National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Washington 2014

89 Pages·2014·0.82 MB·English

ISBN 978-0-8444-9569-9
Gentle
2014
Romances
National Library Service
for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped
Washington 2014
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
Gentle romances, 2014.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-8444-9569-9
1. Blind--Books and reading--Bibliography--Catalogs. 2. Talking books--
Bibliography--Catalogs. 3. Braille books--Bibliography--Catalogs. 4. Love stories--
Bibliography--Catalogs. 5. Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped--Catalogs. I. Title.
Z5347.L533 2014
[HV1721]
016.823’08508--dc23
2014037860
Contents
Introduction .......................................... iii pense, or paranormal events may be present,
Audio ..................................................... 1 but the focus is on the relationship. Dull,
Braille .................................................... 41 everyday problems tend to be glossed over
Index ...................................................... 53 and, although danger may be imminent, the
Audio by author .................................. 53 environment is safe for the main characters.
Audio by title ...................................... 61 Much of modern fiction—romances in-
Braille by author ................................. 71 cluded—contains strong language and
Braille by title ..................................... 73 descriptions of sex and violence. But not
Order Forms ......................................... 77 all readers want that. This bibliography
Audio .................................................. 77 presents titles produced by NLS that do
Braille ................................................. 79 not contain explicit sex, violence, or strong
language. Even within these limits there is
Note: See last two pages for the phone still great variety. Bestselling authors such
number of your cooperating library. as Janet Evanovich, Peter Mayle, Colleen
McCullough, Stephenie Meyer, Nicholas
Sparks, and Danielle Steel are represented.
Introduction
Settings include Regency-period London,
current-day Amish communities, NASCAR
races, and the paranormal worlds of time
This bibliography is a guide to selected
travel and vampires. The roles of women
romance titles produced by the National
run the gamut from traditional to modern.
Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Marion Chesney’s traveling matchmaker
Handicapped (NLS) in audio and braille
journeys around England by stagecoach
formats. These books are available to NLS
to ply her trade, while the heroines of Dee
patrons through their cooperating network
Henderson’s Uncommon Heroes series are a
libraries throughout the United States and its
lifeguard, a navy pilot, and a CIA agent.
territories.
Titles are arranged in alphabetical or-
The love story was a staple of poets and
der by format according to their author’s
storytellers long before the invention of the
last name and are available in braille and/
printing press or the development of the
or audiobook formats. Recorded titles are
novel. Enthusiasm for love stories has flour-
available on digital cartridge (DB) and/or on
ished unabated for centuries. According to
the Braille and Audio Reading Download
the Romance Writers of America, romance
(BARD) at https://nlsbard.loc.gov, which al-
had the largest share of the U.S. consumer
lows registered patrons to download digital
market in 2012, when the genre generated
talking books and audio magazines. Some
more than $1.4 billion in sales.
digital titles may be available only for down-
Romances—like mysteries, westerns,
load. Braille (BR) titles are also available on
and espionage novels—provide an escape
BARD.
to a world with certain distinctive character
types and situations. The story is usually
about a woman and her relationship with a
man. Other elements like adventure, sus-
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Audio
From a Distance: Timber Ridge Remembered DB 66576
Reflections DB 69951 14 hours 59 minutes
13 hours 48 minutes by Tamera Alexander
by Tamera Alexander read by Catherine Byers
read by Jill Ferris Willow Springs, Colorado Territory; 1871.
Colorado Territory, 1875. Elizabeth West After her mother dies in Paris, Véronique
brook arrives in Timber Ridge to photo- Girard journeys to America in search of
graph the Rocky Mountains and to restore her long-lost father. She hires widower
her health. Former Confederate soldier Jack Brennan to take her to mining com-
Daniel Ranslett protects Elizabeth after munities in the mountains, where gradu-
one of her film exposures captures a mur- ally, by the grace of God, they fall in love.
der. Although from different backgrounds, 2007.
the two fall in love. 2008. Revealed DB 66384
The Inheritance DB 74009 12 hours 55 minutes
11 hours 25 minutes by Tamera Alexander
by Tamera Alexander read by Catherine Byers
read by Gabriella Cavallero Willow Springs, Colorado Territory; 1870.
1877. McKenna “Kenny” Ashford and her Former prostitute Annabelle
troublesome teenage brother leave Mis- Grayson’s husband Jonathan dies on their
souri to join their cousin Janie in Copper way to his Idaho land, leaving her alone
Creek, Colorado. Then Janie dies, leaving and pregnant. Jonathan’s half brother
Kenny her bankrupt ranch and five-year- Matthew Taylor, who despises Annabelle,
old daughter. Kenny doesn’t need any reluctantly agrees to escort her to the
more complications—but widowed mar- homestead. Unexpectedly, the two fall in
shal Wyatt Caradon falls in love with her. love. Rita Award. 2006.
