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Keepsake

Kristina Riggle · 368 pages

"Trish isn't perfect. She's divorced and raising two kids-so of course her house isn't pristine. But she's got all the important things right and she's convinced herself that she has it all under control. That is, until the day her youngest son gets hurt and Child Protective Services comes calling. It's at that moment when Trish is forced to consider the one thing she's always hoped wasn't true: t

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The Art of Hiding

Amanda Prowse · 288 pages

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Wild Designs

Katie Fforde · 320 pages

From: http://www.katiefforde.com/books/info/?e=9780099446675&t=Wild-Designs Althea is the mother of three strong-minded children - one of whom is a Buddhist - and owner of a finicky dog named Bozo. Saddled with too large a house (albeit in a beautiful Cotswold village), worrisome mortgage payments, a bossy younger sister and irksome ex-husband, Althea still manages to muddle through life comf

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The one plus one

Jojo Moyes · 480 pages

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A Good Year for the Roses

Gil McNeil · 340 pages

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Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe

Debbie Johnson · 352 pages

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Wilde Like Me

Louise Pentland · 391 pages

When single mom Robin Wilde decides to change her life, new opportunities are soon on her horizon.

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The Lost Husband

Katherine Center · 358 pages

Crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape from her hypercritical mother--a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Life on Aunt Jean's goat farm is both more wonderful and more mysterious than Libby could have imagined.

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The Rescue

Nicholas Sparks · 446 pages

One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.

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The After Wife

Gigi Levangie Grazer · 298 pages

As she pours out her grief and questions to a tree in her backyard after her husband's death, reality show producer Hannah is astonished when the tree appears to respond, prompting Hannah's discovery that she can communicate with the dead.

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Queen Sugar

Natalie Baszile · 372 pages

" A mother-daughter story of reinvention-about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los A

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Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes · 592 pages

Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband - the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands - and no memory of how she got there. While

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The Friday Night Knitting Club

Kate Jacobs · 384 pages

Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships.

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She's Gone Country

Jane Porter · 382 pages

After her husband announces he's fallen in love with someone else, 39-year-old former model Shey Darcy moves back home to Texas with her three teenage sons. Life on the family ranch, however, brings with it a whole new host of dramas.

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Getting to Happy

Terry McMillan · 375 pages

Take a look in the mirror if you don't like what you see then pick a new outfit. It's not always easy to find someone that can be a real friend, someone that will tell you the truth. These ladies has just that a friendship that will take them thru. It's not easy adjusting to life, not knowing what is coming next or what to say to help someone in need but you don't have to give up on yourself.

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Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver · 363 pages

A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees.

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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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Doesn't She Look Natural

Angela Elwell Hunt · 333 pages

How do you cope when God asks you to bury a dream? In this new series by best-selling author Angela Hunt, readers will meet Jennifer Graham, the no-nonsense chief of staff for a Virginia senator who quits her job after a divorce and finds herself an unemployed single mom. Forced to live with her mother until she can find work on Capitol Hill that does not involve her gregarious ex-husband, her eff

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The Dandelion Field

Kathryn Springer · 341 pages

Gin has been satisfied moving from city to city, never putting down roots or making commitments. But when engine trouble temporarily strandsher daughter Raine in the small town of Banister Falls, Wisconsin, Gin promises her daughter they will stay put until Raine graduates from high school in the spring. Some unexpcted news and a blossoming relationship with local firefighter Dan Moretti make Gin

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Best Kept Secret

Amy Hatvany · 343 pages

A story about a single mother dealing with an alcohol addiction.

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The Prayer Box

Lisa Wingate · 400 pages

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The House We Grew Up In

Lisa Jewell · 400 pages

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The Sweetest Thing

Cathy Woodman · 389 pages

"Jennie Copeland thought she knew the recipe for a happy life: marriage to her university sweetheart, a nice house in the suburbs and three beautiful children. But when her husband leaves her, she is forced to find a different recipe. And she thinks she's found just what she needs: a ramshackle house on the outskirts of the beautiful Talyton St George, a new cake-baking business, a dog, a horse, c

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Bed of Roses

Nora Roberts · 426 pages

Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts's celebrated Bride Quartet series.As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, and Parker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do" moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they start their own wedding planning company to make every woman's dream day come true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyful moments ca

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