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MELISA BANK · 290 pages

Love the One You're With

Emily Giffin · 347 pages

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

Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes · 592 pages

Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband - the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands - and no memory of how she got there. While

The Opposite of Love

Julie Buxbaum · 360 pages

With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can't explain to even her closest friends why she did it. So

Good in Bed

Jennifer Weiner · 376 pages

For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. But the day she opens up a n

Girls in Trucks

Katie Crouch · 276 pages

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as

Chasing Harry Winston

Lauren Weisberger · 304 pages

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.

Mini Shopaholic

Sophie Kinsella

While trying to deal with her mini-terror 2-year-old, financially strapped Becky Brandon attempts to plan a surprise party on a budget for her husband, Luke, and starts to come apart at the seams as she juggles the party, her precocious child and her faltering personal-shopping business.

Mr. Maybe

Jane Green · 357 pages

Libby Mason, who dreams of marrying a wealthy man, finds herself torn between Nick, a struggling writer who makes up for his lack of funds with his passion in bed, and Ed, Britain's wealthiest but stodgiest bachelor.

Queen of Babble in the Big City

Meg Cabot · 307 pages

Lizzie Nichols is back, pounding the New York City pavement and looking for a job, a place to live, and her proper place in the universe (not necessarily in that order). When "Summer Fling" Luke uses the L word (Living Together), Lizzie is only too happy to give up her plan of being postgrad roomies with best friend, Shari, in a one-room walk-up in exchange for cohabitation with the love of her

Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding · 400 pages

Londonite Bridget Jones faces the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety buttons and three remotes to simply turn on, all while raising two children, attempting to date again, and writing a screenplay.

Bergdorf Blondes

Plum Sykes · 316 pages

Welcome to the world of Park Avenue Princesses, the girls who careen through Manhattan in search of perfect Fake Bake (tan acquired from Portofino Tanning Salon), a ride on a PJ (private jet) with the ATM rich boyfriend), and the ever elusive fiance.

Girls in White Dresses

Jennifer Close · 304 pages

The Knockoff

Lucy Sykes · 345 pages

A "novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor-in-chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twenty-something former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app"--Amazon.com.

American Girls About Town

Jennifer Weiner, Lauren Weisberger, Adriana Trigiani, Judi Hendricks · 369 pages

I Heart New York

Lindsey Kelk · 336 pages

Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, get ready for the summer debut of the year...It's official. Angela Clarke is in love – with the most fabulous city in the world.Fleeing her cheating boyfriend and clutching little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins and her passport, Angela jumps on a plane, destination - NYC.Holed up in a cute hotel room, Angela gets a New York makeover

Wish You Were Here

Jodi Picoult · 336 pages

Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s an associate specialist at Sotheby’s now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She’s not engaged just yet, but she kn

The Baby Trail

Sinead Moriarty · 320 pages

Early thirtysomething Emma decides it's time to have the baby - but it just doesn't happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it's never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.

Running in Heels

Anna Maxted · 426 pages

Summer Blowout

Claire Cook · 249 pages

Bella Shaughnessy is the spitfire middle daughter in a large, noisy, faux Italian family (they're really Irish) of beauty salon owners (think Lucia, Lucia). She works as a hairdresser and makeup artist in her family’s salon, along with her four half-brothers and sisters, where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Her father, Lucky Shaughnessy, is a gregarious charmer with Donald Trump hair who

The Next Thing on My List

Jill Smolinski · 295 pages

Meet June Parker. She works for L.A. Rideshare, adores her rent-stabilized apartment in Santa Monica, and struggles with losing a few pesky pounds. But June’s life is about to change. After a dark turn of events involving Weight Watchers, a chili recipe and a car accident in which her passenger, Marissa, dies, June finds herself in possession of a list, “20 Things to Do By My 25th Birthda

Her

Laura Zigman · 220 pages

"On the Delta Shuttle between New York and Washington, Elise finds herself sitting next to Donald - tall, with dark wavy hair, a big easy smile. She's left the world of women's magazines in Manhattan for graduate school in D.C. He's left investment banking to become a teacher. They are both unattached. They exchange stories. They fall in love. One year later they're headed for an April wedding. St

Girls' Night In

Lauren Henderson, Chris Manby, Sarah Mlynowski, Jill A. Davis, Stella Duffy, Lisa Jewell, Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella, Adele Lang, Carole Matthews, Anna Maxted, Megan McCafferty, Alisa Valdes, Isabel Wolff, Meg Cabot, Jessica Adams, Louise Bagshawe, Emily Barr, Jenny Colgan, Lynda Curnyn, Jennifer · 338 pages

21 TALES FROM THE HOTTEST FEMALE WRITERS In this must-have short-story collection, Jennifer Weiner revisits on of her Good in Bed characters (and tells the story from, ahem, his point of view), Jill A. Davis (Girl's Poker Night) offers darkly humorous take on starting over in New York and working with "the Elizabeths" and Alisa Valdes-Rodriquez (The Dirty Girls Social Club) muses on how differe