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Allan's Wife
by Henry Rider Haggard

Allan Quatermain's heroic adventures continue in Allan's Wife, with the tale of his star-crossed relationship with the Englishwoman Stella, in the wilds of Africa. Encountering elephants and battling baboons along the way, Allan and Stella's story ultimately becomes a tale of life and death.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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The Agony Column
by Earl Derr Biggers

An American visiting London innocently checks the personal ads, known as the agony column, and soon finds himself entangled in a murder mystery and a love affair. Part mystery, part romance, this novel was also made into a silent film in 1930 under the title The Second Floor.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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After the Storm
by T. S. Authur

Opposites attract and repel in this tale of love, marriage and understanding. The beautiful, adventurous Irene Delancy and the ambitious, intellectual Hartley Emerson wed early, but require some life lessons to fully understand themselves and each other. Their trials over the years sometimes threaten, but ultimately strengthen their lifelong bond.

Categories: Romance, Inspirational Romance

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Finally Home
by Dawn Michele Werner

When Amanda Brookfield moves into her grandparent's Texas farmhouse on Moonlight Ranch, it's to escape! She's had it with her fast-paced Chicago lifestyle. But when Noah West, her childhood love, returns to his family's ranch and wants it sold, Amanda ends up fighting for its safety and her own.

Categories: Romance, Contemporary Romance

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Arms and the Woman
by Harold MacGrath

Young newspaper reporter John Winthrop's luck needs to change. He suffers a double loss of love and money that shocks him, but not as much as the reversals of fortune to come. Romance and riches may find him yet in this 19th century romance.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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The Adventures of Kathlyn
by Harold MacGrath

A romance cliffhanger tells the story of a young woman who gets captured by a handsome villain and caught up in a search for jewels after traveling to India with her family - the first of several perils she has to endure. The novel was one of the first cliffhanger style novels which was made into a serial-style film.

Category: Romance

Darkness and Daylight
by Mary Jane Holmes

This remarkable story tells of the challenges for several strong women as they look past the ghosts of the past, to restructure their lives and prepare themselves for the future.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Cousin Maude
by Mary Jane Holmes

This is a captivating tale of love, passion, emotions and family values. The story is set in the beautiful northern hills.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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A Rogues Life
by Wilkie Collins

An adventure cliffhanger, this tells the story of a grand life in Paris filled with art, friendship, fun and adventures. The many set backs faced by the narrator are met with optimism. It was originally serialized, with the cliffhanger chapter endings leaving the reader looking for the next adventure.

Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Romantic Suspense

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The New Magdalen
by Wilkie Collins

Two very different women are forced to survive during the war between France and Germany. One is hit by a loose shell and the other decides to take the opportunity to leave behind her life as a fallen woman by assuming the other woman's identity and travels to England.

Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance

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The Trespasser
by D. H. Lawrence

This is the story of a tragic love affair between a female friend of the author and her violin teacher. It is based on the diary of the author's female friend.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy

This epic romance novel tells the story of Russian society and justice from the depths of prison cells to the palaces of the rich. It centers on the story of a prince who discovers that the prostitute on trial is the woman he had loved and abandoned many years before when she was a young servant. His guilt motivates him to appeal for her release. This story of human redemption denounces the government, the church and the judicial system.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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A Damsel in Distress
by Pelmam Grenville Wodehouse

An American composer searches for a beautiful young woman who he met in a taxi. He tracks her to a rural manorhouse and the romance takes interesting turns. The 1919 novel was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, made into a black and white movie and then made into a 1937 Hollywood musical.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Aikenside
by Mary Jane Holmes

This is a love story and the story of lives of the young, poor, rich and religious in a small village. A handsome young doctor who starts his practice in the village and quickly gets swept up in the lives of a wealthy landowner in the village, a young school teacher, a poor young school girl and a group of townspeople who seem to find great joy in keeping track of the actions of their neighbors.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Smiles - A Rose of the Cumberlands
by Eliot Harlow Robinson

This simple, yet powerful, romance book tells the story of strong, hot blooded Mark Gray and his conflict with the seriousness of the Quaker ideals.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Tempest and Sunshine
by Mary Jane Holmes

This first book by Mary Jane Holmes, written in 1854, was set in the pre civil-war south. It follows two sisters - the blond Fanny and the dark-haired Julia - as they struggle through life and romance. One is superficially more beautiful, but is selfish and cold-hearted, while the second sister is less beautiful but is warm and giving.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Miss McDonald
by Mary Jane Holmes

A sister keeps a diary when her thirty year old brother guy brings home a sixteen year old bride - Miss Daisy McDonald. Life changes when expenses increase to meet the expenses of Miss McDonald. Had they both made a mistake? Or, could and should the situation be saved?

