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  • 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...
  • Frank and Red by Matt Coyne, James Killeen

    Frank and Red by Matt Coyne, James Killeen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Estranged from his friends, son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate, Frank is a reclusive curmudgeon whose only company is the 'ghost' of his dead wife, Marcie. Then six-year-old Red moves in next door. A boy struggling to adjust to the separation of his mum and dad, a new school, and the demonic school bully, Red is curious, smart, and talkative. And he has a trampoline...
  • Врани by Petra Dvořáková

    Врани by Petra Dvořáková

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Во крошната на стариот брест се создава едно семејство врани, кое набргу станува инспирација за исклучително талентираната млада сликарка во куќата спроти дрвото. Младата Барбора ги набљудува враните, и враните ја набљудуваат неа, а од тие погледи се раѓа уметничката енергија на Барбора, за која имаат разбирање само неколку наставници од училиштето, но никој од семејството...
  • Always You by Belle Brooks, Karen Harper

    Always You by Belle Brooks, Karen Harper

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I will breathe for you.” Some people’s bodies are built to run marathons. Others to lift and labour. And some are made so graceful their footsteps are barely heard. My body was built to be a vessel. It was Always You. Maybelline Connors knows stars are not always as faultless as they appear...
  • Fragile Hearts by the Loch by Hannah Ellis

    Fragile Hearts by the Loch by Hannah Ellis

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How long does it take to mend a broken heart?Jess expects life on the Isle of Skye to be calm and peaceful. But when she falls for her colleague things quickly become complicated. Rory comes with a whole load of baggage, but she just can’t seem to stay away from him. When Elspeth is forced to take a break from work, she evaluates what her future holds...
  • The English Billionaire by Serenity Woods

    The English Billionaire by Serenity Woods

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Imagine meeting the richest, most gorgeous guy in London… And he's obsessed with YOU...On my thirtieth birthday, I decide it’s time to make some changes.Okay, it’s really only one change.No more men.Gone is the boyfriend who cheated on me with my best friend.Gone are all the disastrous relationships that have left me dispirited and jaded...
  • The Book Club by Roisin Meaney

    The Book Club by Roisin Meaney

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A tragic accident leaves the tight-knit book club in the small seaside town of Fairweather reeling. Then stranger Tom McLysaght arrives in the community, and the members of the club find their lives changing in ways they never could have imagined. None of them realise that Tom is hiding a secret...
  • Nantucket Homes by Pamela M. Kelley

    Nantucket Homes by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's Fall on Nantucket--and change is in the air! There's a new arrival to the island. Kay Johnson, a widow, was a friend of Lisa's mother and is like an aunt to Lisa. Kay is excited to relax and enjoy Nantucket—she’s already signed up for a Needlepoint class. She’s not at all looking for romance, but she is happy to make a new friend in neighbor Walter Sturgess, a widower...
    Categorized as:
    family  friendship  adult  book  contemporary  epic  female-mc  fiction
  • Making Waves by Meredith Summers

    Making Waves by Meredith Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Maxi’s life is about to change, but not in the way she expects... Maxi Stevens is at a crossroads. Things between her and James haven’t been the same since their kids left the nest. When she finds proof that indicates he may have strayed, she strikes out on her own. James’ infidelity has a silver lining, though...
  • Just an Illusion - Unplugged by D. Kelly

    Just an Illusion - Unplugged by D. Kelly

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Coming Feb 14th, 2018. Sawyer Weston is cocky and arrogant. With his sinful smile and sexy dimples, he’s gotten his way most of his life. Infamous for his one-night stands and moves between the sheets, the lead singer for Bastards and Dangerous has never considered relationships—until he meets her...
    Categorized as:
    family  friendship  male-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  drama
  • Finding Forever by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Finding Forever by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You’re invited to the comeback arena tour of the century…and just maybe a wedding too.   Who: Malachi Shawcross and Richelle Crandall (you can call her Ricki or Elle, she answers to both...
    Categorized as:
    family  friendship  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  steamy
  • Beneath Pearly Irish Skies by Ava Miles

    Beneath Pearly Irish Skies by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Megan Bennet no longer believes in fairytales.Her life certainly isn’t one. Widowed at thirtyish with a young son isn’t the happily ever after she’d envisioned when she was a kid. She needs a new fairy godmother.Except now that she’s living in the quaint Irish town of Caisleán, she can feel magic in the air, and it’s not just the local matchmaking ghost...
  • Seabreeze Book Club by Jan Moran

