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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

 

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