Love and Romance

• Gingerbread by Cohn, Rachel - After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisses’s problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father. (YA FIC COHN, R)
• Crush by Conford, Ellen - A series of nine romantic episodes in the lives of B.J. and other students at Cutter’s Forge High as they plan for the Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Stomp. (YA FIC CONFORD, E)
• This Lullaby by Dessen, Sarah - Raised by a mother who’s had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician. (YA FIC DESSEN, S)
• Romiette and Julio by Draper, Sharon - Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating. (YA FIC DRAPER, S)
• Breaking Up by Friedman, Aimee (Graphic Novel) - Dreamy, artistic Chloe alienates her friends Erika, Isabel, and Mackenzie when she falls for Adam, the biggest outcast in their high school. (YA FIC FRIEDMAN, A)
• Slam by Hornby, Nick - At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and his life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically. (YA FIC HORNBY, N)
• Blood and Chocolate by Klaus, Annette Curtis - Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom. (YA FIC KLAUSE, A)
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Mackler, Carolyn - Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her. (YA FIC MACKLER, C)
• Prom Nights From Hell - Bestselling teen authors, including Meg Cabot and Stephenie Meyer, put a unique (and frightening) twist on prom night. (YA FIC PRO)
• Love is a Many Trousered Thing by Rennison, Louise - Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. In a series of diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson describes her continuing romantic woes as she is pushed toward a decision about the three boys in her life. (YA RENNISON, L)
• Last Kiss by Ripslinger, Jon - Farm boy Billy is accused of murdering Lisa, a wealthy girl he loved. (YA FIC RIPSLINGER, J)
• Rainbow Boys by Sanchez, Alex - Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, and conflicting feelings about each other. (YA FIC SANCHEZ, A)
• Stargirl by Spinelli, Jerry. Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania. (YA FIC SPINELLI, J)
• The Blue Lawn by Taylor, William - A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges his attraction to an older rugby teammate, as he also begins to break out of the preconceived notions his family and others have about him. (YA FIC TAYLOR, W)
• Girls in Love by Wilson, Jacqueline - Ellie is determined to get it together now that she is in ninth grade. In order to get a boyfriend, Ellie realizes that she may have to settle for just about anyone if she wants to get one quickly. (YA FIC WILSON, J)
• Hard Love by Wittlinger, Ellen - After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality. (YA FIC WITTLINGER, E)
• Beauty by Robin McKinley - Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast. (YA FIC MCKINLEY)
• Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus - Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom. (YA FIC KLAUSE)
• The Blue Lawn by William Taylor - A fifteen-year-old boy acknowledges his attraction to an older rugby teammate, as he also begins to break out of the preconceived notions his family and others have about him. (YA FIC TAYLOR)
• Bridal Favors by Connie Brockway - To save her aunt's wedding planning business, Evelyn Whyte decides to call in the debt owed to her by Justin Powell, a military hero, by asking him to use his ancestral home for a client's wedding, but she never expects to find herself falling in love. (ADULT FIC BROCKWAY)
• Change of Heart by Marcia King-Gamble - When he suffers a horrible fall that breaks his back and leaves him with no will to live, Beaumont Hill, the only Black skier on the U.S. Olympic team, goes up against physical therapist Shayna DaCosta, a spirited woman who is determined to heal both his body and soul with love. (ADULT FIC KING-GAMBLE)
• Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice by Jim Heynen - When sent to live on a farm in Iowa as an alternative to juvenile detention, seventeen-year-old Cosmos falls in love with a religious girl and reconsiders his values and beliefs. (YA FIC HEYNEN)
• Crush by Ellen Conford - A series of nine romantic episodes in the lives of B.J. and other students at Cutter's Forge High as they plan for the Valentine's Day Sweetheart Stomp. (YA FIC CONFORD)
• Dancing With An Alien by Mary Logue - Tonia’s new boyfriend Branko has a strange secret and an even stranger request. It turns out he’s an alien from another planet. On his planet, all the females have been killed by a plague. They need females in order to survive. Branko wants Tonia to return with him. Should she trust him? Would you? (YA FIC LOGUE)
• Empress of the World by Sara Ryan - While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meetsanother girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing. (YA FIC RYAN)
• For the Roses by Julie Garwood - Discovered as a baby and raised by four urchin boys, Mary Rose Clayborne remains fiercely loyal to her misfit family until an English lord reveals a shocking secret that sends her into a confrontation with her past. (ADULT FIC GARWOOD)
• From This Moment On by Lynn Kurland - Two years after fleeing both her stepmother and an unwanted marriage to Colin of Berkhamshire, Aliâenore of Solonge finds herself disguised as a knight, escorting Colin's new, frequently-fainting betrothed to England. (ADULT FIC KURLAND)
• Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn - After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father. (YA FIC COHN)
• Girls In Love by Jacqueline Wilson - Ellie is determined to get it together now that she is in ninth grade and so is planning to recreate herself in everyway, yet in order to get a boyfriend, Ellie realizes that she may have to settle for just about anyone if she wants to get one quickly. (YA FIC WILSON)
• Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger - After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John falls in love with an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality. (YA FIC WITTLINGER)
• If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson - After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is Black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions. (JRHI WOODSON)
