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"After a series of terrible dates, Marni McGuire, the host of a popular TV cooking show, forms an unbreakable bond with her best friend Ellen as well as a young intern on the show and her pregnant daughter Bella as they navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of life"--
2) The hike
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Pub. Date
2023.
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When she and her three best friends go hiking in the stunning mountains of Norway, Liz, as they venture deeper into the wilderness, discovers this remote place hides secrets darker than they could've ever imagined and, if they aren't careful, not all of them will make it out alive.
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Walker Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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297 pages ; 21 cm
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"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--
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2023.
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Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life—her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline—grow deeper. So when Hollis hears about...
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Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
[2006]
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257 pages ; 21 cm
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The friendship that began in the 1980s between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS
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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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501 pages ; 23 cm
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In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters, where she is forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2018.
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609 pages ; 19 cm.
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Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart.
12) Rock bottom
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Sisterhood series volume 35
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Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project--an indoor/outdoor café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to go to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But the Zoe that Izzy reencounters doesn't seem like her old, confident friend. This Zoe is tense and stressed, and Izzy eventually learns why. Buildings...
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B
Pub. Date
2022.
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554 pages ; 24 cm
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"Madrid, 1991. Seven very different women meet at a small sewing academy where they will share their lives' stories with each other. Each one has a different reason to want to learn to sew and, among fabrics, patterns, and pins, all of them will connect with parts of themselves that they thought were long gone and forgotten, they will discover the therapeutic power of friendships between women and, stitch after stitch, they will weave the story of...
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Prisoners of war in 1942, Australian nurse Nesta James and Norah Chambers—held in the notorious Camp Palembang, deep in the jungle of Sumatra—battle disease, starvation and unimaginable brutality meted out by Japanese soldiers, but find, in themselves and in each other, the courage and resourcefulness to survive.
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2024.
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Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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2023.
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According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female...
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"Paris, 1720. La Salpetriere hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female 'volunteers' of childbearing age-orphans, prisoners, and mental patients-to be shipped to New Orleans. Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year...
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Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting...
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2024.
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"New York State's Belltower Landing is a lakeside resort town where tourists spend their summer days boating, floating, and paddle-boarding on the water. It's also the perfect place to cuddle up with a good book and enjoy a cup of tea, courtesy of Tomes & Tea. Owned and operated by Jazzi and her best friend Dawn Fernsby, the book bar is beloved by vacationers and locals alike, but browsers grabbing brews in the off season aren't enough to help them...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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306, 6 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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It’s been years since Grace, Felicity, Alice, and Hannah were together. The 'Wild Girls,' as they were once called, are no longer so wild. Alice is a teacher. Hannah has a new baby. Grace is a homebody. Only Felicity seems to have retained her former spark. Then Felicity invites them all on the weekend of a lifetime—a birthday bash in Botswana. It will be a chance to have fun and rekindle their once bomb-proof friendship… and finally put that...
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