By Jan-Philipp Sendker
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 28, 2015. 1:30 PM.

"When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter has any idea where he might be—until they find a love letter he wrote many years before, to a Burmese woman who is unknown to them (From the Publisher)."

By Ann Fairbairn
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“Returning to the South to fight for the civil rights movement, a young black lawyer finds his life complicated by a beautiful white artist (From the Publisher).”

By Howard Fast
Series Lavette Family

In this first novel of an epic family saga recounting the rise of a poor fisherman's son from the cataclysmic depths of the San Francisco earthquake to become the head of a powerful shipping empire. He will risk all for a forbidden love.

By Isabel Allende
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

In 1939 San Francisco, Alma falls in love with Ichimei, the gardener’s son, who is sent to an internment camp, but although they reunite, they must hide their love, until in old age her caregiver and her grandson learn about their secret passion.

By Richard Paul Evans
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Having followed her new husband to his native home in rustic Tuscany, Eliana distracts herself from her marital disappointments by caring for her asthmatic son and finds herself reevaluating her life when she meets a fellow art lover, American Ross Story (From the Publisher).”

By Alexis Daria
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The national bestselling author of You Had Me at Hola returns with a seductive second-chance romance about a commitment-phobic Latina and her childhood best friend who has finally returned home

By Helen Simonson

Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner.

By Amanda Elliot
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Landing a coveted spot on her favorite TV show, chef Sadie, a rising star in the trendy Seattle restaurant scene, arrives in NYC and has a spontaneous one-night fling, or she thought was a one night, until she arrives on set and gets the surprise of her life.

By Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

The son of Holocaust survivors promises he’ll marry Jewish but life intervenes when he meets Cleo, an African American activist.

By Rachel Simon
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“Describes the love story between a developmentally disabled young white woman and a deaf African American after being institutionalized in 1968 (From the Publisher).”

By Peter Pagnamenta
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, August 19, 2010.  1 PM & 7:30 PM. This is the true story of an extraordinary love affair. In 1904, British Army officer Arthur Hart-Synnot was sent to Japan to learn the language. Arthur met Masa Suzuki at the Officers' Club and was immediately smitten. Masa had grown up among shopkeepers and craftsmen in working-class of Tokyo. She had left school at age fourteen to work and was a dutiful Japanese daughter. But her feelings for Arthur were so powerful that she was willing to risk her family's disapproval to be with him. This book follows their attempts to make a life together and chronicles the racial prejudice and social snobbery they encountered. Separated for years at a time, they stayed in touch through long, deeply affectionate letters. The authors use this treasure trove of more than eight hundred letters to tell a story of enduring love and great loss. -From publisher description.

By Talia Hibbert
Series Brown Sister, Book 2
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A young woman who agrees to fake-date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.

By Beverly Jenkins

When Regan Carmichael, his mail-order bride, arrives, widower Dr. Colton Lee, who is in need of someone to care for his daughter, gets the unexpected in the form of this independent beauty who makes him believe in second chances.

By Junot Diaz

Nine stories that feature Yunior, a Dominican American stud who, despite his macho exterior, aches to be loved. The author takes Yunior's heart and batters it every which way to show how love - romantic, physical, or familial - can affect even the most masculine character.

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Valentine Trilogy
Recommended By Ann Competello, Library Clerk

“Very Valentine is a sumptuous treat, a journey of dreams fulfilled, a celebration of love and loss filled with Trigiani's trademark heart and humor (From the Publisher).”