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Look for the following authors of romance fiction in the online catalog. This is only a selected list. Check the Best Seller list for current romance titles.

Joan Aiken

Gwen Bristow

Philippa Carr

Virginia Coffman

Catherine Cookson

Dorothy Eden

Anna Gilbert

Molly Hardwick

Constance Heaven

Georgette Heyer

Pamela Hill

Norah Lofts

Barbara Michaels

Janet Dailey

R.F. Delderfield

Janice Giles Holt

Howard Fast

Victoria Holt

Jean Plaidy

Phyllis Whitney

Some selected titles of romance fiction--

Barbara Bradford
813.54
B725s
Bradford, Barbara Taylor. A Secret Affair. Harper Collins, c1996.

Sandra Brown
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 B8153c
Brown, Sandra, 1948-
Charade / Sandra Brown.
New York : Warner Books, c1994.

MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 B8153e
Brown, Sandra, 1948-
Exclusive / Sandra Brown.
New York : Warner Books, c1996.

MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 B8153w
Brown, Sandra, 1948-
The witness / Sandra Brown.
New York : Warner Books, c1995.

Nelson Demille
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 D395s
DeMille, Nelson.
Spencerville / Nelson DeMille.
New York : Warner Books, c1994.

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DeMille, Nelson.
Word of honor / Nelson DeMille.
Warner Books edition.
New York, NY : Warner Books, 1987, c1985.

MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 D395ch
DeMille, Nelson.
The charm school / Nelson DeMille
New York, NY : Warner Books, 1988

Dorothy Eden
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 Ed2s
The Salamanca drum / by Dorothy Eden.
1st American ed.
New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1977.

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Eden, Dorothy, 1912-
The time of the dragon / Dorothy Eden.
1st American ed.
New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975.

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Eden, Dorothy, 1912-
The American heiress / Dorothy Eden.
New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1980

Isabelle Holland
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Holland, Isabelle.
The deMaury papers / by Isabelle Holland
1st ed.
New York : Rawson Associates, c1977.

Jayne Ann Krentz MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 K88t
Krentz, Jayne Ann.
Trust me / Jayne Ann Krentz.
New York : Pocket Books, c1995.

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Krentz, Jayne Ann.
Crystal flame / Jayne Ann Krentz.
Popular Library ed.
New York, N.Y. : Warner Books, 1994, c1986.

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Krentz, Jayne Ann.
The sinister touch / Jayne Castle.
New York : Dell, 1986.

Barbara Michaels
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Michaels, Barbara, 1927-
Black rainbow / Barbara Michaels.
1st ed. New York : Congdon & Weed : Distributed by St. Martin' Press, c1982.

Mary Stewart
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Stewart, Mary, 1916-
Airs above the ground.
[New York] M. S. Mill Co.; distributed by Morrow, New York, 1965.
Look in PALS for other titles by this author.

Phyllis Whitney
MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 W61d
Whitney, Phyllis A., 1903-
Dream of orchids / Phyllis A. Whitney.
1st ed.
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1985.
Look in PALS for other titles by this author.

Classic Love Stories

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Accidental Tourist
A man whose life has fallen apart, learns to love and become more than an accidental tourist in the journey of life.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 T972a
Tyler, Anne.
The accidental tourist / Anne Tyler.
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1985

Anna Karenina
In this Russian novel of tragic love, Anna falls in love with a handsome young officer and abandons her child and husband to be with him.
MAIN COLLECTION 891.73 T58a2
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Anna Karenina. Edited and introduced by Leonard J. Kent
and Nina Berberova. The Constance Garnett translation
has been revised throughout by the editors.
[New York, Random House, 1965]

Christy
Set early in the twentieth century, a young woman teaching in the backwoods of Kentucky, finds courage, self-discovery and love.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 M35c
Marshall, Catherine, 1914-
Christy [by] Catherine Marshall.
[1st ed.]
New York, McGraw-Hill [1967]

Doctor Zhivago
The epic love story and novel of Zhivago, doctor and poet for Lara. The upheavals of Russian history in the early twentieth century form the background.
MAIN COLLECTION 891.73 P26d
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960.
Doctor Zhivago. [Translated from the Russian by Ma Hayward and Manya Harari.
New York] Pantheon [1958]

Farewell to Arms
Love affair set against the background of the war in Italy.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 H37f 1977
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
A farewell to arms / by Ernest Hemingway.
New York : Scribner, [1977]

Foreign Affairs
Two English professors become entangled in "foreign affairs" on a trip to England.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 L97f
Lurie, Alison.
Foreign affairs / Alison Lurie.
1st Random House ed.
New York : Random House, c1984.

Gone with the Wind
MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 M69g
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949.
Gone with the wind.
New York, Macmillan, 1936.

Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest
Tragic love story of Mr. Abel's love for Rima, a lovely young woman, embodying the beauty, fragility, and power of the rain forest.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.9 H86g 1968
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922.
Green mansions; a romance of the tropical forest
[1st AMS ed.]
New York, AMS Press [1968]

Jane Eyre
MAIN COLLECTION 823.81 B72j 1969
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
London, Oxford U.P., 1969.

Like Water for Chocolate
A magical romance of an all-consuming love. Great recipes.
MAIN COLLECTION 863 Es6l
Esquivel, Laura, 1950-
Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly
installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
/ Laura Esquivel ; translated by Carol Christensen
and Thomas Christensen.
1st ed.
New York : Doubleday, 1992.

Rebecca
The memory and death of Rebecca haunts Manderley, the country estate of Maxim de Winter and his lovely new wife, who is determined to find out the truth about Rebecca and her death.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.912 D89r
DuMaurier, Daphne, 1907-
Rebecca.
"First edition"
New York, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1938.

Riders of the Purple Sage
Set in 1871 in Utah, this western is the romance of the Old West at its best. Masked outlaws, fast escapes on horseback, nasty villains, and lovers who escape into a wilderness paradise.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.0874 Sh1t
Shadow of the lariat /(includes Riders of the Purple Sage)
New York : Carroll & Graf, c1995.

Tender is the Night
Love between Nicole and Dick Diver, a young psychiatrist.--Perhaps an autobiographical reflection of Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.52 F57t
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
Tender is the night.
New York, C. Scribner's Sons [c1962]

Wuthering Heights
A tragic story of love and revenge with a romantic, enigmatic hero, Heathcliff.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.81 B74w3
Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848
Wuthering Heights. With an introd. by Bonamy Dobree.
London, Collins [1952]

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