Honour Thyself

The Promise

Danielle Steel · 264 pages

"For Michael, handsome heir to a business empire, and Nancy, beautiful young orphan, the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end. That fateful day after graduation, they sealed a bond for the years to come - a vow of love that would have to prove itself in the face of terrible tragedy, doubt and despair ..."--Publisher description.

Fractured

Dani Atkins · 319 pages

What would you do if life gave you a second chance? The night of the accident changed everything...Now, five years on, Rachel's life is crumbling. She lives alone in a tiny flat, working in a dead-end job, desperate with guilt over her best friend's death. She would give anything to turn back the clock. But life doesn't work like that...Does it? The night of the accident was a lucky escape...Now,

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.

Picture Perfect

Jodi Picoult · 391 pages

To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But when they return to California, something alters the picture of their perfect marriage. A frightening pattern

The Paris Wife

Paula McLain · 320 pages

Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband’s career.

Till We Meet Again

Judith Krantz · 534 pages

The story of three daring women and their unconventional lives from Paris to Hollywood.

The Days of Summer

Jill Barnett · 512 pages

Emotions run high when the temperature rises...Love, passion, power, jealousy and tragedy all combine in this dynastic tale of two Californian families thrown together by Fate.1957, Los Angeles. Two speeding cars. And a tragic accident, destined to change the future of two families forever. The Banning family lead a life of affluence, luxury – and sorrow. Victor Banning, ruthless oil magnate and h

The Pilot's Wife

Anita Shreve · 304 pages

Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to

The Song Remains the Same

Allison Winn Scotch · 322 pages

Waking up in the hospital as one of two survivors of a horrifying plane crash, Nell struggles to recover from her ensuing amnesia with the help of family, friends, and memory-jogging music before realizing that the stories she is being told do not feel accurate.

P.S. from Paris

Marc Levy · 270 pages

"On the big screen, Mia plays a woman in love. But in real life, she's an actress in need of a break from her real-life philandering husband-the megastar who plays her romantic interest in the movies. So she heads across the English Channel to hide in Paris behind a new haircut, fake eyeglasses, and a waitressing job at her best friend's restaurant. Paul is an American author hoping to recapture t

The Secret History of Us

Jessi Kirby · 276 pages

When Olivia awakes in a hospital bed following a car accident that almost took her life, she can t remember the details about how she got there. She figures the fog is just a symptom of being in a week-long coma, but as time goes on, she realizes she s lost more than just the last several days of her life she s lost her memory of the last four years. Gone is any recollection of starting or graduat

One Tuesday Morning / Beyond Tuesday Morning

Karen Kingsbury · 624 pages

Forget You

Jennifer Echols · 304 pages

There's a lot Zoey would like to forget. Like how her father has knocked-up his twenty-four-year-old girlfriend. Like her mom's nervous breakdown. Like Doug, the darkly handsome bad boy, who taunts her at school… Worried that her life is becoming a complete mess, Zoey fights back the only way she knows how, by making sure that she's perfect - the perfect daughter, the perfect student and the perfe

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

Katherine Pancol · 511 pages

"Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France - When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two--confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé--is forced to maintain a stable family life while ma

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart · 240 pages

A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends -- the Liars -- whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged

Jemima J

Jane Green · 464 pages

Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, better paid), her only consolation is food. That and a passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben. Her life needs to change and soon. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? A novel about attraction, obs

Ruthless Vows

Rebecca Ross · 818 pages

Iris has returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over. Roman is gone, lost behind enemy lines, with no memory of his past, or Iris. Hoping his memories return, Roman begins to write again – but this time for the enemy. When a strange letter arrives beneath his wardrobe door, he strikes up with its mysterious yet hauntingly familiar author. Iris and Roman

Please Remember Me

Jacob Z. Flores · 256 pages

Successful lawyer Santi Herrera couldn't be happier with the direction his life is taking. Not only is he on track to becoming a partner in his law firm, but he's planning his wedding to Hank Burton, a south Texas contractor who has made a name for himself despite his humble beginnings. The introverted lone wolf Santi and the friendly, outgoing Hank complement each other perfectly. From the moment

Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

Helen Fielding · 343 pages

Olivia Joules, an independent journalist turned master spy, finds herself drawn to the seductive and powerful Pierre Ferramo, a man of impeccable taste, extraordinary wealth, and exotic international homes, until she begins to worry that he is an international terrorist intent on the destruction of the Western world but hiding his goal behind a sophisticated smokescreen.

Remember

Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley · 515 pages

Convinced she could make it on her own, Ashley Baxter has kept the most important people in her life at a distance--her family, the man who loves her, and the God she is sure can never forgive her. Now, just as she begins to open her heart, the events of September 11 rip into Ashley's world and she is led to heartbreaking and hope-filled decisions that will forever change her life.

So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood

Patrick Modiano · 155 pages

"[A] single, unexpected phone call to a man living quietly in Paris launches a chain of menacing encounters and events, unlocking a dark secret he had erased from memory" --

How to walk away

Katherine Center · 302 pages

The Summer I Dared

Barbara Delinsky · 437 pages

On Big Sawyer island, life is as steady as the routine of the lobstermen who leave with the tide each morning and return with their haul each night. But for forty-year-old New Yorker Julia Bechtel, life and what's important in it are about to be forever altered when she survives a terrible boat accident en route to the island. Now, in the company of her aunt and daughter, Julia finds herself feeli

Heart of the Matter

Emily Giffin