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- BrontË, Charlotte Jane Eyre (1847)
- The all-time classic about a poor governess and a forbidden love. Read by Josephine Bailey.
FICT CDBOOK BRONTE, CHARLOTT Jane - Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999)
- A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town.
Narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister.
FICT CASSETTE CHEVALIER TRACY Girl wit - DeRamus, Betty Forbidden Fruit: love stories from the Underground Railroad (2005)
- Despite the risks, some American slaves partook of the "forbidden fruit" of marriage. And when the dreaded separation inevitably occurred, slave spouses deeply felt a sorrowful anguish and sometimes made Herculean efforts to re-unite. DeRamus recounts these tales of soul mates who braved bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to preserve their vows of love. Narrated by various narrators.
CDBOOK 973.7115092 DERAMUS - Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby (1925)
- Gatsby embodies the naive American notion that it is possible to invent oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated by both the display of enormous wealth and the essential integrity that he perceives in Gatsby's vision, becomes his confidante and accomplice in his plan to recapture the heart of Daisy Buchanan.
Read by Alexander Scourby.
FICT CDBOOK FITZGERA, F. SCOTT Great - Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain (1997)
- Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the front during the Civil War to return to his prewar sweetheart, Ada, who, along with the help of a drifter, desperately works to revive a struggling farm. Read by the author.
FICT CASSETTE FRAZIER, CHARLES Cold mou - Gabaldon, Diana Outlander (1992)
- In 1945, a former combat nurse, back from the war and on her honeymoon, touches a boulder in an ancient Scottish ruin and is instantly transported to a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in 1743.
Narrated by Davina Porter.
FICT CDBOOK GABALDON DIANA Outlande - Garwood, Julie The Wedding (1996)
- Captured by and married to the savage-looking warrior leader Connor MacAlister, Lady Brenna never hopes for love from the husband who claims to want her only in order to acquire an heir, until she learns about his true feelings.
Narrated by Steven Crossley.
CASSETTE G1992w2 - Heyer, Georgette Black Sheep (1967)
- Abigail Wendover is adept at managing her silly sister, her lively niece, and a host of admirers, but with the arrival at Bath of Miles Caverleigh, an outrageous cynic with a scandalous past, she has less success at managing her own unruly heart.
Read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt.
AM CASS H514bl - Heyer, Georgette Royal Escape (1938)
- Dispossessed of crown and kingdom, crushed and routed at the grim Battle of Worcester, the young Charles II is forced to flee for his life. Out of the heat of battle, the outlaw King and his tiny party must journey across Cromwell's England to a Channel port and a ship bound for France. But the King, with his love for adventure, his irrepressible humour and his unmistakable looks, is no easy man to hide.
Read by Cornelius Garrett.
FICT CDBOOK HEYER, GEORGETT Royal - Laker, Rosalind The Sugar Pavilion (1994)
- During the French Revolution, Sophie Delcourt and Antoine, a four-year-old French noble, escape to England, where Sophie must guard Antoine's identity while she builds a confectionery business, joins the British royal circle, and comes to love two very different men.
Read by Judy Bennett.
CASSETTE L149s - Liu, Aimee Cloud Mountain (1997)
- Defying cultural taboos in turn-of-the-century California, an American woman and a well-to-do Chinese man marry and move to China, where their love is tested by prejudice, revolution, and their own divided loyalties. Read by B.D. Wong.
CASSETTE LIU, AIMEE E. Cloud mo - Mastretta, Angeles ArrÁncame la Vida (1997)
- This is probably the most influential novel by Mexican writer Mastretta. Written in the first person, Arrancame la vida tells the story of Catalina Guzman as she moves from adolescence into womanhood as the wife of a powerful Mexican politician in early 20th-century Mexico.
Narrator, Adriana Sananes.
CASSETTE 860 MASTRETT, ANGELES - Medeiros, Teresa The Bride and the Beast (2000)
- Deftly blending romance, suspense and comedy, Teresa Medeiros has created a wonderfully imaginative retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in the Scottish Highlands of the 18th century. It is the story of a spirited maiden, Gwendolyn Wilder, and the Dragon of Castle Weyrcraig who captures her heart.
Narrated by Virginia Leishman.
FICT CASSETTE MEDEIROS, TERESA Bride - Putney, Mary-Jo The Wild Child (1999)
- Recently betrothed to Lady Meriel Grahame, a wealthy but strange young woman, Kyle Renbourne, heir to the Duke of Wrexham, is called overseas and asks his rakish twin brother, Dominic, to masquerade as the groom-to-be, a deception that has unexpectedly dangerous repercussions. Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.
FICT CASSETTE PUTNEY, MARY JO Wild chi - Quick, Amanda Slightly Shady (2001)
- After her shop in Italy is destroyed by a stranger and she becomes the target of a blackmailer who turns up dead, Lavinia Lake joins forces with Tobias March, a private investigator hired by a secret employer, to uncover the truth, save her reputation, and find the sole surviving member of a dangerous criminal gang.
Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.
ROMANCE CASSETTE QUICK, AMANDA Slightly - Smith, Martin Cruz Rose (1996)
- Mining engineer Jonathan Blair undertakes a mission at the request of Bishop Hannay to find the missing curate engaged to Hannay's daughter, an investigation that takes him into the heart of Lancashire coal country and into a romance with "pit girl" Rose Molyneux. Narrated by Steven Crossley.
CASSETTE SMITH, MARTIN CRUZ Rose - Woodiwiss, Kathleen A Season Beyond a Kiss (2000)
- Raelyn is running from husband Jeff's kisses because she hears rumors that he is a criminal. Will Jeff prove his innocence and win back her love?
Read by Susan Ericksen.
ROMANCE CASSETTE WOODIWISS, KATHLEEN E. Season b
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