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  • Healed: Stone and Pepper by Tess Thompson

    Healed: Stone and Pepper by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's Cliffside Bay and beyond in this heartwarming enemies-to-lovers romantic adventure from USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson. Stone Hickman is the last of a dying breed. The former Marine believes in integrity, service to his country, a hard day's work, and taking care of his loved ones...
  • Tainted: Lance and Mary by Tess Thompson

    Tainted: Lance and Mary by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One career-ending mistake sends Lance Mullen home to Cliffside Bay in search of a fresh start. And in no time at all, home begins to feel like the place he was always meant to be. With his beautiful new beach house, his friends and family close by, and a profitable business to grow, life really is good. That is until his heart tries to wreck everything... again...
  • So Long, Chester Wheeler by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    So Long, Chester Wheeler by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Unlikely road trip companions form an unexpected bond in an uplifting novel about the past—lost and found—by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author.Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he’s roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn’t need the aggravation, just the money...
  • The Light in the Hallway by Amanda Prowse

    The Light in the Hallway by Amanda Prowse

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes the moving story of a man whose life is changed in an instant. How do you start again when you lose the only love you’ve ever known? When Nick’s wife Kerry falls ill and dies, he realises for the first time how fragile his happiness has always been, and how much he’s been taking his good life and wonderful family for granted...
  • Die hundert Jahre von Lenni und Margot: Roman. »Bezaubernd und zu Tränen rührend.« (Elle) by Marianne Cronin

    Die hundert Jahre von Lenni und Margot: Roman. »Bezaubernd und zu Tränen rührend.« (Elle) by Marianne Cronin

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Life is short - no one knows that better than 17 year-old Lenni Petterssen. On the Terminal ward, the nurses are offering their condolences already, but Lenni still has plenty of living to do.For a start, she has questions about her fate she needs answers to, and stories yet to uncover...
  • The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

    The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen year old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with...
  • Jaded: Zane and Honor by Tess Thompson

    Jaded: Zane and Honor by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zane Shaw isn't the type to cower in a corner, until he meets Honor Sullivan. She's the most phenomenal woman he's ever met, but he's been burned before and so he's doomed to fall for her from a distance. If only his past hadn't left him so weary, perhaps he could be the man he was raised to be. Honor Sullivan has too much at stake to get distracted by a man. But Zane Shaw isn't just any man...
  • Someone To Love Me by Anne Schraff

    Someone To Love Me by Anne Schraff

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to Bluford High. This widely acclaimed teen series set in an urban high school features engaging, accessible writing and appealing, contemporary storylines.At first, Bobby Wallace was everything Cindy Gibson hoped for. He was friendly, seemingly mature, and hansome--the perfect escape from her problems in school and even bigger troubles at home...
  • Le Fils de Mille Hommes by Valter Hugo Mãe

    Le Fils de Mille Hommes by Valter Hugo Mãe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Crisóstomo, un pêcheur solitaire, décide à quarante ans de prendre son destin en main. Il se construit une famille, puisque l’amour est avant tout la volonté d’aimer. Il choisit un fils en apprivoisant le petit orphelin abandonné par le village, puis une femme au passé tourmenté les rejoint, et autour de ce noyau se forme une famille peu commune de laissés-pour-compte et d’éclopés...
  • Ayah by Andrea Hirata

    Ayah by Andrea Hirata

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Betapa Sabari menyayangi Zorro. Ingin dia memeluknya sepanjang waktu. Dia terpesona melihat makhluk kecil yang sangat indah dan seluruh kebaikan yang terpancardarinya. Diciuminya anak itu dari kepala sampai ke jari-jemari kakinya yang mungil. Kalau malam Sabari susah susah tidur lantaran membayangkan bermacam rencanayang akan dia lalui dengan anaknya jika besar nanti...
  • Morning in This Broken World by Katrina Kittle

    Morning in This Broken World by Katrina Kittle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Kindness of Strangers comes a poignant and life-affirming novel about our connections to the past, and the promise for the future during the least promising of times.Grieving but feisty widow Vivian Laurent is at a late-in-life crossroads. The man she loved is gone. Their only daughter is estranged and missing...
  • The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin

    The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia "Rabbit" Hayes, life is coming to an end ...Mia-"Rabbit"-Hayes knows that life is hard for everyone. And she knows that she's one of the lucky ones. She loves her life, ordinary as it is. And she loves the extraordinary people in it: her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colorful, unruly family; the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye...
  • I Wanted You To Know by Laura Pearson

    I Wanted You To Know by Laura Pearson

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dear Edie, I wanted you to know so many things. I wanted to tell you them in person, as you grew. But it wasn’t to be.Jess never imagined she’d be navigating single motherhood, let alone while facing breast cancer. A life that should be just beginning is interrupted by worried looks, heavy conversations, and the possibility of leaving her daughter to grow up without her...
  • Spindrift by Anna Burke

