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  • When It Rains: The bittersweet romance you won't want to miss by Brooke Harris

    When It Rains: The bittersweet romance you won't want to miss by Brooke Harris

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The bittersweet romance you won't want to miss. Perfect for fans of Me before You and The Notebook. I'm dying. I'm not afraid. It's my time. I see so much of me in my granddaughter. I know she will help our family once I'm gone. I just hope she can help herself before it's too late. My grandmother is dying. I'm afraid that it's time. She has given me a gift. A book...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  friendship  adult  book  contemporary  epic
  • 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...
  • A Million Dreams by Dani Atkins

    A Million Dreams by Dani Atkins

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beth Brandon always dreamed of owning a florist, but today the bouquets of peonies and bright spring flowers are failing to calm her nerves. Because today, Beth has a life-changing decision to share with her husband.Izzy Vaughan thought she and her husband would stay together forever, but sometime last year, their love began to fade...
  • Night Road by Kristin Hannah

    Night Road by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyone’s needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable...
  • The Season of Silver Linings by Christine Nolfi

    The Season of Silver Linings by Christine Nolfi

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She can’t change what’s come before. But letting go could bring healing—and the rare love that comes once in a lifetime.When Ohio pastry chef Jada Brooks and her two best friends restored the glorious Wayfair Inn, it was a boon to Sweet Lake—and to their own lives. Now Linnie and Cat are focused on private matters: one engaged, the other swept up in newlywed bliss...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  friendship  adult  audiobook  book  comedy
  • The Beachside Inn by Fiona Baker

    The Beachside Inn by Fiona Baker

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Escape to Marigold Island, a charming New England town with a cast of characters who will come to feel like old friends!Lydia Walker and Angela Collins both need a fresh start.A year ago, Lydia became a widow at thirty-eight when she lost her beloved husband to cancer, and despite the support of her friends and her teenage daughter, Holly, she’s had a hard time moving on from the loss...
  • The Food of Love by Amanda Prowse

    The Food of Love by Amanda Prowse

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A loving mother. A perfect family. A shock wave that could shatter everything. Freya Braithwaite knows she is lucky. Nineteen years of marriage to a man who still warms her soul and two beautiful teenage daughters to show for it: confident Charlotte and thoughtful Lexi. Her home is filled with love and laughter...
  • Sabtu Bersama Bapak by Adhitya Mulya

    Sabtu Bersama Bapak by Adhitya Mulya

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Hai, Satya! Hai, Cakra!” Sang Bapak melambaikan tangan. “Ini Bapak. Iya, benar kok, ini Bapak. Bapak cuma pindah ke tempat lain. Gak sakit. Alhamdulillah, berkat doa Satya dan Cakra. … Mungkin Bapak tidak dapat duduk dan bermain di samping kalian. Tapi, Bapak tetap ingin kalian tumbuh dengan Bapak di samping kalian. Ingin tetap dapat bercerita kepada kalian...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  realistic  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Nantucket News by Pamela M. Kelley

    Nantucket News by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Charleston native, Taylor Abbott, has just relocated to Nantucket for her dream job as a junior news reporter at the local paper. Ten years ago she was Abby Hodges college roommate and is looking forward to living near her best friend again.Until her rental cottage is available, she's going to stay at the Beach Plum Cove Inn, Abby's mother's bed and breakfast...
  • Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller

    Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Escape to the Gulf Coast of Florida with Georgia Carpenter as she gets a second chance at life, love, and happiness. In the middle of an awful divorce, fifty-three-year-old Georgia Carpenter finds herself out of luck, time, and money. Then her phone rings with the news that her great aunt has died and left her a cottage in the Gulf Coast town of Blackbird Beach...
  • What the Heart Remembers by Bette Lee Crosby

    What the Heart Remembers by Bette Lee Crosby

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Overview TWO LOVERS. ONE CHANCE AT HAPPINESS....When Max Martinelli returns to Paris in search of her lost love, what she finds will change her life forever. For three years the memory of Julien Marceau has haunted Max. Her life is stuck on hold simply because she can't stop wondering what would have happened if she had gone back...
  • Coral Weddings by Jan Moran

