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  • The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros

    The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce—the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother’s estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing...
  • Somebody Else's Sky by Jessica Hawkins

    Somebody Else's Sky by Jessica Hawkins

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    If I closed my eyes, I could still see them—all blonde sunshine, ocean-blue eyes, and long limbs. The glint of Lake’s gold bracelet. Pink cotton candy on Tiffany’s tongue. My scenery may have changed from heaven to hell, but some things never would: my struggle to do right by both sisters. To let Lake soar. To lift Tiffany up. The sacrifices I made for them, I made willingly...
  • Skin by B.B. Easton

    Skin by B.B. Easton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Get swept up in all the gritty, wild details of a roller-coaster love story with the ultimate bad boy in the first spinoff novel after 44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN, the book that inspired the hit Netflix original series SEX/LIFE.In 1997, Ronald “Knight” McKnight was the meanest, most misunderstood guy in town. . . perhaps on the entire planet...
  • A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

    A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    A high school rebel and a minister's daughter find strength in each other in this star-crossed tale of "young but everlasting love" (Chicago Sun-Times).There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats...
    Categorized as:
    angst  coming-of-age  drama  family  sad  20th-century  audiobook  book
  • Blow my Fuse by Autumn Jones Lake

    Blow my Fuse by Autumn Jones Lake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mallory burst into my life like glittering gold in a concrete jungle. We’ve fought hard and conquered the biggest obstacles in our relationship. I’ll never apologize for who I am or wanting to protect her.When it’s impossible to tell who’s a friend and who’s about to stick a knife in my back, we’ll struggle to hold on to what matters most—each other...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  steamy  20th-century  adult  biker  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

    The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born...
  • Gilded Girl by Pamela M. Kelley

    Gilded Girl by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A rags-to-riches saga set in the Gilded Age.When Eliza Chapman, a London ladies maid, learns that her real father is one of the richest men in New York City her whole world changes. He has sent a one-way ticket for her to join him, his mother and his two daughters at his palatial Manhattan mansion. Eliza suddenly has her own ladies maid and learns that she is expected to find a husband...
  • The Tin Box by Kim Fielding

    The Tin Box by Kim Fielding

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    William Lyon's past forced him to become someone he isn't. Conflicted and unable to maintain the charade, he separates from his wife and takes a job as caretaker at a former mental hospital. Jelley’s Valley State Insane Asylum was the largest mental hospital in California for well over a century, but it now stands empty...
  • Under a Greek Moon by Carol Kirkwood

    Under a Greek Moon by Carol Kirkwood

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The escapist Sunday Times bestselling debut from the nation’s best loved TV presenter, Carol Kirkwood.‘Loved it! It sizzles with secrets and passion...
  • The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks

    The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago...
  • A Common Life: The Wedding Story by Jan Karon

    A Common Life: The Wedding Story by Jan Karon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The sixth novel in the beloved Mitford series, by the bestselling author of At Home in Mitford  and  Somebody Safe with Somebody Good  Laughter and wedding bells ring as Jan Karon takes her millions of fans back in time to the most cherished event in Mitford! Mitford's Lord's Chapel seats barely two hundred souls, yet millions of Jan Karon's fans will be there for the most joyful event in years:...
  • Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

    Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    An Oscar-winning story of a memorable mother and her feisty daughter who find the courage and humor to live through life's hazards and to love each other as never before. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove created two characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere--Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma...
  • Family Connections by Anna Jacobs

    Family Connections by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FAMILY CONNECTIONS While sorting through her father’s papers after his death, Australian Gina Porter discovers a secret in his past. Does she have family in the UK she doen’t know about? She’s longed for an extended family all her life. Though her two daughters make many demands of her, expecting her to babysit at a moment’s notice, she decides to travel to England to investigate...
  • The Hotel on the Riviera by Carol Kirkwood

    The Hotel on the Riviera by Carol Kirkwood

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    By the sapphire blue waters of the French Riviera, a decades-long secret is about to be revealed…Wayward Greek heiress, Ariana Theodosis, inherits the Hotel du Soleil as part of a mysterious legacy. Captivated by its faded glamour, she hopes it offers her the chance to start again...
    Categorized as:
    epic  family  slow-burn  steamy  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Corsican Woman by Madge Swindells

    The Corsican Woman by Madge Swindells

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sybilia turned as if sleepwalking and, trance-like, walked down the stone steps to the living room. She shuddered as she took the rifle from the peg on the wall, but after only a moment's hesitation, she loaded it and went outside. Sybilia Rocca is beautiful, gentle and intelligent...
  • Darkest Longings by Susan Lewis

