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  • Kayla's Trick by Jean Grainger

    Kayla's Trick by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
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    drama  family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Hustlin' by L. Divine

    Hustlin' by L. Divine

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The holidays are coming, along with all the madness and materialism that comes with them. As usual, Jayd is just trying to stay sane while everyone around her is losing it. Mickey's got a major secret and Jayd's girl Nellie is trying to stir up trouble with her loose lips. Vengeful Laura is trying to undermine Jayd's performance in the school production of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth...
  • Crank Trilogy by Ellen Hopkins

    Crank Trilogy by Ellen Hopkins

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The heart-wrenching bestselling Crank trilogy shows that addiction is never just one person’s problem. Crank Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for her mind, her soul—her life. Glass Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal...
  • Pretty Little Liars by Lambert M. Surhone

    Pretty Little Liars by Lambert M. Surhone

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This is a print-on-demand book containing articles from Wikipedia -- the free encyclopedia -- about the Pretty Little Liars television show and related topics...
  • The Wild Road Home by Melissa Payne

    The Wild Road Home by Melissa Payne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A beautiful and enriching novel about unforgettable love and the power of friends and family by Melissa Payne, the bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings and A Light in the Forest . Mack Anders will do anything for his wife, Daisy. Even die. With the woman he loves fading away from Alzheimer’s, Mack fakes his own passing...
  • The Reunion At Sugar Sand Inn by Leigh Duncan

    The Reunion At Sugar Sand Inn by Leigh Duncan

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Escape to Sugar Sand Beach with Erin Bradshaw and her best friends for a second chance at all life has to offer.Forty-five year old Erin has grown restless with her life. Which is odd because she’s spent the past thirty years roaming the globe...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

    Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Four critically acclaimed, award-winning modern classics from #1 New York Times-bestselling author John GreenThis John Green deluxe box set includes Printz Award–winning Looking for Alaska, Printz Honor book An Abundance of Katherines, Edgar Award–winning Paper Towns, and #1 New York Times–bestselling The Fault in Our Stars...
  • Sweet Tea & Wedding Rings by Rachel Hanna

    Sweet Tea & Wedding Rings by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In book 4 of this USA Today bestselling series. Mia and Kate are still working on building their new honey business while Travis and Cooper are keeping a big secret that could wreak havoc in both of their relationships.Meanwhile, a former guest of the B&B shows up in the dead of night, and she needs a place to hide...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Half a heart by Karen McQuestion

    Half a heart by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From bestselling author Karen McQuestion comes a moving novel about broken hearts…and what it takes to put them back together again.At nine years of age, Logan Weber knows the routine. Keep quiet, make the food last, and don’t ever cause trouble. He’ll do what it takes to evade the rages of his troubled, violent father. Even though he’s only a child, Logan already knows too much—has seen too much...
  • Pequena coreografia do adeus by Aline Bei

    Pequena coreografia do adeus by Aline Bei

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Julia é filha de pais separados: sua mãe não suporta a ideia de ter sido abandonada pelo marido, enquanto seu pai não suporta a ideia de ter sido casado. Sufocada por uma atmosfera de brigas constantes e falta de afeto, a jovem escritora tenta reconhecer sua individualidade e dar sentido à sua história, tentando se desvencilhar dos traumas familiares...
  • Still the Baddest Bitch by Deja King

    Still the Baddest Bitch by Deja King

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aaliyah Mills Carter has to step up and watch the throne, to prove she has what it takes to be the Baddest Bitch. Chaos has always surrounded her family but now death may have hit too close to home. There are so many questions but not enough answers...
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    drama  female-mc  black-mc  contemporary  fiction  urban
  • Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt

    Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "A brave and breathtaking musical...
  • Change of Tides by Ashley Farley

    Change of Tides by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Second Chances and New RomancesBirdie Fuller doesn’t like change. And a lot of change is happening at once. Her daughter and three-year-old grandson are moving out of her apartment to a nearby city. Will Birdie be able to survive the loneliness without Hannah and Gus? She joins a dating website to find companionship and meets the seemingly perfect man...
  • Love on the Line 2 by Kirsten Fullmer

