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Women's Fiction & Chick Lit April 2020
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Available through Library's eCollection
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Husband Material
by Emily Belden
Hiding the fact that she is a widow from those around her, 29-year-old Charlotte Rosen searches for answers and forgiveness when her late husband’s ashes land on her doorstep five years after his death.
Available now through Overdrive
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The Sunday Potluck Club
by Melissa Storm
After becoming friends in the cancer ward of an Anchorage hospital, Bridget and Amy support each other and other women who have lost loved ones through sharing Sunday dinner in the first novel of a new series.
Available now through Hoopla
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Braised Pork
by An Yu
Discovering her husband’s dead body beside a pencil sketch of a mysterious figure, Jia Jia launches an odyssey across contemporary Beijing before discovering unexpected love with a jaded bartender.
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Island Affair
by Priscilla Oliveras
A social-media influencer in recovery from an eating disorder enlists the aid of a firefighter and dive captain to play the part of her boyfriend after her actual one is a no-show for a family vacation in Key West.
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Breasts and Eggs
by Mieko Kawakami
Painting a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan, a Japanese writer tells the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppression and their own uncertainties as they search for peace and a future they can finally call their own.
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The Spinster Diaries
by Gina Fattore
The Spinster Diaries is a laugh-out-loud satire of both the TV business and the well-worn conventions of chick lit-as well as the true tale of the forgotten writer who inspired Jane Austen to greatness. It's an endearing and refreshingly honest testament to how one person's life can reach out across the centuries to touch another's.
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New and Upcoming Releases
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The Second Home
by Christina Clancy
Inheriting their family’s Cape Cod summer home years after long-term estrangement, two sisters are reunited by a man with a legitimate claim to the property who would set the record straight.
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The Summer Deal
by Jill Shalvis
Returning to her Wildstone hometown in the aftermath of a latest heartbreak, Brynn discovers that her tough but chronically ill rival, Kinsey, is actually her half-sister, before agreeing to a summertime relationship with a childhood crush.
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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Hideaway
by Nora Roberts
Years after escaping a kidnapper with the help of a young man, a Hollywood hopeful pursues healing in Ireland before she is compelled to return to Los Angeles, where she encounters unexpected opportunities in love and vengeance.
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Rodham
by Curtis Sittenfeld
A novel of what-might-have-been follows Hillary Rodham as she takes a different path, blazing her own trail — one that unfolds in public as well as in private — and one that crosses paths again and again with Bill Clinton.
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The Silence
by Susan Allott
Reluctantly returning to her Sydney hometown when her father is implicated in a disappearance from 30 years earlier, Isla confronts devastating secrets about her parents and their long-ago next-door neighbors.
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A Week at the Shore
by Barbara Delinsky
Returning to her family's Rhode Island beach home after a 20-year estrangement, a real estate photographer navigates painful family secrets that test her bonds with her sisters, while her 13-year-old daughter pursues desperately wanted family ties.
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A Children's Bible
by Lydia Millet
Contemptuous of the equally neglectful and suffocating parents who would pass the summer in a stupor of drugs and sex, one dozen eerily mature children run away as a dangerous storm descends and subjects them to apocalyptic chaos.
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I'd Give Anything
by Marisa De Los Santos
Losing her firefighter father in a school tragedy, Ginny hides what she knows about the incident for decades before a scandal involving her husband threatens to destroy everything.
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My Kind of People
by Lisa Duffy
A group of New England islanders come together for a recently orphaned girl, an act that reveals the power of community, as well as dredges up long-buried secrets.
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This Is How I Lied
by Heather Gudenkauf
A pregnant detective investigates a new piece of evidence before uncovering dangerous secrets from the cold-case murder of her best friend 25 years earlier.
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Secrets from a Happy Marriage
by Maisey Yates
A mother and her adult daughters reconnect as the proprietors of The Lighthouse Inn B&B forcing them all to revisit their life decisions and find the strength to start over and rely on each other more than ever before.
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My Mother's House
by Francesca Momplaisir
Moving his family to an immigrant enclave in New York in the hopes of starting over, an emotionally damaged Haitian man succumbs to dark impulses that have dangerous ripple effects for the others living in his home.
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Family for Beginners
by Sarah Morgan
Falling in love with a widower, Flora accepts an invitation to accompany his family on an annual summer holiday to England’s Lakes District, where she struggles to bond with her boyfriend’s grieving teenage daughter.
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A Good Marriage
by Kimberly McCreight
Begged for help by an old friend, an overworked lawyer investigates a suspicious death in a Brooklyn brownstone before she is confronted by a close-knit circle of parents who would protect an exclusive school.
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The Imperfects
by Amy Meyerson
A family’s discovery of a priceless inheritance leads them on a pursuit for the truth that transforms their lives in unexpected ways.
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Summer Longing
by Jamie Brenner
When a baby girl is abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth Cooperman, new to Provincetown, turns to her neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community as alliances are made, relationships are tested and secrets are uncovered..
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