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Another Brooklyn : a novel
Woodson, Jacqueline
Paper Book
A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017 The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years...
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B.F.F. : a memoir of friendship lost and found
Tate, Christie
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* "A love story about the miracle of friendship." --Maggie Smith * "Fearless and unflinching." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette * From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying...
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The bandit queens : a novel
Shroff, Parini
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Big friendship : how we keep each other close
Sow, Aminatou
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A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don't talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul. Now...
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The Briar Club : a novel
Quinn, Kate
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"Quinn evocatively balances the outward cheerfulness of the 1950s with historical observations exploring racism, misogyny, homophobia and political persecution in this sharply drawn, gripping novel." - People Magazine The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond...
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Conversations with friends
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century.
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Dial A for aunties
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
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Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
Totenberg, Nina
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Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Four years before Nina...
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Finlay Donovan is killing it
Cosimano, Elle
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The girls in navy blue : a novel
Rickloff, Alix
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A gripping and compelling dual timeline novel about three women who joined the Navy during WWI to become yeomanettes and the impact their choices have on one of their descendants in 1968. 1918 - America is at war with Germany, and, for the first time in history, the US...
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Good night, Irene
Urrea, Luis Alberto
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This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman's heroic frontline service in the Red Cross. "Urrea's touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a generous writer, not just in his...
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The Hazelbourne ladies motorcycle and flying club : a novel
Simonson, Helen
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Historical fiction of the highest order . . . an absolute joy of a book, warm and romantic, and with so much to say about the lives of women in the years following World War I."--Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello Beautiful A timeless...
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The housekeepers : a novel
Hay, Alex (Writer)
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The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs launch a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and...
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It's not all downhill from here : a novel
McMillan, Terry
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from Terry McMillan, the bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and...
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Killers of a certain age
Raybourn, Deanna
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They've spent their lives as assassins in a clandestine international organization, but at 60 years old, four women find they can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this book by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie...
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The kitchen front : a novel
Ryan, Jennifer
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From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING *...
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Lady Tan's circle of women : a novel
See, Lisa
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*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* From "one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot" (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China--perfect for fans of...
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The Life Cycle Of The Common Octopus
Knight, Emma.
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The lion women of Tehran
Kamali, Marjan
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER An "evocative read and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism" (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran--from nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali. In 1950s Tehran,...
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The little old lady who broke all the rules : a novel
Ingelman-Sundberg, C.
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#1 International Bestseller The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg's witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire for a better quality of life leads them to rob and...
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Love & saffron : a novel of friendship, food, and love
Fay, Kim
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When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter -- as well as a gift of saffron -- to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside...
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Mom jeans and other mistakes
Martin, Alexa
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Jude Andrews is famous on Instagram. In real life, however, she's a total disaster. She has a strained relationship with her mom and her latest bad decision emptied out her entire savings account. Lauren Turner had a plan: graduate medical school and become a surgeon. But when she became...
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My sister, the serial killer
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
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Winner Of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize For Mystery/Thriller Shortlisted For The 2019 Women's PrizeKorede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's...
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Only if you're lucky : a novel
Willingham, Stacy
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A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets...
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The Radcliffe ladies' reading club : a novel
Thomas, Julia
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Literature has the power to speak to each of us uniquely - but also to draw us together. Massachusetts, 1954. With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, Alice Campbell escaped halfway across the country and found herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone...
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Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel
Platt, Christine.
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In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers--one white, one Black--living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial...
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Something like happy
Woods, Eva (Novelist)
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"A special book that will make you laugh through your tears with its heartfelt take on happiness and friendship." --Amy E. Reichert, author of The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go and The Coincidence of Coconut Cake Annie is stuck. In her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a...
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The stolen queen : a novel
Davis, Fiona
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*A New York Times Bestseller* From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City's most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back. Egypt, 1936: When anthropology...
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Sylvia's second act
Yablon, Hillary
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These impossible things
El-Wardany, Salma
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'Salma El-Wardany deftly reveals searing and poignant truths about the female experience' ASHLEY AUDRAINThey recognized that they were all existing in a perfect moment, and eventually it would have to end. Other times it felt like it would always be this way. These Impossible...
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters LP
Jaswal, Balli Kaur.
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The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama--an Indian This Is Where I Leave You--about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their...
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Wahala : a novel
May, Nikki
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"Contemporary female friendship goes glam in this lively debut novel with remarkable depth." -- Washington Post "Great fun and extremely smart." -- npr.org NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Vogue * Marie Claire * Glamour * Essence * Oprah Daily * Entertainment Weekly * Bustle...
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We are not like them
Pride, Christine
Paper Book
"Empathetic, riveting, and authentic, We Are Not Like Them will stay with you long after you turn the last page." --Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me "Beautifully heartfelt, Christine Pride and Jo Piazza's book finds hope in the friends' love for one another...
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Witchcraft for wayward girls / Grady Hendrix [large print]
Paper Book
"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age." - The New York Times AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER There's power in a book... They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're...
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The women : a novel
Hannah, Kristin
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"Women can be heroes, too." When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in...
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Women of the post
Sanders, Joshunda
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"What a beautifully imagined and important narrative. Sanders' clear-eyed and powerful writing made this a hard one to stop reading!" --Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-Winning Author "This is a novel to cherish and share. And this is a...
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