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The Perfect Neighbors

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Truly Madly Guilty

Liane Moriarty · 505 pages

Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other. Clementine and Erika are

NeighborsSuburbiaFemale FriendshipSecret Past
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The Woman Next Door

Barbara Delinsky · 371 pages

The lives of three couples are thrown into turmoil when their beautiful and much younger neighbor, who has been widowed for a year, announces that she is pregnant, forcing the wives to reevaluate their marriages and relationships.

NeighborsSuburbiaFemale FriendshipWomen's Fiction
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Big little lies

Jean-Marc Vallée, Liane Moriarty · 420 pages

SuburbiaFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionMarriage in Trouble
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Goodnight Nobody

Jennifer Weiner · 376 pages

SuburbiaSecret PastWomen's FictionMarriage in Trouble
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Single in Suburbia

Wendy Wax · 384 pages

Amanda's husband has just traded her in for an affair with a teenybopper. Brooke is a trophy wife collecting dust. And Candace (Don't call me Candy) has had too many husbands and too little love. What do these three unlikely accomplices have in common besides a Little League team called the Mudhens? A plot to reclaim a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t. And they're going to do it with a mop and a bucket.Maid f

SuburbiaWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipMarriage in Trouble
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The Housemaid Is Watching

Freida McFadden · 408 pages

“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter’s hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I’ll do anything to keep it that way… I used to clean other people’s houses—now, I ca

NeighborsSuburbiaSecret PastMarriage in Trouble
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Beach Trip

Cathy Holton · 406 pages

A reunion of four friends becomes a cathartic journey into the past in Cathy Holton' s luminous new novel.Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled distinct and diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Mel, a mystery writer living in New York, is grappling with the aftermath of two failed marriages and a stalled writing career. Sara,

Secret PastWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipMarriage in Trouble
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Four Friends

Robyn Carr · 400 pages

Gerri can't decide what's more devastating: learning her rock-solid marriage has big cracks, or the anger she feels as she tries to repair them. Always the anchor for friends and her three angst-ridden teenagers, it's time to look carefully at herself. The journey is more than revealing -- it's transforming... Andy doesn't have a great track record with men, and she's come to believe that a lastin

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The Wildwater Walking Club

Claire Cook · 272 pages

Three women who are neighbors share their struggles with unfaithful men, rebellious children, and parental expectations while taking long walks near their homes on Wildwater Way.

SuburbiaWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipMultiple POV
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The Girl Next Door

Elizabeth Noble · 331 pages

The bittersweet story of friendship and love in an apartment building on New York's Upper East Side.

NeighborsWomen's FictionMarriage in TroubleMultiple POV
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The Night the Lights Went Out

Karen White · 406 pages

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Flight Patterns comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems ... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It's not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren't helped by an a

SuburbiaWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipMultiple POV
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A Scattered Life

Karen McQuestion

"Free spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love and stability she always wanted in her reliable husband Thomas. Settling into her new family and roles as wife and mother, life in rural Wisconsin is satisfying, but can't seem to quell Skyla's increasing sense of restlessness. Her only reprieve is her growing friendship with neighbor Roxanne who has five kids (and counting) and a life in constant disar

NeighborsFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionMarriage in Trouble
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Open House

Elizabeth Berg · 241 pages

SuburbiaWomen's FictionMarriage in TroubleFemale Friendship
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The House of New Beginnings

Lucy Diamond · 482 pages

NeighborsFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionMultiple POV
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The Senator's Wife

Sue Miller · 320 pages

Two unconventional women--Meri Fowler, pregnant, newly married, and discovering the gap between reality and expectation, and Delia Naughton, wife of a notoriously unfaithful liberal senator--confront the costs and challenges of love.

NeighborsFemale FriendshipMarriage in TroubleMultiple POV
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The Mad Wife

Meagan Church · 352 pages

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Don't Let Me Go

Catherine Ryan Hyde · 432 pages

NeighborsSecret PastWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng · 384 pages

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in thi

SuburbiaFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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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

Women's FictionSuburbiaFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.

Nichole Bernier · 323 pages

Summer vacation on Great Rock Island was supposed to be restorative for Kate, who'd lost her close friend Elizabeth in a sudden accident. But when she inherits a trunk of Elizabeth's journals, they reveal a woman far different from the cheerful wife and mother Kate thought she knew. Set in the anxious summer after the September 11th attacks, this story of two women considers the aspects of ourselv

Secret PastWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipMarriage in Trouble
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Covet

Tracey Garvis-Graves · 323 pages

What if the life you wanted, and the woman you fell in love with, belonged to someone else?

SuburbiaWomen's FictionMarriage in TroubleMultiple POV
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Where We Belong

Emily Giffin · 384 pages

Her carefully constructed life thrown into turmoil by the appearance of an eighteen-year-old girl with ties to her past, New York television producer Marian Caldwell is swept up in a maelstrom of personal discovery that changes both of their perceptions about family.

Female FriendshipSecret PastWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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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.

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipMarriage in TroubleContemporary Fiction
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The Friends We Keep

Susan Mallery · 416 pages

After five years as a stay-at-home mom, Gabby Schaefer plans to return to work are derailed by some shocking news and her husband's crushing expectations. Hayley Batchelor has trouble staying pregnant, and her husband is worried about the expensive fertility treatments and frantic about the threat to her health. Nicole Lord's ex-husband left barely a ripple in her life; can she trust herself to re

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipMarriage in TroubleContemporary Fiction

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