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aConstance Chatterley, married to an aristocrat and mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, a gamekeeper, becomes pregnant, and considers abandoning her husband. One of the seminal class novels of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley's Lover was considered flagrantly pornographic when it was first published in 1928.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere...
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New American Library
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[1987]
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English
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Bradley Roberson III arrives in Santa Fe to realize an affair with local luminary John Aaron, and begins to establish a reputation in the city as a manipulative heartbreaker
"The protagonists of this first novel are two affluent, neurotic, homosexual men whose love affair, such as it is, mainly consists of self-pitying monologues and is set against the backdrop of Santa Fe's "artsy" crowd. Dull, Jewish, middle-aged John Aaron, a real-estate developer,...
4) Bittersweet
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Two women, Sarah and Imogene, defy convention, social strictures, and male-dominated society to carve out their own lives and pursue forbidden love in the late-nineteenth-century American West.
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Lords of the Highlands volume 3
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Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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He has sworn to protect her, but he might be her greatest threat ... Captain Reid MacKenzie, Earl of Seaforth, is a man of his word. During a harrowing battle at sea, the heroic Highlander makes a vow to a dying friend to watch over the man's daughter. His plan: send the child to boarding school as quickly as possible so he can continue his mission. But Reid's new award is no wee lass. She's a ravishing, fully grown woman, and it's all he can do to...
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Naiad Press
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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"While covering a gruesome murder, Chicago Tribune crime photographer Cole Evans finds herself strongly attracted to the victim's niece, Tray Roberts. Disabled by an auto accident that ended her medical career, the financially-strapped Tray is trying to start her life over by launching a small business. Although Cole has yet to resolve her feeling for her ex-lover and best friend, interior designed Jan Hart, she and Tray begin a heated flirtation...
7) My sunshine
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Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan series volume 6
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Signet
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson's Coulter Family series continues in this poignant story of a love that defies all the odds . . . Five years ago, Laura Townsend's life was nearly destroyed when a head injury impaired her ability to use language and forced her to abandon a brilliant career. Despite her difficulties, she never lost her vivacious spirit or sunny disposition. Now she has a great new job at an animal clinic-and a handsome...
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"What might have been? That tantalizing question propels a woman on a cross-country adventure to reunite with the men she loved and let go, in Danielle Steel's exhilarating new novel. It all starts with a fall from a ladder, in a firehouse in New York City. The firehouse has been converted into a unique Manhattan home and studio where renowned photographer Madison Allen works and lives after raising three children on her own. But the accident, which...
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Bella Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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The Rainbow Cedar is the journey of one woman struggling with the loss of love and commitment from one, and the possibility of finding it all again with someone new.
As interior designer Jay Burns watches her long-term relationship slowly unravel, she runs into-literally-landscape designer Drew Montgomery. As their paths cross, both professionally and personally, a friendship develops, one they each try to maintain despite the obvious attraction...
12) Love lettering
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Meg Mackworth's hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City clientèle. She has another skill too: reading signs other people miss. Knowing the upcoming marriage of Reid Sutherland and his polished, gorgeous fiancée was doomed to fail is one thing, but weaving a secret word of warning into their wedding program is another. Meg may have thought no one would spot it, but she...
13) Wild things
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Naiad Press
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Scholar and award-winning author Faith Fitzgerald has every reason to be happy: a wealthy, charming man who adores her and a family cheering her marriage prospects. But from the moment she meets Eric's sister, Sydney Van Allen, she knows her safe, predictable feelings for him are a shadow of what could be.
Openly lesbian and running for Senator, Sydney can only succeed if she can live down her wild past. That means no liaisons, especially with the...
14) One summer night
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Rising Tide Press
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©2000
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English
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College professor Johanna Marshall swore she would never fall in love again. She especially did not want to become involved with someone who has a reputation as an extreme womanizer . . . someone like Kelly Sambino.
But on a hot summer night, Jo finds herself unable to resist Kelly. What follows is something Jo would like very much too quickly forget. Embarrassed after their night of passion, Jo hopes she will never have to see Kelly again. Then,...
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Enter Elizabeth Bennet. Chef Casey Reddick has had it up to here with men. When she arrives in the charming town of Summer Hill, Virginia, she leaves behind a demanding boss at a famous D.C. restaurant and a breakup with a boyfriend jealous of her success. Some peace and quiet on the picturesque Tattwell plantation is just what she needs to start fresh. But the tranquility is broken one misty morning when she sees a gorgeous naked man on the porch...
19) Coyote sky
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Bella
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Kate Winters, author of the popular mystery series The Masters, finds herself in a bit of a predicament-she doesn't seem to be able to write any longer. So when her old friend and wealthy widow Brenda invites Kate to spend the summer in Coyote, New Mexico, Kate decides that a summer in Coyote might be just what she needs to clear her writer's block.
Leaving behind the Dallas heat-and her girlfriend, Robin-Kate retreats to the high mountain desert...
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Bella
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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"Thirty-two year old Molly Bean is a popular lobster fisherman in the sleepy coastal community of Gin Cove, Maine. Admittedly, she hasn't had the best of luck with relationships and the chance of falling in love with any of Gin Cove’s population is slim to none. Carolyn Stanley, a successful defense attorney from Bar Harbor, has found that she enjoys vacationing and spending time in Gin Cove. When Carolyn sends her high-speed power boat careening...