    Coral Weddings by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While Marina and Jack contemplate their future, her sister Kai and her new fiance Axe are planning their wedding. When disagreements threaten to derail the wedding, the sisters' grandmother, the indomitable Ginger Delavie, doles out unusual advice. Soon, an unforgettable event unfolds...
  • The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle

    The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New town, new school, new friends. It was difficult for Ginny at first, but her senior year is finally starting to feel kind of normal. That is, until she sees him—the beautiful mystery in her English class. He has never spoken a word to anyone. He moves through each day at school without making eye contact. His name is Smitty Tibbs, but everyone calls him the Alien...
  • Identity by Nora Roberts

    Identity by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life.Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender...
  • The Loft by Bette Lee Crosby

    The Loft by Bette Lee Crosby

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    50 YEARS OF MEMORIES ARE HIDDEN IN THE WALLS OF THE LOFT... Annie only needs to find one... the one that will save Oliver's life. On the day of their wedding, Annie saw nothing but happiness ahead, but when an accident calls her back to Memory House, her world is changed forever...
  • The Day She Came Back by Amanda Prowse

    The Day She Came Back by Amanda Prowse

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When her loving, free-spirited grandmother Primrose passes away, Victoria is bereft, yet resilient—she has survived tragedy before. But even her strength is tested when a mysterious woman attends Prim’s funeral and claims to be the mother Victoria thought was dead...
  • The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati

    The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Catherine Pulaski knows Zero is coming for her. Zero, the devastating depression born of Catherine’s bipolar disorder, almost triumphed once; that was her first suicide attempt.Being bipolar is forever. It never goes away. The med du jour might work right now, but Zero will be back for her. It’s only a matter of time...
  • How to Disappear by Sharon Huss Roat

    How to Disappear by Sharon Huss Roat

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Vicky Decker has perfected the art of hiding in plain sight, quietly navigating the halls of her high school undetected except by her best (and only) friend, Jenna. But when Jenna moves away, Vicky’s isolation becomes unbearable.So she decides to invent a social life by Photoshopping herself into other people’s pictures, posting them on Instagram under the screen name Vicurious...
  • Paper Hearts & Summer Kisses by Carole Matthews

    Paper Hearts & Summer Kisses by Carole Matthews

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    'I'm a Carole Matthews addict!' Mary BerryA heart-warming and poignant novel of romance, family and second chances, Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses is Sunday Times bestselling Carole Matthews at her outstanding best. Perfect for fans of Jill Mansell and Milly Johnson...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • What I Remember Most by Cathy Lamb

    What I Remember Most by Cathy Lamb

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a new novel rich in grace, warmth, and courage, acclaimed author Cathy Lamb tells of one woman's journey of reinvention in the wake of deep betrayal.Grenadine Scotch Wild has only vague memories of the parents she last saw when she was six years old. But she's never forgotten their final, panicked words to her, urging Grenadine to run...
  • Christmas at the Restaurant by Pamela M. Kelley

    Christmas at the Restaurant by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nantucket's famous Christmas Stroll is always the first week of December and this year sisters Mandy and Emma and Paul, the executive chef want to do something extra special for Mimi's Place, the restaurant that they co-own. It will be Emma and Paul's first Christmas together as a couple and Mandy's first holiday as a newly single and divorced mother of two...
  • Christina by Leanne Davis

    Christina by Leanne Davis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My entire life I’ve lived with shadows lurking behind what otherwise appears like the perfect family. My mother often disappears into her bedroom for days at a time because her life becomes too much to deal with. I never understood it. I know there are family secrets. I hear the whispers and innuendos. But no one wants me to know the truth. The thing is: I’m not a little girl anymore...
  • The Last Goodbye by Kay Lyons

