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Smoke

Catherine McKenzie · 342 pages

An evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. After a decade long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in her former life for a quieter one with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to divorc

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The Rumor

Elin Hilderbrand · 374 pages

Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Sunday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor. And rumor has it... that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's blo

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Goodnight Nobody

Jennifer Weiner · 376 pages

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The Vacationers

Emma Straub · 372 pages

Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.

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Burnt Mountain

Anne Rivers Siddons · 325 pages

Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on B

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Three Wishes

Liane Moriarty · 370 pages

Australian triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle are about to turn thirty-three and one is pregnant, one has just had her life turned upside down, and one is only just keeping hers from skidding off the fast lane. Meanwhile, their divorced parents have been behaving very oddly indeed.In this family comedy by Liane Moriarty, we follow the three Kettle sisters through their tumultuous thirty-third ye

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After the Fall

Charity Norman · 357 pages

In the quiet of a New Zealand winter's night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical. At first, Finn's fall looks like a horrible accident; after all, he's prone to sleepwalking. Only his frantic mother, Martha McNamara, knows how it happened. And she isn

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A Village Affair

Joanna Trollope · 282 pages

Alice Jordan seemed to have the perfect life - a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars, and now a beautiful 18th-century building with its orchard and paddock. So why did she feel that something huge, something crucial was missing? Alice looks forward to moving into The Grey House, an 18th-century residence in the village of Pitcombe full of friendly eccentrics. But the change of sce

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Left Neglected

Lisa Genova · 416 pages

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Love All

Callie Wright · 266 pages

In this addictive debut novel set in Cooperstown, New York, in 1994, the beloved matriarch of the Obermeyer family has unexpectedly died in her sleep. Now, for the first time, three generations are living together under one roof and are quickly encroaching on one another's fragile orbits.

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Catching Air

Sarah Pekkanen · 331 pages

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Love You More

Emily Giffin

**A woman is newly engaged to a man she adores when she receives a call from her first love with news that shatters her carefully ordered world, in this emotionally powerful novel from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Summer Pact*.** Billie has built the perfect life. Her medical practice in New York City is thriving, and she’s finally found the right partner in Dean after years

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One Small Act of Kindness

Lucy Dillon · 512 pages

Libby and her husband Jason have moved back to his hometown to turn the family B & B into a boutique hotel. They have left London behind and all the memories - good and bad - that went with it. The injured woman Libby finds lying in the remote country road has lost her memory. She doesn't know why she came to be there, and no one seems to be looking for her. When Libby offers to take her in, this

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Love Water Memory

Jennie Shortridge · 328 pages

Who is Lucie Walker? Even Lucie herself can't answer that question after she comes to, confused and up to her knees in the chilly San Francisco Bay. Back home in Seattle, she adjusts to life with amnesia, growing unsettled by the clues she finds to the selfish, carefully guarded person she used to be. Will she ever fall in love with her handsome, kindhearted fiancé, Grady? Can he devote himself to

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Keeping the House

Ellen Baker

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Coming Up for Air

Patti Callahan Henry · 261 pages

Struggling with the disintegration of her marriage at the same time her controlling mother passes away, Ellie is perplexed when she learns that her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, is creating a documentary about her mother.

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The Ladies' Room

Carolyn Brown · 224 pages

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Keeper of the Light

Diane Chamberlain · 464 pages

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Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult · 466 pages

A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious

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The Infidelity Chain

Tess Stimson · 406 pages

Ella Stuart has worked hard to achieve the perfect work-life balance: a high-flying career as a pediatric doctor, a charming husband, charity fundraiser Jackson Garrettand in urbane PR consultant William Ashfield, a passionate, worldly lover. William is equally devoted to Ella, his mistress of eight years, and to his faded, troubled wife, Beth. He knows he could never choose between them; and is e

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If You Only Knew

Kristan Higgins · 468 pages

Letting go of her ex-husband is harder than wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate expected...especially since his new wife wants to be Jenny's new best friend. Sensing this isn't exactly helping her achieve closure, Jenny trades the Manhattan skyline for her hometown up the Hudson, where she'll start her own business and bask in her sister Rachel's picture-perfect family life...and maybe even find a l

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The Second Sister

Marie Bostwick · 352 pages

"Years of long workdays ... as a political campaigner are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey's boss is entering the White House. But when her estranged older sister, Alice, unexpectedly dies, Lucy is drawn back to Nilson's Bay, her small, close knit Wisconsin hometown. An accident in her teens left Alice mentally impaired, and she was content to stay in Nilson's Bay. Lucy ... got out and neve

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Sandcastles

Luanne Rice · 396 pages

Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters--Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia--at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school's beautiful seaside campus, over which Honor's sister-in-law, mother superior Bernadette Ignatius, keeps a benevolent and watchful eye. No one could have foreseen the day rebellious Regis would

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