    Seabreeze Book Club by Jan Moran

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A new bookshop on the beach. A sizzling summer ahead. Join a new book club at the Seabreeze Inn.**From a USA Today bestselling author.**When sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay form a book club to help support a local bookshop on the beach, friends and guests of the inn are eager to join. Yet nothing is quite as it seems in the book club.Meanwhile, a discovery in the historic beach house inn causes a stir...
  • Ayah by Andrea Hirata

    Ayah by Andrea Hirata

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

    Mackinac Sunsets by Katie Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Elise’s life as she knows it is over. Her husband of twenty years had an affair; her children have left the nest; and she hasn’t managed to sell a screenplay in almost ten years. Now, one of the people she loved most in the world—her mother—is dead.“Heartbroken” doesn’t even cover it. She’s never been more lost in her life.Elise and her mother had always lived in Los Angeles...
  • A Time to Forgive by Kay Correll

    A Time to Forgive by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes is very, very hard to forget or forgive… Bree Stuart wants nothing more than to pack up her parents’ cabin on Lone Elk Lake and get it ready to sell. One less reminder of her past. Jason Cassidy is thrilled to see his friend, Bree, back in Sweet River Falls after twenty years. He offers to help her get the cabin ready to put on the market...
    Categorized as:
    family  friendship  sad  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Starfish Cottage by Meredith Summers

    Starfish Cottage by Meredith Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maddie Montgomery has finally found her slice of heaven - a charming cottage on the sugar-sand beach of Shell Cove, Maine. There’s only one problem, the flow of tourists to Shell Cove dried up years ago and now it’s up to her to bring them back...
  • Sweet Tea Tuesdays by Ashley Farley

    Sweet Tea Tuesdays by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Three best friends met every Tuesday for twenty-six years. And then they stopped. From the author of the bestselling Sweeney Sisters Series comes a novel of friendship, family, and hope. When new next-door neighbors Georgia, Midge, and Lula first assembled on Georgia’s porch in Charleston for sweet tea, they couldn’t have known their gathering was the beginning of a treasured tradition...
  • After Indigo Irish Nights by Ava Miles

    After Indigo Irish Nights by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Boston born and bred, Kathleen O’Connor knows all about toughness. Thanks to her pop, she can bend scrap metal. Thanks to her seven older brothers, she's not scared to fight for what she wants. And thanks to her exes, she's wise to the illusion of happily ever after. Toughness comes easy to Kathleen, and so does bending tough materials into art...
  • Lark's Precious by Tiffany Casper

    Lark's Precious by Tiffany Casper

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    family  sad  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Beyond Rosy Irish Twilight by Ava Miles

    Beyond Rosy Irish Twilight by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bets O’Hanlon is a late bloomer.It took way too long to come into her own. She raised her boys and buried her husband, and somewhere along the way she forgot about herself.Finally she has a second chance at being more than she’s been: by creating an arts center for her charming adopted Irish community. She wants to make a difference, and fostering creativity is right up her alley...
  • I Wanted You To Know by Laura Pearson

    I Wanted You To Know by Laura Pearson

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

    Finding Perfect by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling Hopeless series continues with this heartwarming conclusion that illustrates the power of following a difficult journey to discover what happens next. Friends Daniel, Six, Holder, Sky, and Breckin are planning to celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday with a Friendsgiving dinner at Sky’s parents’ house...
    Categorized as:
    family  friendship  male-mc  sad  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Captive Films: 1.5 by Jillian Dodd

    Captive Films: 1.5 by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If you are a fan of The Keatyn Chronicles, you will love reconnecting with your favorite characters as adults. In reality TV form, this series follows the lives and loves of those who work at Captive Films. Hot, successful, playboy Riley Johnson, whose business success far exceeds his success in love. Movie star, Keatyn Douglas, whose epic love story has spawned a series of books and movies...
  • Captive Films: 1.6 by Jillian Dodd

    Captive Films: 1.6 by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If you are a fan of The Keatyn Chronicles, you will love reconnecting with your favorite characters as adults. In reality TV form, this series follows the lives and loves of those who work at Captive Films. Hot, successful, playboy Riley Johnson, whose business success far exceeds his success in love. Movie star, Keatyn Douglas, whose epic love story has spawned a series of books and movies...
  • Harvest of Love by Melanie Moreland

