Mallery, Susan
Summary: In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club-devoted entirely to romance novels-and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2024
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Summary: The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books. No pressure. Yes, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads. Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys. Paris is still reeling after chasing off the only man brave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2024
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Summary: Academic superstar and fellow junior, Halle Jacobs, befriends Henry Turner when he accidentally crashes her book club and the pair work together to overcome their collegiate challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2024
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Summary: It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2022
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Summary: "There's never a dull moment for amateur sleuth Molly Pink. Without warning, her infant granddaughter has been dumped in her lap for babysitting duties, her son has reluctantly enlisted her help investigating a potential investor in his business, and now she has to manage a high-profile bookstore event for a former Hollywood columnist who's dishing the dirt in a juicy tell-all. And when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "In their family-run bakery, Felicity Jin's mother's enchanted baked goods bring instant joy to all who consume them. Felicity has always been hesitant in the kitchen herself, but a takeout meal gone wrong inspires her to craft some handmade fortune cookies. They become so popular that Felicity runs out of generic fortunes and starts making her own. When one customer's ill-fated fortune results...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "At the urging of Vista Del Mar's owner, Casey Feldstein takes on the job of combining a murder mystery game with her next weekend yarn retreat. Enlisting the help of the hotel's staff, she lays out a plot. As her intrigued guests watch the murder play out and the clues unfold, Casey is certain she's pulled off the perfect make-believe murder--until a real murder intrudes and everyone at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: The Maid meets The Last Thing He Told Me in this fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town. Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: "Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "When a charismatic life coach and his devoted followers descend on Vista Del Mar, Casey Feldstein and the yarn retreat group she's hosting literally get pushed aside. But Casey can't help overhearing the rancorous argument between two members of the guru's staff, and when one of them turns up dead, Casey finds herself tangled up in a murder investigation helplessly. And when another staff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023