    Spindrift by Anna Burke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can a hot summer fling mend the hearts of two broken women?Morgan Donovan had everything she ever wanted: a dream job as a large animal veterinarian, awesome friends, and a loving and supportive fiancée. But it all comes crashing down when her fiancée dumps her after realizing that Morgan’s job will always come first...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  lgbtq  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  wlw
  • This Fragile Life by Kate Hewitt

    This Fragile Life by Kate Hewitt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Also published at The Other MotherYou love your best friend. You trust her with your life. But could you give her the most precious gift of all?Alex's life is a mess. She's barely holding down a job, only just affording her apartment, and can't remember when she was last in a relationship. An unexpected pregnancy is the last thing she needs.Martha's life is on track...
  • Swimming Lessons by Mary Alice Monroe

    Swimming Lessons by Mary Alice Monroe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It's been five years since the original turtle lady, old Miss Lovie Rutledge, passed away, but her legacy lives on with some special women, especially Toy and her daughter, young Little Lovie. Toy Sooner kept her graveside vow to her beloved mentor. She left behind an abusive, dysfunctional lifestyle to become a strong single mother and aquarist at the South Carolina Aquarium...
  • The Chronicles of Audy: 21 by Orizuka

    The Chronicles of Audy: 21 by Orizuka

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hai. Namaku Audy. Umurku masih 22 tahun. Hidupku tadinya biasa-biasa saja, sampai aku memutuskan untuk bekerja di rumah 4R. Aku sempat berhenti, tapi mereka berhasil membujukku untuk kembali setelah memberiku titel baru: "bagian dari keluarga". Di saat aku merasa semakin akrab dengan mereka, pada suatu siang, salah seorang dari mereka mengungkapkan perasaannya kepadaku...
  • Teardrop Lane by Emily March

    Teardrop Lane by Emily March

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Emily March’s beloved new novel set in Eternity Springs, a woman who has given up on dreams of a family meets a man who needs her to complete his own. Town physician Rose Anderson hides a well of sadness behind her cheerful and capable professionalism. Heartbreak has only reinforced her belief that marriage and children aren’t in her future...
  • Below the Big Blue Sky by Anna McPartlin

    Below the Big Blue Sky by Anna McPartlin

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Well, that was a tearjerker! Anna McPartlin's Below the Big Blue Sky is a MORE than worthy follow-up to The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes' - Marian KeyesSo you want my dead child to wear an AC/DC Highway to Hell tour T-shirt into her grave?There's no family quite like the Hayes, and yet they're just like any other - they love each other, they look out for each other and they drive each other mad...
    Categorized as:
    drama  grief  friendship  family  lgbtq  romance  fiction  contemporary
  • Alaskan Dawn by Edie Claire

    Alaskan Dawn by Edie Claire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A brand new novel of romantic women’s fiction from the author of the award-winning Long Time Coming and Meant to Be! Haley knew that carrying her twin sister’s baby would be a sacrifice.She just didn’t know how great. Overachieving attorney Haley Olson has always done the responsible thing. So when her twin sister Micah needs a surrogate mother, Haley willingly volunteers...
  • Nine Lives by Danielle Steel

    Nine Lives by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A woman who longs to avoid risk at all cost learns that men who love danger are the most exciting in this moving novel from New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine. Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together...
  • The Summer's End by Mary Alice Monroe

    The Summer's End by Mary Alice Monroe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the powerful and heartwarming conclusion to her bestselling Lowcountry Summer trilogy, New York Times author Mary Alice Monroe brings her readers back to the charm and sultry beauty of Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, to reveal how the pull of family bonds and true love is as strong and steady as the tides...
  • The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson

    The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first…Mabel Beaumont’s husband Arthur loved lists. He’d leave them for her everywhere. ‘Remember: eggs, butter, sugar’. ‘I love you: today, tomorrow, always’.But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he’s still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: ‘Find D’...
  • Be Our Guest by CJ Bishop

    Be Our Guest by CJ Bishop

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blood is just blood. Family ties are knit in the heart and strengthened by love. With most of whom they consider ‘family’ already right there within their tight-knit circle, the Phoenix couples begin to look beyond that circle and contemplate those from the past who rejected and hurt them. Deep down, Dane longs for reconciliation with his parents...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  lgbtq  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mlm
  • Meet Me At Sunrise by Michele Brouder

    Meet Me At Sunrise by Michele Brouder

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Read the generational saga about three sisters and their grandmother and her friends in the beachside town of Hideaway Bay.After reuniting with her sisters at her grandmother’s funeral, Alice Monroe determines that Hideaway Bay may be the place for her. Nursing a broken heart, Alice throws herself into transforming her grandmother’s house into an inn...
  • Silver Threads by Bette Lee Crosby

