The Art of Forgetting

Best Friends Forever

Kimberla Lawson Roby · 235 pages

"Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and her husband, Keith, have become routine. She resents that he's working long hours and staying out all night, and he accuses her of not giving him the attention he deserves. Their marriage is at a cross-roads and Celine worries how her 10-year-old daughter, Kassie, will be affected. But the situation turns dev

Summer Friends

Holly Chamberlin · 355 pages

Returning to Ogunquit, Maine, for an extended visit, successful businesswoman Maggie Weldon reunites with her best friend growing up, native Mainer Delphine Crandall, and together they reflect on their choices and compromises, the girls they were and the women they've become.

Something Borrowed

Emily Giffin · 322 pages

Something Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl---until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiancé. Although she wakes up determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to di

Friends and Rivals

Tilly Bagshawe · 503 pages

Kat fears she is past her prime. Kendall is sure she has it all. But underneath her tough exterior she hides a vulnerability. But when Kendall's need for success consumes her, she won't let anyone stand in her way. Ava is an innocent, plucked from obscurity and thrown into the deep-end of the glamorous world of fame. When she is pitted against Kendall, the world watches closely, wondering who will

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Elena Ferrante · 417 pages

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding

Sushi for Beginners

Marian Keyes · 545 pages

Three women in Dublin are going through a period of change in their lives. Bitchy, ambitious and beautiful, Lisa has been sent to Dublin to launch a brand new Irish Women's Magazine, however as she thought her next move was to New York she feels like she is in exile and is none to happy with the alternative. On arrival she decides that her new boss, the attractive if not somewhat scruffy Jack Devi

The Peach Keeper

Sarah Addison Allen · 273 pages

Willa Jackson of Walls of Water, North Carolina, has lately learned that an old classmate--socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood--of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored her family's Blue Ridge Madam home to its former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. But when a skeleton, found buried beneath the lone peach tree on the property is found, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerou

The Last Time I Saw You

Eleanor Moran · 460 pages

When Olivia Berrington gets the call to tell her that her best friend from college has been killed in a car crash in New York, her life is turned upside down. Her relationship with Sally was an exhilarating roller coaster, until a shocking betrayal drove them apart. But if Sally really had turned her back, why is her little girl named after Olivia? As questions mount about the fatal accident, Oliv

Girls in White Dresses

Jennifer Close · 304 pages

With Friends Like These

Sally Koslow · 336 pages

Forging a deep friendship in spite of their differences, former roommates Quincy, Jules, Talia and Chloe struggle with respective challenges in the ensuing years, which are complicated by their illusion-based comparisons to one another's circumstances.

Second Chance

Jane Green · 331 pages

"The story of a group of people who haven't seen each other since they were best friends at school. When one of them dies in a terrible tragedy, the reunited friends work through their grief together and find that each of their lives is impacted in ways they could have never foreseen.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress

One Small Act of Kindness

Lucy Dillon · 512 pages

Libby and her husband Jason have moved back to his hometown to turn the family B & B into a boutique hotel. They have left London behind and all the memories - good and bad - that went with it. The injured woman Libby finds lying in the remote country road has lost her memory. She doesn't know why she came to be there, and no one seems to be looking for her. When Libby offers to take her in, this

Chasing Harry Winston

Lauren Weisberger · 304 pages

About Last Night

Adele Parks · 498 pages

For thirty years, best friends Stephanie and Philippa have been practically inseparable. There's nothing they would not do for one another. Until a few simple words change everything. 'I need you to say that I was with you.' Steph, eternally solid, considerate and dependable, is begging her best friend to lie to the police as she's desperately trying to conceal two shocking secrets to protec

The Rumor

Elin Hilderbrand · 374 pages

Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Sunday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor. And rumor has it... that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's blo

Lipstick Jungle

Candace Bushnell · 440 pages

In her fourth book, LIPSTICK JUNGLE, best-selling author Candace Bushnell re-creates a real-life world as compelling and fascinating as Sex and the City. In LIPSTICK JUNGLE, high fashion meets the powerful women who actually wear it.Victory Ford -- single, beautiful, creative and unconventional -- has worked for years to create her own independent fashion house. But when her company goes into a ta

Second Time Around

Beth Kendrick · 327 pages

"Every summer, a group of former English majors hold a mini-reunion. They laugh, reminisce, and commiserate about their soul-sucking jobs. Maybe they should have listened to everyone who warned them to study something practical. Then an unexpected windfall arrivesone million dollars, to be exactwith the stipulation that they use it to jump-start their new careers. Almost overnight, a professor, a

Firefly Lane

Kristin Hannah · 552 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it a

Round Robin

Jennifer Chiaverini · 304 pages

Dinner with Anna Karenina

Gloria Goldreich · 461 pages

Six women drawn together by their love of literature get together each month to discuss their favorite novels, as well as to rally around each other when painful truths and dark betrayals are revealed, forcing them all to examine their own lives.

Restoring Grace

Katie Fforde · 352 pages

The Story of Our Life

Shari Low · 326 pages

The Girl in Times Square

Paullina Simons · 640 pages

Secrets of a Shoe Addict

Beth Harbison · 368 pages