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Watermelon

Marian Keyes · 614 pages

February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is lef

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Tara Road

Maeve Binchy · 502 pages

It's the story of Ria. She trusted her friends and her husband completetely. She conceived emotions to be equal, either you felt or you showed them. Till one day she faces herself with a shock... and change comes into her life!

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Up Island

Anne Rivers Siddons · 485 pages

E-Book Extra: Family Binds: A Reading Group GuideIf there was ever one woman who knew what was important, that woman was Molly Bell Redwine. From childhood, Molly was taught by her charismatic, demanding mother that "family is everything." But in what seems like an instant, Molly discovers that family can change without warning. Her husband of more than twenty years leaves her for a younger woman,

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The Year I Met You

Cecelia Ahern · 432 pages

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Left Neglected

Lisa Genova · 416 pages

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Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe

Jennie Shortridge · 400 pages

When she learns that her college sweetheart husbandhas been seeing another woman, Mira Serafino'sperfect world is shattered and she wants no one,least of all her big Italian family, to know. She headsnorth—with no destination and little money—stopping only when her car breaks down in Seattle.She takes a job at the offbeat Coffee Shop at theCenter of the Universe, where she'll experiencea terrifyin

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Open House

Elizabeth Berg · 241 pages

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Maggie's Turn

Deanna Lynn Sletten · 258 pages

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Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult · 466 pages

A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious

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Love the One You're With

Emily Giffin · 347 pages

A chance encounter forces one woman to question her decisions, her marriage, and herself.

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The Wife's Tale

Lori Lansens · 384 pages

On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy--still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school--to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary's life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the b

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The Oyster Catcher

Jo Thomas · 400 pages

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The Lace Makers of Glenmara

Heather Barbieri · 311 pages

You can always start again, Kate Robinson's mother once told her, "all it takes is a new thread." Overwhelmed by heartbreak and loss, the struggling twenty-six-year-old fashion designer follows her mother's advice and flees to her ancestral homeland of Ireland, hoping to break free of old patterns and reinvent herself.She arrives on the west coast, in the seaside hamlet of Glenmara. In this charmi

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Three Wishes

Liane Moriarty · 370 pages

Australian triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle are about to turn thirty-three and one is pregnant, one has just had her life turned upside down, and one is only just keeping hers from skidding off the fast lane. Meanwhile, their divorced parents have been behaving very oddly indeed.In this family comedy by Liane Moriarty, we follow the three Kettle sisters through their tumultuous thirty-third ye

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The Mermaid Chair

Sue Monk Kidd · 335 pages

It's about a woman named Jessie Sullivan who has to return to her former home Egret island to take care of her mother. Within a monastery resides a chair carved with mermaids that supposedly was dedicated to a mermaid.Jessie meet a monk and falls for him although she is already married.....

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Goodnight Nobody

Jennifer Weiner · 376 pages

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And on the Eighth Day She Rested

J.D. Mason, Jaclyn Meridy · 282 pages

"Ruth Johnson has finally left her abusive husband of fourteen years and jumped feetfirst into "What the hell do I do now?" oblivion. Then into her life come three unforgettable women who turn her world upside down. Feisty, outspoken Bernice, a.k.a. "Bernie," has been there and done that when it comes to love and marriage. Her ex-husband is settled down with his much younger wife and her kids are

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The Tea House On Mulberry Street

Sharon Owens · 323 pages

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Just Breathe

Susan Wiggs · 469 pages

Chicago cartoonist Sarah Moon tackles life's real issues with a healthy dose of sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. As Sarah's cartoon alter ego, Shirl, undergoes artificial insemination, her situation begins to mirror Sarah's own difficult attempts to conceive. However, Sarah's dreams of the future did not include her husband's infidelity: snag number two in Sarah's so-called pe

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The Ladies' Room

Carolyn Brown · 224 pages

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Country

Danielle Steel · 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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Soy Sauce for Beginners

Kirstin Chen · 256 pages

Gretchen Lin leaves behind a floundering marriage to return to her Singapore home, where she confronts the challenges of her mother's alcoholism and her father's artisanal soy sauce business before being pulled into a family controversy.

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Escape

Barbara Delinsky · 308 pages

Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but now she spends her days in a cubicle talking with victims of tainted bottled water--and she's on the bottler's side.

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Divided Loyalties

Patricia Scanlan · 480 pages

The Cassidy's marriage is under pressure. Shauna wants another baby. Greg doesn't. She also has to endure her obnoxious in-laws, 'the Freeloaders', as her sister calls them. They arrive at her home at the drop of a hat, eat drink an stay as long as they like, without lifting a finger to help. Shuana's glad to be moving abroad. She'll be free of them a lat. Or will she? Carrie, Shuana's sister, fee

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