    Silver Threads by Bette Lee Crosby

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the day Jennifer Green was born a pile of stones was placed alongside her scale of life. A few were the dark gray of sorrow, but most were a pale blush color. The largest stone was the rose hue of a sunrise. That one would be placed on the scale the day she married Drew Bishop. Even more brilliant but a wee bit smaller was the pink stone glistening with specs of silver...
  • Bittersweet by Deborah Bladon

    Bittersweet by Deborah Bladon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My world exploded on my wedding day.A dark-haired, gorgeous stranger objected as I stood at the altar in my long, white gown.He told all of my friends, my family, and my fiancé that he was the man for me.I had no idea who he was, but he offered me an escape I was craving, so I left the church with him.He might have been a little drunk and horribly confused...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  friendship  lgbtq  realistic  adult  book  contemporary
  • Always You and Me by Dani Atkins

    Always You and Me by Dani Atkins

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Fractured comes a moving, heart-mending and uplifting novel of love, hope and second chances.Then…On the eve of her wedding to Adam, Lily’s best friend Josh unexpectedly walked out of her life, and she hasn’t seen him since.Lily and Adam are blissfully happy, until he falls ill...
  • Hotlanta by Denene Millner, Mitzi Miller

    Hotlanta by Denene Millner, Mitzi Miller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Designer clothes. Gorgeous boys. Family secrets. Major drama. Welcome to Atlanta and the lives of the Duke twins, Sydney and Lauren. They don't call it Hotlanta for nothing! The Duke twins, Sydney and Lauren, live the life: They attend the fanciest school in Atlanta, they live in Buckhead, the most exclusive neighborhood, and they only date the hottest guys...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  lgbtq  realistic  secrets  book  contemporary  fiction
  • As Long As I Have You by Bella Andre

    As Long As I Have You by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All Mari Everett’s life, she’s had two secret dreams: To own a bookstore, and to reunite with her long lost father. But when he passes away unexpectedly and she inherits his home and business, the only way she can learn about his life—especially why he abandoned her when she was three and never came back—is by leaving California to take over his bookstore in London...
  • Recipes for Melissa: The heartbreaking story of a mother's goodbye to her daughter by Teresa Driscoll

    Recipes for Melissa: The heartbreaking story of a mother's goodbye to her daughter by Teresa Driscoll

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Is it ever too late for the gift of goodbye? As I write now, you are eight years old – asleep in the bed next door in princess pyjamas, with a fairy costume discarded on the floor.Twenty-Five. The age I had you. The age our story began. And the age, I hope, that will see you truly ready for the things that I need to say to you… Melissa Dance was eight years old when her mother died...
  • The Secret Ingredient by Sue Heath

    The Secret Ingredient by Sue Heath

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ‘A delicious story that wraps itself around your heart’ Evie Woods, bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop.It’s been three years, two weeks and one day since Kate Shaw’s life changed forever. Three years, two weeks and one day that Kate has been angry – with herself and life.But today is different. Different because Kate has finally taken the step she’s been avoiding…back into the kitchen...
  • Kau, Aku, dan Sepucuk Angpau Merah by Tere Liye

    Kau, Aku, dan Sepucuk Angpau Merah by Tere Liye

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ada tujuh miliar penduduk bumi saat ini. Jika separuh saja dari mereka pernah jatuh cinta, maka setidaknya akan ada satu miliar lebih cerita cinta. Akan ada setidaknya 5 kali dalam setiap detik, 300 kali dalam semenit, 18.000 kali dalam setiap jam, dan nyaris setengah juta sehari-semalam, seseorang entah di belahan dunia mana, berbinar, harap-harap cemas, gemetar, malu-malu menyatakan perasaanya...
  • Stepping Up by Sarah Turner

    Stepping Up by Sarah Turner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Beth has never stuck at anything.She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember and she still sleeps in her childhood bedroom. It's not that she hasn't tried to grow up, it's just that so far, the only commitment she's held down is Friday drinks at the village pub.Then, in the space of a morning, her world changes...
  • Tangled Vines by Megan Mayfair

    Tangled Vines by Megan Mayfair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Amelia O'Sullivan is a photographer who has always viewed herself through the wrong lens. When her marriage publicly crashes around her, she flees to the safety of her aunt's country property to pick up the pieces...
    Categorized as:
    epic  family  friendship  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Shouting Match by Pandora Pine

    Shouting Match by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After the death of his father, Capone Lombardi was tasked not only with keeping his father’s legacy alive, but also to look after his mother and three younger brothers. Putting his own love life on the back-burner, he’s spent the last five years ensuring the family restaurant, Lombardi’s, thrives...
    Categorized as:
    family  friendship  lgbtq  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mlm
  • Love Child by Ashley Farley

