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1) Off season
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"Anne Rivers Siddons tells the beautiful, tragic, and redemptive story of a woman who searches for meaning after her husband dies"--Provided by publisher.
3) Slicker
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Raised with the privileges of her Manhattan family, Yale student Desiree flees an unpromising relationship to start over in a tiny Kansas community, where her efforts to fit in are challenged by her wariness of its very different culture and her growing feelings for the son of two aging hippies.
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Friday Harbor novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
viii, 324 p. ; 21 cm.
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Embittered by her fiancé's abandonment for her sister, Washington state glass artist Lucy is unknowingly set up by her ex with his friend Sam, a relationship that is threatened by her ex's second thoughts and Lucy's discovery of the truth.
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A desperate search for income leads writer Francesca to Chicky, a spunky, red-haired octogenarian who wants Francesca to write the memoirs of her parents, Joe and Ellie, who toured the vaudeville circuit in the early 1920s. Francesca is reluctant to take the job, but Chicky's tales soon lure her into a showbiz era as irresistible and unlikely as the love story that unfolds.
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Holly Robinson
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 23 cm
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"Sleeping Tigers is the kind of book you wish didn't have to end. Fast-moving and funny, loaded with sex, adventure, and characters who feel like your oldest friends, it takes the reader through fabulous, keenly-observed settings as it follows one woman on a brave journey of self-discovery. Robinson's prose crackles with wit and humanity - it brims with all the energy that's released when life and love are unleashed and allowed to roam. " -Elisabeth...
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Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 21 cm.
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An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in Jamaica -it's the invitation of a lifetime for a group of old college friends. All four women are desperate not just for a reunion, but for an escape: Tina is drowning under the demands of mothering four young children. Allie is shattered by the news that a genetic illness runs in her family. Savannah is carrying the secret of her husband's infidelity. And, finally, there's Pauline, who spares no expense...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
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374 p. ; 22 cm.
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Moving to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to care for an aging family friend, Madeline Stone becomes involved in the lives of the small community and two octogenarian sisters who teach her valuable lessons about love and goodwill.
12) Where we belong
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Her carefully constructed life thrown into turmoil by the appearance of an eighteen-year-old girl with ties to her past, New York television producer Marian Caldwell is swept up in a maelstrom of personal discovery that changes both of their perceptions about family.
13) Grown-up pose
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit Indian community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai must now start from the beginning: learning who she is and what she truly wants. But Anu doesn't have time to start over. Telling her parents that she was separating from her husband was the hardest thing she's ever done--and she's still dealing with the fallout....
14) Gone: a novel
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
352 p.
Description
Celebrating the achievement of a successful career only to be abandoned by her failed sculptor husband, Eve Adams struggles to raise her children alone while balancing conflicting demands, the realities of midlife, and her evolving views on forgiveness and letting go.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
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"A woman whose looks have always defined her, who has spent a lifetime trying to prove that she is allowed to exist in her own sphere, tries to be herself even as multiple men try to categorize and own her"--
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Isle of Palms novels volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A tale set in the 1970s American South shares the story of Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.
17) Traps
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
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205 [5] p. ; 25 cm.
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Traces the brief but significant connections between four very different women, including commitment-phobic special operative Dana, betrayed Oscar-winning actress Jessica, prostitute teen mother Vivian, and recovering alcoholic Lynn.
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Rosie Hopkin's sweet shop volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vi, 422 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
After arriving in the country to care for her injured great aunt, Rosie finds herself falling under the spell of the village and the people there, especially a mysterious, solitary man, Stephen, who's bitterly healing from an injury himself.
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