JULIE AND ROMEO
by Jeanne Ray |
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THE
TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
by Audrey Niffenegger |
| Shakespeare's classic recast with
mature lovers whose offspring react with horror, forbidding their
parents to see each other again. When Julie and Romeo refuse to
comply, the children retaliate with serious spite and fury. A
romantic entertainment. |
Passionately
in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their
marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement
Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the
world of time travel. |
GARDENS
OF KYOTO
by Kate Walbert |
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BEL
CANTO
by Ann Patchett |
Ellen narrates
the story of her passionate attachment to her cousin, Randall,
that is tragically ended by his death during World War II. When
his father sends her Randall's diary Ellen tries to reassemble
the pieces of Randall's life and its connections to her own. As
World War II gives way to the Korean War, Ellen falls in love
again with a young soldier, Henry, who like her is actually in
love with another.
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When terrorists seize hostages at
an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together,
including American opera star Roxane Coss and Mr. Hosokawa, a
Japanese CEO and her biggest fan. |
MADAME
BOVARY
by Gustave Flaubert |
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WUTHERTING
HEIGHTS
by Emily Bronte |
| One of the most compelling
heroines in modern literature—Emma Bovary abandons her devoted,
clumsy husband and revolts against the ordinariness of her life
by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. |
The passionate
love story of stubborn Cathy and wild-as-the-wind Heathcliff has
been a favorite since its original publication in 1848.
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POSSESSION:
A ROMANCE
by A. S. Byatt |
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LIFE
FORCE
by Fay Weldon |
| A young academic couple's attempt
to trace the relationship between two turbulent, romantic, and
superstitious Victorian poets reveals uncanny parallels with their
own lives and culminates in the exhumation of a poet's corpse.
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Twenty years after foxy Leslie has
had his day in the chicken coop, he reappears, a 60-year-old widower,
to make things happen in the lives of women again. |
