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Sunshine Beach

Wendy Wax · 528 pages

After losing their life savings in a Ponzi scheme, Maddie, Avery, and Nikki banded together to make the most of what they've got left through determination, ingenuity, guts, and a large dose of elbow grease. It's Maddie's daughter Kyra who stumbles across a once glorious oceanfront hotel that has fallen into disrepair. The opportunity to renovate this seaside jewel is too good to pass up--especial

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Casting About

Terri DuLong · 330 pages

In the four years since Monica Brooks moved to Cedar Key, Florida, she's found a home, a husband, and a business taking over her mother's bustling knitting shop. But when her husband Adam's ex-wife is deemed an unfit mother, will the normally even-keeled Monica be ready to go straight from honeymoon to motherhood?

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She Always Wore Red

Angela Elwell Hunt · 382 pages

Jennifer Graham--mother, student, and embalmer's apprentice--could use a friend. She finds one in McLane Larson, a newcomer to Mt. Dora, and is delighted to learn that the young woman is expecting a baby. While McLane's soldier-husband serves overseas, Jen promises to support McLane and then learns that her tie to this woman goes far deeper than friendship. When a difference of opinion threatens t

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Breakfast at the Beach House Hotel

Judith Keim · 308 pages

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The Problem with Murmur Lee

Connie May Fowler · 248 pages

The bestselling author of Before Women Had Wings spins a wild new tale about the strong bonds among a group of friends that loses its quirkiest member, Murmur Lee. Exploring new literary territory while keeping to her native Floridian roots, Fowler is here at her most original and entertaining.As a new year dawns over the island of Iris Haven, Murmur Lee Harp and her lover, Billy, go for a romanti

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The Shark Club

Ann Kidd Taylor · 288 pages

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Love Letters from Ladybug Farm

Donna Ball · 343 pages

"All the effort Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget have put into transforming a historic but overgrown farm into an upscale winery and special-events business is paying off--Ladybug Farm has been chosen to host a society wedding. What this really means is the three friends are about to be invaded by warring mothers-in-law, a Bridezilla, and a completely clueless groom. They have their hands full keeping L

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Needles and Pearls: A Beach Street Knitting Society Novel

Gil McNeil

The warm and witty sequel to The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn ClubSlip one . . .Two weddings and a year after her husband's funeral, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. The boys are thriving, the yarn shop is doing well—thanks to Jo's improvements—and she's just about keeping her head above water.Knit two together . . .But a man from Jo's past and a

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Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding · 297 pages

A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An iconic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?

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Back on Blossom Street

Debbie Macomber · 416 pages

There's a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street--a flower store called Susannah's Garden, right next door to A Good Yarn. Susannah Nelson, the owner, has just hired an assistant named Colette Blake, a young widow who's obviously hiding a secret--or two.When Susannah and Colette both join Lydia Goetz's new knitting class, they discover that Lydia and her sister, Margaret, have worries of their own.

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The Quilter's Apprentice

Jennifer Chiaverini · 271 pages

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I Wish I Had a Red Dress

Pearl Cleage · 338 pages

E-book extra: Reading group guide.From Oprah favorite Pearl Cleage comes a delightful new e-book edition of a beloved novel. Joyce Mitchell has put her life on hold to help others. Now, the arrival of a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson proves that others can offer something to her: a renewed passion for life, and a story that will have readers laughing, crying, and cheering.Since Joyce Mitc

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The Gardens of Covington

Joan Medlicott · 337 pages

"The gardens of Covington" joyously celebrates women and friendship, families and love, laughing through the tears, thinking with the head and the heart. The ladies, so real and inspiring, will make you wish you lived in their small Southern town and that they were your neighbors. Hannah, cool-headed and calm, battles to save their beloved hills from the rapacious development that has already ruin

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Knit the Season

Kate Jacobs · 260 pages

Dakota Walker spends the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland--accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Join them as they share a trove of happy memories about Christmases past with Dakota's mom, Georgia Walker--from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom.

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Athena (The Newport Ladies Book Club)

Heather B. Moore · 214 pages

Athena, the newest member of the Newport Ladies' Book Club, juggles the demands of attending to an ailing parent and running her business. When she stumbles across an old shoebox in her mother's closet, she's stunned by its contents, which hold unexpected truths about her parents' relationship.

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Violet Raines Almost Got Stuck By Lightning

Danette Haworth · 162 pages

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A Million Little Things

Susan Mallery · 392 pages

Zoe Saldivar is more than just single--she's ALONE. She recently broke up with her longtime boyfriend, she works from home and her best friend Jen is so obsessed with her baby that she has practically abandoned their friendship. The day Zoe accidentally traps herself in her attic with her hungry-looking cat, she realizes that it's up to her to stop living in isolation. Her seemingly empty life tak

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Wishes for Christmas

Fern Michaels · 294 pages

With the holidays approaching Sisterhood member Maggie Spitzer wants to bring joy to a teacher from her past, while Toots and the Godmothers investigate a mystery surrounding a designer at an exclusive Charleston firm.

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Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes

Cathy Holton · 268 pages

Dissatisfied with their lives, three fabulous southern belles united by years of friendship--Lavonne, who is battling a weight problem; Nita, in lust with the gorgeous, and younger, local gardener; and Eadie, married to an adulterous husband--discover that they are all dealing with lying, cheating spouses and launch a joint campaign to seek revenge.

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Pawleys Island

Dorothea Benton Frank · 384 pages

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Auld Acquaintance

Ruth Hay · 270 pages

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A Single Thread

Marie Bostwick · 344 pages

Marie Bostwick weaves the unforgettable story of four very different women whose paths cross, changing their lives forever…It’s a long way from Fort Worth, Texas, to New Bern, Connecticut, yet it only takes a day in the charming Yankee town to make Evelyn Dixon realize she’s found her new home. The abrupt end of her marriage was Evelyn’s wake-up call to get busy chasing her dream of opening a quil

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The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society

Beth Pattillo · 342 pages

Sometimes life has to unravel before you can knit it together...On the third Friday of each month, Eugenie, Ruth, Esther, Merry, and Camille meet at the Sweetgum Christian Church to enjoy the two things that connect them: a love of knitting and a passion for books. Their camaraderie remains unthreatened until Eugenie, the town librarian, introduces an angry teenager into their midst. Eugenie also

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