New Romance titles added to the C.B. West collection include:
THE HISTORY OF LOVE
by Nicole Krauss
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers
his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's
characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's
loneliness. 1/08
A SONG FOR SUMMER by Eva Ibbotson
Suffragists raise Ellen, who travels to Austria to transform
a boarding school and meets Marek, a school handyman and composer, but the war
separates them. 1/08
ECLIPSE by
Stephenie Meyer
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob
and her relationship with Edward, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious
string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal
lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city. 11/07
RHETT BUTLER'S PEOPLE
by Donald McCaig
(sequel to Margaret Mitchells' Gone With The
Wind)
Chronicles the life and times of dashing hero Rhett
Butler and the people who shaped his world--his unyielding father Langston, best
friend and onetime slave Tunis Bonneau, former love Belle Watling, and the
passionate Scarlett O'Hara. 11/07
I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU
by Ally Carter
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a
former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life"
until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission. 4/07
BEATING HEART
by A.M.
Jenkins
(award winner)
Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves
with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who
died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover. 4/07
WILD ROSES by
Deb Caletti
In Washington State, seventeen-year-old Cassie learns
about the good and bad sides of both love and genius while living with her
mother and brilliant, yet disturbed, violinist stepfather and falling in love
with a gifted young musician. 4/07
ENTHUSIASM by
Polly Shulman
Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane
Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide
their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.
4/07
ANAHITA'S WOVEN
RIDDLE by Meghan Nuttall Sayres
In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young girl with three
suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding
rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has
wit to match hers. 4/07