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Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty · 482 pages

Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead. Was it a murder, a tragic accident or just good parents gone bad? As the parents at Pirriwee Public are about to discover

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Picture Perfect

Jodi Picoult · 391 pages

To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But when they return to California, something alters the picture of their perfect marriage. A frightening pattern

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This Charming Man

Marian Keyes · 625 pages

With This Charming Man, Marian Keyes hits her stride as a novelist with her best novel yet, telling the stories of four women who are shaped by one manPaddy de Courcy is Ireland's debonair politician, the "John F. Kennedy Jr. of Dublin." His charm and charisma have taken hold of the country and the tabloids, not to mention our four heroines: Lola, Grace, Marnie, and Alicia. But though Paddy's winn

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The Rescue

Nicholas Sparks · 446 pages

One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.

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What Have I Done?

Amanda Prowse · 323 pages

"Kathryn Brooker is the headmaster's wife, while her husband spends his days conducting assemblies and disciplining unruly teenagers in the grand halls of Mountbriers Academy, Kathryn spends hers in a beautiful cottage in the manicured school grounds, baking scones for her son's cricket match and perfecting her recipe for coq au vin. From the outside it would appear that she has a perfect life, a

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The Wife Between Us

Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen · 392 pages

When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a woman who is about to enter a new marriage with the man she loves. You will assume you know the anatomy of the relationships. Assume nothing. Read between the lies. Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us deftly explor

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · 416 pages

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an

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Big little lies

Jean-Marc Vallée, Liane Moriarty · 420 pages

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Sunrise

Theresa Valentine · 228 pages

They say you should never judge a book by its cover...and this same sentiment applies to people, too. In Sunrise, Stephanie lives what many would consider an ideal life. She works hard at her job, is in a long-term, committed marriage, and is a proud mother to two amazing daughters. She seems happy, secure, and stable. But all this is just a pleasant-looking cover. Behind the scenes, her life is v

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Black and Blue

Anna Quindlen · 288 pages

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The Silent Wife

A.S.A. Harrison · 331 pages

Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They've been together for twenty-eight years, and with no children to worry about there has been little to disrupt their affluent Chicago lifestyle. But there has also been little to hold it together, and beneath the surface lie ever-widening cracks. When it becomes clear that their precarious world could disintegrate at any mo

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Heart of the Matter

Emily Giffin

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A Mother's Confession

Kelly Rimmer

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The Missing Wife

Sheila O'Flanagan · 480 pages

It's the perfect marriage. Everyone says so, even her closest friend. Really, as Vince has pointed out, many times, Imogen just couldn't manage without him. And he's saved her from the family that didn't love her. Couldn't she? And has he? There's only one way to find out. Imogen's on a journey in search of herself. But her past is right on her heels.

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I Let You Go

Clare Mackintosh · 384 pages

Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.

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Behind Closed Doors

B.A. Paris · 352 pages

**The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?** Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or h

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Safe with Me

Amy Hatvany · 408 pages

The screech of tires brought Hannah Scott's world as she knew it to a devastating end. Even a year after she signed the papers to donate her daughter's organs, Hannah is still reeling with grief when she unexpectedly stumbles into the life of the Bell family, whose child, Maddie, survived only because hers had died. Mesmerized by this fragile connection to her own daughter and afraid to reveal who

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The Great Santini

Pat Conroy · 475 pages

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Barely Breathing

Rebecca Donovan · 592 pages

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But I Love Him

Mandy Hubbard · 253 pages

Traces, through the course of a year, Ann's transformation from a happy A-student, track star, and popular senior to a solitary, abused woman whose love for the emotionally-scarred Connor has taken away everything--even herself.

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And on the Eighth Day She Rested

J.D. Mason, Jaclyn Meridy · 282 pages

"Ruth Johnson has finally left her abusive husband of fourteen years and jumped feetfirst into "What the hell do I do now?" oblivion. Then into her life come three unforgettable women who turn her world upside down. Feisty, outspoken Bernice, a.k.a. "Bernie," has been there and done that when it comes to love and marriage. Her ex-husband is settled down with his much younger wife and her kids are

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Left Neglected

Lisa Genova · 416 pages

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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg · 403 pages

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Ala

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The Last Mrs. Parrish

Liv Constantine · 400 pages

"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and phi

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