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ChickLit Newsletter June 2019
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Books (mostly) by women and about women. Enjoy your summer!
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Queen Bee
by Dorothea Benton Frank
A Sullivan's Island beekeeper navigates her demanding hypochondriac mother and flamboyant rival sister while immersing herself in the lives of two young neighbor boys and their widowed father.
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The Summer Guests
by Mary Alice Monroe
Taking refuge on a friend's farm when a hurricane threatens the Southern coast, an eclectic group of evacuees confronts unresolved issues in the face of excruciating losses, discovering new priorities along the way. (romance).
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Summer of '69
by Elin Hilderbrand
A pregnant eldest sibling, a middle-sister civil rights activist, an infantry soldier brother deployed to Vietnam and a lonely 13-year-old youngest child find their lives upended by troubling family secrets. (historical fiction).
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City of Girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love traces the experiences of a theater insider in 1940s New York who discovers that she does not have to be a "good girl" in order to be a good person
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Mrs. Everything
by Jennifer Weiner
"A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history--and herstory--as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives"
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Evvie Drake Starts Over
by Linda Holmes
The host of NPR's "Pop Culture Happy Hour" podcast presents a heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young widow and a major league pitcher who has lost his game.
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Sunset Beach
by Mary Kay Andrews
Reluctantly accepting a job with her father's law firm, Drue finds herself investigating the possibility of corruption within the office after a suspicious death at a nearby resort.
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The Friends We Keep
by Jane Green
Reconnecting 13 years after college, a supermodel whose career was derailed by an affair, the heartbroken wife of an alcoholic and an actor hiding a painful past find their bond tested by a dark secret.
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Ask Again, Yes
by Mary Beth Keane
When a violent event forcibly ends their romance, the son and daughter of two NYPD rookies reconnect years later and struggle to prevent the past from triggering another separation.
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Montauk
by Nicola Harrison
Distancing herself from her unfaithful spouse and her fellow society wives at seaside Montauk Manor, Bea is drawn by the village's natural beauty and community spirit before falling for a man who is nothing like her husband. (historical fiction). A first novel.
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