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A beginner’s guide to the romance genre, according to local booksellers
Books The Romance novel section at the front of the store at Porter Square Books. (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff) There was a time romance novels were tucked away in the back of bookstores and read self-consciously as a guilty pleasure, but with romance …