The Story Hour
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
A profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second…
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1. Oleander Girl
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
3.72
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of One Amazing Thing, a sweeping, suspenseful, atmospheric coming-of-ag… read more
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"May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl
"It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl
"In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl
"Sarojini admits he has a point; girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women, and surely Bimal does a good job of that. But deep in a hidden place inside her th…"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl
2. The Story Hour
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
A profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second… read more
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3. Have You Seen Marie?
By: Sandra Cisneros , Ester Hernandez
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street gives us a deeply moving tale of … read more
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4. Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai
By: Jim Colucci
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The complete, first-ever Golden Girlsretrospective, packed with hundreds of exclusive interviews, b… read more
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5. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
6. 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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7. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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8. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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9. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
10. The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
4.45
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more
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11. Hello Beautiful
By: Ann Napolitano
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more
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"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
12. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
13. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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14. The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)
By: Alka Joshi
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Paris, 1974. Radha is now thirty-two and living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two da… read more
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"I've given my best, but I've been used. Delphine said I have to move past it. Lakshmi moved past her betrayals. So did Victorine. Isn't that the look she's giving us in Manet's paining? There will al…"-Alka Joshi, The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)
15. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
16. The Bird Hotel
By: Joyce Maynard
4.30
Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition
Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard. After… read more
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"A person can start off fresh in this place,"-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel
"I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of th…"-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel
17. The Goddess of Warsaw
By: Lisa Barr
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more
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18. Pride and Joy
By: Louisa Onomé
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Black Cake meets Death at a Funeral in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generation… read more
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19. Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel
By: Matthew Daub
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Brooklyn’s Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and … read more
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20. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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21. How the Light Gets In
By: Joyce Maynard
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more
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