LaVyrle Spencer

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July 17, 1943 in Browerville, Minnesota, The United States

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female

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Romance, Historical Fiction

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LaVyrle Spencer is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988.

Spencer is known for creating realistic characters and stories that focus on families rather than only the relationship between a man and woman. These "ordinary" men and women are warm and vulnerable and are always portrayed sympathetically.[1] Her heroines tend to be a mix of fire and warmth, strength, savvy and soft–heartedness who must overcome some sort of adversity, such as pregnancy, divorce, a lengthy separation...more

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Books by LaVyrle Spencer

Average rating: 3.90 · 22,361 ratings · 1,162 reviews · 49 distinct works

	Morning Glory 4.19 avg rating — 2,462 ratings — published 1989 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Separate Beds 3.91 avg rating — 1,474 ratings — published 1985 — 17 editions	My rating:
	That Camden Summer 3.73 avg rating — 1,447 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Small Town Girl 3.82 avg rating — 1,398 ratings — published 1997 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Hummingbird 4.03 avg rating — 1,319 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Family Blessings 3.85 avg rating — 1,094 ratings — published 1993 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Bitter Sweet 3.94 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — published 1990 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Years 4.05 avg rating — 1,008 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions	My rating:
	November of the Heart 3.92 avg rating — 997 ratings — published 1993 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Then Came Heaven 3.83 avg rating — 997 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	My rating:

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“She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, Hummingbird

tags: abbie , jesse , love

9 people liked it

“Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, Morning Glory

tags: eleanor , will

4 people liked it

“She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, "Abbie, I'm going to take you to that bed and make love to you like you never imagined you'd be made love to again.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, Hummingbird

tags: abigail , jesse

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