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Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding · 400 pages

Londonite Bridget Jones faces the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety buttons and three remotes to simply turn on, all while raising two children, attempting to date again, and writing a screenplay.

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Home Safe

Elizabeth Berg

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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 Next Best Thing

Jennifer Weiner · 389 pages

Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.

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P.S. I Love You

Cecelia Ahern · 512 pages

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The Cornish House

Liz Fenwick · 368 pages

When artist Maddie inherits a house in Cornwall shortly after the death of her husband, she hopes it will be the fresh start she and her step-daughter desperately need. Trevenen is beautiful but neglected, and as Maddie discovers the stories of generations of women who've lived there before, she begins to feel her life is somehow intertwined within its walls. But Maddie's dream of a calm life in t

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Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe

Debbie Johnson · 352 pages

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Country

Danielle Steel · 418 pages

Life for Stephanie Adams is all about being a devoted mother. For years, she has kept her unhappy marriage a secret, intent on protecting her children from seeing their family break up. Then Stephanie's husband dies suddenly, and she sees a chance for everything to be different. Stephanie strives to balance her children's grief with her desire to move on from the past -- but after years of giving

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Jane Austen Ruined My Life

Beth Pattillo · 272 pages

Denied tenure in the wake of the scandal and left penniless by the ensuing divorce, English professor Emma Grant packs up what few worldly possessions she has left and heads to England on a quest to find the missing letters of Jane Austen. Laced with fictional excerpts from the missing letters, this is the story of a woman betrayed who uncovers the deeper meaning of loyalty.

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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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The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

Bridget Asher · 438 pages

Brokenhearted, still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with her son Abbott and her niece Charlotte to spend the summer repairing their family home in a small village in the south of France. There, thousands of miles from home, Charlotte makes a shocking confession, and Heidi learns the truth about her mother's "lost summer."

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The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch

Marsha Moyer · 291 pages

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Folly Beach

Dorothea Benton Frank · 358 pages

Returning to Folly Beach, her childhood home, newly widowed Cate Cooper, whose late husband's financial exploits have left her homeless and broke, discovers that it is possible to go home again and discover the person she was meant to become.

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A Pinch of Love: A Novel

Alicia Bessette · 311 pages

After she joins a baking contest to try to shake off the lingering grief from her husband's death, Zell Carmichael Roy befriends her nine-year-old next-door neighbor, a motherless girl who joins Zell's quest for dessert-competition glory.

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The Life She Wants

Robyn Carr · 384 pages

In the aftermath of her financier husband's suicide, Emma Shay Compton's dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients' life savings to fund a lavish life in NYC and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband's crimes. She is left with nothing. So she goes home to Sonoma County. But starting over isn't easy, and Sonoma is full of unhappy mem

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A Rural Affair

Catherine Alliott · 480 pages

Newly widowed Poppy Shilling should be feeling distraught at the death of her husband, Phil. But, instead, she can't help feeling relieved. No longer will she have to endure Phil's iron fist ruling over her and their two young children, or his unfortunate penchant for Lycra cycling wear. What's more, when a secret is revealed after his death, Poppy's memories of their life together are turned upsi

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Keys to the Castle

Donna Ball · 332 pages

"Forty-something workaholic Sara Graves thought her chance for an outrageous life was over... until she met and married a charming Frenchman who left her widowed three weeks later. Suddenly she is the heiress to an estate she can't afford to keep and uncovering secrets she never wanted to know. Does she have the courage to leave her home, her country, and everything she's ever known for a second c

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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 Birds And The Bees

Milly Johnson · 448 pages

Writer Stevie Honeywell has only weeks to go to her wedding when her finace Matthew runs off with her glamorous new friend Jo MacLean. It feels like history repeating itself for Stevie, but this time she is determined to win back her man. And it feels like history is repeating itself for Adam MacLean too, who is also determined to win his lady, Jo, back. He is going to initiate his master plan: Ge

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Flora's Lot

Katie Fforde · 416 pages

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The Shell Seekers

Rosamunde Pilcher · 582 pages

The Shell Seekers is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The Shell Seekers is filled with real people--mothers and daughters, husband and lovers--inspired with real values. The Shell Seekers centers on Penelope Keeling--a woman you'll always remember in world you'll never forget. The Shell Seekers is a magical

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This Book Made Me Think of You

Libby Page · 417 pages

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT CELEBRATES LOVE, LIFE, AND FINDING THE RIGHT BOOK AT THE RIGHT TIME Join readers around the world who have fallen in love with the book praised by Adriana Trigiani as “the feel-good novel of the year”—an emotional and uplifting story about one woman’s reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again. “A lovely, affecting paean to the power of books and enduring

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Sam's Letters to Jennifer

James Patterson · 264 pages

Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - a

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