Library Lovers' Day, February 14, is a day dedicated to book lovers across the globe and, most importantly, honours libraries and the amazing life-changing books they hold within them.
Whether it be romantic love, unrequited love or the love we have for family and friends, the Vision Australia Library wants you to celebrate the day with these 10 books about love.
About Library Lovers' Day
For more information about the day, including this year’s theme and how to get involved, visit the Australian Library and Information Association here.
Romantic comedy
Five Bush Weddings by Clare Fletcher
With her ex soon to be married, her mum back on the dating scene, and her best friend threatening to settle down with the Most Boring Man Alive, Stevie is feeling left behind. Then the enigmatic Charlie Jones walks into the frame...
PS I Hate You by Sophie Ranald
Abbie and Matt are experiencing the longest dry spell on record. Abbie initiates Operation Memory Lane and recreates their happiest memories. Maybe breakfast in bed, sexy lingerie, dirty martinis and a romantic weekend in the countryside will bring back Abbie's butterflies and make her giddy with happiness... But revisiting the past is a risky business, and secrets always come out in the end. Will the truth ruin their second chance at love?
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Abandoned at age ten, Kya has survived on her own in the marsh she calls home. While she could have lived in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world--until the unthinkable happens.
The dance of love
Reflections by Nora Roberts
Lindsay Dunne has devoted her whole life helping ballerinas grace the stage, and has never found her lack of a loving relationship to be a sacrifice. Until she meets Seth Bannion, the guardian of Lindsay’s most gifted protégé. An architect with his own ideas of the girl’s potential, Seth challenges Lindsay’s tutoring, opening her eyes to the possibilities of a future beyond dance—and opening her heart to the possibilities of love.
Last Dance in Havana by Rosanna Ley
Grace has a troubled relationship with her father, whom she blames for her beloved mother's untimely death. Grace's career is in flux, she isn't sure she wants the baby her husband is so desperate to have and, worst of all, she's begun to develop feelings for their best friend Theo. Theo is a Cuban born magician but even he can't make Grace's problems disappear. Is the passion Grace feels for Theo enough to risk her family's happiness?
Self-love
13 Ways of Looking At A Fat Girl by Mona Ward
Lizzie has never liked the way she looks so when she starts dating guys online she's afraid to send pictures. Following a punishing schedule, she grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?
The Neuroscience of Self-Love: How to improve your most important relationship by Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa
Thoughts and moods are chemical reactions in your brain that you might think you are powerless to control. But modern science has shown beyond doubt that changing your behaviour and thought patterns can rewire the neurological pathways of your brain to literally change how you think, feel and view yourself.
Familial love
Such Devoted Sisters: An anthology of stories edited by Shena Mackay
Sisters may be inseparable, or the relationship may arouse intense, tangled emotions. Here some prestigious writers unravel this intricate bond in a compelling anthology.
The greatest love
Philomena: The true story of a mother and the son she had to give away by Martin Sixsmith
A gripping expose told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation.
Raising Ryland: Our story of parenting a transgender child with no strings attached by Hillary Whittington
When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling their five-year-old son Ryland’s transition from girl to boy, they didn’t expect it to be greeted with such fervour. Beautiful and moving, the video documenting Hillary’s and Jeff’s love for their child instantly went viral and has been seen by more than seven million viewers since its posting in May 2014.Now for the first time, they tell their story in full, offering an emotional and moving account of their journey alongside their exceptional child.
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All these titles and more available from the Vision Australia Library. membership to the library is free and open to all Australian residents with a print disability.
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