love stories

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love stories

If Beale Street could talk

a novel
A young African American couple are sustained by their love in their struggle against injustice and racial oppression.

Americanah

Nigerian Ifemelu leaves her country to study in America while the man she loves back home, Obinze, is denied entrance to America due to 9/11. After struggling in London, Obinze is sent back to Nigeria, but becomes a wealthy man with a family. Meanwhile Ifemelu explores racism in America and becomes a successful blogger about race. When Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, she reunites with Obinze, but now the couple faces new decisions about their future.

The wicked edge

Follows teenager Helen White, who moves with her mother to be with her mother's new boyfriend, going from a middle-class neighborhood to an Indian reservation, where among her new school's 200 kids she is the only one with white skin. She is lonely until she meets King, a dangerous boy who soon twists Helen into breaking molds and behaviors she has always followed.

The voyage of the Sea Wolf

After having been marooned on an island for ten days, Catherine and William are finally rescued and brought aboard a pirate ship that is captained by a woman who takes a liking to William and forbids Catherine, his true love, from seeing him.

Nobody

Fifteen-year-old Claire Ryan has always felt invisible, always lived beyond people's notice, which causes trouble when she instantly connects with seventeen-year-old Nix, who really can become invisible and has been sent to assassinate her.

Brave enough

Cason Martin has become the youngest ballerina in the Atlanta Ballet Conservatory, and it is not really her choice--her mother, the conservatory's artistic director, has made all of Cason's decisions for her, and being a ballerina was not Cason's choice. Soon, however, there will be no choice for anyone--Cason has been hiding a serious injury, worse than anyone could imagine.

Time and time again

a collection
"Anna and Bennett weren't supposed to meet. She lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett has the unique ability to travel through time and space, which he normally uses to see epic concerts from his favorite vintage bands. After an unexpected complication forces him to remain in 1995 for longer than usual, he has to enroll at the local high school. And that's when he meets Anna. Anna spots Bennett at the track during a training run, and she can't get the mysterious new boy out of her head. Or the feeling that he seems to know her already. As the pair grows closer, Anna is shocked to learn Bennett's secret, but his ability means they can experience times and places she never dreamed of seeing. That is, until a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question, and Bennett begins to experience the terrifying side effects of his travels. Their thrilling, unforgettable love story sparkles in this collection of New York Times best-selling author Tamara Ireland Stone's first two novels, Time Between Us and Time After Time, as Anna and Bennett face the impossible task of weaving together two futures that were never meant to intersect."--Back cover.

Todo el viento del mundo

Sarah Jac Crow and James Holt fall in love, but working in the endless fields of a drought-stricken Southwest in the near future, they must hide their love from those who would use it against them. Quietly, they save money for a house on the coast--then, tragedy sends them both on the run to another ranch, possibly cursed, where the balance of their lives tilts and their love may have a higher price than they ever imagined.

Femme

When Sofie is paired with the only lesbian in school for an English project, she is surprised how quickly they become close. They go on a road trip to check out colleges and Sofie begins to question her sexuality. She returns home and breaks up with her boyfriend, but her problems are just beginning with bullies at school.

Hold me closer

the Tiny Cooper story : a musical in novel form (or, a novel in musical form)
"Larger-than-life Tiny Cooper finally gets to tell his story, from his fabulous birth and childhood to his quest for true love and his infamous parade of ex-boyfriends, in the form of a musical he wrote"--Provided by publisher.

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