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Nights in Rodanthe

Nicholas Sparks · 217 pages

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy; of sacrifice and forgiveness -- a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite,

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Love the One You're With

Emily Giffin · 347 pages

A chance encounter forces one woman to question her decisions, her marriage, and herself.

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Dancing at the Harvest Moon

K.C. McKinnon · 192 pages

His letters thrilled her as a young woman in love for the first time, and now, many years later, they mean more than ever to Maggie McIntyre. After her husband of twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, it's the discovery of Robbie's letters that gives Maggie a renewed sense of purpose: to return to Little Bear Lake and recapture the woman she once was - the woman she knows she could be again

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The Ladies' Room

Carolyn Brown · 224 pages

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On Mystic Lake

Kristin Hannah · 404 pages

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Blue Dahlia

Nora Roberts · 375 pages

A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries- old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee--and into her new

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A Spring Affair

Milly Johnson · 496 pages

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Nowhere But Home

Liza Palmer · 360 pages

"After Queenie Wake is dismissed from her restaurant job, she returns to North Star to cook meals for death row inmates. Hopeful that the bad memories of her late mother and promiscuous sister (now the mother of the captain of the high school football team) have been forgotten by the locals, Queenie discovers that some people can't be forgotten--heartbreaker Everett Coburn--her old high-school swe

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Escape

Barbara Delinsky · 308 pages

Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but now she spends her days in a cubicle talking with victims of tainted bottled water--and she's on the bottler's side.

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Bring on the Blessings

Beverly Jenkins · 366 pages

On Bernadine Brown's fifty-second birthday she received an unexpected gift — she caught her husband, Leo, cheating with his secretary. She was hurt — angry, too — but she didn't cry woe is me. Nope, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million. Having been raised in the church, she knew that when much is given much is expected, so she asked God to send her a purpose.T

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The Mermaid Chair

Sue Monk Kidd · 335 pages

It's about a woman named Jessie Sullivan who has to return to her former home Egret island to take care of her mother. Within a monastery resides a chair carved with mermaids that supposedly was dedicated to a mermaid.Jessie meet a monk and falls for him although she is already married.....

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Thursdays in the Park

Hilary Boyd · 352 pages

What do you do if you've been married to a man for half your life and out of nowhere he leaves your bed - permanently? When this happens to Jeanie, she's furious and hurt, and determined to confront George, her husband of 30 years. Is he in love with someone else? What did she do wrong? He won't tell her. The brightest day of her week is Thursday, the day Jeanie takes her granddaughter to the park

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The Starter Wife

Gigi Levangie Grazer · 407 pages

When her Hollywood studio head husband unexpectedly divorces her to marry a pop starlet, Gracie seeks refuge at a friend's Malibu mansion, witnesses the impact of the divorce on her young daughter, and interacts with a series of dysfunctional men.

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Deeper

Megan Hart · 392 pages

Twenty years ago she had her whole life spread out before her. She was Bess Walsh, a fresh-scrubbed, middle-class student ready to conquer the design world. And she was taken. Absolutely and completely.But not by Andy, her well-groomed, intellectual boyfriend who had hinted more than once about a ring. No. During that hot summer as a waitress and living on the beach, she met Nick, the moody, dark-

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The Other Woman

Brenda Novak · 304 pages

Elizabeth O'Connell has survived one of the worst betrayals a wife can imagine. Finding out that she wasn't the only woman in her husband's life meant the end of her marriage and a year of personal hell. Now she's focusing on her new business and raising her two kids.Carter Hudson isn't part of her plan. When he's introduced to Liz by well-meaning friends, her dislike is instant. But as she spends

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Falling Home

Karen White · 412 pages

You Know That Saying About How Sometimes You're The Windshield And Sometimes You're The Bug?It's true. Take me, for example. I shook the Georgia dust from my feet fifteen years ago, vowing never to leave Manhattan. I traded sweet tea for Chardonnay, fried chicken for nouvelle cuisine, lazy days on my aunt's front porch for ad campaigns and board meetings, and the guy who broke my heart for my hand

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The Last Original Wife

Dorothea Benton Frank · 376 pages

"Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman's quest to find the love she deserves, from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank.Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley's wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in th

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Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe

Jennie Shortridge · 400 pages

When she learns that her college sweetheart husbandhas been seeing another woman, Mira Serafino'sperfect world is shattered and she wants no one,least of all her big Italian family, to know. She headsnorth—with no destination and little money—stopping only when her car breaks down in Seattle.She takes a job at the offbeat Coffee Shop at theCenter of the Universe, where she'll experiencea terrifyin

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A Time to Dance

Karen Kingsbury · 336 pages

When they learn that their daughter is getting married, John and Abby postpone their separation only to find their relationship growing stronger through the wedding planning process.

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Results May Vary

Bethany Chase · 423 pages

"From Bethany Chase--whom bestselling author Emily Giffin calls "a great new voice in fiction"--comes a wise and delightfully relatable novel about a woman's journey to rebuild her life, and her heart, after a stunning betrayal. Can you ever really know the person you love? She never saw it coming. Without even a shiver of suspicion to warn her, Caroline Hammond discovers that her husband is havin

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The Stuff That Never Happened

Maddie Dawson · 325 pages

"Comparing her stable marriage to a passionate affair she had twenty-six years earlier, Annabelle feels neglected by her busy husband and cares for her pregnant daughter before an encounter with her past love forces her to question her choices." -- NovelList.

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Watermelon

Marian Keyes · 614 pages

February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is lef

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Reckless

S.C. Stephens

"When the band hits it big, Kiera and Kellan must ask themselves: Can their love for each other withstand the constant pressures of superstardom? The friendships they've formed, the new family they've found, and the history they've forged will all play a part in helping them navigate the turbulent waters of the band's exploding popularity. A greedy executive hell-bent on success, a declining pop s

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The Little French Bistro

Nina George · 311 pages

Marianne Messman, a housewife, wants to escape her loveless marriage and an uncaring and unfeeling husband of 35 years. She and her husband, army sergeant major Lothar, take a trip to Paris, during which Marianne leaps of the Pont Neuf into the Seine, but she is saved from drowning by a homeless man. Angered by her behaviour Major Lothar takes a coach trip back home to Germany, expecting that a ps

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