    Harvest of Love by Melanie Moreland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Danica RawlinsShe’s a career woman, constantly busy, under pressure, and in demand. But the job that once seemed like a dream to her now feels more like a nightmare.When the stress gets too much, she escapes the office and drives, discovering beauty in the wide-open spaces that surround her in the country. Leaving the worries behind, if only temporarily...
  • My Wicked Billionaire by Serenity Woods

    My Wicked Billionaire by Serenity Woods

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Never fall in love when it’s supposed to be just for fun… It’s the day before my brother’s wedding in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. It’s also the last day of my studies before I qualify as a veterinarian. At last, I can put aside my ditzy image and be the sophisticated career woman I’ve always wanted to be. Except I don’t notice my watch has stopped, and I miss my flight...
  • No Place Like Home: A Novel by Barbara O'Neal

    No Place Like Home: A Novel by Barbara O'Neal

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An enriching and deeply moving novel about love and loss, the bonds of family and friends, and coming home by the USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids.Life didn’t turn out the way Jewel Sabatino planned. However long she’s been gone, home is waiting.At seventeen, Jewel fled Colorado for New York City and didn’t look back...
  • Differently Normal by Tammy Robinson

    Differently Normal by Tammy Robinson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every family has its issues. For Maddy, life is all about routine. It has to be, to keep her autistic sister happy and healthy. With just Maddy and her mother as Bee’s full time carers, there’s no time in Maddy’s life for complications like friends, let alone a boyfriend...
  • Claiming What Is Mine by Abby Brooks, Will Wright

    Claiming What Is Mine by Abby Brooks, Will Wright

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meredith Still was the love of my life. My dream girl.Gabe Wilde was my protector. My knight in shining armor.We had our future planned out-together-down to the names of our unborn children. Everything was going according to plan, until it wasn't.Sometimes life happens that way.When I left for college, I never thought I'd be back home for anything longer than a visit...
    Categorized as:
    family  male-mc  sad  adult  book  contemporary  epic  female-mc
  • Belle Pearl by Arianne Richmonde

    Belle Pearl by Arianne Richmonde

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Belle Pearl, is the fifth book and the conclusion to Arianne Richmonde’s bestselling books in The Pearl Series: Shades of Pearl, Shadows of Pearl, Shimmers of Pearl and Pearl; the tumultuous and heart-rending love story between forty-year-old documentary producer, Pearl Robinson, and French Internet billionaire, Alexandre Chevalier, fifteen years her junior...
    Categorized as:
    male-mc  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  steamy  suspense
  • No Beach Like Nantucket by Grace Palmer

    No Beach Like Nantucket by Grace Palmer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Benson family needs a fresh start. Can they find peace and happiness on the beaches of Nantucket?Last summer, a storm blew the Benson family’s lives to bits.It’s been almost a year since that fateful day.Since they learned that life at the beach isn’t all sunshine and rainbows.They’re doing their best to pick up the pieces.Mae is running the Sweet Island Inn...
  • High Stakes by Danielle Steel

    High Stakes by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this captivating novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, five successful women play for high stakes in their careers at a boutique literary and talent agency. Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent agency...
  • Our Song by Dani Atkins, Dawn Murphy

    Our Song by Dani Atkins, Dawn Murphy

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The stunning new emotional drama from ebook phenomenon Dani Atkins, author of Fractured - perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Dorothy Koomson.This is the story of Ally and Charlotte, whose paths have intersected over the years though they've never really been close friends. Charlotte married Ally's ex and first true love, David...
    Categorized as:
    family  friendship  sad  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • One Last Thing Before I Go by Michele Brouder

    One Last Thing Before I Go by Michele Brouder

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The retired librarian from Hideaway Bay, Carol Rimmer, has been handed a terminal diagnosis. As she looks over the course of her life, she decides she must do one more thing before she goes. But she’s going to need help and who better to ask than Thelma Schumacher. Despite their history, she puts aside any dislike she has for the woman and asks for help in her last task...
  • Heartwood by L.G. Pace III, Michelle Pace

    Heartwood by L.G. Pace III, Michelle Pace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "When we were kids, my cousins planned for their weddings like they were coronations. Sleepovers revolved around notebooks stuffed with clippings from bridal magazines and elaborate plans scrawled in purple ink. Horse drawn carriages, twenty tiered cakes, groomsmen in tails, and scads of bridesmaids, none of whom were nearly as pretty as the bride...
    Categorized as:
    family  male-mc  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • The Amish Midwife's Daughter by Hannah Schrock