    Darkest Longings by Susan Lewis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Claudine Rafferty is rich, reckless and beautiful. So when she throws herself into an arranged marriage with the eminently eligible but notorious François de Lorvoire, everyone in Paris is amazed. Determined to cope with François's cruelty and indifference, Claudine soon finds herself driven to find love in the arms of Armand St Jacques, one of her husband's vignerons...
  • Say Yes by Kandi Steiner

    Say Yes by Kandi Steiner

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two strangers.Two words.One unforgettable summer. When you’re an artist, everything has to be perfect.Or so I thought, until my professor told me my perfection was boring and unoriginal. Studying abroad in Florence has taught me one thing: I know nothing when it comes to what makes art truly beautiful...
  • The Forgotten Recipe by Amy Clipston

    The Forgotten Recipe by Amy Clipston

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After losing her fiancé in a tragic accident, Veronica Fisher finds solace in the old recipes stored in her mother’s hope chest—and in a special visitor who comes to her bake stand to purchase her old-fashioned raspberry pies. Veronica Fisher knows how lucky she is to be marrying her best friend. Seth Lapp is kind, hardworking, and handsome—but most importantly, he loves Veronica...
  • Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

    Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 77 ratings
    A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club PickAn Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndré Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera...
  • The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren

    The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    First published in 1974, The Front Runner raced to international acclaim - the first novel about gay love to become popular with mainstream. In 1975, coach Harlan Brown is hiding from his past at an obscure New York college, after he was fired from Penn State University on suspicion of being gay. A tough, lonely ex-Marine of 39, Harlan has never allowed himself to love another man...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  angst  coming-of-age  drama  family  sad  steamy  20th-century
  • Sweet Liar by Jude Deveraux

    Sweet Liar by Jude Deveraux

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It was her father's dying wish that Samantha Elliot search for her grandmother, who'd disappeared from Louisville when she was a baby. So here she was, in big, dirty New York City...her parents were dead, her divorce was final, and she was all alone.... Michael Taggert was Samantha's landlord, and he was easily the most beautiful man she'd ever seen...
  • Flight Patterns by Karen White

    Flight Patterns by Karen White

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind—and to the woman she always wanted to be....   Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people’s pasts while trying to forget her own...
  • Leota's Garden by Francine Rivers

    Leota's Garden by Francine Rivers

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Once Leota’s garden was a place of beauty—where flowers bloomed and hope thrived. It was her refuge from the deep wounds inflicted by a devastating war, her sanctuary where she knelt before a loving God and prayed for the children who couldn’t understand her silent sacrifices.At eighty-four, Leota is alone, her beloved garden in ruins...
  • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov

    Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue...
  • Clover's Child by Amanda Prowse

    Clover's Child by Amanda Prowse

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction. Amanda Prowse is the author of The Coordinates Of Loss and the no.1 bestsellers Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife and What Have I Done? When eighteen-year-old Dot meets Sol, she feels that love has arrived at last...
  • The Butterfly Garden by Rachel Burton

    The Butterfly Garden by Rachel Burton

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gripping and beautiful tale of love, loss and secrets. 1963: When Clara Samuels buys Butterfly Cottage, she knows the scandal she’ll cause. A single woman buying property is not the ‘done thing’, especially not in a village like Carybrook. But Clara has been in love with Butterfly Cottage, and its garden, since she used to play there before the War...
  • Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden

    Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    "If you don't put that ring on this minute, I'm going to take it back," Annie whispered in my ear. She leaned back, looking at me, her hands still on my shoulders, her eyes shining softly at me and snow falling, melting, on her nose. "Buon Natale," she whispered, "amore mio.""Merry Christmas, my love," I answered...
  • Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

    Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change...
  • One Boy's Shadow by Ross A. McCoubrey

    One Boy's Shadow by Ross A. McCoubrey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Fifteen-year-old Caleb Mackenzie doesn’t put up a fight when his father announces the family is moving to Stapeton, Nova Scotia. In fact, Caleb looks forward to a fresh start in the scenic little area. Their new home, Wakefield House, sports large rooms, a big barn where Caleb can work on cars, and acres of forested land for privacy. But it also has a troubling past...
  • Beautiful Thing (Modern Classics) by Jonathan Harvey

    Beautiful Thing (Modern Classics) by Jonathan Harvey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing estate...
  • Mel by Liz Berry

    Mel by Liz Berry

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When her mother is hospitalized after suffering a mental breakdown, seventeen-year-old Mel redecorates the house, initiates a neighborhood clean-up, and becomes involved with a rock star...
  • Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us by Fiona Collins

