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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
by Lucia Berlin
An exploration of female experience, weaving together stories of love, loss, and resilience.
A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
A thrilling mystery of secrets and hidden identities, with a hero on a quest for the truth.
Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, encounters and gives directions to a mysterious and distressed woman dressed entirely in white, lost in London; he is later informed by policemen that she has ... (Wikipedia)
Another Brooklyn
by Jacqueline Woodson
A poetic story of four teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s.
The story starts with August, an adult anthropologist, returning to New York to bury her father. On the subway, she encounters an old friend, and begins to reminisce. She remembers being an 8 year ... (Wikipedia)
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Spanning centuries, the intertwining stories of two African sisters, their descendants, and the legacy of slavery.
Effia is raised by her mother, Baaba, who is cruel to her. Nevertheless she works hard to please her mother. Known as a beauty, Effia is intended to be married to the future chief of her village, but ... (Wikipedia)
Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
An entertaining look at the extravagant lifestyles of the ultra-wealthy in Singapore.
The book is told from the perspective of five main characters: Rachel Chu, Nicholas (Nick) Young, Eleanor Young, Astrid Leong, and Edison Cheng. The story revolves around the grand wedding of ... (Wikipedia)
An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
A newlywed couple's lives are torn apart when the husband is wrongfully convicted of a crime. The novel explores love, loyalty, and injustice.
Roy, a sales representative for a textbook company, and Celestial, an artist specializing in custom made baby dolls, are newlyweds who live in Atlanta. After their first year of marriage they travel ... (Wikipedia)
Tully
by Paullina Simons
A young woman's journey to find herself and her place in the world, through love, loss, and self-discovery.
The astonishing debut novel from international number one bestselling author Paullina Simons, now beautifully repackaged Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she ... (Goodreads)
Brief Lives
by Neil Gaiman
A journey of self-reflection as a man discovers the power of stories and their ability to shape our lives.
Dream's youngest sister, the loopy Delirium, convinces him to go on a quest for their missing brother, Destruction. But Dream may learn that the cost of finding his prodigal sibling is more than he ... (Goodreads)
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
A mosaic of characters, lives, and relationships as they intertwine and evolve over time.
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. ... (Goodreads)
The Thirteen Treasures
by Michelle Harrison
Tanya discovers a hidden world of fairies and uncovers the mystery of the thirteen treasures.
Tanya has a secret. She can see fairies. But not the fairies we imagine. These fairies cast spells on her, rousing her from her sleep and propelling her out of bed. Disturbed by her daughter’s ... (Goodreads)
Marlena
by Julie Buntin
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl's intense friendship with a troubled girl named Marlena, and the aftermath of her tragic death.
An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades Everything about fifteen-year-old ... (Goodreads)
Spring Fever
by Mary Kay Andrews
Annajane Hudgens attends her ex-husband's wedding and realizes she still has feelings for him.
First husbands Annajane truly believes she is over her ex-husband, Mason. They've been divorced for four years, she's engaged to a terrific new guy, and she's ready to leave the small North Carolina ... (Goodreads)
The Man of My Dreams
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Hannah Gavener navigates through her relationships with men, family, and herself in this coming-of-age novel.
Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah’s own life, her parents’ marriage is crumbling. And somewhere in between ... (Goodreads)
The Little Shop of Found Things
by Paula Brackston
Xanthe discovers a magical shop where she can travel through time and must use her powers to save a young girl from a tragic fate.
New York Times, bestselling author Paula Brackston's return to her trademark blend of magic and romance is guaranteed to enchant., An antique shop haunted by a ghost. A silver treasure with an ... (Barnes & Noble)
Shepherds Abiding
by Jan Karon
A heartwarming Christmas story about the residents of Mitford, as Father Tim tries to restore a Nativity scene.
The eighth novel in the beloved Mitford series, by the bestselling author of, At Home in Mitford, and, Somebody Safe with Somebody Good, Millions of Americans have found Mitford to be a favorite ... (Goodreads)
The Witches of Eastwick
by John Updike
Three women in a small town discover their supernatural powers and attract the attention of a mysterious man.
