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Build your taste profile and get better suggestions. You've rated 0 of 24 books. Want more suggestions? Launch Quick Rate- Bridget Jones's Diary
By Helen Fielding, 1996
ISBN 0141000198
This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall...
- Confessions of a Shopaholic
By Sophie Kinsella, 2000
ISBN 0440244870
Rebecca Bloomwood lives in a flat in fashionable Fulham, London, thanks to her flatmate, Suze, being wealthy. Becky works as a financial journalist for the magazine Successful Savings, a job she says that no one who works there is very excited about, and they all say that they just "fell into,"...
- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
By Ann Brashares, 2005
ISBN 0553494791
Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Lena decides they should all try them on.
- The Princess Diaries
By Meg Cabot, 2002
ISBN 078624058X
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
- Message in a Bottle
By Nicholas Sparks, 1999
ISBN 0446606812
The author of the runaway "New York Times" bestseller "The Notebook" pens a tale of self-discovery, renewal, and the courage it takes to love again. When a 36-year-old single mother finds a love letter in a half-buried bottle while jogging along the shores of Cape Cod, she decides to take a...
- She's Come Undone
By Wally Lamb, 1992
ISBN 0671021001
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye.
- The Nanny Diaries
By Emma Mclaughlin, 2007
ISBN 031237433X
WANTED:One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic, and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love geting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family.
- Sex and the City
By Candace Bushnell, 2006
ISBN 0446617687
Bushnell, a columnist and social critic, trips on her Manolo Blahnik kitten heels on a drunken cocktail trail through New York, from the Baby Doll Lounge to the Bowery Bar. On her travels, she assembles a cast of freaks, wonders, wannabes and gossip-peddlars.
- In Her Shoes
By Jennifer Weiner, 2003
ISBN 0743418204
Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she's beautiful.
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
By Rebecca Wells, 2004
ISBN 006075995X
When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a "tap-dancing child abuser." Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her...
- Something Borrowed
By Emily Giffin, 2005
ISBN 0312321198
An unexpected love affair threatens a long-lived friendship in this soap opera like debut from Atlanta ex-lawyer Giffin. Since elementary school, Rachel and Darcy have been best friends, with Darcy always outshining Rachel. While single Rachel is the self-confessed good girl, an attorney trapped at...
- White Oleander
By Janet Fitch, 2000
ISBN 9780316284950
When Astrid's mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet, murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life, Astrid becomes one of the thousands of foster children in Los Angeles. As she navigates this new reality, Astrid finds strength in her unshakable certainty of her own worth and her unfettered...
- The Jane Austen Book Club
By Karen Joy Fowler, 2007
ISBN 9781615536207
Six people five women and a man meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships.
- Good in Bed
By Jennifer Weiner, 2002
ISBN 0743418174
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The...
- The Pilot's Wife
By Anita Shreve, 2001
ISBN 0316788228
A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable-one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of...
- The Pact: A Love Story
By Jodi Picoult, 2009
ISBN 0061765236
From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish—and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Until the phone calls came at 3:00 a.m. on a November morning, the Golds and...
- Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
By James Patterson, 2003
ISBN 0446611085
Talk about a change of pace! Renowned suspense writer and Edgar Awardwinner James Patterson, author of such bestsellers-turned-blockbuster-movies asAlong Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls, exposes his sensitive sidein his new novel, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas.
- Sushi for Beginners
By Marian Keyes, 2005
ISBN 0060555955
Lisa Edwards This Prada-wearing magazine editor thinks her life is over when her "fabulous" new job turns out to be a deportation to Dublin to launch Colleen magazine. The only saving grace is that her friends aren't there to witness her downward spiral.
- The Friday Night Knitting Club
By Kate Jacobs, 2008
ISBN 0425219097
A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together-even when we least expect it. Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was started by some...
- Little Altars Everywhere
By Rebecca Wells, 2005
ISBN 0060759968
The companion to the beloved bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, here is the funny, heartbreaking, and powerfully insightful tale that first introduced Siddalee, Vivi, their spirited Walker clan, and the indomitable Ya-Yas.
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
By Melissa Bank, 2000
ISBN 0140278826
After following the advice from a manual called "How to Meet and Marry Mr Right", Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise. This is a funny collection of connected stories and a portrait of Jane, a woman manoeuvring her way through love, sex and relationships.
- Bergdorf Blondes
By Plum Sykes, 2007
ISBN 1401360300
Plum Sykes burst on to the literary scene in 2004 with her beguiling debut novelintroducing readers to the glamorous world of PAPs (Park Avenue Princesses)and her loveable heroine, Moi, a 'champagne bubble of a girl' who became an instant hit with readers from coast to coast.
- The History of Love
By Nicole Krauss, 2005
ISBN 0393328627
Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book...
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
By Lorna Landvik, 2005
ISBN 0345475690
The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can’t fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together—the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons), an unofficial “club” that becomes...