Rita Award. 2009. A NASCAR Holiday, 3 DB 71100
Rekindled DB 66062 7 hours 38 minutes
12 hours 18 minutes by Liz Allison and others
by Tamera Alexander read by Kate Kiley
read by L.J. Ganser Four romantic holiday tales. In Jean
Colorado Territory, 1868. Bostonians Brashear’s A Family for Christmas,
Larson and Kathryn Jennings move west, NASCAR crew chief Gib Cameron re-
but a decade later, someone sabotages turns home to Tennessee for Christmas
their homestead and Larson disappears. and rediscovers romance with his high
Kathryn, pregnant, trusts in God and takes school flame, Cassie. Includes Have a
a housekeeping job on a ranch. Larson, Beachy Little Christmas, Winning the
burned beyond recognition, returns but Race, and All They Want for Christmas.
fears facing Kathryn. Then danger strikes. 2008.
Rita Award Nominee. 2006.
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Deep Dish DB 72492 The Lavender Field DB 63523
11 hours 39 minutes 11 hours 11 minutes
by Mary Kay Andrews by Jeanette Baker
read by Mare Trevathan read by Laura Giannarelli
Atlanta chef Gina Faxton’s television Kentucky thoroughbred heiress and inter-
show is cancelled after her boyfriend, national lawyer Whitney Benedict travels
the producer, is caught sleeping with the to California on behalf of the Austrian
sponsor’s wife. Gina competes for a spot government to bid on divorcé Gabe
on the Cooking Channel but must contend Mendoza’s Lipizzaner horses. Though
with Tate Moody, host of Vittles. The two Gabe is reluctant to sell, Whitney soon
rivals wrangle despite their mutual attrac- falls in love with him and his zany family.
tion. 2008. 2006.
A Proper Pursuit DB 67039 He Married a Doctor DB 18899
14 hours 45 minutes 9 hours 2 minutes
by Lynn N. Austin by Faith Baldwin
read by Barbara Caruso read by Rosemary Schwartzel
Chicago, 1893. Twenty-year-old Romantic story of a doctor torn between
Violet Hayes leaves her hometown for the responsibilities of her medical career
her grandmother’s house with the goals and the demands of her marriage. At first
of finding her long-lost mother, stopping her husband seems to understand how im-
her father’s upcoming wedding, and learn- portant medicine is to her, but later he is
ing God’s purpose for her. Violet attends tempted by the charms of another woman,
the World’s Fair and finally falls in love who is prepared to devote all of her time
after three uninspiring marriage proposals. to him. 1944.
2007. The High Road DB 51389
While We’re Far Apart DB 73413 6 hours 44 minutes
14 hours 2 minutes by Faith Baldwin
by Lynn N. Austin read by Jill Ferris
read by Anne Hancock Jill Hamilton, twenty-five, has had a mul-
Brooklyn, New York; 1943–1945. Penny titude of jobs during her seven years in
Goodrich, who has a crush on widower New York. Currently, she is companion to
Eddie Shaffer, volunteers to watch a wealthy man’s two spoiled granddaugh-
Eddie’s son and daughter after he enlists, ters and niece. When Jill reencounters
but the children have trouble adjusting. Dan Hardy, whom she originally met on
Meanwhile, their elderly neighbor Jacob a cruise, she leaves her work and follows
Mendel worries about his son’s family, him to South America. 1937.
who are trapped in Hungary during the
Holocaust. 2010.
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Audio
The Gilded Web DB 33530 The Fortune Hunter DB 34690
13 hours 32 minutes 6 hours 46 minutes
by Mary Balogh by Jo Beverley
read by Madelyn Buzzard read by Marcia Churchill
Edmund Raine, Earl of Amberley, is used The de Lacy children are in a pickle. Their
to extricating his younger brother and sis- parents are dead and there is no money for
ter from various escapades. So he attempts dowries for the three girls—Beryl, Amy,
to prevent his sister’s planned elopement and Jacinth—or to restore Stonycourt for
by grabbing her cloaked figure from the their brother Jasper and future heirs. Their
garden and locking her in her room. But only hope is for Amy, the stunning beauty
he has actually captured Alexandra of the family, to marry a man with a for-
Purnell. Of course he must offer marriage tune. Unfortunately, Amy finds herself
—and so must his brother, who assisted falling in love with Harry Crisp, whose
him. Alexandra devises a shocking plan to income is much too small. 1991.
