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Contemporary Romances on Audio |
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- Bradford, Barbara Taylor, Where You Belong (2000)
- In the wake of a tragic shooting in Kosovo, Valentine Denning, a young American photojournalist, discovers that her lover -- a British journalist killed in the attack -- had been still married.
Read by Jan Maxwell.
CDBOOK BRADFORD, BARBARA TAYLOR Where yo;
FICT CASSETTE BRADFORD, BARBARA TAYLOR Where yo
- Haruf, Kent Plainsong (1999)
- From the unsettled lives of a small-town teacher struggling to raise two boys alone in the face of their mother's retreat from life, a pregnant teenage girl with nowhere to go, and two elderly bachelor farmers emerges a new vision of life and family as their diverse destinies intertwine.
Narrated by Tom Stechschulte.
FICT CASSETTE HARUF KENT Plainson
- Krentz, Jayne Ann
Soft Focus (1999)
- Businesswoman Elizabeth Cabot decides to end her romantic relationship with Jack Fairfax when she learns he has deceived her, but disentangling herself from their business relationship proves much trickier.
Read by Dick Hill & Susie Breck.
ROMANCE CASSETTE KRENTZ, JAYNE Soft
- Martinez, Demetria
Mother Tongue (1994)
- A young woman still grieving over the death of her mother becomes attracted to a political refugee from El Salvador. Read by
Alyssa Bresnahan.
CASSETTE MARTINEZ, DEMETRIA Mother t
- McGregor, Tom
Peak Practice (1994)
- From the hit TV series.
Read by Sean Barrett.
CASSETTE MCGREGOR, TOM Peak pra
- Morris, Mary McGarry
A Dangerous Woman (1991)
- When her classmates' rejection of her culminates in a horrifying experience that borders on gang rape, Martha Horgan withdraws completely and spends her life paying for that trauma in unexpected ways.
Narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister.
CASSETTE MORRIS, MARY MCGARRY Dangerou
- Oates, Joyce Carol Middle Age: A Romance (2001)
- In an affluent community, a half-hour outside of Manhattan, "everyone is middle-aged," but looks much younger. When a charismatic and mysterious sculptor dies unexpectedly, his friends, both female and male, are plunged into their grief. Posthumously, the sculptor has a powerful effect upon a number of individuals in ways they could not have anticipated.
Read by Mary Peiffer.
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- Pilcher, Rosamunde Wild Mountain Thyme (1978)
- Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with London playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just eighteen. But he had left her and disappeared from her life. Now, years later, he was a widower standing on her doorstep with his two-year-old son in her arms. And Victoria was foolish enough to want to take him back. Their early spring journey to a castle in Scotland would become an odyssey of discovery... in a novel about relationships as real as those you've experienced and a love as rich and unpredictable as dreams can be.
Read by Phyllis Logan.
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- Ray, Jeanne
Julie and Romeo (2000)
- Meet the Cacciamanis and the Rosemans, rival enemies for as long as either family can remember (although no one can recall precisely why) until one fateful day when divorced Julie Roseman and widowed Romeo Cacciamani meet by chance at a small business seminar in the Boston Sheraton. More than flowers bloom as a result and when their respective families--horrified--find out about the budding romance, all hell breaks loose. Read by the author.
FICT CASSETTE RAY, JEANNE Julie
- Rice, Luanne True Blue (2002)
- Schoolteacher Rumer Larkin finds her peaceful life in the rustic Connecticut beach town of Hubbard's Point turned upside down by the return of Zeb Mayhew, the man who had once broken her heart.
Read by Deborah Hall.
FICT CASSETTE RICE, LUANNE True
- Roberts, Nora Midnight Bayou (2001)
- While renovating an old mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of days from a century past. Local legend has it that the house is haunted but he uncovers the reason for the strange sensations of terror and unbearable grief.
Read by James Daniels with Sandra Burr.
ROMANCE CASSETTE ROBERTS, NORA Midnight; ROMANCE CDBOOK ROBERTS, NORA Midnight
- Roberts, Nora Tears of the Moon (2000)
- Shawn Gallagher has a gift for music, which he chooses to keep mainly to himself, but Brenna O'Toole might be able to convince him to share his talent, and his heart, for the first time.
Read by Patricia Daniels.
ROMANCE CASSETTE ROBERTS, NORA Tears of
- Robinson, C. Kelly The Strong Silent Type (2005)
- Deacon Davis struggles to regain his dignity after his debilitating speech impediment provokes his forced resignation from the first African American political party. Haunted by the fact that his handicap prevents him from upholding his father's legacy of advocating civil rights, he seeks professional help. Maria Oliver, a smart and sexy speech therapist, is just now recovering from a shadowy past. Under the comforting influence of Maria, Deacon begins to take control of not only his speech but his life, and Maria discovers a trust and comfort that she has never known.
Narrated by Ezra Knight and Lizzy Cooper Davis.
FICT CDBOOK ROBINSON C. KELLY Strong
- Samuel, Barbara A Piece of Heaven (2003)
- Struggling to rebuild her relationship with her troubled teenager, Luna McGraw finds herself drawn to contractor Thomas Coyote, but her growing relationship with him is complicated by his needy ex-wife, her own child's insecurities, and her own past.
Read by Bernadette Dunne.
FICT CDBOOK SAMUEL, BARBARA Piece
- Sparks, Nicholas Message in a Bottle (1998)
- While jogging along the Cape Cod shore, a thirtysomething single mother struggling to recover from a difficult divorce stumbles upon a half-buried bottle containing a touching love letter that sends her on an uncertain odyssey of self-discovery, renewal, and the possiblility of new love.
Read by Kathleen Quinlan.
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