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  • One Long Weekend by Shari Low

    One Long Weekend by Shari Low

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    All NEW from the #1 Bestselling Author Shari Low.When all seems lost, hope remains... Val Murray has mislaid her most precious mementoes of the people she’s loved and lost. Can her family, the wonders of technology and a little divine intervention somehow mend her shattered heart?Sophie Smith had to take a rain check on a marriage proposal...
  • Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter

    Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    With more than a million Gallagher Girls books sold, a legion of fans have fallen in love with the New York Times best-selling spy-girl series, and the fifth book delivers the most nerve-wracking, high-stakes adventure yet...
  • United We Spy by Ally Carter

    United We Spy by Ally Carter

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Don't miss a moment of the beloved, bestselling series where spies-in-training navigate double crosses, secret missions, friendship, and first love-now with a bonus epilogue! Cammie Morgan has lost her father and her memory, but in the heart-pounding conclusion to the best-selling Gallagher Girls series, she finds her greatest mission yet...
  • Home for the Holidays by Heather Vogel Frederick

    Home for the Holidays by Heather Vogel Frederick

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This Christmas season, join the girls of the mother-daughter book club for a variety of holiday-themed adventures! Becca, Megan, Emma, Cassidy and Jess have plenty of reading material to bring on their trips, too, because the book club is tackling the Betsy-Tacy series before their next meeting on New Year’s Eve. But unfortunately, nothing goes quite as planned for any of the girls...
  • The Library by Bella Osborne

    The Library by Bella Osborne

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Two different generations. Two unusual people. Thrown together to save their local library.Tom is a teenager and blends into the background of life. After a row with his dad, and facing an unhappy future at the dog food factory, he escapes to the library. Tom unwittingly ends up with a bagful of romance novels and comes under the suspicion of Maggie...
  • The Hope Chest by Carolyn Brown

    The Hope Chest by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A grandmother’s loving bequest changes three lives forever in a heartwarming novel about finding love, hope, and family by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.An inheritance has reunited three estranged cousins...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  friendship  humor  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Lilac Bouquet by Carolyn Brown

    The Lilac Bouquet by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Come hell or high water, Emmy Jo Massey will have a wedding. After three generations of Massey women with children out of wedlock, she wants the whole town of Hickory, Texas, to witness the legitimacy of her union with Logan Grady. But dream weddings aren’t cheap...
  • Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel by Valérie Perrin

    Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel by Valérie Perrin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences...
  • Miss Janie's Girls by Carolyn Brown

    Miss Janie's Girls by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A bittersweet reunion becomes a time for looking back and starting over in a heartwarming new novel from New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown...
  • 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...
  • Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter

    Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    When Cammie "The Chameleon" Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father accept the nomination for vice president of the United States. But when you go to the world's best school (for spies), "exciting" and "deadly" are never far apart...
  • Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter

    Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Cammie Morgan is back, and it's clear that her life hasn't calmed down since the events of I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You. At first, giddy anticipation is in the air. Gallagher Academy, Cammie's elite spy school, is hosting a visit from a covert training center for boys...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  female-mc  friendship  adult  audiobook  book
  • Neighbors: A Novel by Danielle Steel

    Neighbors: A Novel by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel, a reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds.Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  female-mc  friendship  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Wedding on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball

    A Wedding on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Bridget, Cici and Lindsay left behind their safe suburban lives for a stately old mansion in the Shenandoah Valley, they redefined the concept of family. The friends, like the house, have faced many challenges and undergone major changes over the years. But the one thing they never imagined was that one day they would be expanding their house of women to make room for a husband...
  • Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher

    Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sparks fly between two teens as they grapple with grief, love, and the future.Eighteen-year-old Amelia Griffin is obsessed with the famous Orman Chronicles, written by the young and reclusive prodigy N. E. Endsley. They’re the books that brought her and her best friend Jenna together after Amelia’s father left and her family imploded...
  • A Lowcountry Wedding by Mary Alice Monroe

    A Lowcountry Wedding by Mary Alice Monroe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s next novel in the “distinct, complex, and endearing” ( Charleston Magazine ) Lowcountry Summer series, set against the romantic, charming Charleston Lowcountry. Nothing could be more enchanting than a summer wedding—or two!—in Charleston’s fabled lowcountry...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  friendship  realistic  adult  audiobook  book
  • One Minute Later: A Novel by Susan Lewis

    One Minute Later: A Novel by Susan Lewis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    International bestselling author Susan Lewis’ riveting, unforgettable novel of a woman whose life changes in an instant and the handsome young man with whom she shares a secret history—perfect for readers of Jodi Picoult, Diane Chamberlain, and Susan Wiggs.  How well do you know the people you love? For one young woman returning to the past, the answer could be heart-shattering..
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  female-mc  friendship  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page