The story, set in the fictional Rhode Island town of Eastwick in the late 1960s, follows the witches Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart, and Sukie Rougemont, who acquired their powers after leaving or ... (Wikipedia)
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
by Amy E. Reichert
A chef's life falls apart when a scathing review of her restaurant is written by a man she had a one-night stand with.
You’ve Got Mail meets How to Eat a Cupcake in this delightful novel about a talented chef and the food critic who brings down her restaurant—whose chance meeting turns into a delectable romance of ... (Goodreads)
The Book Charmer
by Karen Hawkins
A small town librarian has the gift of talking to books and must use it to save her town and family from a mysterious curse.
New York Times , bestselling author Karen Hawkins crafts an unforgettable story about a sleepy Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a truly magical friendship. Sarah Dove is no ordinary ... (Goodreads)
Saint Maybe
by Anne Tyler
A man's journey of atonement, struggling to make amends for his past mistakes.
Tyler's plot explores the ways ordinary people react to disastrous events with quietly heroic behavior. When seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe confronts his older brother Danny with his belief that the ... (Wikipedia)
Lost For Words
by Stephanie Butland
Loveday Cardew, a bookshop worker with a tragic past, finds solace in books until a mysterious poet enters her life.
You can trust a book to keep your secret . . . Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look closely, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But ... (Goodreads)
Bonfire
by Krysten Ritter
A successful lawyer returns to her hometown to investigate a company's environmental practices, uncovering dark secrets and facing her own past.
Should you ever go back? It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has ... (Goodreads)
The Year of Fog
by Michelle Richmond
A woman's fiancé's daughter disappears on a foggy beach, and she must navigate the complexities of memory and grief to find her.
Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason—photographer, fiancée soon-to-be-stepmother—looks into her camera and commits her greatest error. Heartbreaking, ... (Goodreads)
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
by Jonas Jonasson
Allan Karlsson embarks on another adventure, this time involving a suitcase full of cash and a gang of criminals.
After the events of the previous book, Allan Karlsson and his friend Julius Johnsson are spending a luxurious life at a hotel in Bali , Indonesia , using the money they got from the previous book. ... (Wikipedia)
The Island
by Elin Hilderbrand
A family drama set on Nantucket Island, where secrets and betrayals threaten to tear apart the seemingly perfect lives of the wealthy community.
A summertime story only Elin Hilderbrand can tell: a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fill an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises. Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into ... (Goodreads)
Labor Day
by Joyce Maynard
A single mother and her son take in an escaped convict over Labor Day weekend, leading to unexpected consequences.
Henry Wheeler, a man in his early 30s, recounts his thirteenth year. As Labor Day weekend approaches, 13-year-old Henry sees no reason why this weekend should be any different. He expects it to be as ... (Wikipedia)
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
by Alan Bradley
Flavia de Luce solves a murder mystery involving a severed finger and a wedding cake.
Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop’s Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce’s sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. ... (Goodreads)
The Probable Future
by Alice Hoffman
The women of the Sparrow family possess supernatural abilities, but their gifts come with a curse. Three generations must confront their past to break the spell.
Alice Hoffman’s most magical novel to date – three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love. Women of the Sparrow family ... (Goodreads)
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
by Sandra Gulland
A fictionalized account of the life of Josephine Bonaparte, from her childhood in Martinique to her marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte.
Young Josephine Bonaparte shines at the center of a new, sweeping, romantic work of historical fiction by Sandra Gulland: detailed and exhaustively researched, compelling and powerful, The Many Lives ... (Goodreads)
The Midwife's Revolt
by Jodi Daynard
Historical fiction set in revolutionary America, following the life of a midwife who becomes involved in the fight for independence.
On a dark night in 1775, Lizzie Boylston is awakened by the sound of cannons. From a hill south of Boston, she watches as fires burn in Charlestown, in a battle that she soon discovers has claimed ... (Barnes & Noble)
Imperial Bedrooms
by Bret Easton Ellis
A dark and twisted tale of a group of Hollywood friends whose lives are intertwined with sex, drugs, and violence.
The action of Imperial Bedrooms depicts Clay, who, after four months in New York, returns to Los Angeles to assist in the casting of his new film. There, he meets up with his old friends who were ... (Wikipedia)
