By Jill Davis
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

After landing a job as a reporter at the "New York News," Ruby Capote joins three other women for evenings playing poker and finds herself falling for her intriguing and challenging boss, Michael.

By Dana Bate
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Seizing the chance to do what she loves after her relationship ends, Hannah Sugarman, poised for an academic career like her famous parents, instead starts an underground supper club, but her own fears and doubts threaten her dreams.

By Jennifer Weiner
Series Cannie Shapiro Novels

Journalist Cannie Shapiro embarks on an adventure-filled odyssey as she confronts her losses, makes peace with the past, and comes to terms with herself.

By Katherine Center
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A year after getting divorced, thirty-two-year old Helen Carpenter signs up for a wilderness survival course as a chance to pull herself together again, but where she must instead survive mosquito infestations, a summer blizzard, and a group of sorority girls.

By Holly Denham
Series Holly's Inbox Series

Holly Denham has a lot on her plate. It’s her first day as a receptionist at a busy London corporate bank and, frankly, she can’t quite keep up. Take a peek at her email and you’ll see why: what with her crazy friends, dysfunctional family, and gossipy co-workers, Holly’s inbox is a daily source of drama. But it’s the laughter, friendship, and a hint of romance that keep Holly going.

By Beth Harbison

Their friendship ruined by a vicious rumor twenty years earlier, Allie and Olivia prepare for a high school reunion while acknowledging disparities between their youth and adult realities, circumstances that cause them to wonder if they can put aside past demons.

By Nancy Thayer
Series Hot Flash Club

When four women meet in a hot tub at a spa, they realize they share a common problem-toxic relatives-and a common solution-each other.

By Allison Pearson
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The heroine from the best–selling I Don't Know How She Does It is forced by her husband's flaky unemployment to reinvent herself as a younger, hip professional to secure a job with the hedge fund she founded.

By Meg Donohue
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When childhood friends Annie Quintana and Julia St. Clair reconnect as adults and decide to open a cupcakery, they must overcome old betrayals, first loves, and a dangerous threat.

By Lindsey Kelk
Series I Heart Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“After her first standalone novel, The Single Girl’s To-Do List, Lindsey returns with a sparkling and romantic new novel in the “I Heart series” (From the Publisher).”

By Sophie Kinsella
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Struggling to hold her late father's business together in spite of her less-motivated siblings, Fixie Farr cashes in an IOU from a handsome stranger to find employment for her childhood crush.

By Eliza Kennedy

Enjoying a dream job, close friendships, a loving family, and a gorgeous fiancée, Lily Wilder evaluates her history of partying and dating lots of men to consider whether getting married is the right choice for her.

By Allison Pearson

In 1970s South Wales, Petra and Sharon live for David Cassidy and take the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz thinking that David's letters are all his own work. Over two decades later, bruised by grief, Petra is living with her thirteen-year-old daughter and meets the reluctant pop journalist who compiled the quiz.

By Susan Fales-Hill
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“Throwing herself into earning her Ph.D after an acrimonious divorce, Elizabeth, the second of four mixed-race sisters named after Windsor royals by their ambitious mother, is drawn into the romantic dramas of her sister, a television reality show bachelorette (From the Publisher).”

By Jennifer Weiner

Twenty-eight-year-old Maggie Feller, who goes from job to job on the fringes of show business, and her older sister Rose, a lawyer, have had no contact with their grandmother, Ella, since their mother's death years ago, but all three need to find each other to reach happiness.

Became the movie: In Her Shoes.

By Nancy Thayer
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“When the will of a recently deceased ladies’ man mandates a summer-long reunion for his daughters from different marriages at his posh Nantucket house, the three sisters are forced to confront long-festering resentments and misunderstandings as well as challenges in their private and professional lives (From the Publisher).”

By Sophie Kinsella
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

After her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone's owner, Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations.

By Isabel Rose

Reunited with her former bunkmates of Willow Lake Camp Ali Cohen plans to make a documentary of her former teenage tormentors.

By Brenda Janowitz

When Manhattan lawyer Brooke Miller lands her first big case, she discovers that the opposing attorney is her fiancé.

By Karen Joy Fowler
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love.

By Heather McElhatton
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Jennifer dreams of achieving the perfect relationship, body size, & career after the engagement of her ex-boyfriend to her sister.

By Christina Lauren
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Josh Im has known foul-mouthed, quirky Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved incompatible with his mellow restraint, but ten years later after a cheating girlfriend has turned his life upside down, Hazel is a breath of fresh air.

By Susan Wiggs

Upon learning of her husband’s affair, Sarah Moon resettles in her California hometown only to learn she is pregnant.

By Lucy Sykes
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Discovering that her young former assistant is plotting to steal her job and transform their fashion magazine into an app, editor-in-chief Imogen Tate is challenged to find her inner geek to save her career and the magazine.

By Lauren Conrad
Series L.A. Candy

When 19-year-old Jane is cast in a reality show, she discovers that the fame of her new life comes at a high price to herself & her friendships.