    Love on the Line 2 by Kirsten Fullmer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In part two of this extraordinary love story set in the hot, humid, summer of the wide-open mid-west, egos and emotions collide. Andy and Rooster find their romance in peril when job-related stress, injuries, and extraordinary weather conditions interfere with their relationship, both at work and at home...
  • Tollak til Ingeborg by Tore Renberg

    Tollak til Ingeborg by Tore Renberg

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dei kallar han Tollak til Ingeborg. Den gamle stabukken som bur oppe ved sagplassen. Alle veit at han har gjort ting på sin eigen måte. Alle veit kva han gjorde med dei gutane. Alle veit at ungane hans ikke kjem heim så ofte. Alle veit han tok til seg han dei kalla Oddotosken. Og alle hugsar den gode kona hans, Ingeborg. Men det er noko folk ikkje veit.Det er på tide å fortelje...
  • The Gin Sisters' Promise by Faith Hogan

    The Gin Sisters' Promise by Faith Hogan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Three estranged sisters. Six months to come back together.When Georgie, Iris and Nola's mother died and their father disappeared into his grief, the sisters made a pact: they would always be there for one another, no matter what.Now, decades later, they haven't spoken for years and can barely stand to be in the same room...
  • Paradise Lane by Ruth Hamilton

    Paradise Lane by Ruth Hamilton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A novel, set in the north-west of England, by the author of Billy London's Girls and Spinning Jenny. Young Sally leads a ragged and lonely existence in the shadow of Paradise Mill, whose corrupt, evil and greedy owner destroys his own family and then turns his venom on Sally and her friends...
  • Because of You by Olivia Miles

    Because of You by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling master of small-town sagas comes the third book in the Blue Harbor series. Maddie Conway has always dreamed of opening her own bakery, but following in the footsteps of her three successful sisters is turning out to be a lot of pressure...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 不便利的便利店 by Kim Ho-yeon, 김호연

    不便利的便利店 by Kim Ho-yeon, 김호연

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ...
    Categorized as:
    family  drama  fiction  contemporary
  • 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 Reunion by Roisin Meaney

    The Reunion by Roisin Meaney

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's their twenty-year school reunion but the Plunkett sisters have their own reasons for not wanting to attend ... Caroline, now a successful knitwear designer, spends her time flying between her business in England and her lover in Italy. As far as she's concerned, her school days, and what happened to her the year she left, should stay in the past...
  • Making Hearts by Jack Getze

    Making Hearts by Jack Getze

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Interrupting the Soria family’s holiday feast, childish teenager Emily requires the hospital emergency room for an apparent attack of appendicitis. But a blunt nurse explains the truth: Emily is giving birth. The seventeen-year-old has tricked her mind and body into believing she isn’t pregnant, when the baby is full term and already being born...
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    drama  family  season-summer  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • অপেক্ষা by Humayun Ahmed

    অপেক্ষা by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    মানুষের জীবন কি চক্রের মত? চক্রের কোন শুরু নেই, শেষ নেই। মানব জীবনও কি তাই? রহস্যময় চক্রের ভেতর এই জীবন ঘুরপাক খেতে থাকে? শুরু নেই, শেষ নেই। চক্র ঘুরছে।এই চক্রের ভেতরে ঘুরপাক খেতে খেতে অপেক্ষা করে কেউ কেউ। কিংবা সকলেই কিসের...
  • A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi, Hildegarde Serle

    A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi, Hildegarde Serle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Laughter, tears, the transformative power of love, unexpected revelations, and striking natural these are the ingredients that combine to make best-selling author Virginie Grimaldi’s English debut the feel-good read of 2024. Grimaldi is among France’s top ten contemporary authors and her uplifting, unputdownable literary novels have quickly garnered her millions of adoring fans...
  • Five Years From Now by Paige Toon

    Five Years From Now by Paige Toon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What if you met the right person at the wrong time? Nell and Van meet as children when their parents fall in love, but soon they are forced worlds apart. Five years later, they find each other. Their bond is rekindled and new feelings take hold, but once again they must separate...
  • 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...
  • Step Up by Monica McKayhan

