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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

by Ann Brashares

4.0
6/7/2020

Four best friends, one pair of magical jeans, and a summer apart that brings them closer together. A heartwarming story about friendship, growth, and the bonds that hold us together.

fictionyoung-adult
5 hours
Sorry I Missed You by Suzy Krause

Sorry I Missed You

by Suzy Krause

4.0
6/5/2020

Three lonely women living in the same apartment building form an unlikely friendship through notes, chance encounters, and the slow realization that connection is worth the risk.

fictioncontemporary
6 hours
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

A Gate at the Stairs

by Lorrie Moore

3.0
5/24/2020

A coming-of-age story set in the Midwest after 9/11. Tassie Keltjin takes a job as a nanny and finds herself drawn into a complex family dynamic that challenges her understanding of race, identity, and belonging.

fictionliterary-fiction
7 hours
The Secrets of Lost Stones by Melissa Payne

The Secrets of Lost Stones

by Melissa Payne

4.0
4/25/2020

A touching story about a grieving mother, a teenage runaway, and an eccentric clairvoyant who brings them together in a small Colorado mountain town. A gentle tale about loss, healing, and the bonds between mothers and children.

fictioncontemporary
5 hours
The You I Never Knew by Susan Wiggs

The You I Never Knew

by Susan Wiggs

3.5
2/10/2020

Susan Wiggs' 2001 contemporary romance about Michelle Turner, who at seventeen was sent to her Hollywood-icon father's Montana ranch, fell for the ranch hand Sam McPhee, got him fired and his family destroyed when her father found out, and fled to Seattle pregnant - and who returns to Montana seventeen years later to donate a kidney to her dying father, with the rebellious teenage son Sam doesn't know about in the passenger seat.

fictionromance
7 hours
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