MOM LIT
what happens after "Happily Ever After"
 
If You Could See Me Now

by Cecelia Ahern

A buttoned-up Irish woman finds her life transformed when she meets a soulful man who may not exist.
 
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Little Bitty Lies

by Mary Kay Andrews

A tantalizing tale about an abandoned Atlanta housewife and mother who tells one tiny white lie that sets her world spiraling outrageously out of control. 
 
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I Gave You My Heart, But You Sold it Online

by Dixie Cash

To single mom Allison Barker, men are a heap of heartbreak. So when her twelve-year-old daughter confesses that she's posted Allison's profile on an Internet matchmaking service and has been pretending to be her mom, Allison hits the roof . . . just before the doorbell rings. 
 
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Time Flies

by Claire Cook

Years ago, Melanie left her friends and native New England to follow her husband to Atlanta, uprooting their two young sons. Now at midlife, she's a recently separated, self-employed metal sculptor with a fear of highways, sawing her marriage bed into disposable chunks and bending the springs into art
Maybe This Time

by Jennifer Crusie

The plan did not include ghosts. The plan was for Andromeda Miller to march into Archer North's law office, return a decade's worth of uncashed alimony checks, and depart.  But somehow Andie ends up taking care of North's two young wards.
 
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Love Walked In

by Marisa De los Santos

Harboring romantic notions about golden-age Hollywood, café manager Cornelia Brown embarks on a too-good-to-be-true relationship with the debonair Martin Grace, while across town, an eleven-year-old abandoned girl seeks out her estranged father.
 
Class Mom

by Laurie Gelman

Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom.  She already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max --
this time with a husband and father by her side.
Wife 22

by Melanie Gideon

Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life.
 
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First Comes Love

by Emily Giffin

Sisters Josie and Meredith are each struggling with tough life choices testing their fragile sisterly bond as the 15th anniversary of the tragic death of their brother looms.
 
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Every Time You Go Away

by Elizabeth M Harbison

Willa lost her husband, Ben, suddenly and has been unable to move on in the three years since his death. However, she finally decides it's time to get their family vacation home (where Ben died) ready to put on the market.
Beach Trip

by Cathy Holton

More than 20 years after their college graduation, former roommates Lola, Mel, Annie, and Sarah have gathered at Lola's beach home for a reunion that uncovers the secrets and struggles that have shaped their lives.
Patty Jane's House of Curl

by Lorna Landvik

Maybe Patty Jane Dobbin should have known better than to marry a man as gorgeous as Thor Rolvaag, but she was too smitten to think twice. Now, nine months into their marriage, with a baby on the way, Thor is gone.
 
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One Plus One

by Jojo Moyes

A single mom trying to raise a bullied stepson and a mathlete daughter finds an unexpected rescue in the form of an obnoxious tech millionaire named Geeky Ed.
 
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I Don't Know How She Does it : the Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

by Allison Pearson
 
This tale begins at 1:37 one morning as Kate, disdainful of stay-at-home moms but intimidated by their homemaking skills, alters store-bought pies to pass off as homemade at her daughter's school the next day

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Calling invisible Women

by Jeanne Ray

Feeling unattractive and unappreciated as she enters her 50s, wife and mother Clover wakes up one morning and discovers that she has actually become invisible, a condition that goes unnoticed by her family. 
 
 
Other People's Houses
 
by Abbi Waxman
 
A charming yet provocative look at the close-knit Los Angeles neighborhood of Larchmont, where one woman's indiscretion forces everyone to re-examine their marriages
Little Earthquakes

by Jennifer Weiner

Becky, Kelly, and Ayinde meet at a pregnancy yoga class. At the same time, Lia, an actress who has returned home to Philly to come to grips with her baby's death, begins following Becky around and leaving her baby gifts.
 
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When Life Gives You Lululemons

by Lauren Weisberger

Welcome to Greenwich, Connecticut, where the lawns and the women are perfectly manicured, the Tito's and sodas are extra strong, and everyone has something to say about the infamous new neighbor.
 
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Just Breathe

by Susan Wiggs

Sarah Moon's life abruptly changes when she surprises her husband with a pizza and is surprised, in turn, to find him with another woman. 
Good Grief

by Lolly Winston
 
Sophie Stanton goes from newlywed to widow in just three short years of marriage, her competent and confident persona replaced by an Oreo-munching, robe-and-slipper-clad zombie.

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101 E. Franklin St.
Richmond, VA 23219
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