LOVEE-book talk

Carmen Braswell

The Romance Reader

By: Pearl Abraham

As the daughter of the rabbi, the young girl is not suppose to

have any freedoms but to obey what her father and mother

want, and to be a good example for her young siblings. But she

dreams of being free and wearing a bathing suit in public, and marrying a strong confident

man that would be happy to have a girl like her for a wife.

MLA: Abraham, Pearl. The Romance Reader. USA: Penguin Group , 1996.

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Adieu, My Love

By: Lynn M. Turner

Marie Jubert is a widow who is trying to give her children a good home, but how she is keeping the family up is not a good thing. She soon

becomes close to a man, Matthew Carter, who she is worried that he knows her secret and will turn her in. But soon she finds out that she is falling in love with him, and will be worried to have to chose over

her children for him.

MLA: Turner, Lynn. Adieu, My Love. New York: Haddon Craftsmen, 2007.

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The Food of Love

By: Anthony Capella

Laura is an American girl that goes on a trip to Italy, where she falls in love with the food. Tommoso is an Italian waiter that woos Laura by telling her that he is a famous chief, but he is not telling the truth because he is only a waiter and the true chief cooking all of the food is Bruno.

Bruno falls deeply in love with Laura from afar and later when Laura finds out the truth she will have to choose between the two men of her dreams.

MLA: Capella, Anthony. The Food of Love. New York: Penguin Group, 2004.

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In the Forest of Serre

By: Patricia A. McKillip

This story is a fairy tail about a man who lost his wife and child, he ends

up killing a chicken and being cursed by a witch. He is in such a deep depression over his lost he does not think about what the

curse will mean. He soon runs away to the woods and follows a bird

where he forgets about his old life and falls in love with a princess.

MLA: McKillip, Patricia. In the Forests of Serre. 1st. New York: The Berkley

Publishing Group, 2003.

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The Dim Sum of all Things

By: Kim Wong Keltner

Lindsey ends up falling in love with the “white devil,” but

that is not ok in the Chinese culture. So her grandma tries to scare the devil away with her stinky ointments. Then

Lindsey realizes that it should not matter who the person is that you fall in love with, just

as long as you really love them for who they are.

MLA: Keltner, Kim. The Dim Sum of All Things. New York: HarpersCollins, 2004.

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Shohola Falls

By: Michael Pearson

Tommy Banks a young teen, is having to deal with the sudden death of his mother, and the

disappearance of his father. Now he is trying to live on the little money that his father has left

him and what every he is able to find or steal going up in the

Bronx. Eventually Tommy ends up finding his grandfather, and

finds his true inner self.

MLA: Pearson, Michael. Shohola Falls. New York: Syracuse University, 2003.

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Love

By: Toni Morrison

Bill Cosey, who owns Cosey’s Hotel, is loved by 5 women all

for different reasons. He is needed as a father, husband,

lover, guardian, and friend; but when he dies they realize how much more they really need

him. He has become one of the most needed men since he has been dead and now that he is

gone the love for him goes strong between the women.

MLA: Morrison, Toni. Love. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

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The Jane Austen Book Club

By: Karen joy Fowler

The Jane Austen book Club is just like Desperate House Wife's, because it

is about 5 women and one man that join a book club. Not even

6months later marriages are being ruined and affairs are going on

between the members of the book club. The club soon becomes more

then just about books but about finding true love and whether or not

marriages will work out or not.

MLA: Fowler, Karen. The Jane Austen Book Club. New York: G. P. Putnam's

Sons, 2004.

Call # FIC FOW

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