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Romantic Reads for A Night At the Library

Celebrate Menlo Park Library's A Night At the Library event with these romantic reads that span genres, generations, species, and universes. @MenloLibrary #MPLAdults #MPLRomance

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  • Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls into the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral,…
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley Romance, 2025. — RO-BORISON
  • Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all.…
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2024. — ROMANCE McQuiston C.
  • Her name was written in the pages of someone else's story: Lucy Westenra was one of Dracula's first victims. But her death was only the beginning. Lucy rose from the grave a vampire and has spent her immortal life trying to escape from Dracula's…
    Book, 2024New York : Del Rey, [2024] — F-WHI
  • A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this sapphic romance set in 1814.
    Book, 2023New York : Del Rey, [2023] — RO-HAL
  • Felicity "Fizzy" Chen is lost. Sure, she's got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she's asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn't been practicing what she's…
    Book, 2023New York : Gallery Books, 2023. — RO-LAU
  • An unapologetically grumpy 48-year-old recluse, Maggie, to appease her college-aged son, joins an online gaming guild where she forms an online connection with Otter, a 50-year-old optimist, but when they take their relationship into real life,…
    Book, 2023Seattle : Montlake Romance, [2023] — YARDLEY
  • In this Beauty & the Beast retelling, Izzy is an overworked and underpaid publishing assistant. When she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his manuscript, Izzy sees an opportunity to get the…
    Book, 2022Los Angeles : Hyperion Avenue, 2022. — ROM GUILLORY
  • A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for. Nora Stephens life is books-she's read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, [2022] — RO HENRY
  • An audiobook narrator, former actress Sewanee Chester, after having a one-night stand with a handsome stranger in Las Vegas, returns home to narrate a romance novel and forms a connection with the anonymous author, but when his identity is finally…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — FICTION Whelan J.
  • Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in debut author Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies. Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's…
    Book, 2021New York : Tordotcom, 2021. — F-MAR
  • Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman…
    Book, 2020New York : Tor, 2020. — SF-SCHWAB
  • Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
    Book, 2010New York : Doubleday, 2010. — FIC MORGENSTERN
  • Visiting Florence with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England, Lucy becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but…
    Book, 2000New York : Penguin Books, 2000. — FORSTER
  • The original forbidden love story? Two young and passionate star-crossed lovers cannot overcome the feud between their families driving them to a tragic end. Le sigh.
    Book, 2000New York : Modern Library, 2000. — TOLSTOY
  • Jane Eyre, a penniless orphan, is engaged as governess at Thornfield Hall by the mysterious Mr Rochester. Her integrity and independence are tested to the limit as their love for each other grows, and the secrets of Mr Rochester's past are revealed.
    Book, 1991New York : Knopf, c1991. — FICTION Bronte C.
  • In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
    Book, 2012New York, New York : Penguin Books, c2012. — F-AUSTEN, J
  • The original forbidden love story? Two young and passionate star-crossed lovers cannot overcome the feud between their families driving them to a tragic end. Le sigh.
    Book, 2003New York : Spark Pub., c2003. — 822.33 ROMEO & JULIET