Athena (The Newport Ladies Book Club)

Fly Away

Kristin Hannah · 416 pages

A follow-up to "Firefly Lane" returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.

A Month of Summer

Lisa Wingate · 359 pages

First in a new series from a national bestselling author whose "novels [are] like those of Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans."(Bryan-College Station Eagle) For Rebecca Macklin, an ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart when she discovers that her aging father has been wandering the Dallas streets alone, and his wife, Hanna Beth, has landed in a nursing home. Now Rebecca

The Fiction Class

Susan Breen · 308 pages

A witty, honest, and hugely entertaining story for anyone who loves books, or has a difficult mother. And, let's face it, that's practically everybody . . .On paper, Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach her fiction class on the Upper West Side: she's a writer herself; she's passionate about books; she's even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel.On the other hand, she's t

The Wishing Jar

Penelope J. Stokes · 304 pages

Een weduwe die zorgt voor haar zieke moeder en strijdt met haar dwarse tienerdochter, verwacht dat een huwelijk met een hoogleraar haar leven makkelijker zal maken.

A Window Opens

Elisabeth Egan · 370 pages

"Alice Pearse thought she would live happily ever after...then she realized she was in the wrong story...[and] realizes the question is not whether it's possible to have it all, but what does she--Alice Pearse--really want?"--

The Weird Sisters

Eleanor Brown · 320 pages

Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected.

The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society

Beth Pattillo · 342 pages

Sometimes life has to unravel before you can knit it together...On the third Friday of each month, Eugenie, Ruth, Esther, Merry, and Camille meet at the Sweetgum Christian Church to enjoy the two things that connect them: a love of knitting and a passion for books. Their camaraderie remains unthreatened until Eugenie, the town librarian, introduces an angry teenager into their midst. Eugenie also

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

Twenty Wishes

Debbie Macomber · 396 pages

What Anne Marie Roche wants is to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, she's childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a feeling of emptiness. On Valentine's Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate…hope. They each begin a list of twenty wishes—things they always wanted to d

I Like You Just Fine When You're Not Around

Ann Wertz Garvin · 287 pages

"While trying to handle their own changing careers and personal issues, two sisters face more crisis when their mother develops Alzheimer's and a new baby enters their lives"--

Perfect Daughter

Amanda Prowse · 361 pages

Jackie loves her family. Sure, her teenage children can be stroppy. Her husband a little lazy. And providing round-the-clock care for her Alzheimer's-ridden mother is exhausting. All Jackie wants is for her children to have a brighter future than she did. So long as Martha, the eldest, gets into university and follows her dreams, all her sacrifice will be worth something ... won't it?

The Map of True Places

Brunonia Barry · 568 pages

Brunonia Barry, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, offers an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world.Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats—a talent that earned her the nickname Trouble. She's now a respected psychotherapist working with the world-famous Dr. Liz Mattei. She's also about to marry one of B

Outside the Lines

Amy Hatvany · 358 pages

When Eden was ten years old she found her father, David, bleeding out on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents' divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden's life. Since childhood, she has heard from him only rarely, just enough to know he's been living on the streets and struggling with mental illness. But lately, there has been no word at all. Now in her thirties, Eden dec

Remember

Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley · 515 pages

Convinced she could make it on her own, Ashley Baxter has kept the most important people in her life at a distance--her family, the man who loves her, and the God she is sure can never forgive her. Now, just as she begins to open her heart, the events of September 11 rip into Ashley's world and she is led to heartbreaking and hope-filled decisions that will forever change her life.

When You Were Older

Catherine Ryan Hyde

The Truth About Delilah Blue

Tish Cohen · 412 pages

Delilah, an aspiring artist and nude model, starts to question her life and father, who has begun to show signs of Alzheimer's disease, after her mother suddenly returns with a young daughter and reveals a shocking family secret.

Still Alice

Lisa Genova · 320 pages

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.

The Light of Hidden Flowers

Jennifer Handford · 368 pages

After the death of her father from Alzheimer's, Missy Fletcher packs her bags and goes to Italy. Once there she meets a new friend and soon finds herself signing away her inheritance and betting on a risky plan and rekindles a lost love.

The Interruption of Everything

Terry McMillan · 470 pages

The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes copes with the problems of midlife as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendships, family, and herself.

Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams

Jenny Colgan · 465 pages

Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Soft chewy ones or hard boiled sweeties (you do get more for your money that way)? The jangle of your pocket money . . . the rustle of the pink and green striped paper bag. Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian s sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy, i

The Opposite of Maybe

Maddie Dawson · 391 pages

"A heartfelt, funny, and all-together human novel about the best mistakes a person can make Jonathan and Rosie have been together so long they finish each other's sentences--so when he (finally) proposes and asks her to move across the country with him, everyone is happily surprised. But when things suddenly unravel, Rosie sends Jonathan packing and moves back home with Soapie, the irascible, opin

The In-Between Hour

Barbara Claypole White · 384 pages

"What could be worse than losing your child? Having to pretend he's still alive ... Bestselling author Will Shepard is caught in the twilight of grief, after his young son dies in a car accident. But when his father's aging mind erases the memory, Will rewrites the truth. The story he spins brings unexpected relief ... until he's forced to return to rural North Carolina, trapping himself in a lie.

The Wishing Hill

Holly Robinson · 379 pages

Almost Sisters

Nancy Anderson, Lael Littke, Carroll Hofeling Morris · 320 pages