|
If You Like...Nicholas Sparks
|
|
The Time Keeper
by Mitch Albom
Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world's first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time – a journey that leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.
|
|
|
Remember Me: A Novel
by Deborah Bedford
Years after being separated from his childhood confidante, Aubrey, following the death of her brother in Vietnam, Sam Tibbits, now a minister, is reunited with Aubrey at Piddock Beach, where they both must deal with their lost friendship and come to terms with their lives and faith.
|
|
|
Letter to My Daughter : A Novel
by George Bishop
When her 15-year-old daughter runs away from their Baton Rouge home, a guilt-ridden mother writes a healing letter about her own adolescence, marked by a strict Catholic boarding school, a forbidden romance and the origins of an enigmatic tattoo.
|
|
|
The Last Summer (of You and Me)
by Ann Brashares
A first adult novel by the best-selling author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series finds a trio of summer friends, including a pair of sisters and a young man entering an early adulthood, marked by budding love, sexual curiosity, a sudden serious illness, and a deep secret.
|
|
|
Flirting With Pete: A Novel
by Barbara Delinsky
Three years after a tragic accident leaves her mother comatose, Casey Ellis loses the psychologist father she barely knew and is astonished to learn he has left her his posh Boston townhouse, a situation that leads her to discover her father's harrowing experiences with a mysterious woman named Jenny.
|
|
|
The Horse Whisperer
by Nicholas Evans
After her daughter and the girl's horse are injured in a tragic accident, Annie Graves journeys across the continent in search of Tom Booker, the Horse Whisperer, hoping he can use his ancient gift to help both the horse and the maimed girl.
|
|
|
The Sunflower
by Richard Paul Evans
After her fiancé calls off their marriage a week before the wedding. heartbroken Christine Hollister reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend Jessica to Peru to do volunteer work in an orphanage, where she meets American doctor Paul Cook.
|
|
|
Remembering Blue
by Connie May Fowler
Mattie Fiona Blue mourns the death of her husband, a fisherman, while she tells the story of her own chaotic, troubled life, and her relationship with her husband's colorful Greek-American family.
|
|
|
Jimmy's Girl
by Stephanie Gertler
Ever wonder what became of your first love? Emily did.Emily Hudson should be happy. She has achieved modest success as a painter and lives a good suburban life with her husband and four children. But one day, Emily stopped and remembered who she was when she was sixteen and how she felt when she found love with James Moran. It's been thirty years since they went their separate ways. But Emily can't stop herself from thinking about Jimmy . . . nor can she resist using the Internet to find his address and telephone number . . . and placing the phone call that will change both of their lives forever
|
|
|
The Diary
by Eileen Goudge
When the two grown daughters of Elizabeth Marshall discover an old diary of their mother's in her attic, it comes as a shock to learn that the true love of Elizabeth's life was not their father.
|
|
|
Waterloo Station: A Novel
by Emily Grayson
When Maude Latham enters Oxford University in 1938, she does not expect to fall in love with a married tutor who will inevitably change her life and its path, as she becomes a trauma nurse and begins to doubt this man and all she has come to believe.
|
|
|
Riding Lessons
by Sara Gruen
As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished. Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenage daughter to this place of pain and memory.
|
|
|
Night Road
by Kristin Hannah
When stay-at-home mom Jude Farraday takes in Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, the girl becomes inseparable from Jude's teenage twins before a shattering accident that rips the family apart and sets the stage for a sobering confrontation years later.
|
|
|
The Matchmaker
by Elin Hilderbrand
Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of 27 years prior returns to the island, in this new novel from the best-selling author of Summerland.
|
|
|
Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living.
|
|
|
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas: A Novel
by James Patterson
Katie Wilkinson believes she has found the perfect man, until he vanishes, leaving behind a diary penned by a woman named Suzanne who wrote it for her baby boy Nicholas, and as she reads Suzanne's poignant and bittersweet story, she is stunned to discover that the man she loves is actually Nicholas's father, in an extraordinary and emotional novel.
|
|
|
The Last Valentine
by James Michael Pratt
TV anchorwoman Susan Allison's story about a woman who receives a final Valentine from her Navy pilot husband, declared MIA some fifty years earlier during World War II, brings Susan face to face with the woman's son, writer Neil Thomas, Jr., and with a love story that transcends time and space.
|
|
|
The Love Letter
by Cathleen Schine
Helen MacFarquhar is a woman in control of her life and everyone in it - until an anonymous love letter falls into her hands one summer morning. Until that moment, smart, sexy, fortyish Helen has led a blissful existence as the proprietor of a small bookstore in a quaint seaside town outside New York. A siren of a bookseller, Helen beguiles her customers into buying the tony titles she recommends and flirts shamelessly with nearly every one of the town's eccentric residents. But Helen's self-confidence falters when the love letter arrives in her mail.
|
|
|
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
by Ben Sherwood
The powerful bond between two brothers--one alive and the other, killed in a terrible accident--unexpectedly transcends the barriers of life and death, and it is up to one enchanting woman to make their world right.
|
|
|
The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein
Evaluating his life on the eve of his death, atypical canine Enzo considers the sacrifices his master, Denny Swift, has made in his pursuit of becoming a professional race car driver; the painful custody battle between Denny and his in-laws, and the dog's own efforts to preserve the Swift family.
|
|
|
Night Gardening
by E. L. Swann
While recovering from a near-fatal illness, Maggie rediscovers the redemptive powers of passion and romance in her life when she meets Tristan, a landscape architect who is working on her long-ignored and unkempt garden.
|
|
|
High Plains Tango: A Novel
by Robert James Waller
A young drifter with a passion for solitude and carpentry, Carlisle McMillan purchases some land near Wolf Butte, South Dakota, a region considered sacred by the Sioux, and sets out to build a life for himself among the locals, including the beautiful "witch" Susanna Benteen, until a highway is proposed that will transverse his property and the sacred Wolf Butte.
|
|
|
The Wednesday Letters: A Novel
by Jason F. Wright
After the death of their parents, three siblings return home to make funeral arrangements and find boxes full of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each week on Wednesday, uncovering the shocking truth about the past.
|
|
|
|
|
|