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By Kate Stayman-London
Frustrated by a lack of body diversity on her favorite reality show, a plus-sized fashion blogger uses an unexpected invitation to star in the show to bolster her career, before unexpected romance complicates her prospects.
By Lindsey J. Palmer
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
After her fiancé authors a sensational and best-selling novel loosely based on his torrid love affair with his ex-girlfriend, Molly's paranoia that she will come back and try to rekindle their romance sends her into a downward spiral.
By Kristan Higgins
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
When her husband suddenly leaves her for another woman, Lillie, furious and with limited options of whom to turn to for help, finds unexpected allies who come to her aid, while, at the same time, she comes to theirs.
By Hannah Orenstein
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
Recent college graduate Sasha Goldberg lands a job as a matchmaker with an elite New York City dating service, and with her own relationship falling apart, finds herself in the arms of a charming writer she had recruited for a client.
By Curtis Sittenfeld
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
During the late 1980s, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves behind her close-knit, middle-class Indiana family to enroll in an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts, becoming a shrewd observer of, and eventually a participant in, their rituals and customs.
By Sara Shepard
Four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who knows their secrets.
Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 3 years earlier and she's a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department and she's married to a good-looking millionaire!
By Rita Ciresi
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
After marrying the man of her dreams, Lisa is confronted with the realities of marriage and motherhood as she deals with her husband’s long office hours, a messy and ailing child, and her spouse’s scorn of her dream of becoming a writer.
By Jude Deveraux
Series Summerhouse
Three women--Amy, Faith, and Zo?e--come to a special Maine refuge to confront the pain and heartbreak of the past, as the mysterious Madame Zoya and her sister Primrose send them on a trip back through time that could alter their futures.
Genre Time Travel Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Series, Contemporary Fiction, Chick Lit, Loss/Grief
Teen Genre Adult Books for Teens
By Elizabeth Buchan
Series Two Mrs Lloyd
Her happy marriage and successful career falling apart after twenty-five years, Rose Lloyd struggles with the prospect of starting over before finding unexpected fulfillment in her new independence and the reappearance of an old flame.
By Maryann McFadden
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page
"The Richest Season is a stunning debut about three very different people, each changing their lives when such transformations are usually long over. It will resonate with any woman who's ever fantasized about leaving home to find herself (From the Publisher)."
Laura prepares to serve as maid of honor to her former college roommate, who is marrying Laura’s ex-boyfriend, a situation that forces her to evaluate her relationships with her mother, her Jewish faith, and the groom-to-be.
By Rosanna Chiofalo
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk
When food writer Claudia tries to learn the truth behind a delicious cake found in an Italian convent, the local nun relates to her a story of a young woman who, after a terrible ordeal, learned the art of pastry and fell in love with an apprentice.
By Mary Kay Andrews
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
Hired for a wedding she hopes will secure her career, florist Cara designs beautiful arrangements in spite of a personal belief that love does not exist, an opinion that is challenged when the bride goes missing.
By Beth Harbison
Series Shoe Addict Series
Loreen struggles to recover from her ill-advised hire of a Las Vegas male prostitute, while minister's wife Abbey hides the truth about how she is being blackmailed for her secret past, and Tiffany finds herself in debt after an impulsive shopping spree.
By Claire Cook
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
After being left alone to raise young daughter for seven years, Jill's husband Seth re-enters her life after seven years asking for forgiveness.
By Candace Bushnell
Presents a collection of essays selected from the author's column in the New York Observer, concerning the interpersonal relationships of the "young and beautiful" residents of New York City.
By Debbie Macomber
Series Blossom Street Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian
When Lydia Hoffman, a cancer survivor and owner of A Good Yarn, starts a knitting class for her patrons, she forms a special friendship and bond with three extraordinary women – Jacqueline, Carol, and Alix.
By Ann Brashares
Series Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
They were just a soft, ordinary pair of thrift–shop jeans until the four girls took turns trying them on––four girls, that is, who are close friends, about to be parted for the summer, with very different sizes and builds, not to mention backgrounds and personalities. Yet the pants settle on each girl’s hips perfectly, making her look sexy and long–legged and feel confident as a teenager can feel. Over the summer the Pants come to represent the support of the sisterhood, but they also lead each girl into bruising and ultimately healing confrontations with love and courage, dying and forgiveness.
During an annual Fourth of July family gathering, the lives of four sisters - Candy, a supermodel; Tammy, a TV producer; Sabrina, an ambitious young lawyer; and Annie, an artist - are changed forever by tragedy as they come together to support one another and to pick up the pieces, while one sister struggles to heal her shattered body and soul.
By Meg Cabot
Series Heather Wells Mysteries
“Heather Wells, former teen idol, turns detective in the cute debut of a new mystery series… Cabot delivers Heather's amateur sleuthing adventures in a rapid-fire narrative that may leave some readers begging for time-outs to control sudden laughing fits (Publishers Weekly).”
By Lauren Graham
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk
A struggling actress in 1990s NYC searches for work and the perfect hair product.
