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The Book Club for Troublesome Women

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The Wednesday Sisters

Meg Waite Clayton · 288 pages

Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg Waite Clayton's beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family.For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their

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The Giver of Stars

Jojo Moyes · 432 pages

From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbeari

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The Boston Girl

Anita Diamant · 322 pages

A story "about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's in

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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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Looking for Jane

Heather Marshall · 400 pages

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The House at the End of Hope Street

Menna van Praag · 280 pages

"A magical debut about an enchanted house that offers refuge to women in their time of need Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, England, when she finds herself in front of a house she's never seen before, 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets her and invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she has

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The Perfect Neighbors

Sarah Pekkanen · 410 pages

"The page-turning new novel from the internationally bestselling author known for her "conversational writing style and a knack for making readers care about her characters" (The Washington Post) takes us into the homes of an idyllic suburban neighborhood where we discover the burning secrets hiding just below the surface. Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights

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The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd · 384 pages

Hetty "Handful" Grimké, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimké household. The Grimké's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten ye

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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Elena Ferrante · 417 pages

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding

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Single in Suburbia

Wendy Wax · 384 pages

Amanda's husband has just traded her in for an affair with a teenybopper. Brooke is a trophy wife collecting dust. And Candace (Don't call me Candy) has had too many husbands and too little love. What do these three unlikely accomplices have in common besides a Little League team called the Mudhens? A plot to reclaim a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t. And they're going to do it with a mop and a bucket.Maid f

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The Wildwater Walking Club

Claire Cook · 272 pages

Three women who are neighbors share their struggles with unfaithful men, rebellious children, and parental expectations while taking long walks near their homes on Wildwater Way.

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The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

Deborah Rodriguez · 353 pages

In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - and fast - to keep her caf and customers safea YAZMINA, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul's violent streets a CANDACE, a wealthy American who has finally left her husband for her Afgh

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Firefly Lane

Kristin Hannah · 552 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it a

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Class Reunion

Rona Jaffe · 352 pages

A story about friendship, love, and secrets that spans three decades--the fifties, sixties, and seventies--set against the background of the social mores that shaped al l our lives.

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Falling Angels

Tracy Chevalier · 370 pages

Historical fiction about the unlikely friendship of two young girls, and their journey out of childhood together. Their story is affected by many people around them, note-worthily one of the children's mother and her dissatisfaction with her life.

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Ladies Coupé: A Novel in Parts

Anita Nair · 306 pages

One day Akhila gets a one way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. The characters she meets on her journey reveal how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with husbands, mothers, friends, employers and children are the same the world over.

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Big little lies

Jean-Marc Vallée, Liane Moriarty · 420 pages

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Open House

Elizabeth Berg · 241 pages

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The Cows

Dawn O'Porter

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The Queens of Crime

Marie Benedict

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Commencement

J. Courtney Sullivan · 324 pages

A sparkling debut novel: a tender story of friendship, a witty take on liberal arts colleges, and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose.Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith College, Celia, Bree, Sally, and April couldn't have less in common. Celia, a lapsed Catholic, arrives with he

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The Night the Lights Went Out

Karen White · 406 pages

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Flight Patterns comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems ... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It's not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren't helped by an a

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Pam of Babylon

Suzanne Jenkins · 296 pages

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