Heart Stoppers
&
Heart Warmers
The books on this list will either chill or warm your heart. No matter what your choice, they tell stories of that most mysterious of human emotions called love. Enjoy them and happy Valentine's Day from your librarians.
F Cole, Sheila. What Kind of Love: the Diary of a Pregnant Teenager .
C687w Valerie Larch's life is going fine until she is pregnant by Peter Winder, the boy of her dreams. In her diary she pours out her conflicting emotions and whether she will keep the baby or give it up for adoption.
F Evans, Nicholas. The Horse Whisperer .
E92h Annie graves brings her wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana in hopes that Tom Booker, a whisperer, can save Pilgrim without whom her daughter would die. Check out the movie starring Robert Redford at Blockbuster.
F Mason, Anita. Reich Angel .
E92h Fredrika defies her family to become the only woman pilot in the Luftwaffe. When she falls in love with a woman, she realizes she has put her talents at the serve of evil.
F Binstock, R.C. Tree of Heaven .
B146t Set against the violence of Japan's invasion of China in the 1930s, a love story tells of a Chinese woman who becomes the servant of a Japanese officer after he rescues her and the strange intimacy that develops between them.
F Frank, Lovey. Will You Be My Brussels Sprout?
F8285w An aspiring sixteen-year-old cellist falls in love with her friend's older brother and finds that the relationship is moving too quickly.
F Cormier, Robert. Tenderness : A Novel.
C811te A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.
F Picoult, Jodi. The Pact : A Love Story .
P598p For eighteen years Chris and Emily's families have been best friends, so it just seems right when the childhood friends start dating each other in high school, until the night when Emily dies of a gunshot wound to the head. Chris is accused of murder, but claims Emily's death was a suicide pact gone wrong.
PB Flag, Frannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
FLA Mrs. Threadgood tells Evelyn the story of Idgie and Ruth who back in the thirties ran a café in Whistle Stop, Alabama, where they served good barbecue, good coffee, and all kinds of love.
F Barnard, Robert. A Fatal Attachment .
B259f Lydia, a writer of popular biographies and lonely spinster, tries to absorb two boys, brothers aged thirteen and fifteen into her sphere and to alienate them from their parents. Her ruthlessness causes someone to hate her enough to kill.
PB Bernard, Elizabeth. How To Kiss A Guy .
BER Determined to shed her shy reputation, Naomi tries out for a high school production of Beauty and the Beast and falls head over heel in love with Dylan who plays Beast, the male lead.
F Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain .
W198b Inman, a confederate soldier wounded near the end of the Civil War, walks out of a Richmond hospital and treks the difficult way through dangers and a ravaged countryside toward his sweetheart who lives near Cold Mountain.
F Wallow, Robert James. The Bridges of Madison County .
W198b When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane, the world class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in a love affair that will haunt them forever.
F Tsukiyama, Gail. The Samurai's Garden .
T8828s Stephen, a young Chinese man, is sent to his family's summer house in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. There he meets four local residents whose lives reveal a love story that defies a living death from leprosy.
PB Gingher, Marianne. Teen Angel and Other Stories of Young Love
Gin These wonderfully warm and insightful love stories capture first love, infatuation, confusion and deal with love that adolescents experience of a more genuine kind.