Sometimes a girl needs a Roman holiday… and sometimes she just needs to roam. In Kristin Harmel’s new book, Italian for Beginners, Cat flies off to Rome to find the man she’d fallen in love with thirteen year ago on a trip to Italy, and discovers that happiness can be found on the back of a speeding Vespa… but only if you’re willing to take a few risks.
30 years after her first novel, Barbara Taylor Bradford delivers a high society tale of 23-year-old M, who moves to New York to start a modeling career, in Breaking the Rules.
In Any Minute by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford, Sarah Harper is determined to succeed, no matter what it costs her marriage or her children. One cold, autumn afternoon, all of that changes when Sarah’s car plunges off a bridge and into a river. She is presumed dead by those on the “outside,” but Sarah’s spirit is still very much alive. What she discovers on the other side transforms everything about Sarah’s view of life–past, present, and future.
Based on the trailer for the movie due in theaters in mid-August, the adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife seems to focus on the romance in this best-selling novel by Chicago writer Audrey Niffenegger. If you haven’t read the book yet, don’t watch the trailer – it reveals too much!
If you have an mp3 player and you like to listen to books, check out the new romance titles just added to our downloadable audiobook collection. Titles include Vision in White by Nora Roberts, The Kissing Game by Suzanne Brockmann, and Wedding Ring by Emilie Richards.
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THE SECRET by Beverly Lewis
Grace Byler’s Amish family is being torn apart by her mother’s secret when graduate student Heather Nelson, whose mother has died of cancer, arrives in Pennsylvania Amish country in search of healing from the devastating effects of her own secret. This novel begins a new series by Lewis called “Seasons of Grace”.
KLEYPAS, LISA. SMOOTH TALKING STRANGER
Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. He makes no commitments, he loves many women, he lives for pleasure. But no one has ever truly touched his heart or soul. Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby’s aunt. The real mother has abandoned the child to her more responsible sister. And now, Jack is being called upon to take responsibility for the first time in his life.
STEEL, DANIELLE. ONE DAY AT A TIME
A lesser light in an in-the-news family, Coco Barrington grudgingly agrees to house sit for her sister, a Hollywood producer. Fortunately, an unexpected houseguest turns out to be an interesting—and interested—British actor.
BROCKMANN, SUZANNE. DARK OF NIGHT
Remember Into the Fire‘s cliff-hanger ending? Here’s the continuation, with Troubleshooters Inc. battling the murderous Agency.
DELINSKY, BARBARA. WHILE MY SISTER SLEEPS
A chronicle of how a family deals with a tragedy that befalls its favorite daughter.
LAKER, ROSALIND. GARLANDS OF GOLD
Young Saskia is ladys maid to wealthy merchants wife Vrouw Gibbons, but her talent for manufacturing beautifying face balms far exceeds her lowly status. When the Gibbons family returns to England, Saskia goes with them and sets up in business selling the beauty products which have earned her a devoted clientele, and hopes to win the heart of Grinling Gibbons, her employees only son, a man whose interests lie elsewhere.
PHILLIPS, SUSAN ELIZABETH. WHAT I DID FOR LOVE
With her career in ruins and her husband off with a young beauty, why shouldn’t movie star Georgie York head for Vegas with an old flame. But marriage?
ROBY, KIMBERLA LAWSON. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
And you thought Curtis Black was naughty. Watch out for daughter Alicia.