    Spring, Summer, Autumn, Us by Fiona Collins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four decades. Four seasons. Four chance encounters with the same man. Spring 1986, Oxford. Rachel has landed on her engaged to handsome author Jonny, soon to be stepmother to his young daughter Teddy, and with a dream to open her own art gallery. It’s everything she wished for during her unsettled childhood...
  • Blue Plate Special by Michelle D. Kwasney

    Blue Plate Special by Michelle D. Kwasney

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Doomed loves, failed families, nixed dreamssomeone else's leftovers are heaped on our plates the day we come into this world. Big Macs and pop tunes mask the emptiness as Madeline watches her mom drink away their welfare checks. Until the day Tad, a quirky McDonald's counter boy, asks Madeline out for a date, and she gets her first taste of normal...
  • One Good Man by Emma Scott

    One Good Man by Emma Scott

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s spring, 1970. The Vietnam War has been raging for years with no end in sight. Janey Martin, a California college student and aspiring journalist is tired of writing puff pieces about her university men’s sports teams. She wants to be taken seriously as a journalist and as a woman...
  • A Place to Call Home by Deborah Smith

    A Place to Call Home by Deborah Smith

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Twenty years ago, Claire Maloney was the willful, pampered, tomboyish daughter of the town's most respected family, but that didn't stop her from befriending Roan Sullivan, a fierce, motherless boy who lived in a rusted-out trailer amid junked cars. No one in Dunderry, Georgia--least of all Claire's family--could understand the bond between these two mavericks...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  angst  drama  epic  family  female-mc  friends-to-lovers  sad
  • Breath of Scandal by Sandra Brown

    Breath of Scandal by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and as fast as she could. But she never forgot the sleepy "company town" where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family...
  • I'll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa de los Santos

    I'll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa de los Santos

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in this captivating, beautifully written drama involving family, friendship, secrets, sacrifice, courage, and true love for fans of Jojo Moyes, Elin Hilderbrand, and Nancy ThayerOn the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets an elderly woman named Edith Herron...
  • Heaven by V.C. Andrews

    Heaven by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, the Casteels were the lowest — the scum of the hills.Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face...despite a father meaner than ten vipers...despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pride and her hopes...
  • Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Jane Darlington is a genius at physics, but there's one problem she can't solve. She yearns for a child, but wants to spare it the pain of growing up as...well, a nerd. And surely any child of Jane's would be a little too brainy for the playground set.So she sets out to find a special man to father her child, someone without too much gray-matter between his ears: in short, a big, strong dope...
  • The Pact by Jodi Picoult

    The Pact by Jodi Picoult

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty—they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  drama  epic  family  sad  20th-century  audiobook  book
  • The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

    The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 88 ratings
    A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever...
  • Evening Class by Maeve Binchy

    Evening Class by Maeve Binchy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Among the many evening classes starting all over Dublin is an 'Introduction to Italian'. On the surface it could be just one of hundreds in which some students will succeed and some will fall along the way. the hopes and dreams of so many people are tied up in the twice weekly lessons...
    Categorized as:
    drama  epic  family  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

    Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line...
  • Tin Man by Sarah Winman

    Tin Man by Sarah Winman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A novel celebrating love in all of its forms and the little moments that make up the life of an autoworker in a small working-class town.This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that...
  • One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

    One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 81 ratings
    You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do?If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter; you go after the big money...
  • The Promise by Danielle Steel

    The Promise by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Young architect Micheal Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother's disapproval. Then minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Micheal and Nancy--perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life--Nancy in California, Micheal in New York...
    Categorized as:
    drama  epic  family  female-mc  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs

    The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Susan Wiggs"...sweet, crisp and juicy."--Elin Hilderbrand"A powerful story of love, loss, hope and redemption."-- Kirkus , Starred ReviewTess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their owners. People like Annelise Winther, who has just been reunited with her mother's long gone necklace, worth a sum that could change her life...
    Categorized as:
    drama  epic  family  female-mc  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann

    The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    After a near-fatal head injury, navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a terrifying glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for help, the navy dismisses the danger as injury-induced imaginings...
  • The Beekeeper's Ball by Susan Wiggs

    The Beekeeper's Ball by Susan Wiggs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Escape to beautiful Bella Vista for a heartwarming story of sisters, new beginnings and hidden family secrets.Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef from sun-drenched Sonoma, California, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school. Bella Vista's rambling hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel's project..
  • The Centre of My World by Andreas Steinhöfel

    The Centre of My World by Andreas Steinhöfel

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Phil has felt like an outsider as long as he can remember. All Phil has ever known about his father is that he was Number Three on his mother's list - third in a series of affairs that have set Phil's family even further apart from the critical townspeople across the river...
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