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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Deep End of the Ocean
Jacquelyn Mitchard · 464 pages
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Mitchard's suspenseful and moving novel is now available in trade paperbackFew first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightma
The Lake House
Kate Morton · 495 pages
Living on her family's gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. One midsummer's eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace. What follows is a tr
Still Missing
Beth Gutcheon · 372 pages
The Language of Sand
Ellen Block · 276 pages
"After she seeks refuge from the death of her husband and son by taking a position as the caretaker of a lighthouse on a secluded North Carolina island, Abigail Harker soon discovers that the lighthouse may be as haunted as she is with memories of her family."--NoveList.
Love Anthony
Lisa Genova · 336 pages
Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.
The One-in-a-Million Boy
Monica Wood · 336 pages
Guitarist Quinn Porter chases gigs on the road, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness recordsobsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness by completing the requirements for his son's unfinished Boy Scout badge. For seven Saturdays he does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the wily 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly. Despite himself
The Salt House
Lisa Duffy · 288 pages
In the tradition of Jodi Picoult and Lisa Genova, this gorgeously written, heartbreaking, yet hopeful debut set during a Maine summer traces the lives of a young family in the aftermath of tragedy.In the coastal town of Alden, Maine, Hope and Jack Kelly have settled down to a life of wedded bliss. They have a beautiful family, a growing lobster business, and the Salt House--the dilapidated oceanfr
One Perfect Day
Lauraine Snelling · 306 pages
This is the story of two mothers, strangers to one another. The first has two children--twins, a boy and girl, who are seniors in high school. She wants their last Christmas as a family living in the same home to be perfect, but her husband is delayed returning from a business trip abroad. And then there's an accident--a fatal one involving a drunk driver.Meanwhile, the other mother has a daughter
The Halo Effect
Anne D. LeClaire · 348 pages
She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb · 465 pages
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato
Leaving the World
Douglas Kennedy · 548 pages
The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of The Woman in the Fifth and The Pursuit of Happiness Aged thirteen, Jane makes a vow to herself and to her feuding parents - she will never marry, have children and lead the resentful life they chose. Years later, now a Harvard professor and living with Theo, a filmmaker, Jane falls unexpectedly pregnant. She begins to warm to the idea of mot
Stillwater Rising
Steena Holmes · 253 pages
"After losing her son in an elementary school shooting that devastates the tight-knit community of Stillwater Bay, Jennifer Crowne finds herself unable to settle back into her role of perfect stay-at-home mom and committee organizer. Meanwhile, her best friend, Mayor Charlotte Stone, struggles to keep the town together, and Charlotte's husband, the school principal, may not be the hero everyone th
Pack Up the Moon
Rachael Herron · 434 pages
"Three years after a horrible tragedy took her son and tore her family apart, artist Kate Monroe is beginning to pick up the pieces of her life and move on. At a gala showcasing her triumphant return to the art world, Kate's world is rocked again when the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-two years ago introduces herself. Pree is the child Kate never knew and never forgot. But Pree has ques
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 300 pages
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unabl
Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
Ruth Hogan · 352 pages
The Day I Lost You
Fionnuala Kearney · 418 pages
The second poignant and heartrending novel from the Irish Times bestselling author, Fionnuala Kearney. When Jess's daughter, Anna, is reported lost in an avalanche, everything changes. Left to explain her mother's absence to Anna's five-year-old daughter, Rose, Jess isn't yet ready to admit to herself that her daughter might not be coming back. But Anna's disappearance dredges up some life changin
Jane's Melody
Ryan Winfield · 329 pages
"What boundaries would you cross for true love? That's the question a grieving mother must answer when she takes in a young street musician she believes can tell her more about daughter's death--only to find herself falling for him. A sexy but touching love story that will leave you both tantalized and in tears, Jane's Melody follows a forty-year-old woman on a romantic journey of rediscovery afte
All the Dangerous Things
Stacy Willingham · 358 pages
From the author of New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, comes a gripping and atmospheric new thriller about one woman’s search for the truth
Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea
Morgan Callan Rogers · 308 pages
"When her mother disappears during a weekend trip, Florine Gilham's idyllic childhood is turned upside down. Until then she'd been blissfully insulated by the rhythms of family life in small town Maine; watching from the granite cliffs above the sea for her father's lobster boat to come into port, making bread with her grandmother, and infiltrating the summer tourist camps with her friends. But wi
Red Hook Road
Ayelet Waldman · 343 pages
After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are left to bridge stark class and cultural divides, and eventually forge deep-rooted bonds thanks to the twin deities of love and music. Becca's family is well off, from New York, and summers in Red Hook, Maine, a small coastal town where John's blue-collar single mother, Jane, cleans hou
Children of the Fog
Cheryl Kaye Tardif · 270 pages
The Husband's Secret
Liane Moriarty · 432 pages
**At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read** **My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died...** Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as
Life Without Summer
Lynne Griffin · 312 pages
"Life Without Summer" tells the story of Tessa, a mother who has just lost her four-year-old daughter in a hit-and-run accident and the grief counselor, Celia, who tries to help her to put her life back together. When their lives begin to intersect in powerful and unexpected ways, they discover that the answers one needs might be the other's only chance for peace.
Stand Your Ground
Victoria Christopher Murray · 400 pages
After a seventeen-year-old African American boy is shot dead by a white man, the boy's mother and the shooter's wife face difficulties.