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Books (mostly) by and about women. Try a few!
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Merry and Bright
by Debbie Macomber
Enduring a challenging year of constant work and family care, Merry struggles to take a break from her everyday responsibilities by creating an online dating profile and striking up an online friendship with a charming stranger who turns out to be someone she recognizes.
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Holly and Ivy
by Fern Michaels
Facing another holiday season alone eight years after losing her husband and children in a plane crash, an airline heiress bonds with a young singing prodigy from a home where music is forbidden by the girl's grieving widower father.
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The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
In 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission.
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The Simplicity of Cider
by Amy E. Reichert
A fifth-generation, devoted, cider-maker in Wisconsin has her life upended with the arrival of single father looking for work and lodging with his young son in the new novel by the author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake.
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The Vanity Fair Diaries : 1983-1992
by Tina Brown
The irreverent diaries of the author's celebrated years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair also serves as a vibrant portrait of the 1980s in New York and Hollywood, describing her summons from London in the hopes of saving Condé Nast's troubled periodical and her experiences within the cutthroat world of glamour magazines.
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The Rules of Magic
by Alice Hoffman
A prequel to the best-selling Practical Magic traces the story of the children of Susanna Owens, who, in spite of their mother's fierce edicts against witchcraft, develop powerful abilities while struggling to escape the family curse that leads to tragedy if they fall in love.
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Luck, Love & Lemon Pie
by Amy E. Reichert
Realizing that her husband has been spending increasing amounts of time at a casino and that she doesn't really mind, MJ indulges in her own gambling hobbies away from her family before a string of wins leads her to Vegas, where she attracts the attentions of a charismatic poker star.
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Amy Snow
by Tracy Rees
An orphan girl, banished from the only home she’s ever known into Victorian London after the unexpected death of her benefactor and protectress, follows a treasure hunt left for her by the deceased that leads to true love.
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The Forbidden Garden
by Ellen Herrick
An American nursery owner with a rare gift with plants jumps at the chance to help revive a run-down, Shakespearean garden on a country estate in England and becomes intrigued the with house’s haunting history and the owner’s brother-in-law.
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The Other Daughter
by Lauren Willig
Discovering upon her mother's death that she is the illegitimate daughter of an earl, 1920s governess Rachel Woodley teams up with a dubious associate who helps her infiltrate key social circles in order to contact her father and undermine her privileged half-sister's world.
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