    The Last Goodbye by Kay Lyons

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    SOMETIMES THE PAIN OF LIFE BRINGS A NEW BEGINNING...Widower Dominic Dunn isn’t sure what to think of his wife’s pre-planned trip for him a year after her death. It’s her effort to force him from his work desk to the coast and the peacefulness she’d found at the Carolina Cove Inn...
  • His Uptown Girl by Liz Talley

    His Uptown Girl by Liz Talley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life doesn't follow rules... Jazz pianist Dez Batiste knows this all too well. It's taken him years to return to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina swept away what mattered most. His musician's soul is still lost in the wreckage, but he's after a brand-new future by opening an Uptown jazz club. Too bad the distractingly sexy Eleanor Theriot is getting in his way...
  • 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...
  • Hunger for Life by Andy Marr

    Hunger for Life by Andy Marr

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the day of his graduation, James says goodbye to the future and moves back to his parents’ house in Myreton, the sleepy village of his childhood. He’s not happy, but the thought of continuing his life anywhere else seems unthinkable while his sister, Emma, continues to suffer with the illness that’s plagued her since she was a child...
  • Stronger Than You Know by Jolene Perry

    Stronger Than You Know by Jolene Perry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After police intervention, fifteen-year-old Joy has finally escaped the trailer where she once lived with her mother and survived years of confinement and abuse. Now living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in a comfortable house, she’s sure she’ll never belong. Wracked by panic attacks, afraid to talk to anyone at her new school, Joy’s got a whole list of reasons why she’s crazy...
  • His Secret Baby  (A McKnight Family Romance) by Lucy McConnell, Anne-Marie Meyer

    His Secret Baby (A McKnight Family Romance) by Lucy McConnell, Anne-Marie Meyer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I came back to town for closure... And found a daughter I never knew I had...Return to the McKnight family series where the one person Penny never wanted to come back has just walked into her life: Katie's dad...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  friendship  medical  adult  book  contemporary  epic
  • The Shadow Between Us by Carol Mason

    The Shadow Between Us by Carol Mason

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What is it about the coast that attracts people running from their past? Maybe there’s something in a sea breeze that blows away your problems. Maybe when you look out at the ocean you can see the future; forget the secrets and pain holding you back. Or at least you can forget them for a time. When Olivia moves to Port Townsend, her marriage is floundering, and her life is in pieces...
  • Letting Ana Go by Anonymous

    Letting Ana Go by Anonymous

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction.She was a good girl from a good family, with everything she could want or need. But below the surface, she felt like she could never be good enough. Like she could never live up to the expectations that surrounded her. Like she couldn’t do anything to make a change...
  • The Passing Storm by Christine Nolfi

    The Passing Storm by Christine Nolfi

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A gripping, openhearted novel about family, reconciliation, and bringing closure to the secrets of the past.Early into the tempestuous decade of her thirties, Rae Langdon struggles to work through a grief she never anticipated. With her father, Connor, she tends to their Ohio farm, a forty-acre spread that itself has enjoyed better days...
  • Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton

    Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Adam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy). An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world...
  • The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah

    The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always “the princess” of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold. High School. College. Marriage. Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her sisters, her cousins, her friends. But it didn’t work out that way for Angie...
  • Between You and Me by Carol Mason

    Between You and Me by Carol Mason

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Is her new husband really who she thinks he is?When young doctor Lauren Matheson meets Joe, an older divorced businessman, at a glittering poolside in California, it’s a chance encounter that seems life-changing for them both. Back home in London, their feelings only strengthen...
  • The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us...Their rise was meteoric.Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction.But on one Hollywood evening in 1993, they were on the world’s biggest stage, accepting their Oscar in front of the watching world.That night was the beginning of their careers...
  • Silent Signs by Ana Simons

    Silent Signs by Ana Simons

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ~When life falls apart, what if sharing your secrets with a perfect stranger made it all fall back into place? ~ On the fateful weekend her husband puts an end to their marriage, Sophie Thompson must leave for a two-week work assignment in London. As she juggles her emotions at the airport terminal, Matthew O’Brian observes her, intrigued...
  • The Boarding House by Sharon Sala

