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1) Vendetta
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As the air turns crisp in the Virginia hills surrounding Myra Rutledges's lovely old farmhouse, the Sisterhood has gathered for a little creative planning, and what they have in mind is a gift for Myra of long-awaited and very sweet revenge.
2) Still summer
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Mitchard's Still Summer plunges into terror
By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY
Secure your life preserver. Tie yourself to the mast. It's late August, but it's still summer, and Jacquelyn Mitchard is taking you on a thrill ride you won't forget.
Mitchard made her mark in the literary world in 1996 when The Deep End of the Ocean was chosen as the first pick for Oprah Winfrey's now-legendary book club. Since then, she has written...
By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY
Secure your life preserver. Tie yourself to the mast. It's late August, but it's still summer, and Jacquelyn Mitchard is taking you on a thrill ride you won't forget.
Mitchard made her mark in the literary world in 1996 when The Deep End of the Ocean was chosen as the first pick for Oprah Winfrey's now-legendary book club. Since then, she has written...
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Hot Flash Club volume 1
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Meet Faye, Shirley, Marilyn, and Alice: four women with skills, smarts, and secrets--all feeling over the hill and out of the race. But in a moment of delicious serendipity, they meet and realize that they share more than raging hormones and lost dreams. Now, as sex, and men are discussed with double servings of chocolate cake, they vow to help one another...and themselves.--Cover p. [4].
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Isabelle Flanders had everything: her own architectural firm, her fiance Bobby, a life she deserved. Until Rosemary Hershey came and stole it all. Took her reputation, her clients, her man, and even framed her for drunk driving--killing three innocent people in the process. The loyal Sisterhood agree: Rosemary has to be punished, along with the conniving Bobby.
8) Looking back
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They're known as the Three Musketeers: elegant Cecile; pretty but penniless Amanda and gifted, troubled Norma. After college, they settle in the same small town in Michigan. Two of them marry. The other despairs of ever finding love. But through life's joys and sorrows, their solid bond of friendship endures---until one reveals a shocking secret that could destroy them all. In the days to follow, husbands and wives, friends and lovers will look at...
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Elm Creek quilts novel volume 4
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Alerted to the possibility that her family had ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia scours her attic and finds three quilts and a memoir written by Gerda, the spinster sister of clan patriarch Hans Bergstrom. The memoir describes the founding of Elm Creek Manor and how, using quilts as markers, Hans, his wife, Anneke, and Gerda came to beckon fugitive slaves to safety within its walls. When a runaway named Joanna arrives from a South Carolina plantation...
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From the moment she's struck by lightening as a baby, it is clear that Mary Anning is marked for greatness. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, she learns that she has "the eye"-and finds what no one else can see. When Mary uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. In an arena dominated by...
13) Between friends
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Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski, two girls from very different backgrounds. Jillian is the only child of wealthy parents, while Lesley's from a working-class family. they become best friends in the turbulent 60's, but their circumstances, their choice and their mistakes take them in virtually opposite directions.
14) The summerhouse
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Have you ever wanted to rewrite your past? Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating at a summerhouse in Maine, Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them expect the gift that awaits them at the summerhouse: the chance for each of them to turn their "what-might-have-beens" into reality ... Leslie, a suburban wife...
15) The scoop
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In this first book of a new series, Michaels introduces The Godmothers, four unforgettable women who are about to get a whole new lease on life. Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry has crammed a great deal of living, not to mention eight much-loved husbands, into her varied and rewarding life. Newly single, Toots is ready to taste life again, and fate has just handed her the perfect opportunity. When the gossip newspaper where her daughter works is...
16) Changing habits
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A novel of faith and self-discovery follows three women--all of whom join an order of nuns, and then leave--as they each embark on extraordinary journeys to discover their true place in the world.
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Hot flash club volume 2
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When four women meet in a hot tub at a spa, they realize they share a common problem--toxic relatives--and a common solution--each other.