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A Rural Affair

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Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes Β· 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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Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding Β· 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.

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P.S. I Love You

Cecelia Ahern Β· 512 pages

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A Pinch of Love: A Novel

Alicia Bessette Β· 311 pages

After she joins a baking contest to try to shake off the lingering grief from her husband's death, Zell Carmichael Roy befriends her nine-year-old next-door neighbor, a motherless girl who joins Zell's quest for dessert-competition glory.

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The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch

Marsha Moyer Β· 291 pages

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Flora's Lot

Katie Fforde Β· 416 pages

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The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating

Carole Radziwill Β· 319 pages

"A deliciously smart comedy about a famously widowed young New Yorker hell-bent on recapturing a kind of passionate love she never really hadClaire Byrne is a quirky and glamorous 34-year-old Manhattanite and the wife of a famous, slightly older man. Her husband, Charlie, is a renowned sexologist and writer. Equal parts Alfred Kinsey and Warren Beatty, Charlie is pompous yet charming, supportive y

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The After Wife

Gigi Levangie Grazer Β· 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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The Life She Wants

Robyn Carr Β· 384 pages

In the aftermath of her financier husband's suicide, Emma Shay Compton's dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients' life savings to fund a lavish life in NYC and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband's crimes. She is left with nothing. So she goes home to Sonoma County. But starting over isn't easy, and Sonoma is full of unhappy mem

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Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe

Debbie Johnson Β· 352 pages

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A Slight Change of Plan

Dee Ernst Β· 352 pages

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Baby Proof

Emily Giffin Β· 352 pages

Is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? What happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things? First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes--a baby carriage. Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fa

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Every Last Cuckoo

Kate Maloy Β· 290 pages

Sarah Lucas imagined the rest of her days would be spent living peacefully in her rural Vermont home in the steadfast company of her husband. But now, with Charles's sudden passing, seventy-five-year-old Sarah is left inconsolably alone. As grief settles in, Sarah's mind lingers on her past: her imperfect but devoted fifty-year marriage to Charles; the years they spent raising their three very

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Wilde Like Me

Louise Pentland Β· 391 pages

When single mom Robin Wilde decides to change her life, new opportunities are soon on her horizon.

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Changing Lanes

Kathleen Long Β· 249 pages

Abby Halladay has the perfect life in Paris (New Jersey, that is). Then her fiancΓ© Fred runs away to Paris (France, that is), her column is canned, and her dream home is diagnosed with termites. Forced to move back in with her parents and drive her dad's cab, Abby slowly but surely must begin to let go of her dreams of perfection and embrace the messy, imperfect life she thought she never wanted.

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The Little French Guesthouse

Helen Pollard Β· 346 pages

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The Opposite of Me

Sarah Pekkanen Β· 400 pages

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Elegance

Kathleen Tessaro Β· 319 pages

Fraught with insecurity about her husband's increasingly distant behavior, Louise Canova obtains a faded fashion guide from a second-hand bookshop and discovers that its lessons have unexpected results.

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The Devil in the Junior League

Linda Francis Lee Β· 344 pages

A member of the exclusive Junior League of Willow Creek, Texas, Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand Ware's perfect life begins to unravel when her husband betrays her, steals her money, and vanishes.

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Good in Bed

Jennifer Weiner Β· 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

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One True Loves

Taylor Jenkins Reid Β· 352 pages

In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goe

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Country

Danielle Steel Β· 418 pages

Life for Stephanie Adams is all about being a devoted mother. For years, she has kept her unhappy marriage a secret, intent on protecting her children from seeing their family break up. Then Stephanie's husband dies suddenly, and she sees a chance for everything to be different. Stephanie strives to balance her children's grief with her desire to move on from the past -- but after years of giving

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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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