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23) Fool for love
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Lady Henrietta Maclellan longs for the romantic swirl of a London season. But as a rusticating country maiden, she has always kept her sensuous nature firmly under wraps -- until she meets Simon Darby. Simon makes her want to whisper promises late at night, exchange kisses on a balcony, receive illicit love notes. So Henrietta lets her imagination soar and writes ... A very steamy love letter that becomes shockingly public. Everyone supposes that...
24) Seduction
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A gothic tale about Victor Hugos long-buried secrets and the power of a love that never dies . . . In 1843, novelist Victor Hugos beloved nineteen-year-old daughter drowned. Ten years later, still grieving, Hugo initiated hundreds of séances from his home on the Isle of Jersey in order to reestablish contact with her. In the process, he claimed to have communed with Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus-and even the devil himself. Hugos transcriptions...
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"The Thea sisters are in Russia for a figure skating championship. When their new friend is falsely accused of theft and barred from competing for the gold medal, the five mice resolve to clear her name. Along the way, they discover ancient love letters that could be the key to finding the real culprit. But can they solve the mystery in time?"--Page 4 of cover.
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“Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted.” ―George Washington Did unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, Dear George, Dear Mary explores George’s relationship with his first love, New York heiress...
29) The love letter
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Hedgehog, Bunny, and Squirrel are best friends. One day, they each find a letter. But not just any letter... A love letter. My word! My whiskers! Aww, nuts! Someone loves them. But who? The answer may surprise you!
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"An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go. I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Now it looks like forever is finally running out. I never stopped loving you. I tried, for the sake of my own sanity,...
31) Unspoken
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Shelby Cole returns to Bad Luck, Texas, after receiving anonymous notes that claim the daughter she thought was dead may be alive, and as she searches for answers she is thrown together with Nevada Smith, the man who broke her heart, and the two become the target of Ross McCallum, a man who was falsely accused of murder and now wants revenge for the years he spent in prison.
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Up in her grandmother's attic, Annie Dawson finds an antique key that is the first clue in a 150-year-old mystery and an ill-fated Civil War love affair. As she and the ladies of the Hook and Needle Club try to make sense of the clues, they must also figure out how to help Mary Beth when she fears she will lose her beloved needlework shop. Perhaps the key to both problems is in Annie's hands.
34) The letter
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Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way ... Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens...
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"The hilarious tale of an ox who is in love with a gazelle told in correspondence"--Dear Gazelle,For some time now I have wanted to write a letter to say how much I admire you. You are so graceful and fine. Even when you are running from tigers you are like a ballerina who is running away from tigers.I think that what I'm trying to say is that I love you.XO,OX
37) The Love Letter
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A romantic correspondence between a man of the present time and a mysterious woman of a century and a half earlier results in powerful love.
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"Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause--despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss--until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom Iris dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's never heard of. In an effort to run from her own grief and discover...
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"Lara Jean guarda sus cartas de amor en una caja. No son cartas que le hayan enviado, las ha escrito ella, una por cada chico de los que se ha enamorado. En ellas se muestra tal cual es, porque sabe que nadie las leerá. Hasta que un día alguien las envía por equivocación y la vida amorosa de Lara Jean pasa de 'imaginaria' a estar totalmente fuera de control."--
40) Daddy-Long-Legs
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All sorts of things begin to happen when an orphaned boarding school student finally meets the wealthy guardian with whom she has corresponded for years sight unseen.