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The Year We Turned Forty

Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke · back to the book

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Open House

Elizabeth Berg · 241 pages

Midlife CrisisSecond ChancesWomen's FictionFemale Friendship
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The Jane Austen Book Club

Karen Joy Fowler · 296 pages

"In California's Central Valley, five women and one man join together to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens." "Dedicated Austen readers will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through this novel, but many readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, desp

Second ChancesFemale FriendshipMidlife CrisisWomen's Fiction
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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.

Second ChancesFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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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.

Midlife CrisisFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionHeartwarming
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The Shop on Blossom Street

Debbie Macomber · 400 pages

There's a little yarn shop on Blossom Street in Seattle. It's owned by Lydia Hoffman, and it represents her dream of a new life free from cancer. A life that offers a chance at love... Lydia teaches knitting to beginners, and the first class is "How To Make a Baby Blanket." Three women join. Jacqueline Donovan wants to knit something for her grandchild as a gesture of reconciliation with her da

Second ChancesFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionHeartwarming
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If I Could Turn Back Time

Beth Harbison · 426 pages

Second ChancesTime TravelMidlife CrisisWomen's Fiction
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Tara Road

Maeve Binchy · 502 pages

It's the story of Ria. She trusted her friends and her husband completetely. She conceived emotions to be equal, either you felt or you showed them. Till one day she faces herself with a shock... and change comes into her life!

Second ChancesWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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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

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionMultiple POVContemporary 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

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionMultiple POVHeartwarming
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The Ladies' Room

Carolyn Brown · 224 pages

Second ChancesFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionHeartwarming
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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Beth Hoffman · 313 pages

When Camille Sugarbaker Honeycutt, the pretty but crazy 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen dies, her twelve-year-old daughter CeeCee has barely a hope in the world. To her rescue arrives Great Aunt Tootie in the most magnificent car CeeCee has ever seen, and she is whisked away to the city of Savannah. Among the sweet scent of magnolias and the loving warmth of Tootie and her colourful collection of friends

Second ChancesFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Little Earthquakes

Jennifer Weiner · 417 pages

A chef, an event planner, and a basketball player's wife find their marriages and careers in Philadelphia challenged by new motherhood, difficult schedules, and infidelity.

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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My Husband's Wives

Faith Hogan · 352 pages

Second ChancesWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipMultiple POV
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All You Could Ask For

Mike Greenberg · 355 pages

Brooke has been happily married to her college sweetheart for fifteen years. Even after the C-section, the dog poop, the stomach viruses, and the coffee breath, Scott still always winks at her at just the right moments. That is why, for her beloved, romantic, successful husband's fortieth birthday, she is giving him pictures. Of her. Naked ... Samantha's wedded bliss is steamrolled when she finds

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionEmotionalMultiple POV
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Triangles

Ellen Hopkins · 531 pages

Three female friends face midlife crises in a no-holds-barred exploration of sex, marriage, and the fragility of life.

Midlife CrisisFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionMultiple POV
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Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe

Milly Johnson · 513 pages

Marsha McLeod has always supported her husband through thick and thin; she is the wind beneath his wings. She's known for years that he has a mistress but has never confronted him, terrified that if she gives him an ultimatum, she'll be left on her own. The only thing she has been able to find solace is in chocolate - munching her way through the boxes that her husband brings her after a guilty we

Second ChancesWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipHeartwarming
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Landline

Rainbow Rowell · 310 pages

"Two days before they're supposed to visit his family in Omaha for Christmas, TV writer Georgie McCool tells her husband, Neal, that she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows Neal will be upset -- but she doesn't expect him to pack up the kids and go without her. That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. Is this an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts...

Second ChancesTime TravelEmotionalContemporary Fiction
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This Time Tomorrow

Emma Straub · 310 pages

Time TravelMidlife CrisisFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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Nights in Rodanthe

Nicholas Sparks · 217 pages

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy; of sacrifice and forgiveness -- a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite,

Second ChancesWomen's FictionContemporary FictionMultiple POV
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Your Oasis on Flame Lake

Lorna Landvik · 313 pages

When longtime best friends Devera and BiDi of Flame Lake, Minnesota, long for change in their lives and Devera's husband opens a nightclub in their basement, a crisis ensues and the ability to forgive becomes much more important than new thrills.

Midlife CrisisFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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The Summerhouse

Jude Deveraux · 362 pages

Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating at a summerhouse in Maine, Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them expect the gift that awaits them at the summerhouse: the chance for each of them to turn their “what-might-have-beens” into reality…

Midlife CrisisFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionMultiple POV
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Falling Together

Marisa de los Santos · 360 pages

Truly modern women’s fiction at its finest, this is the unforgettable tale of a remarkable friendship that ended abruptly, only to be resurrected in great need years later at a college reunion, launching three formerly devoted companions and reluctant family members alike on a sobering, enlightening journey across the world and through the past. Brimming with the author’s trademark wit, vivid pros

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionHeartwarmingMultiple POV
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The Red Book

Deborah Copaken Kogan · 357 pages

Centering around Harvard's Red Book, a collection of personal triumphs and failures from graduates, this tongue-in-cheek novel follows a group of roommates from the class of 1989 as they prepare for their twentieth reunion weekend.

Midlife CrisisFemale FriendshipMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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Someone Like You

Cathy Kelly · 677 pages

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionHeartwarmingMultiple POV




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