assortment of characters who inhabit the outer fringes of society (Novelist).

 

The Blue Lawn

Taylor, William

Fiction T2192b1999

A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges his attraction to an older rugby teammate, as he also begins to break out of the preconceived notions his family and others have about him.

 

Anna Karenina

Tolstoy, Leo

Fiction t58Oa:E1980

A beautiful, passionate Russian woman escapes the restrictions and boredom of her marriage through a love affair with a charming soldier (Novelist).

 

The Age of Innocence

Wharton, Edith

Fiction W55a1996a

Wealthy New Yorkers in the 1870s have difficulties breaking free from social codes they hate (Novelist).

 

The Glimpses of the Moon

Wharton, Edith

Fiction W55gL2000

Poor, but sharing the right connections, Nick Lansing and Susy Branch decide to marry and sponge off their wealthy friends for a year, but keep their eyes open for any relationship that could advance them socially (Novelist).

  

 

Graphic Novels

 

Truer Than True Romance: Classic Love Comics Retold

Martinet, Jeanne

GN M385t

Parodies the romance comics of the 1940s to the 1970s and offers irreverent dating attitudes and romantic advice, updating ten DC Comics romance stories with new word balloons and captions to accompany the original artwork (Novelist).

 

 

Poetry & Short Stories

 

Under All Silences: Shades of Love

Gordon, Ruth (ed.)

808.819354 UN2

 

The Country of the Pointed Firs And Other Stories

Jewett, Sarah Orne

Fiction J55co2000

 

Love is Like the Lion's Tooth: An Anthology of Love Poems

McCullough, Frances

808.819354 L941

A collection of poems about the various stages and effects of love.

 

 

All For Love

Tudor, Tasha (ed.)

Q.808.8354 Al51

An anthology of poems, stories, songs, letters, and miscellaneous facts describing various aspects of love.

 

 

 

 

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