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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLittle Earthquakes
Jennifer Weiner · 417 pages
A chef, an event planner, and a basketball player's wife find their marriages and careers in Philadelphia challenged by new motherhood, difficult schedules, and infidelity.
Red Hook Road
Ayelet Waldman · 343 pages
After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are left to bridge stark class and cultural divides, and eventually forge deep-rooted bonds thanks to the twin deities of love and music. Becca's family is well off, from New York, and summers in Red Hook, Maine, a small coastal town where John's blue-collar single mother, Jane, cleans hou
Stillwater Rising
Steena Holmes · 253 pages
"After losing her son in an elementary school shooting that devastates the tight-knit community of Stillwater Bay, Jennifer Crowne finds herself unable to settle back into her role of perfect stay-at-home mom and committee organizer. Meanwhile, her best friend, Mayor Charlotte Stone, struggles to keep the town together, and Charlotte's husband, the school principal, may not be the hero everyone th
Entering Normal
Anne D. LeClaire · 306 pages
"Rose Nelson is a middle-aged woman with a broken past, harboring a sorrow from which she thinks she will never recover. Five years after her teenaged son's death, she is still sealed off from life, enveloped by grief and remorse. Then Opal Gates and her five-year-old son, Zack, move in next door. Determined to start anew, twenty-year-old Opal has left her family and Zack's father in North Carolin
Waiting for Morning
Karen Kingsbury · 377 pages
As Hannah Ryan waits for her family to return home form a camping trip, she realizes she has everything going for her - a husband other women admire, two charming teenage daughters, and a loving Christian home. As the sunny afternoon turns into twilight, her uneasiness grows along with the shadows. Then a car pulls into Hannah's driveway, bring two police officers .... and devastating news that sh
Did You Ever Have a Family
Bill Clegg · 298 pages
"On the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's life is completely devastated when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter's fiancé, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend, Luke--her entire family, all gone in a moment. And June is the only survivor. Alone and directionless, June drives across the country, away from her small Connecticut town. In her wake, a community emerg
Between a Mother and Her Child
Elizabeth Noble · 435 pages
For Maggie and Bill it was love at first sight. One impulsive wedding later and with the arrival of three perfect children, Jake, Aly and Stan, the Barrett family seem to have it all. Until the day their world stops turning!
Night Road
Kristin Hannah · 432 pages
"For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows-her twins, Mia and Zach-are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jud
Pack Up the Moon
Rachael Herron · 434 pages
"Three years after a horrible tragedy took her son and tore her family apart, artist Kate Monroe is beginning to pick up the pieces of her life and move on. At a gala showcasing her triumphant return to the art world, Kate's world is rocked again when the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-two years ago introduces herself. Pree is the child Kate never knew and never forgot. But Pree has ques
The Salt House
Lisa Duffy · 288 pages
In the tradition of Jodi Picoult and Lisa Genova, this gorgeously written, heartbreaking, yet hopeful debut set during a Maine summer traces the lives of a young family in the aftermath of tragedy.In the coastal town of Alden, Maine, Hope and Jack Kelly have settled down to a life of wedded bliss. They have a beautiful family, a growing lobster business, and the Salt House--the dilapidated oceanfr
Life Without Summer
Lynne Griffin · 312 pages
"Life Without Summer" tells the story of Tessa, a mother who has just lost her four-year-old daughter in a hit-and-run accident and the grief counselor, Celia, who tries to help her to put her life back together. When their lives begin to intersect in powerful and unexpected ways, they discover that the answers one needs might be the other's only chance for peace.
The Knitting Circle
Ann Hood · 352 pages
After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life.
Tilly
Frank E. Peretti · 126 pages
Tilly is a novel by Christian fiction author Frank E. Peretti. Originally written as a radio drama for Focus on the Family in 1986, Peretti published it was a book in 1988. Tilly was made into a short forty-minute film in 2002 by Love Life America. Its primary themes concern abortion and post-abortion guilt and depression. (Taken from Wikipedia)
Rabbit Hole
David Lindsay-Abaire · 157 pages
A play about a bereaved family with highly functional, unsentimental, spirited and, often, funny people who are trying to maneuver their way through their grief and around each other as best they can.
Maggie
Charles Martin · 320 pages
Love Anthony
Lisa Genova · 336 pages
Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.
Safe Harbour
Danielle Steel · 422 pages
An unforgettable story of survival...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring – and keep – families together...On a wind-swept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her m
The In-Between Hour
Barbara Claypole White · 384 pages
"What could be worse than losing your child? Having to pretend he's still alive ... Bestselling author Will Shepard is caught in the twilight of grief, after his young son dies in a car accident. But when his father's aging mind erases the memory, Will rewrites the truth. The story he spins brings unexpected relief ... until he's forced to return to rural North Carolina, trapping himself in a lie.
The One-in-a-Million Boy
Monica Wood · 336 pages
Guitarist Quinn Porter chases gigs on the road, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness recordsobsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness by completing the requirements for his son's unfinished Boy Scout badge. For seven Saturdays he does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the wily 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly. Despite himself
Who We Were Before
Leah Mercer · 266 pages
Enon
Paul Harding · 256 pages
A grieving Charlie Crosby, grandson of Tinkers protagonist George Washington Crosby, attempts to come to terms with the death of his daughter Kate and the subsequent dissolution of his marriage.
Pet Sematary
Stephen King · 416 pages
Don’t miss the classic tale from King of Horror and #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, described by Publishers Weekly as “the most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written.” When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son—and now an idyllic hom
Take Me with You
Catherine Ryan Hyde · 406 pages
August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his 19-year-old son died. Every year he's spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Phillip's ahses instead. An unexpected twist of fate puts August with two extra passengers on his journey, two half-orphans
The Letters
Luanne Rice, Joseph Monninger · 199 pages
Is there any mystery greater than those we love the most? In this remarkable collaboration, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger combine their unique talents to create a powerfully moving novel of an estranged husband and wife through a series of searching, intimate letters. By way of a correspondence so achingly real you'll forget it's fiction, they trace the history