Ahhhh…Spring! It’s finally here and like Lord Alfred Tennyson penned: In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Or, as John Dryden proclaimed: Pains of love be sweeter far | Than all other pleasures are.
Lastly, Emily Dickinson wrote: That love is all there is, is all we know of love.
Below are a few titles revealing all kinds of love and affection, pulsing within each cover: from Edith Wharton’s “Ethan Frome” the classic tale of the hiss of an old love grown cold as well as the promise, thrill and redemption of a new lover; to an unlikely, but growing friendship and attachment between two prison cellmates in “The Kiss of the Spider-Woman;” to the hilarious daily journal of a young woman, Bridget, describing her none-too-suave exploits (think blue soup, trying to shed stones, and an inappropriate interest in her bad-boy boss) in “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour — Call # e-book via Booth Library & MyMediaMall
Rusty’s Surprise by Zach Sweets — Call # e-book via Booth Library & MyMediaMall
Homemade Love by California Cooper — Call # PS 3553 .O5874 H66 1986
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors by Shannon Cain — Call # PS 3603 .A389 N43 2011
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud — Call # Coming soon! Ordered 2-6-15 for GraFX in the Atrium
Someday, Someday, Maybe: a Novel by Lauren Graham — Call # e-book via Booth Library & MyMediaMall
Trust No One by Jayne Ann Krentz — Call # e-book via Booth Library & MyMediaMall
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig — Call # book, CD, e-book, movie, musical
Plum Lovin’ by Janet Evanovich — Call # PS3555.V2126 P56 2007b & e-book via Booth Library & MyMediaMall
Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding — Call # PR 6056 .I4588 B75 1998 & e-book via Booth Library & MyMediaMall
The Arrow by Monica McCarty — Call # e-book via Booth Library online catalog &
MyMediaMall
When the Duke Was Wicked by Lorraine Heath — Call # e-book via Booth Library online catalog & MyMediaMall
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters — Call # e-book via Booth Library online catalog & MyMediaMall
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — Call # PR 4034 .P7 2006x & e-book via Booth Library & MyMediaMall (and…lots of other versions)
Oryx and Crake: a Novel by Margaret Atwood — Call # PR 9199.3 .A8 O79 2003 & e-book via Booth Library & MyMediaMall
Every Day by David Levithan — Call # Ballenger Teachers Center 813 L579ev & e-book via Booth Library online catalog & MyMediaMall
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden — Call # Ballenger Teachers Center 813 G167a
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy — Call # PR 4745 .A1 1958x & read it online via Hathitrust
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare — Call # PR PR2831.A2 W35 2012 & Graphic Novel, GraFX-Atrium PR2831.A2 P33x 2005 & Movie PN1997 .R73x .DVD & music, opera, monologues & Hathitrust online book
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte — Call # PR 4167 .J3 1996 / e-book / movie PR 4167 .J32 1999x .DVD / read it online via Hathitrust
The Awakening by Kate Chopin — Call # Complete stories PS 1294 .C63 v.1, v.2 & e-book via Booth Library and MyMediaMall & screenplay PS1294.C63 A6434 1992
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Call # PS 3545 .H16 E7 1968 & read it online via Hathitrust & movie PN1997 .E87x .DVD & Ballenger Teachers Center 813 W55E3
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway — Call # PS 3515 .E37 F3 1997 & movie PN 1997 .F3896x .DVD & audio sound recording (in storage): introduction, excerpts, and study guide PS3515.E37 F355 2006x .CD
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough — Call # PR 9619.3 .M32 T46x
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