    The Amish Midwife's Daughter by Hannah Schrock

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • 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...
  • Hidden Creek Again by Jaxson Kidman

    Hidden Creek Again by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE RETURN OF #HCH IS HERE! Forget Aira and Wes... ...and meet Nova and Elijah He's the 'summer boy' She's the 'surfer girl' Their summers are memories, and nothing more. Elijah is only back in Hidden for one thing: REVENGE. Nova wants NOTHING to do with him - and for good reason...
  • Some Like It Hot at the Picture House by the Sea: Part Four by Holly Hepburn

    Some Like It Hot at the Picture House by the Sea: Part Four by Holly Hepburn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Part Four in the brilliant new series from the bestselling author of The Star and Sixpence series. Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley.   After several months in Cornwall helping her grandfather run the family business, Gina has almost forgotten what London life is like, and her boyfriend Max has most definitely noticed...
  • Hidden Creek Cry by Jaxson Kidman

    Hidden Creek Cry by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Knowing I’m not the only one in his life now? #check Knowing this isn’t my bullsh*t to deal with? #check Unable to actually walk away for good? #check Facing a past that isn’t mine to face, filled with hurt? #triplecheck There is no torn when you’re not together. At least that’s what I keep telling myself. Like having our favorite long song on repeat...
  • One More Thing: by Lilliana Anderson

    One More Thing: by Lilliana Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I didn't ask to slip on a piece of gum then fall in love with a man who would die before the ink was dry on our marriage certificate. But that's what fate had in store and it broke me. I vowed I would never fall in love again. Five years later, fate has one more thing in store for me. It wants to play around in my life again. Its tool? Another blasted stick of gum...
    Categorized as:
    family  friendship  sad  adult  book  contemporary  death  female-mc
  • The Girls of Summer Cove by Catherine Jones

    The Girls of Summer Cove by Catherine Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Mackenzie Walsh left the small town of Summer Cove, Maine, for college in California she had every intention of coming back home. But that was before she met Austin and snagged an internship at her dream company...
  • Finding Forever by J.L. Perry

    Finding Forever by J.L. Perry

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nobody said it would be easy, nothing worth having ever is.LOGANAt first glance, she stole all the air from my lungs, and a year later, nothing has changed. There’s no doubt in my mind Brooke’s the one I’ve been longing for. She’s awoken something inside me … something that’s been lying dormant for ten long years...
    Categorized as:
    sad  family  romance  contemporary  billionaire  fiction  book  adult
  • Something in Common by Roisin Meaney

    Something in Common by Roisin Meaney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Our lives are defined by other people. Some are with us from the start: parents, siblings, childhood friends. Others find us later: work colleagues, lovers. But occasionally there are people whose paths cross ours in unexpected ways - people who are destined to change our lives profoundly...
  • A Place to Call Home by Carole Matthews

    A Place to Call Home by Carole Matthews

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ayesha knows that she must escape from her marriage for the sake of her daughter, Sabina. Slipping away in the dead of the night, they head for London to start a new life. Hayden, a reclusive pop star, hides himself away in the mansion which he shares with two more damaged souls - Crystal, a professional dancer with a kind heart and Joy, an ill-tempered retiree...
  • Pieces of You by Tablo

    Pieces of You by Tablo

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Epik High leader Tablo's short stories weave together the secrets and anxieties of youth, whispering words of solace to a lost generation...
  • The Coach Trip by Izzy Bromley

    The Coach Trip by Izzy Bromley

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this heartwarming story of hope and second chances, Emma and Mel are about to discover that sometimes life is about the journey, not the destination…Classic forgetful Emma—she’s done it again, this time accidentally ruining a Valentine’s Day surprise for her best friend Mel. Desperate to make up for it, she promises Mel a birthday trip to Edinburgh—a girls’ weekend to end all girls’ weekends...
  • Kau, Aku, dan Sepucuk Angpau Merah by Tere Liye

    Kau, Aku, dan Sepucuk Angpau Merah by Tere Liye

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

    Feel like Makin' Love by Barbara S. Stewart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Andy Stevens was a ‘Rock God’ of the music world in the 1970s and 80s. He lived his life on the road, going from one concert venue to the next. And then he met the sweet girl-next-door, Beth Morgan, his “Bethy”...
    Categorized as:
    family  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  new-adult  romance
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