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Kimberly R
“Fluff....that's what this book is. This book was CLEARLY written for young adult girls who fantasize about their knight, or in this case, their vampire, in shining armor. Blach..... So many things irritated me about it including how on earth could an OLD, and you would think wise, vampire fall in love with a goofy teenager. Give me a break!!!!! And, I thought the author was beating a dead horse with the constant talk from Edward about not wanting to put his human girl in danger and the...” (more)
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Kristin C
“I will never understand why everyone thinks these books are so incredible. Are they good? Sure. Worth reading? Absolutely. But they just aren't the miracle to young adult fiction that everyone seems to think they are. It is mediocre writing. There are YA series out there that are written MUCH better. There are main characters out there that are better role models for young women. There are definitely more creative plots and universes. Read it and enjoy it, but don't bow down at its altar!...” (more)
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Julian B
“I'm reading this right now because I've met so many adult women who are so obsessed with this book. I wanted to see what all the fuss is about....” (more)
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tristonian
“Let me amend one my comment here. Of course, the bashing will continue, we are all entitled to our opinions including those that suddenly hate me for stating mine. Let me just say I still respect Stephenie Meyer as a writer, she does do an excellent job at bringing you into her world. I still like the series, I'll probably read it again in the future. I just don't happen to like this book so much and I HAD to read it to know that. That being said I wouldn't discourage others from reading it...” (more)
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Amy D
“This is one of my absolute favorite books that I have read in such a long time. I read it in one weekend, it's the kind of book that takes hold of you and you just can't put it down. I've fallen in love with the saga of a girl who falls in love with a vampire. It has such a balance of love and suspence. I'm one chapter way from finishing New Moon the second book in the saga and can't wait to read Eclipse. Stephenie Meyer is such a talented author with a distinct voice that I'm so happy she...” (more)
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Twilight (Twilight, Book 1)
by Stephenie Meyer
Deeply sensuous and extraordinarily suspenseful, TWILIGHT captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.Isabella Swan+s move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella+s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up... (more)
New Moon
by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3)
by Stephenie Meyer
Edward’s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine–like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is... (more)
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
by Stephenie Meyer
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her... (more)
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic... (more)
The Twilight Saga Collection
by Stephenie Meyer
This stunning set, complete with all four hardcover books as well as four collectible prints, makes the perfect gift for fans of the bestselling vampire love story.
Pride and Prejudice
by Frank W. Bradbrook, Jenny Agutter, Diana Stewart, Richard Bain, Andrew Worrall, Pamela Norris, Donald Gray, Fiona J. Stafford, James Kinsley, Vivien Jones, George Saintsbury, Tony Tanner
Here is quite simply the most handsome edition of one of the finest and most popular novels of all time. It features an elegant cloth binding, attractive full-color dust wrapper, handsome typography, and more than 100 delightful illustrations (plus 61 witty illustrated initial letters at chapter openings) by famed English Victorian artist Hugh Thomson.
The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago?
The Host: A Novel
by Stephenie Meyer
The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.Wanderer, the invading... (more)
Jane Eyre (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by David Malouf, Kathy Mitchell, Richard Lebenson, Susan M. Cockcroft, Margaret Smith, Michael Mason, Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars... (more)
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border... (more)
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so... (more)
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha... (more)
A Walk to Remember
by Nicholas Sparks
In the prologue to his latest novel, Nicholas Sparks makes the rather presumptuous pledge "first you will smile, and then you will cry," but sure enough, he delivers the goods. With his calculated ability to throw your heart around like a yo-yo (try out his earlier Message in the Bottle or The Notebook if you really want to stick it to yourself), Sparks pulls us back to the perfect innocence of a first love.In 1958... (more)
Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Paul Cheetham, Jane Austen, Stephen M. Parrish, Fiona J. Stafford, James Kinsley, Terry Castle, James Stevenson
New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's original introduction reinstated Edited with an introduction and notes by Flora Stafford.
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a... (more)
Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
by Emily Bronte, Hilda Marsden, Richard Hoyes, Laurie Langbauer, Cynthia Johnson, Elizabeth Seely, Heather Glen, Alice Hoffman, Anne Bronte, Patsy Stoneman, Ian Robert James Jack, Ian Jack, Pauline Nestor
There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.
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Message in a Bottle
by Nicholas Sparks
The author of the runaway "New York Times" bestseller "The Notebook" pens a tale of self-discovery, renewal, and the courage it takes to love again. When a 36-year-old single mother finds a love letter in a half-buried bottle while jogging along the shores of Cape Cod, she decides to take a dramatic leap that will forever change her life.
Love Story
by Erich Segal
Lose your heart to the novel that defined a generation then...and now.Love StoryLove means never having to say you're sorry...He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law.She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny... (more)