    The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A charming, uplifting debut novel—full of humor and depth—that has taken readers around the world by surprise. Everyone has a story to tell. But does Janice have the power to unlock her own?She can’t recall what started her collection...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  drama  family  friendship  humor  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel

    The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, family secrets, and rediscovering the need to belong.Meena Dave is a photojournalist and a nomad. She has no family, no permanent address, and no long-term attachments, preferring to observe the world at a distance through the lens of her camera...
  • The Hidden Life by Adina Senft

    The Hidden Life by Adina Senft

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emma Stolzfus has never been courted or kissed, and now that she's 30, it has become her place as the unmarried daughter to look after her elderly mother. But in the dark hours when her mother is asleep, Emma writes letters and essays to Amish periodicals, short stories, and even a novel she's been working on for the last five years...
  • The Garden House: A Novel by Marcia Willett

    The Garden House: A Novel by Marcia Willett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marcia Willett's The Garden House is a charming and heartwarming novel about family, yearning, and long-buried secrets …Fresh out of university and right on the precipice of adulthood, El is trying her best to figure out what it is she really wants from life. This is complicated by the fact that she is also dealing with the loss of her father, Martin...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  friendship  grief  21st-century  adult  book
  • The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan by Gia Cribbs

    The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan by Gia Cribbs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan.Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than anyone. And most certainly not the United States Marshals Service...
  • The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Guest...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  female-mc  humor  adult  book  contemporary
  • When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson

    When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    'Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. 'Even if I do, what difference will it make?' In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Revelation by Kate Brian

    Revelation by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The biggest mystery of all...and Reed is dying to learn the truth. Two months after Cheyenne Martin was found dead in her Billings House dorm room, exclusive Easton Academy is rocked by another stunning revelation: Cheyenne was murdered. No one knows who the killer is, but everyone agrees that Reed Brennan, who took over Cheyenne's role as Billings's president, gained the most from her death...
  • The Summer That Made Us by Robyn Carr

    The Summer That Made Us by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    OVERALL MATTE Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins--they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family learning to accept the past, to forgive and to love each other again. That was then..
  • Accidental Heroes by Danielle Steel

    Accidental Heroes by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F...
  • 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...
  • Kade by Delores Fossen

    Kade by Delores Fossen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One look at the baby girl, and there was no question Kade Ryland was the father. For three months, Kade had posed as Bree Winston's husband at the Fulbright Fertility Clinic, while the two FBI agents investigated a trail of illegal adoptions and surrogates. Nine months later, a baby was dropped at his feet - and Bree was nowhere to be found...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  humor  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Rough Diamond by Kathryn Ledson

    Rough Diamond by Kathryn Ledson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Funny, romantic, and action-packed, Rough Diamond introduces Australia's own Stephanie Plum – the unforgettable Erica Jewell. The shock ending to Erica Jewell's marriage left a huge hole in her bank balance and a bigger one in her heart. And now her life goals make a very short list: no surprises, no debt and, definitely, no men...
  • Love on the D-List by J.R. Barker

    Love on the D-List by J.R. Barker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Actor William Chapman is beyond canceled. He doesn’t remember attacking his handsome co-star, but he does remember waking up in handcuffs.Now, ten years later, William hopes to mount a comeback and enlists the help of his mother’s hunky dog-sitter, James, who is all too happy to pretend to be William’s stable boyfriend...
    Categorized as:
    grief  friendship  family  crime  humor  romance  mlm  lgbtq
  • Trust Me by Romily Bernard

    Trust Me by Romily Bernard

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Jay Asher called Find Me “a thriller that keeps picking up speed,” while New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan hailed Romily Bernard as “an exceptional new voice in YA.” Now in paperback!Trust Me is the thrilling conclusion to the Find Me trilogy, in which loose ends come together and chilling plot twists complicate Wick Tate’s life more than ever...
  • It's a Wonderful Wife by Janet Chapman

    It's a Wonderful Wife by Janet Chapman

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Spellbound Falls novels comes a delightful new romance set on the coast of Maine… Jesse Sinclair and his two brothers spent years dodging the women his grandfather threw in their path. But then the matchmaking old wolf died, and his brothers did the unthinkable: they ran off to Maine to get married. Now Jesse wants to join them...
  • Mending Fences by Sherryl Woods

    Mending Fences by Sherryl Woods

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two families--bound by friendship-- devastated by secretsFor ten years Emily Dobbs and Marcie Carter have been the closest of friends. They've raised their kids together, shared joy and heartache, exchanged neighborhood gossip over tea. But when Marcie's son, now a college freshman sports star, is arrested for date rape, the bond between the families could be shattered forever...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  friendship  realistic  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Daughters Take the Stage by Joanna Philbin, 喬安娜·菲歐賓

    The Daughters Take the Stage by Joanna Philbin, 喬安娜·菲歐賓

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The daughter of chart-topping pop star Holla Jones, stylish and sensitive Hudson Jones is on the brink of her own musical debut. Hudson has inherited her mother's talent, but she hasn't yet embraced Holla's love of the megawatt spotlight...
  • Wedded Blintz by Leighann Dobbs