    Step Up by Monica McKayhan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Indigo Summer and her boyfriend, Marcus Carter, have stayed solid through plenty of drama. Now Marcus is a senior, and he's already received his acceptance letter from Harvard. Indigo knows how hard he's worked for this chance...
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    drama  realistic  book  contemporary  fiction  young-adult
  • Summer at the Country Practice by Sharon Booth

    Summer at the Country Practice by Sharon Booth

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sun is shining on Bramblewick, the little village on the North York Moors. At Bramblewick Primary School the teachers are preparing for their much-needed break, and Izzy and Ash are busy making wedding plans. But for their friend and colleague, Jackson Wade, the long summer holiday isn't so welcome...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • In Little Stars by Linda Green

    In Little Stars by Linda Green

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a divided northern England, love and hate are about to collide . . .Sylvie and Donna travel on the same train to work each day but have never spoken. Their families are on different sides of the bitter Brexit divide, although the tensions and arguments at home give them much in common...
  • All The Colours In Between by Eva Jordan

    All The Colours In Between by Eva Jordan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eva Jordan's much-anticipated follow up to the bestselling 183 Times a Year  It's not a life, it's an adventure! Lizzie is fast approaching 50. Her once angst ridden teenage daughters, now grown and in their twenties, have flown the nest, Cassie to London and Maisy to Australia...
  • Meet Me at Sunset  (Evening Island) by Olivia Miles

    Meet Me at Sunset (Evening Island) by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Morgan sisters spent many blissful summers at their family’s lake house growing up, but as they grew older, their lives took very different paths. Hope adores her twin girls, but she doesn’t love being a stay-at-home mom...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Second Chance Summer by Olivia Miles

    Second Chance Summer by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling master of small-town sagas comes the second installment in the Blue Harbor series—a second-chance romance about finding love when you least expect it. Amelia Conway spent the past twelve years doting on her widowed father and playing mother hen to her younger sisters—and conveniently hiding her heart from love after her high school sweetheart moved away...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Then Comes Love by Olivia Miles

    Then Comes Love by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of Feels Like Home comes a fun, flirty, sweet summer romance...It’s wedding season in Blue Harbor, and that means warm lake breezes, starry nights, and the promise of a happy ending…for some. Florist Gabby Conway is a hopeless romantic, but lately, she’s starting to feel exactly that: hopeless...
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    family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Finding Peace by Bridget E. Baker, B.E. Baker

    Finding Peace by Bridget E. Baker, B.E. Baker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Keeping score is the quickest way to lose. Anica Maggard was born under a lucky star. Her big sister became her very best friend. Her debut novel was an instant bestseller. She lived in the apartment of her dreams at the age of twenty-five. But luck changes. . . and sometimes it runs out entirely.Cancer steals her sister, and that loss robs Anica of her words...
  • Heaven Adjacent by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Heaven Adjacent by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a bittersweet novel about healing old wounds and finding a new place to call home… Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return...
  • The Summer Visitors by Fiona O'Brien

    The Summer Visitors by Fiona O'Brien

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    'One of the smartest writers of popular fiction around.' Irish Independent Summer has arrived in Ballyanna, and so too has a mysterious visitor ... American documentary maker Daniel O'Connell is renting the beautiful Cable Lodge for the summer...
  • Sara's Promise by Deanna Lynn Sletten

    Sara's Promise by Deanna Lynn Sletten

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Do you believe in soul mates? William Grafton had the perfect life with his lovely wife, Sara, and two wonderful children. But one day his perfect forever was shattered when Sara died suddenly, leaving him alone to raise his children and wonder how he would ever get through life without his soul mate...
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    drama  family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Love at Last Sight by Jordan Lynde

    Love at Last Sight by Jordan Lynde

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Rose, I’m sorry, but your eyesight will be gone by the end of this year.” Who knew one simple sentence could change a life so drastically? Rose is a normal seventeen year old girl with a normal life, normal friends, and what she thought to be normal vision. When she receives the news her vision is slowly deteriorating, she doesn't know what to think. Her life is over...
  • Si Anak Kuat by Tere Liye