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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The Rector of St Marks
by Mary Jane Holmes

This little romance book tells the story of two young couples and their romantic adventures and misadventures. A misplaced letter and an honorable silence are attempts at keeping each of these couples apart.

Category: Romance

Lena Rivers
by Mary Jane Holmes

Lena's mother dies in childbirth, leaving her to be raised by her relatives in Kentucky. An animal lover, high tempered and beautiful, Lena learns a surprising secret about her mother and the man that wants to adopt her. She creates her own life and finds love. The book was a best seller and became a stage play in 1914, starring screen star Beulah Poynter. The book was also made into a movie in 1932 staring Charlotte Henry.

Category: Romance

Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence

Two sisters, one a teacher and one an artist, meet and fall in love with two men who live near to them in England in the 1910s. The two couples become friends, often with very differing views on society and relationships. This sexually-charged book was the basis a 1969 file for which Glenda Jackson won an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Category: Romance

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The Apartment Next Door
by William Andrew Johnston

A young woman is paid to secretly watch the people in the next apartment during World War I. She could be a traitor or she might get caught up in the mystery and intrigue. Adventure turns to romance as she falls in love, maybe with the wrong person.

Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romance

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Anne of Avonlea
by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The sequel to Anne of Green Gables, beautiful Anne is now the village's only boarding school teacher. Anne quickly steps into her important place in the society by using her adventurous spirit to to improve the village and to raise the adopted twins of a woman who took her in when Anne was only ten.

Categories: Romance, Teen, Other Fiction

Persuasion
by Jane Austen

This is the love story of Anne Elliot, the daughter of a vane nobleman, and Captain Frederick Wentworth, a man with no fortune. She is convinced by her father to refuse Frederick's marriage proposal and lives a sad and lonely life; however, she gets a second chance seven years later.

Categories: Romance, Regency Romance

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The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux

A criminally insane, physically-deformed musician haunts a Paris opera house demanding a monthly salary and a box seat for every show. He provides voice lessons to a beautiful young singer and then abducts her to his cellar retreat away from her lover who threatens to destroy the opera house. She is forced to make a difficult choice of who to love and makes a promise to the musician. The novel was the source of several films and stage adaptations including the highly successful musical version by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1987.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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The Woman Who Did
by Grant Allen

This controversial love story was written in 1895 as part of a series about feminist subjects. It is the story of a very independent woman who is a teacher in London. She falls in love with a lawyer and convinces him that they should live together. She becomes pregnant but her lawyer lover dies.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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The Blue Lagoon - A Romance Book III
by Henry de Vere Stacpoole

Published in 1908, The Blue Lagoon was an instant success. The story unfolds as a naive, young girl and her cousin are stranded on a remote island. As a modern day Adam and Eve they age, fall in love, discover sex, have a child and learn the basics of living in a loving relationship as adults.

Categories: Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Blue Lagoon - A Romance Book II
by Henry de Vere Stacpoole

Published in 1908, The Blue Lagoon was an instant success. The story unfolds as a naive, young girl and her cousin are stranded on a remote island. As a modern day Adam and Eve they age, fall in love, discover sex, have a child and learn the basics of living in a loving relationship as adults.

Categories: Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Blue Lagoon - A Romance - Book I
by Henry de Vere Stacpoole

Published in 1908, The Blue Lagoon was an instant success. The story unfolds as a naive, young girl and her cousin are stranded on a remote island. As a modern day Adam and Eve they age, fall in love, discover sex, have a child and learn the basics of living in a loving relationship as adults.

Categories: Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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SEX - Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English
by Henry Stanton

This practical and frankly-worded self-help book was written as a guide to sexual behavior and relationships between men and women and to explain the scientific knowledge of the day about sex. The book was was published in 1922, about 35 years after Henry Stanton's death.

