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01. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
02. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
03. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
04. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
05. Settlers of the Marsh by Frederick Philip Grove
06. Forever by Judy Blume
07. Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
08. The Birth House by Ami Mckay
09. White Oleander by Janet ( Read more... )

Don't Cry Now by Joy Fielding, 400 pages

Bonnie is happily married, lives in the suburbs, and is comfortable in her life, until her husband’s ex-wife is shot and she becomes both a suspect and a potential victim in a deadly game which threatens both her life and her daughter. Enjoy a tense, riveting plot which is packed with tension and suspense. ( Read more... )

At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks, 288 pages

There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure hed never do: hed never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the ( Read more... )

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, 272 pages

Written in the opaque language of a fable, the novel opens in a nursing home as 80-year-old Noah Calhoun, "a common man with common thoughts," reads a love story from a notebook; it is his own story. In 1946, Noah, newly returned from the war, is trying to forget a long-ago summer romance with Allie ( Read more... )

White Oleander by Janet Fitch, 496 pages

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery-but their idyll is shattered when Astrids mother falls apart over a lover. ( Read more... )

Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland, 272 pages

Liz Dunn isn't morbid, she's just a lonely woman with a very pragmatic outlook on life. Overweight, underemployed, and living in a nondescript condo with nothing but chocolate pudding in the fridge, she has pretty much given up on anything interesting ever happening to her. Everything changes when she ( Read more... )

Forever by Judy Blume, 216 pages

"Going all the way" is still a taboo subject in young adult literature. Judy Blume was the first author to write candidly about a sexually active teen, and she's been defending teenagers' rights to read about such subjects ever since. Here, Blume tells a convincing tale of first love--a love that seems strong and ( Read more... )

Settlers of the Marsh by Frederick Philip Grove, 280 pages

Settlers of the Marsh was first published in 1925, after a struggle by the author to persuade publishers that his first novel would meet public acceptance. Some critics immediately condemned this hypnotic story of the loss of innocence on the Manitoba frontier, calling it “obscene” and “ ( Read more... )

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt, 272 pages

Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York ( Read more... )

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, 336 pages

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides ( Read more... )