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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... (more)

Montgomery: Book 17

A Knight in Shining Armor

by Jude Deveraux

To coincide with Legend, Jude Deveraux's exciting new release in hardcover, she was asked to select a favorite work to reissue--and then it was given a classic price! Featuring a chapter teasing to Legend, along with a $2.00 coupon toward its purchase, this special promotion is designed to send romance fans home happy, and sales soaring!

Study Series: Book 1

Poison Study

by Maria V. Snyder

Choose: A quick death . . . or slow poison . . . About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace -- and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her... (more)

Somewhere in Time/What Dreams May Come: Two Novels of Love and Fantasy

Somewhere in Time/What Dreams May Come: Two Novels of Love and Fantasy

by Richard Matheson

Like What Dreams May Come , which inspired the upcoming movie starring Robin Williams, Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy. Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he... (more)

Marcia Schuyler (Grace Livingston Hill)

by Grace Livingston Hill

Grace Livingston Hill weaves an enchanting love triangle and introduces one of her most delightful characters in part one of the Miranda trilogy. Two sisters are as different as night and day-and inexplicably linked by the man they both desire. Kate Schuyler lives only for what pleasures her in the moment, while Marcia Schuyler sacrifices her youth to marry her older sister's jilted fianc?. Can Marcia... (more)

If Only It Were True

by Marc Levy

What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet, particularly when she's surprised that you can even see her -- and she can disappear and reappear at whim? What if she then tells you that her body is actually in a coma on the other side of town? Should you have her see a psychiatrist or should you consult one yourself? Or do you take a chance and believe in her, and allow yourself to be swept up in an... (more)

I married adventure : the lives of Martin and Osa Johnson

I married adventure : the lives of Martin and Osa Johnson

by Osa Johnson

Martin Johnson, the famous explorer and nature photographer who brought home stunning movies of Africa and the South Seas to eager Americans, spent more than 25 years crossing the country and the world with his cameras and his wife. Osa's colorful biography is also a wonderful love story. 94 photos, maps, index.

Green Dolphin Street

by Elizabeth Goude

RebeccaDapne Du Maurier

Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Gold Mountain

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities , by Charles Dickens , 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... (more)

Blind Love

by Wilkie Collins

Unjustly neglected tale of Victorian master storyteller’s later period. "Blind love" of Iris Henley for notorious Lord Harry Norland has inexorable consequences leading to fiendish crime. Based on a real-life case, enlivened by Collins’ intricate plotting and colorful characters. 16 full-page illustrations by A. Forestier. Preface by Walter Besant.

St. Leger Family: Book 3

Midnight Bride: A Novel

by Susan Carroll

In her award-winning historical novel The Bride Finder, bestselling author Susan Carroll bewitched readers with the legend of the St. Leger men--the descendants of a medieval sorcerer haunted by an unnatural past. Now Carroll once again conjures the unforgettable castle by the sea--a place where love is as mysterious and invincible as the family legacy. . . . Valentine St. Leger is a healer with a wounded heart.... (more)

Young Pioneers (Little House)

by Rose Wilder Lane

A story of frontier love and courage... Newlyweds Molly and David are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they pack up their wagon and head west across the plains in search of a new homestead. At first their new life is full of promise: The wheat is high, the dugout is warm and cozy, and a new baby is born to share in their happiness. Then disaster strikes, and David must go east for the winter to find work.... (more)

The Substitute Guest

by Grace Livingston Hill

Caught in a raging blizzard, handsome Alan Monteith seeks refuge among strangers--and discovers true love. Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs of people faced with the problems of life and love.

The Last Valentine

by James Michael Pratt

Television reporter Susan Allison is looking for the perfect story about true love, yet she doubts where such a thing really exists, Neil Thomas, Jr. wants to share his parents' bittersweet love story with the world. On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said good-bye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For fifty year, she waited for him--until a miracle happened, and she received his last... (more)

The Far Pavilions

by M. M. Kaye

When The Far Pavilions was first published nineteen years ago, it moved the critic Edmund Fuller to write this: "Were Miss Kaye to produce no other book, The Far Pavilions might stand as a lasting accomplishment in a single work comparable to Margaret Mitchell's achievement in Gond With the Wind." From its beginning in the foothills of the towering Himalayas, M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant... (more)

Mrs. Mike

by Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman

A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life-and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon. "It is the personality of Sgt. Mike blowing through this account like a clear breeze that... (more)

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... (more)

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Tags: not your everyday romance

by Nicholas Sparks

by Jude Deveraux

by Maria V. Snyder

by Richard Matheson

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Marc Levy

by Osa Johnson

by Elizabeth Goude

by Daphne du Maurier

by Margaret Mitchell

by Charles Dickens

by Wilkie Collins

by Susan Carroll

by Rose Wilder Lane

by Grace Livingston Hill

by James Michael Pratt

by M. M. Kaye

by Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman

by William Goldman