{"id":14815,"date":"2023-02-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/?p=14815"},"modified":"2023-01-19T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T23:12:22","slug":"nine-romance-books-to-fall-in-love-with-this-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/2023\/02\/08\/nine-romance-books-to-fall-in-love-with-this-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Romance Books to Fall in Love with This Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It\u2019s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she\u2019s almost a new person now\u2014an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it\u2019s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Akwaeke Emezi\u2019s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Bee K\u00f6nigswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project – a literal dream come true – Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school. But, when it comes time to actually make a move and put<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other, executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company. But the tension between Lucy and Joshua has also reached its boiling point, and Lucy is discovering that maybe she doesn\u2019t hate Joshua. And maybe, he doesn\u2019t hate her either.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother\u2019s head. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago\u2014but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can\u2019t afford to attract attention\u2014or get attached. Still, he can\u2019t help letting his guard down when he meets Miranda Emerson. But the powerful bond between them cannot last\u2014because not all thieves follow Harry\u2019s code of honor.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Catalina Mart\u00edn desperately needs a date to her sister\u2019s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows\u2014including her ex and his fianc\u00e9e\u2014will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. Enter Aaron Blackford\u2014her tall, handsome, condescending colleague\u2014who surprisingly offers to step in. But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0<\/strong>Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she\u2019d do anything for them. But almost everything she’s told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren\u2019t for her husband\u2019s job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best \u2013 researching and writing about his wife\u2019s life. But as he starts to unravel the truth, he discovers the woman he loves doesn\u2019t really exist.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves. But Izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head. Beau Towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell-all memoir.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Kingsley family is practically American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. When Joseph S. Kingsley III is born in 1960, he inherits the weight of that legacy. No one ever expected anything of Cate, on the other hand. She, too, grew up in a single-parent household\u2014just her and her mom scraping by in their small apartment. When Joe and Cate\u2019s paths cross, their connection is instant. What remains to be seen is whether their relationship will survive the glare of the spotlight that follows Joe everywhere.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Naomi wasn\u2019t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn\u2019t changed at all. There\u2019s a reason Knox doesn\u2019t do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomi\u2019s life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she\u2019s almost a new person now\u2014an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it\u2019s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Akwaeke Emezi\u2019s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds. Bee K\u00f6nigswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project – a\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14831,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815\/revisions\/14831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}