By Farah Heron
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.

By Susannah Nix
Series Chemistry Lessons
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

After four lousy boyfriends in a row, chemical engineer Penny Popplestone swears off men until she can figure out why they keep cheating on her. But her no-men resolution hits a snag when the mysterious and superhumanly hot barista at her favorite coffee shop strikes up a friendship with her. Penny strives to keep things platonic, but when Caleb gives her the kiss of her life, she realizes he wants to be more than just friends. Tired of always being "good little Penny," she throws caution to the wind and pursues a no-strings fling with the hottie barista. It's not like they have anything in common beyond scorching physical chemistry, so what does she have to lose? Only her heart. Now, this fanfic-reading, plus-size heroine faces an unsolvable problem. What do you do when being apart is unbearable...but being together is impossible?

By Lisa Jewell

Discovering that they are drifting apart after eleven years of marriage, Jem and Ralph contemplate changes that they hope will rekindle their relationship, an effort that is complicated by Jem's feelings that she is losing herself, Ralph's loss of artistic inspiration, and the needs of their two children.

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

"Ain't She Sweet? A funny, heartwarming, oh–so–spicy story of love, friendship, and the possibility of happily–ever–after (From the Publisher)."

By Susan Isaacs

Growing up under the care of her financially disadvantaged grandmother, Amy Lincoln wins prestigious scholarships and launches a journalism career before meeting a student who claims to be the illegitimate son of a presidential candidate.

By Jill A. Davis

Taking a much-needed break from her career and love life when her mother is diagnosed with a highly treatable form of cancer, lawyer Emily is disillusioned by her mother's dramatic attention-seeking behaviors, remembers the father who left when she was five, and takes an unobtrusive job in her father's law firm.

By Camille Perri
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When a technical error at a multinational media conglomerate gives a financially strapped veteran employee a chance to pay off her student loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on a downward spiral involving other employees with crushing debts and fewer scruples. 

By Nancy Atherton

Summoned from her latest dreadful temp job by her lawyers, Lori Shephard discovers that Aunt Dimity--her mother's favorite bedtime story heroine--was a real person who has left her millions and the challenge to solve an eerie mystery.

By Polly Williams

Unwilling to validate nagging doubts about her marriage to a man who is not quite the love of her life, thirty-four-year-old Stevie Jonson finds herself tackling tough choices about what she really wants out of life, a situation that is further complicated by the return of an old friend.

By Jane Green

Eccentric widow Nan rents rooms for the summer in her Nantucket home when she discovers her finances are running low. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding.

By Gil McNeil
Series Jo Mackenzie Novels

Suddenly widowed by a car crash that ended the life of her unfaithful husband, Jo moves to a small seaside community and takes over her grandmother's knitting shop, where she is introduced to a dessert-addicted knitting club.

By Mary Kay Andrews
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Given a last chance to salvage her career after being wrongly blamed for property damage, movie location scout Greer Hennessy confronts an environmentally-minded mayor in a sleepy Florida Gulf Coast community.

By Iris Rainer Dart

Follows thirty years of joy, sorrow, triumph, and tragedy in the changing and enduring relationship of two very different women - the conventional Bertie and Cee Cee, a flamboyant actress.

Became the movie: Beaches.

By Jennifer Weiner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

A woman confronts the dynamics of friendship and forgiveness while visiting Cape Cod to attend an old friend's increasingly disastrous wedding.

By Nora Roberts
Series In the Garden Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in a brand new trilogy from the best-selling author follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.

By Jamie Brenner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Returning with her mother to her parents’ North Fork Long Island winery, college-age Sadie discovers that her Grandma Vivian once ran a “trashy” book club and decides to reinstate it as a way to reconnect the family.

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

A “literary matchmaker” who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her sense of adventure while searching for a happy ending of her own.

By Meg Cabot
Series Boy

“Twentysomething Kate Mackenzie, who works and lives in New York City, is a typical chick-lit heroine: she hates her boss and has just broken up with her longtime boyfriend because he can't commit. Her job as a human resources representative at the New York Journal brings her to the center of controversy when her boss makes her fire the popular Dessert Cart Lady, Ida Lopez …  The grievance suit that ensues brings Kate in contact with the perfect guy, but he's a lawyer, so it takes Kate a while to realize that they're meant to be together (Library Journal).”

By Meg Cabot

“Cabot relies entirely on highly amusing e-mails to tell a fetching meet-cute story…. Full of clever e-mail banter and tongue-in-cheek humor, this cheeky novel should be enjoyed in one sitting (Publishers Weekly).”

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Valentine Trilogy
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

When Valentine Roncalli discovers a long-lost shoe design, a family secret unravels that helps her take control of the company from a conniving relative, but first she seeks the counsel of her ex-fiancé, Bret Fitzpatrick, to help re-boot the business.

By Helen Fielding
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

The daily chronicle of a 30-something single English woman who is convinced her life would be perfect if she could lose weight, stop smoking and develop "Inner Poise."

By Helen Fielding
Series Bridget Jones

Bridget’s new relationship with Mark Darcy should have improved her self-confidence, but the difficult adjustments of sharing an apartment and Rebecca’s eagerness to cause trouble are making Bridget more uncertain than ever.

By Lyssa Kay Adams
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

To win back his wife, who wants a divorce, desperate Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source—a secret romance–reading club of Nashville’s top alpha men.

By Jodi Della Femina

“Nobody knows the Hamptons like Jodi Della Femina, who captures the inside world of love, society, and scandal in this delicious summer page-turner (From the Publisher).”