help her decide whom to accept. 1989. The Stanforth Secrets: A Regency
The Rosary DB 55926 Romantic Intrigue DB 32334
12 hours 45 minutes 8 hours 34 minutes
by Florence L. Barclay by Jo Beverley
read by Jill Ferris read by Madelyn Buzzard
Artist Garth Dalmain falls in love with Chloe had eloped six years ago, becom-
Jane Champion, the Duchess of Mel- ing the bride of Lord Stephen Stanforth.
drums’s plain niece, but she refuses him His death, in a carriage accident, and his
because she is older. Three years later, uncle’s unexpected death from a seizure
Jane learns that Garth has been blinded, necessitated Chloe’s becoming the mis-
and she attempts to nurse him back to tress of Delamere Hall. She looks forward
health without disclosing her identity. to relinquishing the responsibility into the
1910. capable hands of Stephen’s cousin Justin
Love for Lydia DB 15439 Delamere. But Chloe learns she is suspect-
10 hours 31 minutes ed of treason and of spying for the French.
by H.E. Bates 1989.
read by Merwin Smith The Devil Is a Lie DB 69874
Compelling characterization of a young 7 hours 20 minutes
girl developing from shy awkwardness to by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
bold certainty in her relations with men. read by Colleen Delany
The story, set in 1920s England, is told by After Nina Lawson wins the lottery, her
one of the four men whom she influences fiancé and relatives hit her up for money.
most deeply—the one whom she first But she learns she’s technically still mar-
chooses as her lover and turns to again ried to her estranged, adulterous husband
after two others have died. 1952. Todd, who is entitled to half the win-
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nings. Todd wants to provide for his ailing gating the past and uncover a plot to as-
grandmother, so Nina and Todd pray for sassinate Queen Victoria. 2006.
guidance. 2009. The Little Lady Agency DB 62840
Echoes DB 23818 12 hours 48 minutes
18 hours 20 minutes by Hester Browne
by Maeve Binchy read by Martha Harmon Pardee
read by Roy Avers Twenty-seven-year-old Londoner Melissa
Clare O’Brien, daughter of a poor shop- Romney-Jones opens Little Lady Agency,
keeper, and David Power, upper-class son a consulting firm dedicated to helping
of the town doctor, both long to escape bachelors navigate their personal and so-
the small Irish village of Castlebay. When cial lives. Melissa dons a wig and assumes
they fall in love at Dublin’s most pres- the professional identity of “Honey,” but
tigious university, it seems to them that when sparks fly with American client
barriers of class and clan no longer mat- Jonathan Riley, Melissa wonders whether
ter. But fate takes them back to the stormy he loves her or Honey. 2005.
provincial world of Castlebay, where the The Little Lady Agency and the Prince
echoes of prejudices unchanged for gen- DB 67024
erations test the power of their love. 1985. 13 hours 54 minutes
Wrapped DB 73818 by Hester Browne
8 hours 22 minutes read by Martha Harmon Pardee
by Jennifer Bradbury While planning her wedding and move to
read by Terry Donnelly Paris, Melissa Romney-Jones helps her
London, 1815. Just before her debut sea- grandmother remake playboy prince
son, Agnes Wilkins attends a mummy-un- Nicolas of Hollenberg into a respectable
wrapping party at Lord Showalter’s estate. royal. But American fiance Jonathan Riley
When she impulsively pockets an ancient has turned into a control freak, and
trinket, it entangles her in an Egyptian Melissa’s sister Emery has a baby and
mystery, a Napoleonic spy mission, a rehires their detested childhood nanny.
forbidden romance, and more. For senior 2008.
high and older readers. 2011. Little Lady, Big Apple DB 65108
The Crystal Rose DB 63899 12 hours 43 minutes
8 hours 12 minutes by Hester Browne
by Rebecca Brandewyne read by Martha Harmon Pardee
read by Anne Flosnik Melissa Romney-Jones, a.k.a. Honey from
Rose Windermere’s family returns to Eng- The Little Lady Agency (DB 62840), oper-
land from India in 1835 after close friends ates an escort service for London bache-
are murdered. Fifteen years later Rose lors. She has her girlfriend Gabi and sister
receives a cryptic message and discovers Allegra manage the business while she
she’s being stalked by businessman Raj temporarily joins her boyfriend Jonathan
Khanna. They fall in love while investi-
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Riley in New York City. But doubts soon and falls in love with Samuel—but he is
arise between the lovers. 2006. still in mourning. 2011.
The Brides of Webster County: Four The Journey DB 74142
Bestselling Romance Novels in One 10 hours 35 minutes
Volume DB 71736 by Wanda E. Brunstetter
30 hours 20 minutes read by Theresa Conkin
by Wanda E. Brunstetter Amish carpenter Titus Fisher of Penn-
read by Mitzi Friedlander sylvania is brokenhearted when his girl-
Four novels depict the lives of diverse friend Phoebe cannot commit to him or his
Amish women in Missouri who struggle Amish faith. Titus moves to a Kentucky
with their faith while finding their place in settlement, where he meets his employer’s
the world. Includes Going Home, On Her unconventional daughter Suzanne, who
Own, Dear to Me, and Allison’s Journey. would rather build furniture than cook.