    The Boarding House by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ellie Wayne doesn't just live. She survives.Ellie Wayne has grown up in frightening circumstances, damaged by a sexually abusive father and mentally fragile mother. Scarred and still threatened by a father she hates and fears, Ellie believes her future holds nothing more than danger, shame and secrets . . . until the unspeakable happens, and Ellie is forced to choose...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Last Goodbye by Fiona Lucas

    The Last Goodbye by Fiona Lucas

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Poignant, hopeful, and full of emotional power, an unforgettable story in the vein of P.S. I Love You about two people learning to love again after great loss, perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Josie Silver.How can you move on if you can’t let go?Spencer was the love of Anna’s life: her husband, her best friend, her rock. She thought their love would last forever...
  • The Lies We Hide by S.E. Lynes

    The Lies We Hide by S.E. Lynes

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Thirty years ago, Nicola Watson lived with her parents and older brother in a respectable suburb...
  • What I Lost by Alexandra Ballard

    What I Lost by Alexandra Ballard

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A searing yet ultimately uplifting young adult novel about a teenage girl's recovery from anorexia.Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has honed a dangerous skill: starving herself. Even when her parents send her to a treatment center, she can't stop. Then she begins receiving packages from someone she doesn't know...
  • Goodnight, Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson

    Goodnight, Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the author of the internationally bestselling novels My Best Friend’s Girl and Marshmallows for Breakfast comes an incredibly moving, powerfully written new novel about motherhood, love, loss, and new beginnings. Nova will do anything for her closest friend, Mal, whom she has known since childhood...
  • Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall

    Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Norah has agoraphobia and OCD. When groceries are left on the porch, she can't step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He's sweet and funny, and he just caught her fishing for groceries. Because of course he did. Norah can't leave the house, but can she let someone in? As their friendship grows deeper, Norah realizes Luke deserves a normal girl...
  • A Sicilian Affair by Susan Lewis

    A Sicilian Affair by Susan Lewis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Catie returns home from a stint in prison desperate for a fresh start. But her empty house, the secrets within its walls, and the family no longer there are a reminder of everything she has lost...
  • Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

    Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A heart-wrenching novel about a sixteen-year-old girl trapped in an abusive relationship—and the path she takes to freedom and happiness, from award-winning author Heather Demetrios.“Like Speak, it is one of those rare books that can have a real, lasting impact on readers, and can start important conversations.” —Adi Alsaid, author of Let’s Get Lost and Never Always SometimesGrace wants out...
  • Thursdays at Eight: A Romance Novel by Debbie Macomber

    Thursdays at Eight: A Romance Novel by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A time to think about lives lived, choices made. A time for friends… Every week, four women have an unmissable appointment in their calendars: they meet for breakfast. Clare has just been through a devastating divorce. She’s driven by anger and revenge—until she learns something that forces her to question her own actions and to look deep inside for the person she used to be...
  • The Shadow Wife by Diane Chamberlain

    The Shadow Wife by Diane Chamberlain

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Get swept up in this emotional tale of regret and rebirth by bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.Joelle D’Angelo’s best friend, Mara, is left with brain damage after she suffers an aneurysm giving birth to her son. Alone and grieving, Joelle turns to the only other person who understands her pain: her colleague—and Mara’s husband—Liam...
  • Close Enough to Touch by Colleen Oakley

    Close Enough to Touch by Colleen Oakley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the author of Before I Go comes an unconventional love story perfect for fans of the emotional novels of Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes. One time a boy kissed me and I almost died... And so begins the story of Jubilee Jenkins, a young woman with a rare and debilitating medical condition: she’s allergic to other humans...
  • Skyward by Mary Alice Monroe

    Skyward by Mary Alice Monroe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    E.R. nurse Ella Majors has seen all the misery that she can handle. Burned-out and unsure of her next step, she accepts the temporary position as caregiver to Marion Henderson, a frightened five-year-old who suffers from juvenile diabetes. But Ella soon realizes there is more sorrow in the isolated home than the little girl’s illness can account for...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  medical  adult  animals  book  contemporary  fiction
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