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Welcome, book hors, to another lively edition of The Peckerwood Book Club, because you can't always be prostituting about the manse looking for love in all the wrong places (give it a rest, trick!) (and wash it off!). Sometimes it's nice to look for love between the pages of a good book, don't you think? I'm not necessarily talking about frothy bodice rippers, though they have their place, too, but contemporary, historical, literary and classic romance, from "Pride and Prejudice" to " Tom Lake " and everything iteration in-between.  What are your favorite love stories, or novels that truly made you swoon? For my part, a friend recently recommended "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats" by Jan-Philipp Sendker, which was first published in Germany by the former Asian news correspondent-turned-novelist. Once it was translated for English readers, it became an instant best-seller in North America, and after only a few chapters, I understood why.  In ...