• Johnny Voodoo by Dakota Lane - When her father moves her and her younger brother from Manhattan to Louisiana after the death of her mother, fifteen-year-old Deirdre is desolate until she meets a strange young man known as Johnny Voodoo, who helps her learn about love. (YA FIC LANE)
• Lady In Waiting by Nicole Byrd - A talented artist, Circe Hill is playing a dangerous game in Regency-era England when David, Earl of Westbury, the man she has secretly loved for years, pretends to court her to silence his own matchmaking mother. (ADULT FIC BYRD)
• The Oasis by Petru Popescu - This is the powerful, poignant and true story of Mirek, a freedom fighter in the Czech underground, and Blanka, who first met during World War II in a Nazi concentration camp. Their love became a symbol of hope during a time of war. (ADULT 92 FRIEDMAN)
• One Perfect Rose by Mary Jo Putney - After shocking news forces him to flee his estate and wander the countryside as a yeoman, the Duke of Ashburton falls in love with the daughter of a theatrical family, to whom he is unable to reveal his true identity. (ADULT FIC PUTNEY)
• Postcards from NoMan’s Land by Aidan Chambers - Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers' attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation. (YA FIC CHAMBERS)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Mr. Darcy has the pride. He seems arrogant and stuck on himself, and he says whatever he thinks. He’s also very handsome and very rich, and actually, deep down inside, he’s a pretty nice guy. However, Elizabeth Bennet has the prejudice. She thinks Mr. Darcy is the biggest, stupidest, most arrogant jerk on earth! Will she see past his pride or allow her prejudice and first opinions get in the way of true love? (ADULT FIC AUSTEN)
• Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez - Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other. (YA FIC SANCHEZ)
• Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier - A classic novel of romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house's first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted. (ADULT FIC DUMAURIER)
• Rhythms of Love by Doris Johnson - After surviving a brutal attack that shattered her self-worth, modern dancer Brynn Halsted accepts jazz club owner Simeon Storey's invitation to recover at his club retreat, but when desire flares between them, Brynn must choose between her career and true love. (ADULT FIC JOHNSON)
• Riddle of the Shipwrecked Spinster by Patricia Veryan - Rescued from her supposed recent shipwrecking, Cordelia returns to her home town, where she exchanges identities with a local girl, befriends a handsome pair of aristocratic twins, and embarks on a new life. (ADULT FIC VERYAN)
• Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper - Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating. (YA FIC DRAPER)
• A Room With A View by E.M. Forster - A kiss between Lucy and George on a beautiful Italian hillside overlooking Florence begins a fateful romance. (YA PAPERBACKS F)
• The Rose Arch by Linda Sole - Jenny’s mother finds out about her first kiss and whisks her off to a French boarding school. But even at boarding school, love is still possible… (ADULT FIC SOLE)
• Scribbler of Dreams by Mary E. Pearson - Despite her family's long feud with the Crutchfields, seventeen-year-old Kaitlin falls in love with Bram Crutchfield and weaves a tangled web of deception to conceal her identity from him. (YA FIC PEARSON)
• Snowfall by K. M. Peyton - Desperate to see the world beyond her grandfather's vicarage, sixteen-year-old Charlotte convinces her older brother to take her along on a mountain-climbing trip to Switzerland, where her life becomes intertwined with an assortment of people in Victorian society. (YA FIC PEYTON)
• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli - In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. (YA FIC SPINELLI)
• Stoner and Spaz by Ron Koertge - A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman. (YA FIC KOERTGE)
• Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly - Her family and dreams shattered by her father's untimely death at the hands of a ruthless tea baron, Fiona Finnegan flees East London and eventually establishes herself at the head of the tea trade in New York. (ADULT FIC DONNELLY)
• Teen Love: On Relationships edited by Kimberly Kirberger - Combines personal advice with poetry and stories about teenage love and relationships. (YA 306.70835 KIR)
• This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen - Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician. (YA FIC DESSEN)
• Thwonk by Joan Bauer - A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love. (JRHI BAUER)
• To JaeKae: Life Stinx by Jean Davies Okimoto - Sixteen-year-old Jason feels alone and misunderstood when his best friend moves away, his father plans to remarry, and his step-brother-to-be is a high school basketball star, until he starts an online relationship with a girl from Hawaii. (YA FIC OKIMOTO)
• True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff - Fifteen-year-old Verna LaVaughn's life is turned upside-down when Jody, a childhood friend, returns to her housing project and rekindles their old relationship, but Verna may be feeling more emotions for Jody than he is for her. Reader's Guide available. (YA FIC WOLFF)
• Truth or Dairy by Catherine Clark - When her boyfriend suddenly dumps her because he is going away to college, high school senior Courtney Von Dragen Smith is determined to stay single for her final year in order to concentrate on school, friends, and her cool job at the local vegetarian cafe, Truth or Dairy. (YA PAPERBACKS C)
• What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones - Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right. (YA 811.54 SONES)
• When I Fall In Love by Tamara Sneed - Sean Weston is an FBI agent who has always felt like the Ugly Duckling. No case she’s ever faced scares her more than her sister’s upcoming wedding. Sean would rather admire a new gun than a new dress. She has to find a date to the wedding. She asks her handsome next door neighbor Logan – and the sparks begin to fly! (ADULT FIC SNEED)