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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

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This Book Made Me Think of You

Libby Page · 417 pages

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT CELEBRATES LOVE, LIFE, AND FINDING THE RIGHT BOOK AT THE RIGHT TIME Join readers around the world who have fallen in love with the book praised by Adriana Trigiani as “the feel-good novel of the year”—an emotional and uplifting story about one woman’s reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again. “A lovely, affecting paean to the power of books and enduring

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P.S. I Love You

Cecelia Ahern · 512 pages

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Sam's Letters to Jennifer

James Patterson · 264 pages

Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - a

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Good Grief

Lolly Winston · 362 pages

A brilliantly funny and heartwarming debut about a young woman who stumbles, then fights to build a new life after the death of her husband. The perfect book for anyone who has ever been heartbroken, lost someone they loved, or eaten too many Oreos.

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Emily and Einstein

Linda Francis Lee · 356 pages

Sandy Portman and Emily Barlow seem to lead a perfect life. Sandy is a successful businessman from an old-money family, and Emily, beautiful and smart, is quickly gaining respect in her career as a book editor. But Sandy is keeping a few secrets from Emily, and is hit by a car and killed before he has a chance to reveal the truth. In a Dickensian turn of events, he's given an otherworldly chance t

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The Garden of Small Beginnings

Abbi Waxman · 368 pages

"Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Give grief a chance. Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years--ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she's just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can

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On Second Thought

Kristan Higgins · 448 pages

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The Christmas Cafe

Amanda Prowse

Bea is fifty three, and she's just lost her husband after thirty years of marriage. To distract herself from grief, she throws herself into her work running the Reservoir Street Kitchen in one of Sydney's most fashionable districts. But then an email from a cafe-owner in Edinburgh prompts her to take a trip to Scotland in the depths of winter. Her journey will be one of self-discovery, as she is d

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Regretting You

Colleen Hoover · 363 pages

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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Phaedra Patrick · 331 pages

Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite g

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After Ben

Con Riley · 300 pages

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When He Was Wicked

Julia Quinn · 448 pages

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his he

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Oliver's Story

Erich Segal · 90 pages

In this sequel to Love Story, widower Oliver tries to rebuild his life and finds himself falling in love again.

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The After Wife

Gigi Levangie Grazer · 298 pages

As she pours out her grief and questions to a tree in her backyard after her husband's death, reality show producer Hannah is astonished when the tree appears to respond, prompting Hannah's discovery that she can communicate with the dead.

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Mężczyzna imieniem Ove

Fredrick Backman · 352 pages

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The Rescue

Nicholas Sparks · 446 pages

One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.

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The Secrets We Keep

Stephanie Butland

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Sarah's Child

Linda Howard · 256 pages

A tragic accident took everything that mattered to Rome Matthews: his wife, Diane, and their two little boys. And it robbed Sarah Harper of her best friend. In the two years since the tragedy, Sarah has wanted to reach out to Rome, but she knew she needed to stay away, guarding the secret she had kept from him and Diane all those years,  that she was in love with her best friend's husband.But now

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Everything We Keep

Kerry Lonsdale · 296 pages

Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents' restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Struggling to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into James's disappearance. What Aimee uncovers is an ocean of secrets that make her quest

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Off Season

Anne Rivers Siddons · 407 pages

Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss. For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's f

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