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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorOpen House
Elizabeth Berg · 241 pages
Leave Me
Gayle Forman · 343 pages
"International bestselling author Gayle Forman's trademark humor and insight abound in this masterful adult debut, showing us that sometimes you have to leave home in order to find it again. For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs c
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.....
Distant Shores
Kristin Hannah · 412 pages
In her remarkable New York Times bestseller, Summer Island, Kristin Hannah struck a chord in readers and critics alike with her portrayal of the bittersweet reunion between an errant mother and her unforgiving daughter. Now Hannah once again reveals the fragile ties that bind a family in transition, as two people choose to escape the limits of their ordinary lives and reach for the extraordinary p
The Interruption of Everything
Terry McMillan · 470 pages
The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes copes with the problems of midlife as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendships, family, and herself.
Wife 22
Melanie Gideon · 507 pages
Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life.
Hugo & Rose
Bridget Foley
"Rose is disappointed with her life, though she has no reason to be - she has a beautiful family and a perfectly nice house in the suburbs. But to Rose, this ordinary life feels overshadowed by her other life - the one she leads every night in her dreams. After a childhood accident, Rose's dreams take her to a wondrous island fraught with adventure. On this island, she has never been alone: she sh
The Vacationers
Emma Straub · 372 pages
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler · 328 pages
While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Rebecca Miller · 239 pages
Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage. It brilliantly reveals the challenges of modern life - and all the po
That Loving Feeling
Carole Matthews · 428 pages
Juliet Joyce is married with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel, a 70 year-old mother who just moved in and a father who's announced he is gay. Nothing prepares her for the unexpected return of Steven Audrey who jilted her years ago. Can Steven sweep her off her feet or can Rick remind her of the loving feeling they've lost.
The Stuff That Never Happened
Maddie Dawson · 325 pages
"Comparing her stable marriage to a passionate affair she had twenty-six years earlier, Annabelle feels neglected by her busy husband and cares for her pregnant daughter before an encounter with her past love forces her to question her choices." -- NovelList.
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
Lift and Separate: A Novel
Marilyn Simon Rothstein
Love, Rosie
Cecelia Ahern · 475 pages
From the author of PS, I LOVE YOU, a simultaneously funny and tender novel about what happens when two people who are destined to be together can never seem to get it right.Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone but them seems to realize it. Rosie’s best friend since childhood, Alex never did live down the fact that he didn’t invite her to his all-boys 10th birthday party. But t
Us
David Nicholls · 416 pages
"David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together--and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that,
He's Got to Go
Sheila O'Flanagan · 608 pages
The Year We Turned Forty
Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke · 329 pages
Three best friends get the chance to return to the year they turned forty, the year that altered all of their lives in ways big and small-and also get the opportunity to change their future.
The Other Us: The perfect second chance romance for summer 2017
Fiona Harper · 429 pages
If you could turn back time, would you choose a different life? Maggie's worried her twenty-year marriage to Dan has gone stale. With a college reunion approaching, she can't help wondering about Jude Hansen, the old flame who asked her to run away with him on the very same night Dan proposed. When she wakes up one day in her twenty-one-year-old body, she has the chance to find out. A glitch in ti
Love in Mid Air
Kim Wright · 312 pages
A chance encounter with a stranger on an airplane sends Elyse Bearden into an emotional tailspin. Suddenly Elyse is willing to risk everything: her safe but stale marriage, her seemingly perfect life in an affluent Southern suburb, and her position in the community. She finds herself cutting through all the instincts that say "no" and instead lets "yes" happen. As Elyse embarks on a risky affair,
The Land of Mango Sunsets
Dorothea Benton Frank · 335 pages
Dorothea Benton Frank is one of America's most insightful writers weaving highly addictive tales of the conundrums of life with hilarity and heat. Now, in The Land of Mango Sunsets, Frank gives us one woman's journey toward a hard-won truth—life isn't always what it appears to be, and the sooner you realize that pride won't keep you warm at night, the happier you will be. Oh, and one other thing—a
If I Could Turn Back Time
Beth Harbison · 426 pages
Circle of Friends
Maeve Binchy · 560 pages
It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains
How to Be Good
Nick Hornby · 273 pages
According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor and her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions.