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Dorothea Benton Frank Author Read Alikes
May 31, 2014 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Dorothea Benton Frank try these authors
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Nights in Rodanthe
by Nicholas Sparks
Forty-five-year-old divorcTe Adrienne Willis is forced to reconsider her entire life when her husband leaves her for a younger woman, as she confronts the difficulties of raising her teenage children and caring for her ailing father, until a trip to Rodanthe in North Carolina's outer banks leads to an encounter with successful surgeon Paul Flanner. 1,250,000 first printing.
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Tapestry of Fortunes : A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
Selling her home and taking time off from her career as a successful motivational speaker, Cecilia Ross moves into a beautiful old house in St. Paul and bonds with three roommates, including one who would reconnect with a daughter she gave up for adoption, one who would visit her long-absent ex and a professional chef who would find inspiration from other restaurants. 45,000 first printing.
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Someone else's love story
by Joshilyn Jackson
Twenty-one-year-old Shandi Pierce, who is juggling college and raising her three-year-old genius son, falls head over heels in love with a brilliant geneticist who, in the middle of a stick-up at a gas station mini-mart, willingly steps between the armed robber and her son. 150,000 first printing.
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Words get in the way
by Nan Parson Rossiter
Returning home, along with her autistic son Henry, to care for her ailing father, Callie Wyeth must face Linden FInch, the man she left behind, and is delighted when a relationship develops between Henry and Linden's menagerie of rescued farm animals, which brings about hope and a second chance at love. Original.
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A good hard look
by Ann Napolitano
Years after poor health forces her to return to her family home, celebrated author Flannery O'Connor reluctantly attends the wedding of her ultra-feminine Southern belle cousin and inadvertently draws the attention of the groom, a wealthy Manhattan resident who fears life is passing him by. 50,000 first printing.
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Past secrets
by Cathy Kelly
Assisting her friends on Summer Street when secrets threaten their relationships and well-being, Christie finds her own circumstances unbalanced when truths she has hidden from her husband and sons come to the surface. Original.
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Never Say Goodbye : The Best of Betty Neels
by Betty Neels
To support her family, Isobel Barrington becomes a private nurse and meets Dr. Thomas Winters with whom she falls in love, but another woman, the beautiful Ella Stokes, captures his attention, or so Isobel believes. Reprint.
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Minding Frankie
by Maeve Binchy
Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alcoholic Noel turns to a loving network of family and friends for help until an social worker attempts to place the baby in a foster home. By the author of Heart and Soul. 350,000 first printing.
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Life after life : a novel
by Jill McCorkle
The staff and residents at Fulton, North Carolina's retirement facility share the realities of their respective lives, from a retired teacher who believes everyone is a third grader at heart, to a prominent lawyer who feigns dementia to escape life with his son, to a woman who keeps a scrapbook of every local crime. By the award-winning author of Going Away Shoes.
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Once in a blue moon
by Eileen Goudge
The best-selling author of The Diary offers the tale of Lindsay and Kerrie Ann--two sisters separated in childhood and sent to foster homes after their neglectful mother's imprisonment--who are reunited in adulthood and help each other through the fiercest battles of their lives despite their differences.
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Sweet memories
by LaVyrle Spencer
Teresa, a shy twenty-five-year-old woman lacking in self-confidence, finds her world forever changed by the arrival of her brother's army buddy, Brian Scanlon, who helps her cast aside her inhibitions and open her heart to the extraordinary possibilities of love. Originally in paperback. 150,000 first printing.
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Tumbledown : a novel
by Robert Boswell
A young, seemingly-successful young therapist tries to put his life back on track while falling in love with another woman and struggling with financial woes in this new novel from the author of Century's Son. 25,000 first printing
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South of Broad : a novel
by Pat Conroy
The beloved best-selling author returns with a sprawling tale set mostly in Charleston, South Carolina, where, after his brother's suicide, Leopold Bloom King struggles along with the rest of his family until he begins to gather an intimate circle of friends, whose ties endure for two decades until a final, unexpected test of friendship rears its ugly head in San Francisco. 750,000 first printing.
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Wrecked
by Carol Higgins Clark
A raucous family vacation on Cape Cod with her husband, his five siblings and their children finds Regan Reilly challenged to apply her investigative skills in the wake of unexpected events. By the author of Cursed.
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The Lost Years
by Mary Higgins Clark
When an aging biblical scholar is fatally shot after revealing his possession of a unique parchment believed to have been written by Jesus, Father Aiden O'Brien investigates the victim's suspicions that a close friend was responsible, a case that is complicated by circumstances implicating the man's Alzheimer's victim wife. 750,000 first printing.
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The Blossom sisters
by Fern Michaels
Swindled out of his home by his gold-digging wife, successful accountant Gus Hollister returns to his grandmother Rose's Virginia farmhouse where he helps the residents of Blossom Farm expand their business and finds the courage to love again.
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Summer breeze : a novel
by Nancy Thayer
House-sitting her aunt's lake cottage in the Berkshires while mending a broken heart, Manhattanite Natalie bonds with a smitten shopkeeper who is caring for an aging parent and a reluctant stay-at-home mom with whom she commiserates over romantic complications. By the best-selling author of Heat Wave. 50,000 first printing.
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Can't wait to get to heaven : a novel
by Fannie Flagg
Strange things begin to happen when Mrs. Shimfessle, an eighty-year-old woman, falls out of a fig tree in her own front yard, in an entertaining new novel about one woman's offbeat experiences in the hereafter. 200,000 first printing.
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The summer hideaway
by Susan Wiggs
This second installment in the USA Today best-selling author's"Lakeshore Chronicles presents a heart-warming tale of secrets and sacrifice, loss and redemption, and a love like no other. Original.
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44 Charles Street : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Taking in three boarders at her turn-of-the-century West Village townhouse, a woman forges ties with strangers who become friends--and then, like family--as each shares respective stories about lives shaped by contemporary issues. By the best-selling author of Big Girl. 750,000 first printing.
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Moonrise : a novel
by Cassandra King
When Helen Honeycutt marries handsome journalist and recent widower Emmet Justice, the couple joins a group of friends for a summer in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but Helen soon finds that she cannot trust anyone in the tight-knit group
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The Castaways : A Novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
Vacationing together in accordance with their tight-knit friendships, four prominent Nantucket couples are shattered by a boating accident that kills two of their number, an event that sends the island into mourning and reveals unexpected truths about their private lives.
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Fly Away
by Kristin Hannah
A follow-up to the best-selling Firefly Lane returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives. 500,000 first printing.
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Miss Julia's marvelous makeover : a novel
by Ann B. Ross
When a long-lost cousin sends a rude and unkempt granddaughter to spend the summer in Abbotsville to learn how to become a lady, Miss Julia finds the task complicated by Sam's health setback at the height of his senate campaign. By the author of Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble.
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Milk glass moon : a Big Stone Gap novel
by Adriana Trigiani
In the conclusion of the Big Stone Gap trilogy, Ave Maria faces unexpected upheavals and changes that test her faith, conscience, generosity, and understanding as her daughter, Etta, confronts the perils and choices of adulthood, her friends in Big Stone Gap deal with major life changes of their own, and her husband sets out to reinvent his life. 100,000 first printing.
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The time between
by Karen White
Seeking atonement over her guilt that she caused her sister's paralyzation, Eleanor takes a job caring for an elderly woman and becomes caught up in the woman's life of passion, danger, heartache and deception in Hungary during World War II.
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Escape
by Barbara Delinsky
Languishing in her career as a business lawyer after relinquishing her dream to defend victims of corporate abuse, Emily Aulenbach impulsively abandons her husband and returns to a New Hampshire town where she spent a watershed college summer. By the best-selling author of Not My Daughter. 225,000 first printing.
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The butterfly's daughter
by Mary Alice Monroe
The best-selling author of Time Is a River follows the transformational stories of four women inspired by the annual migration of monarch butterflies, including Luz, who returns to her late grandmother's Mexican village and unexpectedly encounters the mother she had believed dead. 100,000 first printing.
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Little night
by Luanne Rice
Estranged from the sister who refused to testify against an abusive husband and caused her to serve time in jail, Clare pursues a quiet life as a nature blogger in Manhattan only to be approached by her niece, Grit, with whom she confronts a painful shared history. 100,000 first printing.
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Ladies' night
by Mary Kay Andrews
Cut off from her palatial home and checking account after an act of post-divorce rage forces her to move in with her widowed mother and attend court-mandated group therapy, rising media star Grace Stanton bonds with three fellow patients who she helps plot respective pursuits of justice and closure. By the best-selling author of Spring Fever.
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Rose Harbor in Bloom : A Novel
by Debbie Macomber
A sequel to The Inn at Rose Harbor finds Jo Marie Rose welcoming a new set of guests including a cancer survivor who regrets ending a relationship with the one man she truly loved and a woman who remembers her own broken engagement while planning an anniversary celebration for her grandparents.
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Burnt Mountain : a novel
by Anne Rivers Siddons
Thayer Wentworth marries an Irish professor and moves into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, a short distance away from the summer camp she attended as a child, where begins to question whether her husband is the man she thought she knew. 225,000 first printing.
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