As the daughter of the rabbi, the young girl is not suppose to
have any freedoms but to obey what her father and mother
want, and to be a good example for her young siblings. But she
dreams of being free and wearing a bathing suit in public, and marrying a strong confident
man that would be happy to have a girl like her for a wife.
Marie Jubert is a widow who is trying to give her children a good home, but how she is keeping the family up is not a good thing. She soon
becomes close to a man, Matthew Carter, who she is worried that he knows her secret and will turn her in. But soon she finds out that she is falling in love with him, and will be worried to have to chose over
her children for him.
Laura is an American girl that goes on a trip to Italy, where she falls in love with the food. Tommoso is an Italian waiter that woos Laura by telling her that he is a famous chief, but he is not telling the truth because he is only a waiter and the true chief cooking all of the food is Bruno.
Bruno falls deeply in love with Laura from afar and later when Laura finds out the truth she will have to choose between the two men of her dreams.
In the Forest of Serre
By: Patricia A. McKillip
This story is a fairy tail about a man who lost his wife and child, he ends
up killing a chicken and being cursed by a witch. He is in such a deep depression over his lost he does not think about what the
curse will mean. He soon runs away to the woods and follows a bird
where he forgets about his old life and falls in love with a princess.
MLA: McKillip, Patricia. In the Forests of Serre. 1st. New York: The Berkley
Publishing Group, 2003.
Call # FIC MCK
The Dim Sum of all Things
By: Kim Wong Keltner
Lindsey ends up falling in love with the “white devil,” but
that is not ok in the Chinese culture. So her grandma tries to scare the devil away with her stinky ointments. Then
Lindsey realizes that it should not matter who the person is that you fall in love with, just
as long as you really love them for who they are.
Tommy Banks a young teen, is having to deal with the sudden death of his mother, and the
disappearance of his father. Now he is trying to live on the little money that his father has left
him and what every he is able to find or steal going up in the
Bronx. Eventually Tommy ends up finding his grandfather, and
finds his true inner self.
Bill Cosey, who owns Cosey’s Hotel, is loved by 5 women all
for different reasons. He is needed as a father, husband,
lover, guardian, and friend; but when he dies they realize how much more they really need
him. He has become one of the most needed men since he has been dead and now that he is
gone the love for him goes strong between the women.
The Jane Austen Book Club
By: Karen joy Fowler
The Jane Austen book Club is just like Desperate House Wife's, because it
is about 5 women and one man that join a book club. Not even
6months later marriages are being ruined and affairs are going on
between the members of the book club. The club soon becomes more
then just about books but about finding true love and whether or not
marriages will work out or not.