By Louise Miller
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Nora, the owner of the local diner, and her sister Kit inherit a house and land targeted for development, leading to conflict in the community and a dilemma for Nora, who is confused over her growing feelings for the developer's representative.

By Melanie Rose

In this debut novel full of heart, a single, carefree woman wakes up from an accident to discover she's suddenly a married mother of four. As Jessica tries to come to terms with her new situation, she embraces a family in need and helps them heal.

By Saralee Rosenberg

Shelby struggles to cope with her family’s drama and crazy antics.

By Louise Shaffer
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Francesca has lost her way, but just might be able to discover who she is meant to be with the help of a very special dog – and a love story from the past (From the Publisher).”

By Elyssa Friedland

Suffering humiliating setbacks for her overuse of social media, Manhattan lawyer Evie resolves to live life without her smartphone and makes a haphazard transition to relationships not dominated by tweets, texts, and posts.

By Elyssa Friedland
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Suffering humiliating setbacks for her overuse of social media, a Manhattan lawyer resolves to live life without her smartphone and makes a haphazard transition to relationships not dominated by tweets, texts and posts.

By Christina Lauren
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Macy Sorensen has decided to settle for marriage to an older man until she bumps into Elliot Petropoulos—her first and most intense love, who eventually broke her heart—sending her reeling into reminiscence and doubt.

By Kim Wright
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Risking her safe but lackluster marriage in an affluent Southern suburb to embark on an affair that she believes is more fulfilling, Elyse challenges the decisions her book-club friends have made about their own relationships and freedoms (From the Publisher).”

By Emily Giffin
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

Believing her marriage to Andy to be perfect in every way, Ellen runs into former flame Leo and wonders why she has been unable to forget him even though they brought out the worst in each other.

By Sherri Rifkin
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Seeking a cure for her post-breakup depression, TV producer Tori Miller embarks on a course of self-improvement with the help of a makeover on a reality TV show and joins seven complete strangers in a rented Hamptons summer house, which leads to a glamorous new social life, complex romantic situations, and a growing inability to determine what is really important in life (From the Publisher).”

By Beth Kendrick

A dog trainer moves in with her mother after a breakup and is overwhelmed by demands for her services by members of their wealthy, gated community in this new novel from the author of The Bake-Off.

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Series Chicago Stars
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

Anabelle tries to promote her grandmother’s matchmaking business by landing agent Heath Champion as a client. 

By Jenny Colgan
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Having spent her childhood helping her grandfather in his bakery, Issy Randall decides to open her own cafe after being laid off from her desk job, but she encounters a host of problems on the path to success in business.

By Jane Green
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Libby Mason, who dreams of marrying a wealthy man, finds herself torn between Nick, a struggling writer who makes up for his lack of funds with his passion in bed, and Ed, Britain's wealthiest but stodgiest bachelor.

By Christina Lauren
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

When a university event turns into a black tie gala, Millie and her four best guy friends make a pact to join an online dating service, but while the guys are getting potential dates, Millie's profile attracts less than desirable matches.

By Julia Whelan
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Offered a fantastic job in a rising star's political campaign on condition that she will work abroad and return to Washington after spending a dream year at Oxford, Ella clashes with, and then falls for, an outspoken literature professor with a life-changing secret that forces her to rethink her ambitions.

By Emma McLaughlin
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

A satirical glimpse into Manhattan's upper class follows Nanny, a student who takes a position caring for the son of the rich & glamorous X family.

Became the movie: The Nanny Diaries.

By Nancy Thayer
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The lifelong best friendship between privileged Emma and hardscrabble Maggie is challenged and then cemented by the discovery that both are pregnant by the same man.

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Series Chicago Stars
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

“Brimming with audacious humor, delicious sensuality, and beautifully developed characters, this touching, multilayered story also has an emotional depth that readers will savor (Library Journal).”

By Nora Roberts
Series Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland is getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers. As the architect of the family, Beckett's social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and beer. But there's another project he's got his eye on: the girl he's been waiting to kiss since he was fifteen.

By Jennifer Weiner

Television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss.

By Jane L. Rosen

Nine unrelated women whose circumstances are shaped by unrequited love, infidelity and fame find their lives touched by the same little black dress and its seemingly magical properties.

By Annabel Monaghan
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A romance channel screenwriter, turning her disastrous marriage into the best script of her life, is shocked when the leading man, after shooting wraps, asks to stay with her for 7 days, $1,000 per day—just enough time to fall in love or just enough time to have her heart broken.

By Josie Silver
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Taking place over 10 consecutive Christmases, tells the story of Jack and Laurie, who meet at a bus stop and continue to circle each other’s lives seemingly fated to be together, except not actually managing it, for a decade.

By Janet Evanovich
Series Stephanie Plum Mysteries

Out–of–work Stephanie Plum blackmails her bail bondsman cousin into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Her first case involves tracking down a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one, a man who also happens to be her former lover.

Became the movie: One for the Money.