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The Notebook follows Noah Calhoun, a retired World War II veteran, as he restores a plantation home in rural North Carolina and returns to the memories of the girl he loved fourteen years earlier. Allie Nelson, now engaged to another man, realizes her feelings for Noah have not faded. The novel explores their rekindled romance amid the challenges of their different worlds and the passage of time. Set against the austere beauty of 1940s coastal North Carolina, the story examines love’s power to endure and transform lives.
First publish date: 1996
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Nicholas Sparks
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