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| Blush by Jamie BrennerThe Hollander family winery is up for sale, and none of the women in the family is happy about it. Sadie discovers her grandmother's old book club journal from the 1980s, which may contain the key to keeping the winery in the family -- or at least helping three generations of women handle change with strength and compassion. |
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The Choice
by Claire Wade
Olivia Pritchard spends her time in almost constant fear. Since Mother Mason came into power sugar has been outlawed, with healthy eating and exercise enforced. Anyone caught breaking the rules is sent to the shame box - a glass box, placed in a public place for everyone to judge. Olivia hates having her and her family's health and happiness being dictated by the government, but she will do anything to keep them safe and away from the shame box. But when her husband's factory burns down, Olivia is pulled into a shady underworld and before she knows it she is the one on trial ...
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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
by Emily Austin
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Responding to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, Gilda finds herself mistakenly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend, but can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.
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Maps for the getaway : a novel
by Annie England Noblin
In tribute to their late best friend, three former friends, in a 1962 red Lincoln Continental convertible, take the road trip of their lives, discovering that it’s never too late to live the wild life — and rediscovering what made them “best friends forever.”
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| One Two Three by Laurie FrankelThe Mitchell sisters -- teenage triplets -- live in the failing town of Bourne, which was poisoned by a chemical plant before their birth, devastating the area's ecosystem, killing their father, and affecting the development of two of the girls. Amid news that the plant is reopening, the owner's handsome grandson has enrolled at the local high school.
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The paper palace
by Miranda Cowley Heller
While staying at “The Paper Palace” — the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life, 50-year-old Elle must decide between the life she has built with her husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.
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The Secrets of De Courcy Square
by Ann O'loughlin
When Cora Gartland learns that her long-term partner, Jack, has been killed in a car crash in Ireland her world falls apart. But then she is told that there was a woman in the car with him, a woman identified as his wife Amelia. Devastated, she flies to Dublin to try to make sense of Jack's secret life. As she grieves, she must learn to survive, and to do that she must find the truth. What else has he been keeping from her and how will she survive this betrayal ...?
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Together we will go : a novel
by J. Michael Straczynski
Placing an ad for a road trip like no other, Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer, surrounds himself with other disheartened souls who have also decided that this will be their final journey until complications to the initial plan arise as they get closer to their destination.
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