    Love Child by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Small-town romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author, Ashley Farley Casey Hobbs has never met her father. She doesn’t know his identity or where he lives or whether he has children. She’s spent the past three years at her mother’s sickbed, watching cancer eat away her organs and their bank account...
  • Little Harbour by Sophia Soames

    Little Harbour by Sophia Soames

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a story about life and death, because there was never anyone else for Jens. He had been with Sofie almost all his life, from the day they met at school when they were fifteen, until the day she took her final breath against his chest. She was always everything to him. As he was to her. He never doubted that. Not for a minute...
    Categorized as:
    family  friendship  grief  lgbtq  adult  book  children  contemporary
  • The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

    The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library...
  • Liars Like Us by Mary Campisi

    Liars Like Us by Mary Campisi

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Unlock the secrets in Reunion Gap What happens when destiny ignores the rules? Tate Alexander has the good luck to be born with looks and charm, and the bad luck to belong to a family where money and power mean more than honor and integrity. When he returns to Reunion Gap to take over his father’s company, he’s determined to uncover and right the wrongs his father committed...
  • We, The Wildflowers by L.B. Simmons

    We, The Wildflowers by L.B. Simmons

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Their strength and ferocity stem from below the surface where their roots are forever tangled, interwoven in such a way that for the remainder of time they bloom together …”GenesisAdamChloeLukasNo one loves them, no one cares about them, no one even sees them until they end up in Mary Rodriguez’s home, an outpost for Sacred Heart’s troubled youth program...
  • The Farmhouse: A Hickory Grove Novel by Elizabeth Bromke

    The Farmhouse: A Hickory Grove Novel by Elizabeth Bromke

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A desperate hairdresser. Her handsome friend. And a farmhouse full of secrets.  When Maggie Devereux is served an unexpected eviction notice, everything falls apart. Out of options, the nearly divorced forty-something stumbles across an unopened letter regarding her late aunt's estate: a ramshackle farmhouse on the outskirts of town...
  • Drawing Lessons by Patricia Sands

    Drawing Lessons by Patricia Sands

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The author of the Love in Provence series returns to the South of France with a poignant portrait of a woman who must learn how to create a new life for herself…Sixty-two-year-old Arianna arrives in the South of France for a two-week artists’ workshop full of anticipation but burdened by guilt...
  • Kill Your Darlings by MesserMoon

    Kill Your Darlings by MesserMoon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kill Your Darlings: To remove or refrain from using something in spite of one's affection for itYears after Regulus loses his brother they're reunited, and as he struggles to figure out where he fits in Sirius's life he also struggles not to get lost in the impossible feelings he has for Sirius's best friend...
  • Single Bald Female by Laura Price

    Single Bald Female by Laura Price

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    'Life-affirming, tearjerking and gorgeously written . . . An extraordinary, hugely moving story about the fight for survival' - Hannah Tovey, bestselling author of The Education of Ivy EdwardsAt thirty-one, Jessica Jackson has it all – the career she’s worked so hard for, the loving boyfriend and a cosy London flat they share with their cat...
  • A Time for Friends by Patricia Scanlan

    A Time for Friends by Patricia Scanlan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the #1 internationally bestselling author comes her next heartwarming and comforting Irish-set novel about the complexities of lifelong friendship, perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy and Cathy Kelly...
  • Beach House for Rent by Mary Alice Monroe

    Beach House for Rent by Mary Alice Monroe

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  friendship  grief  realistic  adult  audiobook  book
  • Winter in Tokyo by Ilana Tan

    Winter in Tokyo by Ilana Tan

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Tetangga baruku, Nishimura Kazuto, datang ke Tokyo untuk mencari suasana baru. Itulah katanya, tapi menurutku alasannya lebih dari itu. Dia orang yang baik, menyenangkan, dan bisa diandalkan. Perlahan-lahan---mungkin sejak malam Natal itu---aku mulai memandangnya dengan cara yang berbeda. Dan sejak itu pula rasanya sulit membayangkan hidup tanpa dia...
  • O rio que me corta por dentro by Raul Damasceno

    O rio que me corta por dentro by Raul Damasceno

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Me leva pra casa..." Em Carrasco, um lugarejo perdido nas entranhas do sertão cearense, corre um rio onde dois meninos gastam suas infâncias em mergulhos. Cícero e Luzimar, amigos inseparáveis, companheiros de aventuras por estas matas acinzentadas...
  • Times Squared by Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Roy

    Times Squared by Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Roy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Identical twin sisters Payton and Emma Mills have “traded faces” and created “twin-dentical chaos” at school and at home. But you haven’t seen anything yet. Payton and Emma are off to “twin-vade” New York City! Payton’s drama club plans a field trip to see an off-Broadway show, and Emma’s mathletes team will compete in an elite competition...
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