By Dorothea Benton Frank
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

A young woman from Chicago falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina, and trades the bustle of cosmopolitan city life for the vagaries of a small Southern community.

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

Ostracized for her role in halting best friend Lucy's wedding, Meg finds herself stranded.

By Sophie Kinsella

“When her plane en route from Glasgow to London experiences horrible turbulence, Emma Corrigan is convinced she is going to die. She babbles all of her most intimate thoughts and secrets to the handsome American man sitting next to her… When she enters the office on Monday and learns the CEO of the company is in for a visit, Emma is horrified to learn Jack is actually the man in whom she confided on the flight… (Booklist).”

By Eric Garcia

Cassandra tackles the L.A. dating scene by chaining men in her basement & giving them lessons on how to treat a lady.

By Jennifer Weiner
Series Cannie Shapiro

No longer famous, journalist Cannie Shapiro writes science fiction under a pen name while raising her teenage daughter, and considers her husband Peter's request to have Cannie's flamboyant sister provide surrogate services so that they can have a second child.

By Lauren Weisberger
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“Making a pact that they will change the things that most challenge them within a year's time, Manhattan friends Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana shed their downtrodden identities in order to pursue the high life (From the Publisher).”

By Sophie Kinsella
Series Shopaholic Series
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Agreeing to host her family’s Christmas celebration, Becky finds her efforts complicated by her parents’ alternate plans, Jess’ vegan turkey, Luke’s lack of enthusiasm, Minnie’s request for a hard-to-find gift and the reappearance of a rock-star ex.

By Susan Isaacs
Series Judith Singer Mysteries

Long Island housewife Judith Singer takes it upon herself to investigate the murder of a local periodontist and picture–taking lothario and discovers an attractive homicide lieutenant and her own potential as a woman.

By Saralee Rosenberg

In Mindy's yoga-obsessed, thirty-is-the-new-wife neighborhood, every day is a battle between Dunkin' Donuts, her jaws-of-life jeans, and Beth Diamond, the self-absorbed sancti-mommy next door who looks sixteen from the back.

By Mary Kay Andrews
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Her efforts to secure a job on a national cooking channel challenged by her unfaithful boyfriend, irresponsible sister, and interfering mother, television chef Gina Foxton finds her endeavor further complicated by her unexpected attraction to a rival chef with an off-putting redneck personality.

By Lauren Weisberger

“A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses (From the Publisher).”

Became the movie: The Devil Wears Prada.

By Rebecca Wells

When Siddi inadvertently reveals some revealing things about her Southern childhood in a newspaper interview, her mother, Vivi, virtually disowns her. Vivi’s lifelong friends, the Ya–Ya’s, set in motion a plan to bring the mother and daughter back together using a scrapbook of childhood memories that they ask Vivi to put together.

Became the movie: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

By Laura Dave

Hosting a divorce party on what would have been their thirty-fifth anniversary, amicably separated spouses Gwyn and Thomas Huntington unexpectedly toast their son's engagement to a young woman who inadvertently discovers unsettling secrets about the man she is to marry.

By Linda Francis Lee
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Losing her beloved husband in a tragic accident only to be informed that she must leave her comfortable Upper West Side home, Emily learns disturbing truths about her late husband’s true character and embarks on a journey for answers in the company of a scruffy little dog (From the Publisher).”

By Nicholas Sparks

A chance encounter becomes a transcendent turning point for two very different people–the conflicted daughter of an ALS patient and a Sunset Beach newcomer from Zimbabwe who aims to meet his birth father.

By Linda Holmes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Young widow Evvie Drake and major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who has lost his game and needs a chance to reset his life, form an unlikely relationship when Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house.

By Liza Palmer

As a child, Grace Hawkes was abandoned by her father; as an adult, she feels abandoned when her mother dies unexpectedly. Not knowing what to do, Grace runs away. Five years later she reunites with her siblings at her father's deathbed and confronts her past.

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

An exploration of the complicated terrain between best friends - one who chooses marriage and motherhood while the other opts for career and celebrity. 

By Olivia Goldsmith

Three faithful, middle-age wives, who have been abandoned for "trophy wives"--younger, blonder, and sexier models--by their successful husbands, decide to get even and seek public revenge before New York society.

Became the movie: The First Wives Club.

By Mary Kay Andrews

Reluctantly accepting help to refurbish a recently inherited Georgia family home after losing her public relations job, Dempsey Jo Killebrew is quickly overwhelmed by the enormity of the task, which is further hampered by a cantankerous squatter.

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence.

By Kate Jacobs
Series Friday Night Knitting Club

Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships.

By Jill Shalvis
Series Sunrise Cove #2
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Forming a friendship pact, Tae Holmes and former Marine—and her high school fling—Riggs Copeland try to track down the father Tae’s never met, leading them on a wild adventure during which they form a bond in a way neither had seen coming.

By Jane Fallon
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"Fallon takes "careful what you wish for" to hilarious heights in her debut novel, a comedy of errors triggered by a mistress who discovers thrice-weekly hookups with her married lover are better than a 24/7 relationship with him (Publishers Weekly)."

By Elizabeth Noble

A novel about the intertwining lives of the residents of a New York City apartment building.

By Jennifer Close
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Attending an endless series of bridal showers for their friend Kristi, three bridesmaids struggle with private challenges, including Isabell’s unhappiness at a job where she is nevertheless very successful, Mary’s relationship with a man who prioritizes his mother and Lauren’s attraction to a man she despises (From the Publisher).”