A Little Hope
By: Ethan Joella
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Read with Jenna Bonus Selection An “immersive…illuminating” (Booklist) and life-affirming nove…
Want to Read $ 12.99"You never know what can break you. What you can fix, what you can stand up to. You never know what time will do, what will defeat or surprise you. You never know."-Ethan Joella, A Little Hope
"You never know what can break you. What you can fix, what you can stand up to. You never know what time will do, what will defeat or surprise you. You never know."-Ethan Joella, A Little Hope
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1. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
2. Everything We Didn't Say
By: Nicole Baart
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the author of Little Broken Things , a “ race-to-the-finish family drama” ( People ) following… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. The Half Moon
By: Mary Beth Keane
3.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
- audiobook
4. When We Were Bright And Beautiful
By: Jillian Medoff
3.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed, bestselling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest, boldest novel yet--a… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Which is the funny thing about families; no matter how cake you have someone will always feel starved."-Jillian Medoff, When We Were Bright And Beautiful
"Which is the funny thing about families; no matter how much cake you have, someone will always feel starved."-Jillian Medoff, When We Were Bright And Beautiful
5. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
6. The Collected Regrets of Clover
By: Mikki Brammer
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
- audiobook
"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
7. A Little Hope
By: Ethan Joella
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Read with Jenna Bonus Selection An “immersive…illuminating” (Booklist) and life-affirming nove… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- relationships
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"You never know what can break you. What you can fix, what you can stand up to. You never know what time will do, what will defeat or surprise you. You never know."-Ethan Joella, A Little Hope
8. The Neighbor's Secret
By: L. Alison Heller
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Addictive, suspenseful and masterfully written...will delight fans of Big Little Lies .” ―Michele … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
9. The Last Love Note
By: Emma Grey
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note
"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note
"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note
10. We Are the Light
By: Matthew Quick
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
LIFE IS FULL OF GUARDIAN ANGELS. Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The best part of my soul loves the best part of your soul."-Matthew Quick, We Are the Light
11. Shark Heart
By: Emily Habeck
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their weddin… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart
"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart
"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart
"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart
12. Mercury
By: Amy Jo Burns
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
- audiobook
13. The Return of Ellie Black
By: Emiko Jean
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black
"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black
14. The Connellys of County Down
By: Tracey Lange
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she know… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
- audiobook
15. A History of Wild Places
By: Shea Ernshaw
3.93
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Because love is madness and blindness and deception."-Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places
"...and I wonder if the things we keep from one another will break us apart. I wonder if the things we don’t say are worse than the lies we do. Like the illness, they will rot us from the inside out."-Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places
"No matter where you go, there are cracks in the plaster, nails coming loose, you just have to decide where you want to piece yourself back together. Where the ground feels sturdiest beneath your feet."-Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places
"I crave things I've forgetten how to get. An old life, maybe. That's what it really is: a need for something I've lost long ago. A life that's good and decent and void of the bone-breaking pain that …"-Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places
16. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
17. All the Colors of the Dark
By: Chris Whitaker
4.44
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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- romance
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
18. The Unsinkable Greta James
By: Jennifer E. Smith
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Greta James's meteoric rise to ind… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The truth is, being a parent is mostly just reacting. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. You give what you can. And at the end of the day, most of it is just being there."-Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James
19. Adelaide
By: Genevieve Wheeler
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"But it feels so cold here without her."-Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide
"It made her feel a bit nauseous, but also deeply, deeply in love."-Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide
"So many things that never should have belonged to him had become his."-Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide
"It's so cruel... that grief comes part and parcel with love. It's just so unfair."-Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide
20. The Wedding People
By: Alison Espach
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
21. The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore
4.27
Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more
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- adult
- fiction
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