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One Day One Day David Nicholls 15th July 1988: Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year a… OL15424701W
The summer I dared The summer I dared Barbara Delinsky On Big Sawyer island, life is as steady as the routine of the lobstermen who leave with the tide each morning and return with their haul each night. But for forty-year-old New Yorker Julia Bechtel, l… OL166396W
The Reluctant Bachelor The Reluctant Bachelor Syndi Powell Five years ago, Rick Allyn was publicly humiliated when he had his heart broken on the reality dating show True Love. Convincing him to sign up for another round of punishment isn't going to be easy.… OL17873366W
The female persuasion The female persuasion Meg Wolitzer,Laura Vidal Sanz Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women… OL19671104W
Red Clocks Red Clocks Leni Zumas In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every … OL19727008W
Ultraluminous Ultraluminous Katherine Faw Morris A high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute has just returned to her native New York City after more than a decade abroad--in Dubai, with a man she recalls only as the Sheikh--but it's unclear why e… OL19731364W
The girl who never read Noam Chomsky The girl who never read Noam Chomsky Jana Casale An ambitious debut, at once timely and timeless, that captures the complexity and joys of modern womanhood. This novel is gem like--in its precision, its many facets, and its containing multitudes. F… OL19741363W
The Golden State The Golden State Lydia Kiesling In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the hig… OL19753309W
Pretty things Pretty things Virginie Despentes "A woman convinces her sister, who has a beautiful voice, to pretend they are the same person so she can become famous. After she suddenly commits suicide, the remaining sister continues to use, and … OL19753337W
City of Girls: A Novel City of Girls: A Novel Elizabeth Gilbert,Elizabeth Gilbert In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aun… OL19756861W
Waiting for Eden Waiting for Eden Elliot Ackerman Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he … OL19761179W
The Spaniard's pleasureable vengeance The Spaniard's pleasureable vengeance Lucy Monroe "Ruthless tycoon Basilio Perez, famed for his familial loyalty, has a new target in sight. Miranda Smith is poised to bring the Perez name into disrepute - she must be stopped! But when he meets her … OL20087528W
Contract Bride Contract Bride Kat Cantrell All work and no play for reasons he won't talk about, CEO Warren Garinger keeps his company at the top. And he needs his ace marketing consultant, Australian Tilda Barrett, to stay in the States desp… OL20087773W
Unexpectedly pregnant Unexpectedly pregnant Joss Wood Three years after Tyce Latimore let Sage Ballantyne walk away, they end up back where they started--in bed. Now she's carrying his child...and there's no way he's losing her again.Tyce is tempting. D… OL20088136W
Snowed in with a billionaire Snowed in with a billionaire Karen Booth "With no money and her real name under wraps, chef Joy McKinley isn't expecting the greatest Christmas. At least her hideout is a luxury mountaintop estate. But when a gorgeous, gallant, incredibly s… OL20088494W
Girl, Woman, Other Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo *Girl, Woman, Other* follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the coun… OL20470196W
The Midnight Library The Midnight Library Matt Haig Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you… OL20965973W
Either/or Either/or Elif Batuman Selin returns to Harvard for her sophomore year, spends lots of time thinking about Ivan, then moves on. OL25808022W
Hunger Point Hunger Point Jillian Medoff "My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest who is turning a weekend stay into an all-expense-paid, lifelong residency, and who (to their horror) constantly forgets to flush… OL3286745W
The art of keeping secrets The art of keeping secrets Patti Callahan Henry Annabelle has finally made peace with the loss of her beloved husband. Until she finds out he wasn't alone when he died. When she shows up on Sophie Parker's doorstep full of painful questions, both … OL5712276W
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