    Si Anak Kuat by Tere Liye

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Amelia, si bungsu, anak yang paling kuat. Buku pertama sekaligus terbit terakhir dari Serial Anak-Anak Mamak."Kau anak paling kuat di keluarga ini, Amelia. Bukan kuat secara fisik, tapi kuat dari dalam. Kau adalah anak yang paling teguh hatinya, paling kokoh pemahaman baiknya. Kau menyayangi sekitar, dan sungguh-sungguh mau membantu orang lain...
  • Amazing Grace by Lesley Crewe

    Amazing Grace by Lesley Crewe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The new novel from bestselling author Lesley Crewe! Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she’s lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d’Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher Parsons, a giant teddy bear who’s not even her husband...
  • When We Were Young by Michele Brouder

    When We Were Young by Michele Brouder

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The orderly, sterile life of Martha Hahn Cotter is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the teenage granddaughter she’s never met. Quick to send the girl back home, she reaches out to her estranged daughter. Days later, her daughter arrives, resulting in an inevitable showdown as old wounds and past secrets surface...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  family  fiction  small-town  contemporary  epic
  • 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...
  • The Southern Side of Paradise by Kristy Woodson Harvey

    The Southern Side of Paradise by Kristy Woodson Harvey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The internationally bestselling Peachtree Bluff series concludes with this “deliciously authentic Southern tale of family and the often messy, complex relationships between sisters, mothers, and daughters” (Susan Boyer, USA TODAY bestselling author).With the man of her dreams back in her life and all three of her daughters happy, Ansley Murphy should be content...
  • Burlian by Tere Liye

    Burlian by Tere Liye

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Burlian, anak kampung dengan segala keriangan keluarganya. Bercita-cita ingin naik kapal besar keliling dunia. Buku 2, dari Serial Anak2 Mamak. Buku 3, PUKAT terbit Februari 2010, Buku 4, Eliana direncanakan terbit Oktober 2010, Buku 1, Amelia direncanakan terbit Februari 2011...
  • The Stars Don't Lie by Boo Walker

    The Stars Don't Lie by Boo Walker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A man who thought he put his shattered past behind him embarks on a reflective journey home in a heartfelt novel by the bestselling author of The Singing Trees and A Spanish Sunrise.Haunted by a tragic decision he made twenty years ago, veterinarian Dr. Carver Livingston has not once returned to his Vermont hometown...
  • You Then, Me Now by Nick Alexander

    You Then, Me Now by Nick Alexander

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She’s given her daughter everything. Now it’s time to give her the truth. Becky’s father is not just absent: he’s a mystery, a gaping hole in her past. He died before she was born and for her mother, Laura, the subject is strictly off-limits. But when Laura books an unexpected trip to Greece, Becky decides to join her, determined to get closer to her mother—and to the truth...
  • 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...
  • Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces by Sybrina Durant

    Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces by Sybrina Durant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No Laces! That’s what Boo, the bunny, always says. He doesn’t want to learn to tie them. He has plenty of shoes for every occasion and none of them have laces or strings. So, what’s the point of learning to tie? His friend, Farah Fox, convinces him that it’s a skill he can use. . . and one that might make him happier, too.This book is meant to be a parent-child activity...
  • Crossbones  (Cross your Heart and Die, #3) by Diane L. Kowalyshyn

    Crossbones (Cross your Heart and Die, #3) by Diane L. Kowalyshyn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Keme didn't think his life could get worse until he's turned into a windigo––a creature with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. An attempt to end his life frees Arthur, the victim ensnared in Keme’s internal soul-cache. Arthur is propelled into dominance and Keme recedes into obscurity. Two souls inhabit one body and the turnabout causes abominable evil to reign supreme...
    Categorized as:
    drama  season-summer  contemporary  fiction
  • My Lame Life: Queen of the Misfits by Jen Mann

    My Lame Life: Queen of the Misfits by Jen Mann

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Jen Mann has written a hilarious and heartwarming story for fans of Meg Cabot and Rainbow Rowell. My name is Plum Parrish, I'm fourteen, and I'm pretty sure I'm invisible. Not like super power invisible, more like loser invisible. There's a big difference...
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