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| Yesteryear by Caro Claire BurkeWith millions of social media followers, Natalie Heller Mills carefully curates her tradwife life featuring a charming Utah ranch, a cowboy/political scion husband, and five children (with one on the way!). What her followers don't know is that she has nannies and plenty of other help. Then one morning, it's somehow 1805, and she's forced to live the tradwife life for real. Anne Hathaway has snagged film rights for this buzzy, twisty debut that's great for book clubs. Try these next: Anna-Marie McLemore's The Influencers; Alli Hoff Kosik's Too Blessed to Stress. |
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| Laws of Love and Logic by Debra CurtisLily and Jane grow up in 1970s Rhode Island with their feminist mom, who dies when they're teens, and their Catholic boarding-school teacher dad. After Lily falls for the school's star quarterback, a tragedy changes everything, dividing Lily and the boy she loves and sending grief-stricken Jane further off course. Decades later, Lily and her love meet again, and a now-married Lily has to figure out what her future looks like. For fans of: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune; Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors. |
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| You & Me and You & Me and You & Me by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn ReesStuck in a rut after 25 years of marriage, Adam and Jules discover that the old mixtapes they made for each other allow them to travel back in time. Tempted to make changes to their past selves to create a better present, they unintentionally create ripple effects that could tear them apart for good. Co-written by married couple Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees, this affecting romantic time travel novel is perfect for fans of The Second Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss. |
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| Whidbey by T Kira MaddenBirdie Chang travels to Whidbey Island, Washington to escape the massive amounts of publicity surrounding reality star Linzie King's memoir. The bestseller covers Linzie's and others' abuse by pedophile Calvin, who also assaulted a young Birdie. In Florida, Calvin is released from prison and then murdered, but who did it? Focusing on Birdie, Linzie, and Calvin's mom, this multifaceted debut novel by abuse survivor and acclaimed memoirist T Kira Madden (Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls) works great for book clubs. |
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The Calamity Club by Kathryn StockettOxford, Mississippi, 1933.Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable big girls at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she's left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie discovers her sister's seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman running low on luck with little left to lose. When their fates--and Meg's--converge, Charlie comes up with an audacious plan for them to take control of their lives. But in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife and women's freedom is fragile, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences. The Calamity Club will make you laugh, cry, and cheer--an epic testament to underestimated women who know that calamity can be the spark of new beginnings.
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| A Good Animal by Sara MaurerHigh school senior Everett never wants to leave Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He embraces tradition and dreams of running the family sheep farm like his father and grandfather. Then he falls hard for newcomer Mary, who's lived all over the country with her Coast Guard dad and plans to attend art school in California. Rooted in its rural locale, this lyrical, bittersweet debut movingly explores first love. Try this next: Donnaldson Brown's Because I Loved You. |
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| The Wedding People by Alison EspachHopeless Phoebe Stone is ready to end her life at a gorgeous Rhode Island inn. But she’s the only one not there for an expensive wedding, and when the bride learns Phoebe’s plan, she refuses to let Phoebe ruin her nuptials. The two become confidants, as surprising events and characters propel this funny, poignant story forward. Read-alikes: This Disaster Loves You by Richard Roper; Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason. |
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Otherwise Engaged
by Susan Mallery
When Shannon gets engaged, her mom Cindy is the first person she wants to tell--and the last. Cindy's engaged, too, and has hinted at a double wedding. Victoria has never been enough for her mother Ava, so she stopped trying. Chance brings the four women together, where a shocking secret comes out. Twenty-four years ago, desperate teenager Cindy chose wealthy Ava to adopt her baby--then changed her mind at the last second. The loss rocked Ava's world, leaving her unable to open her heart to the daughter she did adopt, Victoria--
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| What Is Wrong with You? by Paul RudnickAs a former flight attendant prepares to marry a tech billionaire at his private Maine island, hijinks ensue with the arrival of the guests. They include a 60-something gay editor who just got fired, a sensitivity reader who might be after the groom, and the bride's bodybuilder ex-husband. Fans of eccentric characters and lighthearted stories will want to read this "hilarious farce" (Publishers Weekly). For fans of: Carl Hiaasen. |
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| Women of Good Fortune by Sophie WanLulu's wedding will be a huge Shanghai society event -- but she doesn't actually want to get married, and her two best friends aren't happy with their lives either. So they hatch a plan to steal the red money envelopes at the wedding in order to procure the different futures they each want. Read-alikes: Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen; Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan. |
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