By Emily Giffin
Her belief in the power of beauty shattered when her fiancé dumps her for a plain woman, a pregnant Darcy flees to London and struggles to rebuild her glamorous life before realizing that her past methods no longer work.
By Emily Giffin
Rachel, a young attorney working in Mahattan, is the consummate good girl--until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiancé. Determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel discovers that she has feelings for the one guy she should run from. As the wedding day arrives, Rachel has to make a choice.
Became the movie: Something Borrowed.
Annajane realizes that she is not over her ex-husband when his wedding to another woman is abruptly cancelled.
When her Hollywood studio head husband unexpectedly divorces her to marry a pop starlet, Gracie seeks refuge at a friend's Malibu mansion, witnesses the impact of the divorce on her young daughter, and interacts with a series of dysfunctional men.
By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
At her stepdaughter’s marriage to her pandemic boyfriend—the last gathering at the family’s beach house in Cape Cod, Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
By Mary Kay Andrews
Ellis questions everything she believed after losing an all-consuming job, while Julia struggles with insecurities that threaten a loving relationship and Dorie confronts a maelstrom of problems after a shocking betrayal.
By Jude Deveraux
Series Summerhouse
Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. They plan to share this momentous occasion together at a summerhouse in Maine, talking up a storm and taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them expect the gift that awaits them at the summerhouse.
Genre Time Travel Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Chick Lit, Series, Psychological Fiction, Change
Teen Genre Adult Books for Teens
By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
While trying to pinpoint the root of her dissatisfaction with her life, Daisy Shoemaker begins receiving misdirected emails meant for another woman and starts living vicariously through her until she discovers that their connection was not completely accidental.
By Beth Harbison
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation
"…The story of three women who believe that happiness is the next dress size down, the next dollar figure up, or the next appreciative glance from a stranger. But mostly it\'s the story of how three women save each other, and show each other the path to true contentment (From the Publisher)."
By Emily Liebert
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation
A family woman who seeks completion, a woman who is unable to conceive and a privileged wild child unite for a three-week summer vacation at a beautiful New York lake before respective secrets and mounting tensions lead to profound life changes.
Entreated by the bossy ghost of her great aunt to track down a missing necklace, Lara Lington finds her search challenged by her floundering start-up business, her best friend's defection, and her unfaithful boyfriend.
Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She's made a mistake so huge, it'll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she's mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they've hired a lawyer--and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. She can't sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the ironing board to open. How she takes a deep breath and begins to cope--and finds love--is a story as delicious as the bread she learns to bake.
When her twin sister and new brother-in-law get food poisoning at their wedding, maid of honor Olive, accompanied by her nemesis, the best man Ethan, assumes the role of a newlywed on a Hawaii honeymoon before unexpectedly falling for her companion.
By Sophie Kinsella
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
“Tiring of commitment-phobic boyfriends, Lottie readily accepts her ex’s offer of marriage in fulfillment of a safety pact made years earlier that they would marry if they were still single in their thirties, a rushed arrangement that prompts family disapproval and an unexpected renewal of passion (From the Publisher).”
By Beth Harbison
Dedicating herself to her culinary patrons, private chef Gemma Craig goes home every night to boxed cereals until an unexpected event compels a confrontation with the past and an unexpected romance.
By Barbara O'Neal
When she discovers that her sister Josie, long thought dead, is alive, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, beings a journey with the memories of her past to unearth the long–buried secrets and face the devastating truth that has kept them apart far too long.
By Wendy Wax
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
At the invitation of the building's concierge, four neighbors in an Atlanta apartment building begin weekly viewings of the acclaimed British series together and find themselves relating to the show, and to each other, in unexpected ways.
By Melissa De la Cruz
Series Witches of East End
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
“Transported back in time where she is forced to relive the horrors of Salem, Freya Beauchamp must find a way to survive the witch-burning hysteria, while her family, stuck in the present, must confront the trickster god Loki to save Freya (From the Publisher).”
By Kristen Hannah
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation
A family drama ignited by the death of a loving father whose two daughters have grown apart from each other and from their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother.
Genre Chick Lit, Russian Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Domestic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Cultural Fiction, European Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Multi-Cultural Fiction, European-American Fiction, Romance/Love Stories, World War II Fiction, Modern Era, Women’s Relationships, Identity, Relationships
By Melissa De La Cruz
Series Beauchamp Family
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
"Engaged to Bran, the heir to Fair Haven and Gardiners Island, Freya, a bartender and witch who has a potion to cure every kind of heartache, finds her life spiraling out of control when a young girl goes missing after taking one of her irresistible cocktails (From the Publisher)."
Became the TV show: Witches of East End.
By Barbara Taylor Bradford
Series Harte Family Saga
Emma Harte rises from impoverished, pregnant servant to the heights of wealth and power as she parlays a small shop into the world's finest department store, outwitting her enemies, seeking revenge on her betrayers, and realizing her greatest dreams.