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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

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The Last Mrs. Parrish

Liv Constantine · 400 pages

"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and phi

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The Betrayals

Fiona Neill · 396 pages

Best friends Rosie and Lisa's families had always been inseparable. But that summer, Lisa had an affair with Rosie's husband, Nick. None of them would forget that week on the wild Norfolk seacoast. --Jacket.

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The Rumor

Elin Hilderbrand · 374 pages

Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Sunday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor. And rumor has it... that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's blo

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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.

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The Story of a New Name

Elena Ferrante · 480 pages

In 2012, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker’s James Wood described as “large, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal,” F

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Between Husbands and Friends

Nancy Thayer · 280 pages

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The Secrets of Married Women

Carol Mason · 327 pages

For Jill, having a child has never been the be all and end all. She's just happy to have a lovely husband she can trust. But now Rob's gone off sex and treats her more like a flatmate than a lover. When Jill meets a handsome foreigner on the beach, will she take her chance for a bit of fun, or is it a risk not worth taking.

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Mistress No More

Niobia Bryant · 281 pages

"Jessa Bell shocked the hell out of her three best friends when she announced she was having an affair with one of their husbands--then refused to say which one. She has been reveling in watching her friends self-destruct while trying to figure out which dog of a husband has been getting some on the side. But now, caught between as ex-lover who won't let her go, and a new lover who's more than hap

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Big little lies

Jean-Marc Vallée, Liane Moriarty · 420 pages

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Behind Closed Doors

Kimberla Lawson Roby · 260 pages

Regina Moore and Karen Jackson, lifelong best friends, are living the kind of life most women only fantasize about. With beautiful homes, fulfilling careers, and two adoring husbands, their joy could not be greater, their worlds could not be richer. But suddenly, shattering truths about the loving men they thought they knew turn happiness into anguish and rage. For Karen and Regina, nothing they b

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Something Borrowed

Emily Giffin · 322 pages

Something Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl---until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiancé. Although she wakes up determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to di

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The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer · 560 pages

The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty. Their friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their tal

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The Slap

Christos Tsiolkas · 485 pages

*"Although this is Australian author Tsiolkas’ fourth novel, it is the first to be published in the U.S. With its raw style, liberal use of profanity and racial epithets, and laserlike focus on the travails of suburban life, it is a down-and-dirty version of Tom Perrotta’s best-selling Little Children (2004). At a barbecue in a Melbourne suburb, a man loses his temper and slaps the child of the ho

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Same Beach, Next Year

Dorothea Benton Frank · 392 pages

Reconnecting on one of Charleston's most beautiful barrier islands, a pair of former sweethearts rediscover their feelings for one another while their jealous spouses pursue an unexpected attraction of their own over more than 20 yearsalso marked by financial catastrophes, family tragedies and devastating heartbreaks.

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Gold

Chris Cleave · 533 pages

Zoe y Kate son dos deportistas de élite entregadas al ciclismo de pista, pero con unas vidas muy diferentes. Zoe, una chica explosiva y temperamental, doble campeona olímpica, es el rostro publicitario de una conocida marca de agua mineral. Vive en un lujoso piso en Manchester y tiene muchos amantes ocasionales. Kate es más sensata y tranquila. Está casada con Jack, un campeón de ciclismo, y es

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About Last Night

Adele Parks · 498 pages

For thirty years, best friends Stephanie and Philippa have been practically inseparable. There's nothing they would not do for one another. Until a few simple words change everything. 'I need you to say that I was with you.' Steph, eternally solid, considerate and dependable, is begging her best friend to lie to the police as she's desperately trying to conceal two shocking secrets to protec

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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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Handle with Care

Jodi Picoult · 477 pages

In Jodi Picoult's #1 international bestseller she explores the moral dilemmas faced by the parents of a severely disabled child. When faced with the reality of a child who will be disabled, at which point should an obstetrician counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of someone you love?Willow O'Keefe is born with

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Light a Penny Candle

Maeve Binchy · 542 pages

As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling-who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support

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Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Juno Dawson · 448 pages

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