Love is in the air at the Edwardsville Public Library!
This month the library will be hosting the first meeting of its new romance book club. The Happily Ever After book club will meet once a month to discuss a different romance book; we'll be kicking it off this month by reading Book Lovers by Emily Henry.
Jacqueline has put together a list of some of her favorite picks to help you get into the Valentine's Day spirit. If you're looking for even more recommendations, don't forget to check out our February Romantic Comedy display on the wooden spinner by the Adult Circulation Desk!
Book Lovers
Emily Henry
Nora Stephens is one of the best book editors in New York City; she knows every cliche and trope inside out. It shouldn't have come as a surprise to her when one boyfriend after another takes a business trip to a small town and subsequently meets the love of their life. She knows she's not the small-town heroine; she's the big-city work-obsessed girlfriend who's just a stepping stone in their love story. Things could change for her when her little sister convinces her to go on vacation to the seemingly idyllic town of Sunshine Falls. Instead of meeting the small-town man of her dreams, she can't stop running into Charlie another New York City editor. Nora and Charlie haven’t gotten along since their first business meeting years before. However, when Nora’s biggest client starts to send her pages for a new book, teaming up with Charlie may be her best option.
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The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston
Clementine is an overworked and underpaid publicist with no time for love. Even if things are hard now, all she needs to do is keep her head down and work hard, and she'll be on the path to accomplishing her dreams. What she couldn't have planned for was an apartment with a magical glitch in time to get in the way of her perfectly laid plans. One evening, after arriving home from work, she finds a strange man standing in her kitchen. Who she originally thought was a robber turns out to be the person who was living in her apartment seven years ago. She discovers that her apartment is very literally existing seven years in the past. Being roommates with someone living in the past is one thing, but falling in love with them is another. As they grow closer, Clementine has to face what she truly wants out of her future and if it's even possible to be with someone existing at a different time.
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Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood
Working as an adjunct physics professor doesn’t pay enough, that’s why Elsie Hannaway has been supplementing her income by working as a fake girlfriend for hire. Her outgoing personality and people-pleasing tendencies make her the perfect fake date to appease all friends and parents. She could finally leave her fake girlfriend persona behind if she lands the new tenure-track position at MIT. Just as she thinks her dreams are within reach, she realizes that her best client's brother is on the hiring board, and even worse, he recognizes her. Jack thinking that Elsie is actually his brother's librarian girlfriend is not good for her job prospects. Now she needs to find a way to get the job, keep her fake story straight, and avoid running into Jack any more than she has to.
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Part of Your World
Abbey Jimenez
Alexis Montgomery comes from a long line of world-famous doctors, and her family expects nothing less from her. With a big promotion on the horizon, she could never tell them that she is happy just being an ER doctor. A sudden car breakdown finds her stuck in a small farm town and spending time with someone new. Daniel is the town's mayor, carpenter, unofficial baby goat caretaker, and much younger than Alexis. They couldn't be from more different worlds, but the chemistry between them is undeniable. No matter how strong her feelings are, Alexis sees no way to make this any more than a summer fling. With her demanding job calling her back and Daniel unable to leave the town he loves, they're both going to be faced with hard decisions to make.
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert
Chloe Brown has never moved out, never gotten in trouble, and honestly hasn’t done much of anything. To remedy this, she comes up with a list of things to do to “get a life.” She’s off to a good start already checking off the first box of moving into her own apartment. With the easy part done, it looks like she'll need help with the rest of the list. While spying out her window she finds the perfect guide, Redford "Red", her neighbor and apartment handyman. With tattoos and a motorcycle, she’s sure he’ll know how to get her out of her head and out into the world. What wasn't on her list was falling for Red.
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It Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey
Piper Bellinger is living the dream. As the daughter of movie moguls, she spends her time going to glamorous parties, running from the paparazzi, and being LA’s favorite wild child. When one party goes a bit too far, she finds herself waking up in jail. Before she knows it her mother and stepfather have packed up Piper along with her sister and shipped them off to a tiny seaside town where their late father grew up. Housed in a tiny apartment, their instructions are to fix up the bar their father used to own. The only people who might hate this plan more than Piper and her sister are the town locals. Expecting her time in town to be miserable, she is shocked to find herself feeling closer to her late father and running into the brooding sailor Brendan. Like the locals, Brendan hates everything about Piper and can't wait until she's gone (or at least that's what he keeps telling himself). As the people and the town grow on Piper, she is forced to decide if she wants to be with a man who spends weeks at a time out to sea or if she should just return to the life she knows in LA.
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The Hating Game
Sally Thorne
Lucy Hutton has an arch-enemy, and something you should never have to do is share an office with and spend all day next to your arch-enemy. When the small publisher she works for has to merge with a much bigger publisher to stay afloat, that’s exactly where she found herself. Now her and Joshua are both the assistants to the co-CEOs and are both up for the same job promotion. Lucy is determined to put Joshua in his place, get the job, and win their fight once and for all. As the tension between them starts to boil she might have to face the idea that Joshua doesn't hate her and that maybe she doesn't hate him either.
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The Blonde Identity
Ally Carter
Waking up on the streets of Paris with killers on her heels means only one thing: she must be a spy! Or at least that's the only logical conclusion she can come up with when she can't remember her name, how she got here, or who the beautiful man helping her is. Her guess was almost correct: her identical twin sister is the spy, and the mystery man is her sister's ex-partner. The man informs her that her sister turned coat and ran away with priceless information, and now every government and criminal organization is after her. That leaves her and the handsome mystery man as her sister's only hope. Not only are they going to need to team up, but she's going to have to pretend to be her super spy sister.
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About the Author
Jacqueline is a Circulation Clerk in the Adult Library who started in 2024. She enjoys reading epic fantasy books and cozy rom-coms; and believes the best way to read is with the physical book and the audiobook together. When she’s not reading she also loves going to the movies.