Categories: Romance, Self-help

Kate Bonnet - The Romance of a Pirates Daughter
by Frank Richard Stockton

This satirical novel tells the adventures of beautiful Kate, a fictional daughter of a planter turned pirate 'Major Stede Bonnet' who was known as The 'Gentleman Pirate.' Kate falls in love with her friend Dickory as they share adventures while trying to change the ways of her pirate father.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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The Woodlanders
by Thomas Hardy

This is the story of an honest woodsman, a dishonest husband, an undecided woman and a courageous peasant girl. A woodsman is betrothed to his childhood sweetheart but her father convinces her to marry the new doctor in town and move into the father's home. The doctor soon begins an affair which leads to a divorce. The doctor repents which starts her back and forth between the woodsman and the doctor.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Desperate Remedies
by Thomas Hardy

Cytherea, a lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, realizes that the man she loves is already engaged to another woman. She becomes influenced by Miss Aldclyffe's manipulative steward Manston, and quickly becomes involved in romance, blackmail and murder.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Jude the Obsure
by Thomas Hardy

This romance novel was the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, published in 1895. Jude Fawley, a village stonemason, dreams of becoming a scholar but finds himself struggling through several romances. He finds love but faces social ostracization, a wayward child, murdered children, and religious guilt.

Category: Romance

Two on a Tower
by Thomas Hardy

A wealthy, unhappily married, very romantically-inclined woman breaks all the social rules when she falls in love with a poor astronomer who is ten years younger than she is. Her husband dies while on safari in Africa; however, she is unable to marry the astronomer due to the discovery of a legacy that forbids him from marriage. Years later they meet again after their lives have taken unusual turns.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy

Gabriel Oak, a shepherd, falls in love with Bathsheba, a vain young beauty who refuses to give up her independence to marry him and she moves away. Years later he finds her again and becomes a victim of unrequited love as Bathsheba moves through life with several eligible suitors.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 8
by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is the tragic love story of a woman in love who follows her heart and bears a son with her lover, while she is married to another man. She throws herself in front of an incoming train fearing her lover had lost his love for her.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 7
by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is the tragic love story of a woman in love who follows her heart and bears a son with her lover, while she is married to another man. She throws herself in front of an incoming train fearing her lover had lost his love for her.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 6
by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is the tragic love story of a woman in love who follows her heart and bears a son with her lover, while she is married to another man. She throws herself in front of an incoming train fearing her lover had lost his love for her.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 5
by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is the tragic love story of a woman in love who follows her heart and bears a son with her lover, while she is married to another man. She throws herself in front of an incoming train fearing her lover had lost his love for her.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 3
by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is the tragic love story of a woman in love who follows her heart and bears a son with her lover, while she is married to another man. She throws herself in front of an incoming train fearing her lover had lost his love for her.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 2
by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is the tragic love story of a woman in love who follows her heart and bears a son with her lover, while she is married to another man. She throws herself in front of an incoming train fearing her lover had lost his love for her.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen

Catherine Morland meets Henry and John, both intriguing young men while on vacation. She is drawn between them and is soon invited to stay with Henry's family Northager Abbey. John tries to sabotage the blooming relationship. Henry's father initially forbids the marriage because John tells him that Catherine is not as rich as he previously believed; but, he eventually approves when his daughter becomes engaged to a wealthy, titled man.

Categories: Romance, Regency Romance

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Lady Susan
by Jane Austen

Recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon flirts, lies and pretends to be humble in a series of letter exchanges designed to help her find a financially suitable husband in London high society for herself and her shy teenaged daughter Frederica.

Categories: Romance, Regency Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 1
by Leo Tolstoy

The story of a doomed love affair between a sensuous, rebellious woman in a loveless marriage who falls in love with a dashing officer. Set in nineteenth-century Russia, the love story is told within the hypocrisies of society, love and family happiness.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

This is the love story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor. They long for each other and have to share the violence and misery caused by their attraction.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Emma - Volume 3
by Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse schemes to find a suitable husband for her friend and plunders through the challenges of her social world. She shares her life with unforgettable characters in a small town that is in the middle of a historical transition.

Categories: Romance, Regency Romance

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Emma - Volume 2
by Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse schemes to find a suitable husband for her friend and plunders through the challenges of her social world. She shares her life with unforgettable characters in a small town that is in the middle of a historical transition.

Categories: Romance, Regency Romance

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Emma - Volume 1
by Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse schemes to find a suitable husband for her friend and plunders through the challenges of her social world. She shares her life with unforgettable characters in a small town that is in the middle of a historical transition.

Categories: Romance, Regency Romance

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Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen

Two sisters and their mother are sent to live in the country after they become impoverished after their father's death. The very different personalities of each sister leads them to very different love stories. Love and marriage do not come easily.

Categories: Romance, Regency Romance

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The Professor
by Charlotte Bronte

The hero of the book turns down a clerical job to take a teaching position in Belgium. He becomes entangled with a sensuous, manipulative woman but has affection for another woman who is a teacher and pupil at his school.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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