Non-Fiction

Folklore of Love and Courtship
The charms and divinations, superstitions and beliefs, signs and prospects of love.  Illustrated by Tomie de Paola.
--Duncan Emrich

Fiction

Here on Earth
After nearly 20 years of living in California, March Murray and her daughter return to March's small Massachusetts hometown.
--Alice Hoffman

Clock Without Hands
Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration,  a small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account.
--Carson McCullers

Science Fiction

Outlander
This bestselling novel of time travel fuses the drama, passion, and violence of 18th-century Scotland with a wry, modern sensibility.
--Diana Gabaldon

The Fairy Godmother
In the land of Five Hundred Kingdoms, if you can't carry out your legendary role, life is no fairy tale . . .
--Mercedes Lackey

Historical Fiction

The Elusive Pimpernel
In this, the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Chauvelin is as crafty as ever, but Sir Percy is more than a match for his arch-enemy.
--Baronness Orczy

Bath Tangle
When the Earl of Spenborough suddenly dies, his willful and obstinate daughter is devastated and horrified to find that her beloved father's will states that her inheritance is to be held by a trustee.
--Georgette Heyer

Mystery

Woman in the Dark
A young, frightened, foreign woman appears at the door of an isolated house. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear in pursuit of the girl. From the author of The Maltese Falcon.
--Dashiell Hammett

The Magyar Venus
The discovery of a 25,000-year-old archaeological treasure, a rekindled romance, and a suspicious suicide in the city of Budapest.
--Lyn Hamilton

Poetry

Tantalus In Love
A collection of poems centered around the dissolution of a marriage probes the territory of recovery, loss, and healing, jealousy, romance, and lust.
--Alan Shapiro

All the Love Poems of William Shakespeare
Includes the complete "Venus and Adonis", "The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint", and all the sonnets.  Eric Gill designed the format and decorations.

Graphic Novels

Pichi, Pichi, Pitch
Lucia and her sister run a public bath that's all the rage. When Lucia meets a terrific-looking surfer boy, there's just one little problem: Lucia is a mermaid.
--Pink Hanamori

Palomar: the heartbreak soup stories
A collection of the Palomar stories from the alternative comic book series, Love and rockets.
--Gilbert Hernandez