In the first, Faith Andrews returns home 2011.
with her daughter after losing her hus- Lancaster Brides: Romance Drives
band. 2007. the Buggy in Four Inspiring Novels
The Daughters of Lancaster County DB 61984
DB 66094 21 hours 49 minutes
29 hours 48 minutes by Wanda E. Brunstetter
by Wanda E. Brunstetter read by Catherine Byers
read by Catherine Byers Four Pennsylvania Amish women fall in
In this companion to Lancaster Brides love. In A Merry Heart, Miriam’s dream
(DB 61984), three Amish families in Lan- man is marrying another girl. In Looking
caster, Pennsylvania, endure tragedies and for a Miracle wheelchair-using Rebekah
romance. In The Storekeeper’s Daughter, desires acceptance. Outsider Laura, in
Naomi Fisher longs to marry Caleb, but Plain and Fancy, comes to Lancaster and
since her mother’s death, she’s forced to falls for Eli. Rachel, in The Hope Chest,
rear her seven siblings and work in her wants her sister’s boyfriend. 1997.
father’s store. 2005. Royally Jacked DB 58843
The Healing DB 74414 3 hours 59 minutes
10 hours 32 minutes by Niki Burnham
by Wanda E. Brunstetter read by Mimi Bederman
read by Jill Ferris When her parents divorce, fifteen-year-old
Amish carpenter Titus Fischer, from The Valerie accompanies her dad to his new
Journey (DB 74142), encourages his overseas job working for the royal fam-
recently widowed brother Samuel to join ily of a small European country. Valerie
him in Kentucky, where Titus hopes thinks she made a mistake until she meets
Samuel and his four children will find a Prince Georg and falls in love. For senior
fresh start. Esther Beiler watches the kids high readers. 2004.
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Insatiable DB 73026 father, Sir Bertram Stonor. But negotiating
14 hours 12 minutes a deal becomes increasingly distasteful,
by Meg Cabot especially after he meets the landowner’s
read by Kristin Allison lovely niece Teresa. 1968.
Manhattan soap-opera writer Meena Return Match DB 13815
Harper, who can foresee people’s deaths, 7 hours 2 minutes
is dismayed by the cliché when a vampire by Elizabeth Cadell
character is added to her show. But that read by Debbie Trissell
becomes the least of her worries once real- Back from Brazil to work in London,
life vampire hunter Alaric informs Meena international playboy Nigel Pressley finds
that her new boyfriend is secretly a blood- that Rona, his mother’s goddaughter, is an
sucker. 2010. ugly duckling turned swan. Rona, how-
Overbite DB 75069 ever, seems determined to spurn Nigel’s
8 hours 37 minutes overtures until some visitors stir up an old
by Meg Cabot tragedy with sinister aspects. 1979.
read by Kristin Allison The Round Dozen DB 12318
Meena Harper, from Insatiable 5 hours 48 minutes
(DB 73026), works with the Vatican’s by Elizabeth Cadell
Palatine Guard and vampire hunter Alaric read by Jill Ferris
Wulf to kill demons—including her for- In London a rich bachelor is tracking
mer lover Lucien, son of Dracula. Meena down a priceless family heirloom missing
clings to the hope that vampires can be since 1702. His sleuthing leads him into
redeemed and falls in love with Alaric. the rural countryside, where he meets a
2011. Cambridgeshire secretary who helps him
Any Two Can Play DB 54591 find the missing antique—and ends his
6 hours 20 minutes search for the perfect woman. 1978.
by Elizabeth Cadell The Bargain Bride DB 31646
read by Jill Ferris 3 hours 51 minutes
Natalie Travers, an attractive young Eng- by Barbara Cartland
lishwoman, rescues her brother and his read by Ilona Dulaski
year-old twins from domestic chaos when David, the Earl of Blakeney, has lost all
his wife leaves him. Single and indepen- of his money. Blake Hall is in ruins, and
dent, Natalie unexpectedly falls in love the creditors are arriving on the morrow
with Henry Downing, scion of the town’s to demand he sell everything that is left to
founding family. 1981. pay his debts. With Blake Hall to be sold,
The Golden Collar DB 52123 what is to become of David and his sister,
7 hours 6 minutes Lady Aleda? Then, along with the credi-
by Elizabeth Cadell tors, comes Doran Winton, who makes
read by Gabriella Cavallero an offer David and Aleda cannot refuse.
Henry Eliot, a British architect, is sent to 1989.
Portugal to purchase land for his fiancée’s
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