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The Stud Book

Monica Drake · 327 pages

Well-versed in the mating habits of captive animals, Sarah, who studies animal behavior at the zoo, longs to have a baby, while her loyal friends, each dealing with their own parenting issues, discover that the families they forge through shared experience are as important as those inherited through birth.

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Driving Lessons

Zoe Fishman · 324 pages

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Then Came You

Jennifer Weiner · 338 pages

The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.

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The Wedding People

Alison Espach · 384 pages

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to

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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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The Secrets of Married Women

Carol Mason · 327 pages

For Jill, having a child has never been the be all and end all. She's just happy to have a lovely husband she can trust. But now Rob's gone off sex and treats her more like a flatmate than a lover. When Jill meets a handsome foreigner on the beach, will she take her chance for a bit of fun, or is it a risk not worth taking.

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The Unfinished Child

Theresa Shea · 304 pages

When Marie MacPherson, a mother of two, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at 39, she feels guilty. Her best friend, Elizabeth, has never been able to conceive, despite years of fertility treatments. Marie's dilemma is further complicated when she becomes convinced something is wrong with her baby. She then enters the world of genetic testing and is entirely unprepared for the decision that lies

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With Friends Like These

Sally Koslow · 336 pages

Forging a deep friendship in spite of their differences, former roommates Quincy, Jules, Talia and Chloe struggle with respective challenges in the ensuing years, which are complicated by their illusion-based comparisons to one another's circumstances.

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The Friends We Keep

Susan Mallery · 416 pages

After five years as a stay-at-home mom, Gabby Schaefer plans to return to work are derailed by some shocking news and her husband's crushing expectations. Hayley Batchelor has trouble staying pregnant, and her husband is worried about the expensive fertility treatments and frantic about the threat to her health. Nicole Lord's ex-husband left barely a ripple in her life; can she trust herself to re

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Between Friends

Kristy Kiernan · 325 pages

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Looking for Jane

Heather Marshall · 400 pages

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Shock

Robin Cook · 338 pages

To earn extra money, graduate students Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner become involved with a Boston fertility clinic, but they become suspicious about the clinic and its director and risk their lives to uncover the truth.

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Sima's Undergarments for Women

Ilana Stanger-Ross · 320 pages

Sima Goldberg, owner of a bra shop in Brooklyn, NY, is the kind of woman whom other women trust. Sima is privy to the thoughts and desires of her clientele as she custom-fits each one with undergarments that lift, correct, and enhance their female figures all at discount prices, of course. But while her patrons bare their souls to Sima, she manages to keep the biggest secret to herself, one that h

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The Clique

Lisi Harrison · 220 pages

Enter the world of the clique - where the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

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The Assistants

Camille Perri · 296 pages

When a technical error at a multinational media conglomerate gives a financially strapped veteran employee a chance to pay off her student loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on a downward spiral involving other employees with crushing debts and fewer scruples.

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Happiness Sold Separately

Lolly Winston · 320 pages

The New York Times bestseller about how marriage, love, and how sometimes falling in love with the wrong person at the wrong time can be the right thing. Elinor Mackey has lived her life in perfect order: college, law school, marriage, successful corporate career. But when she discovers that she and her podiatrist husband, Ted, can't have children, Elinor withdraws into her own world of heartbreak

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The Regulars

Georgia Clark · 397 pages

Evie, Krista, and Willow are regular girls trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York. Until they come across Pretty, a magic tincture that makes them, well, gorgeous. Like, supermodel gorgeous. And it's certainly not their fault if the sudden gift of beauty causes unexpected doors to open for them. But there's a dark side to Pretty, too, and the question arises: What would you sacri

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The Theory of Opposites

Allison Winn Scotch · 310 pages

"What happens when you think you have it all, and then suddenly it's taken away? Willa Chandler-Golden's father changed the world with his self-help bestseller, Is It Really Your Choice? Why Your Entire Life May Be Out of Your Control. Millions of devoted fans now find solace in his notion that everything happens for a reason. Though Willa isn't entirely convinced of her father's theories, she rea

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Sushi for Beginners

Marian Keyes · 545 pages

Three women in Dublin are going through a period of change in their lives. Bitchy, ambitious and beautiful, Lisa has been sent to Dublin to launch a brand new Irish Women's Magazine, however as she thought her next move was to New York she feels like she is in exile and is none to happy with the alternative. On arrival she decides that her new boss, the attractive if not somewhat scruffy Jack Devi

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Starting Now

Debbie Macomber · 473 pages

For years Libby Morgan dreamed only of making partner in her law firm. She sacrificed everything for her career -- her friends, her marriage, her chance at creating a family. When her boss calls Libby into his office, she assumes it will finally be good news, but nothing can prepare her for the shocking reality: She's been let go and must rebuild her entire life . . . starting now. With no job pro

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Sex and the City

Candace Bushnell · 245 pages

A chronicle of the mating habits and rituals of America's cultural elite offers a look at topics including sex clubs, suburban sexuality, and celebrity affairs.

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Chasing Harry Winston

Lauren Weisberger · 304 pages

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Bye, Baby

Carola Lovering · 352 pages

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No One Is Coming to Save Us

Stephanie Powell Watts · 384 pages

"JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can'

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