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The Quilter's Apprentice

Jennifer Chiaverini · 271 pages

Elderly ProtagonistWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipSeries Starter
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A Year on Ladybug Farm

Donna Ball · 374 pages

Their husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise...Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget make a life-altering decision. Uprooting themselves from their comfortable lives in the suburbs, the three friends buy a run-down mansion, nestled in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley. They christen their ne

Women's FictionElderly ProtagonistFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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As Young As We Feel

Melody Carlson · 330 pages

"Once upon a time in a little town on the Oregon coast lived four Lindas--all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. But that was forty-seven years and four very different lives ago. Now a class reunion has brought them all together in their old hometown--at a crossroads in their lives. Janie is a high-powered lawyer

Women's FictionElderly ProtagonistFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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The Scoop

Fern Michaels · 279 pages

In this first book of a new series, Michaels introduces The Godmothers, four unforgettable women who are about to get a whole new lease on life.

Women's FictionElderly ProtagonistFemale FriendshipSeries Starter
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Ya-Yas in Bloom

Rebecca Wells · 336 pages

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The Spirit of Covington

Joan Medlicott · 352 pages

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The Lake House

Marci Nault

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Inheriting Edith: A Novel

Zoe Fishman

For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance. A house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: The deceased’s eighty-two-year old moth

Elderly ProtagonistWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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The Goodbye Summer

Patricia Gaffney · 448 pages

The New York Times bestselling author is back with a warm, winning new novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free. Caddie Winger's mother died when she was nine, and Caddie was raised by her grandmother. Now their roles are reversed, and it's Caddie -- thirty-two years old, still living with her grandmother, and giving piano lessons to neighborhood children -- who takes

Elderly ProtagonistWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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The Tea-Olive Bird-Watching Society

Augusta Trobaugh · 317 pages

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Bon Bons to Yoga Pants

Katie Cross · 264 pages

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries Starter
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Calling Me Home

Julie Kibler · 336 pages

A debut novel interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship. Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis: drop everything and drive from Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. Tomorrow. Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own, agrees. It's a journey that changes both their lives,

Women's FictionElderly ProtagonistFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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Sunset In St. Tropez

Danielle Steel · 230 pages

En mettant la table dans son élégant appartement de Central Park à New York, Diana Morrison ne se doute pas de ce qui va arriver. Depuis des années elle passe le réveillon de la Saint-Sylvestre avec son mari Eric et leurs meilleurs amis, Pascale et John Donnaly, Anne et Robert Smith. Tandis qu'ils projettent de louer ensemble une villa dans le sud de la France l'été suivant, une coupe de champagne

Women's FictionElderly ProtagonistFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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A Sweethaven Summer

Courtney Walsh · 316 pages

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries Starter
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The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society

Beth Pattillo · 342 pages

Sometimes life has to unravel before you can knit it together...On the third Friday of each month, Eugenie, Ruth, Esther, Merry, and Camille meet at the Sweetgum Christian Church to enjoy the two things that connect them: a love of knitting and a passion for books. Their camaraderie remains unthreatened until Eugenie, the town librarian, introduces an angry teenager into their midst. Eugenie also

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipSeries StarterContemporary Fiction
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Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding · 297 pages

A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An iconic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries Starter
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Bring on the Blessings

Beverly Jenkins · 366 pages

On Bernadine Brown's fifty-second birthday she received an unexpected gift — she caught her husband, Leo, cheating with his secretary. She was hurt — angry, too — but she didn't cry woe is me. Nope, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million. Having been raised in the church, she knew that when much is given much is expected, so she asked God to send her a purpose.T

Women's FictionElderly ProtagonistSeries StarterContemporary Fiction
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Wife-in-Law

Haywood Smith · 369 pages

Sharing a decades-long friendship in spite of disparate personalities, prim conservative Betsy and irreverent hippie Kat struggle to retain their bond when Kat marries Betsy's ex-husband, whose philandering becomes a shared grievance for both women.

Women's FictionElderly ProtagonistFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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God Don't Like Ugly

Mary Monroe · 384 pages

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Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes

Cathy Holton · 268 pages

Dissatisfied with their lives, three fabulous southern belles united by years of friendship--Lavonne, who is battling a weight problem; Nita, in lust with the gorgeous, and younger, local gardener; and Eadie, married to an adulterous husband--discover that they are all dealing with lying, cheating spouses and launch a joint campaign to seek revenge.

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipSeries StarterContemporary Fiction
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Hot Flash Holidays

Nancy Thayer · 299 pages

When the Hot Flash friends gather at the spa to trim the Christmas tree, they share steaming mugs of hot chocolate, a few laughs, and a vow to make this holiday one to remember.

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Lydia's Party

Margaret Hawkins · 338 pages

"Lydia is having a party, one she hosts every year for a group of six women friends who look forward to the annual midwinter bash that has become a cherished ritual in their lives. Over a table laden with dishes, Lydia prepares to make a shattering announcement. When Lydia's announcement shocks them all they rediscover the enduring bonds of friendship and find their lives changing yet again in new

Women's FictionElderly ProtagonistFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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The Potluck Club

Linda Evans Shepherd, Eva Marie Everson · 384 pages

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries Starter
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Sisterchicks on the Loose

Robin Jones Gunn · 320 pages

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries Starter

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