Cecilia is obsessively in love with her teacher, Mr. Dahl. Yet she never guesses that what she dreams of could actually happen. Cecelia's mother Dora wants the good life. She and her husband moved to Dartmoor so their children could run...
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Author:Briscoe, JoannaSummary: - Author:Macomber, DebbieSummary:
Encouraged by her best friend to start dating again, an intensive care nurse and empty nester catches the attention of her injured mother's surgeon.
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A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding...
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A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre--a lust for life, art, and steamy sex....
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To escape her demanding family, Robyn Caldwell visits her aunt Lillian in Santa Barbara. While spending time with this woman who's like a mother to her, Robyn will see herself, and the people she loves, with more clarity.
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From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes more "catnip for women's fiction fans" (Booklist) in the second novel in the Hudson Sisters series. Allie, Des, and Cara, each having her own reasons for wanting...
- Author:Vérant, SamanthaSummary:
French-born American chef Sophie Valroux had one dream: To be part of the 1% of female chefs running a Michelin-starred restaurant. From spending summers with her grandmother, who taught her the power of cooking and food, to attending...
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Madeleine Talmage Force is just seventeen when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly upper-class, but the Astors are in a league apart. Jack's mother was...
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Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, Grace mixes with counts and...
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Elle Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into Aunt Vittoria, a...
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From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife , a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her...
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"An extraordinary novel ... a triumph of insight and storytelling." - Associated Press " A true masterpiece. " -Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who...
- Author:Robertson, LisaSummary:
A debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she has written the works of Baudelaire. One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of...
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Author:Garlock, DorothySummary:Gwendolyn Foster is thrown when her boyfriend proposes to her. But she has another dream altogether--to be a writer. Then Hank Ellis comes into her life. He has been drowning in grief since his brother died. But when he sees Gwen,...
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Phoebe Adams and her mother Ruth both need a safe haven, so they head for Summer Island where Grandma Alice still rules the roost from the big New England beach house Phoebe and Ruth once called home. Phoebe's plan for a peaceful...
- Author:Maure, MelanieSummary:
In the spirit of Heather Morris, Kate Quinn, and Pam Jenoff, an enthralling and deeply moving story that begins during World War II, about orphaned twin sisters in Ireland whose lives diverge for decades, until fate - and faith -...
- Author:Lampman, AnnieSummary:
Other than her bonsai trees, twenty-year-old arborist Silvania August Moonbeam Merigal is alone in the world. After her mother dies and then her grandfather-the man who raised her and the last of her family-Silva suffers a sexual...
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Author:Cho, MichaelSummary:Corinna Parks used to have big plans. While studying English Literature in college, she imagined writing a successful novel and leading the ideal life of an author. After graduation, she moved to a big city and took a job at an...
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Author:Canning, VeronicaSummary:Sparkling with creative, fanciful and stylish shoe images SHOEISMS is for thoughtful, enquiring, stylish business women who look at the world from atop their magical shjoes and query and question everything in their lives. The world has...
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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! "Kevin Kwan's new book is his most decadent yet." — Entertainment Weekly The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a...
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