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The Notebook


A Romance Novel


Book 1 of the Calhoun Family Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Post-World War II North Carolina,
  • Second Chance,
  • Tearjerker,
  • True Love
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Postwar North Carolina settings with deep emotional pull
  • Second-chance romance that spans decades and social divides
Publisher Description

Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart -- one of PBS's "Great American Reads".

Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again.

At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart.

Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle.

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