    Wedded Blintz by Leighann Dobbs

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lexy Baker is finally tying the knot with hunky homicide detective Jack Perillo. She's planned the perfect wedding right down to her custom designed gown. Nothing can go wrong. ... Until Lexy stumbles across a double murder and one of the victims is a Bridezilla that Lexy had a major fight with just hours before...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  humor  adult  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Perfect Mistake: A Privilege Novel by Kate Brian

    Perfect Mistake: A Privilege Novel by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For use in schools and libraries only. Ariana Osgood has everything she's ever wanted. A place at elite Atherton-Pryce boarding school. Fabulous friends. A new crush. And most importantly, a new identity. Now that she's officially become Briana Leigh Covington, Ariana's troubled past is dead and buried...
  • Beautiful Disaster by Kate Brian

    Beautiful Disaster by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She's Back.... After wasting away in a mental institution for a year and a half, Ariana Osgood is finally back where she belongs. She has a new look, a new name, and a new life -- all thanks to her former friend Briana Leigh Covington. Now enrolled as a junior at the exclusive Atherton-Pryce boarding school just outside of D.C...
  • Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt

    Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An against-the-odds love story at the heart of a book for teens about prejudice, courage, and a dark, compelling mystery—shortlisted for a Romantic Novelists Association AwardUgly people don’t have feelings. They’re not like everyone else. They don’t notice if you stare at them and turn away. And if they did notice, it wouldn’t hurt them. They’re not like real people...
  • Welcome to Serenity by Sherryl Woods

    Welcome to Serenity by Sherryl Woods

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Jeanette Brioche helped launch The Corner Spa in Serenity, South Carolina, she found a whole lot more than professional satisfaction. She discovered the deep and loyal friendships that had been missing from her life. But even the Sweet Magnolias can't mend the terrible rift between Jeanette and her family or persuade her that the holidays are anything more than a season of misery...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  friendship  humor  realistic  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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...
  • Confessions by Kate Brian, Cassandra Campbell

    Confessions by Kate Brian, Cassandra Campbell

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Reed Brennan came to superposh Easton Academy to make a brand new life for herself. At first it seemed as though her dream had come true - she was living in the ultraexclusive Billings Hall, hanging out with the all-powerful Billings Girls, and dating the very hot Thomas Pearson. But Thomas turned out to be different from what she thought...and then he turned up dead...
  • The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen

    The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges...
  • The Lost for Words Bookshop: A Novel by Stephanie Butland

    The Lost for Words Bookshop: A Novel by Stephanie Butland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending novel, perfect for fans of The Storied Life of AJ Fikry and The Little Paris Bookshop."The Lost for Words Bookshop pushes all my bookish buttons."—Red (Books to Read) "Quirky, clever and unputdownable."—Katie Fforde "Burns fiercely with love and hurt. A rare and beautiful novel...
  • The Escape Artist by Diane Chamberlain

    The Escape Artist by Diane Chamberlain

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Susanna Miller may have lost legal custody of her beautiful eleven-month-old son, Tyler, but that doesn't mean she is giving him up. Even if her ex-husband, Jim, an attorney, and his new wife, Peggy, have every advantage to offer a child, Susanna knows the two of them cannot be as caring, loving, and devoted as she has been...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  friendship  grief  adult  audiobook  book
  • Scandal by Kate Brian

    Scandal by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After her harrowing kidnapping, Reed returns to Easton to find the worst thing she can think of—Billings has been torn down. Finally, after years of controversy, the school’s wealthiest female alumni have been overruled, and the historical dorm is gone from Easton Academy...
  • Isabella Anders by Jessica Sorensen

    Isabella Anders by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Isabella Anders has always been the girl that never fit in. Most days she feels invisible, especially when she’s around her older sister, Hannah, who catches the eye of everyone, including Kai and Kyler, the boys who live next door. Isabella has had a crush on Kyler for years, but knows he’ll never see her as anything more than Hannah’s little sister, unless she finds a way to standout...
  • Every Breath by Ellie Marney

    Every Breath by Ellie Marney

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Rachel Watts is suffering from recurring nightmares about her near-death experience in London. She just wants to forget the whole ordeal, but her boyfriend, James Mycroft, is obsessed with piecing the puzzle together and anticipating the next move of the mysterious Mr Wild - his own personal Moriarty...
  • The Survival Kit by Donna Freitas

    The Survival Kit by Donna Freitas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Rose’s mom dies, she leaves behind a brown paper bag labeled Rose’s Survival Kit. Inside the bag, Rose finds an iPod, with a to-be-determined playlist; a picture of peonies, for growing; a crystal heart, for loving; a paper star, for making a wish; and a paper kite, for letting go...
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