Jessie Elliot

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

The love of Junie's life for the past year is suddenly acting like a crazed puppy.

Celia's dad has found the most ridiculous woman in all of Manhattan— and decided, after fifteen years of being single, to date her.

Danielle's hot-guy-in-a-band ex-boyfriend is trying to convince her that he's "changed."

Sometimes living life is a recipe for disaster.

Sometimes, girls just have to make their own recipes.

Girls' Dinner Club

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Bob Greene

Rated a respectable 3.9 out of 5 on Goodreads.

As a World War II buff, this book is totally different than the ones I normally read …. A very welcomed change. Excellent read!!

Book is in like new condition. It does have a sticker on the first page of the former book owner.

Maryland

The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen

A portrait of the North Platte Canteen in Nebraska describes how its citizens transformed the train depot into a haven of companionship, home-cooked food, and music for passing World War II servicemen.

Once upon a Town

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Alabama

The new novel by the celebrated author of The Sunday Wife chronicles the lives of a tight-knit group of lifelong friends.

None of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore, and none of them have actually ever been that sweet. But this spirited group of Southern women, who have been holding biannual reunions ever since they were together in college, are nothing short of compelling. There's Julia Stovall, the First Lady of Alabama, who, despite her public veneer, is a down-to-earth gal who only wants to know who her husband is sneaking out with late at night. There's Lanier Sanders, whose husband won custody of their children after he found out about her fling with a colleague. Then there's Astor Deveaux, a former Broadway showgirl who simply can't keep her flirtations in check. And Corinne Cooper, whose incredible story comes to light as the novel unfolds.

The Same Sweet Girls

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Mississippi

Memories of Family, Friends, and Faith

The popular pastor offers uplifting and inspiring stories and memories of family and friends celebrating faith-based Christmas traditions.

The Christmas Spirit

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Lucinda Rosenfeld

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel about Best Friends

What if your best friend, whom you've always counted on to flounder in life and love (making your own modest accomplishments look not so bad), suddenly starts to surpass you in every way?

Wendy's best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has always been there to help. If Daphne veers from suicidal to madly in love, Wendy offers encouragement. But when Daphne is suddenly engaged, pregnant, and decorating a fabulous town house in no time at all, Wendy is . . . not so happy for her. Caught between wanting to be the best friend she prides herself on being and crippling jealousy of flighty Daphne, Wendy takes things to the extreme, waging a full-scale attack on her best friend -- all the while wearing her best, I'm-so-happy-for-you smile -- and ends up in way over her head.

Rosenfeld has a knack for exposing the not-always-pretty side of being best friends -- in writing that is glittering and diamond-sharp. I'm So Happy For You is a smart, darkly humorous, and uncannily dead-on novel about female friendship.

I'm So Happy for You

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Susan Mallery

Pennsylvania

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!



"A book begging to be read on the beach, with the sun warming the sand and salt in the air: pure escapism."--Kirkus



From #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery comes a book-about-books story of friends who become family, giving each other courage to start over.



When fate brings three strangers to a charming space for lease on the California coast, the Boardwalk Bookshop is born. Part bookstore, part gift shop, part bakery, it's a dream come true for Bree, Mikki and Ashley. But while their business is thriving, their personal lives are...not.



Bree, wounded by brilliant but cold parents and her late husband's ultimate betrayal, has sworn to protect her heart at all costs. Even from Ashley's brother, a writer and adventurer who has inspired millions. He's the first man to see past Bree's barricades to her true self, which terrifies her. Mikki has this divorce thing all figured out--somehow, she's stayed friends with her ex and her in-laws...until a new man changes how everyone looks at her, and how she sees herself. Meanwhile, Ashley discovers that the love of her life never intends to marry. Can she live without being a wife if it means she can have everything else she's ever wanted?



At sunset every Friday on the beach in front of the Boardwalk Bookshop, the three friends share a champagne toast. As their bond grows closer, they challenge one another to become the best versions of themselves in this heartachingly beautiful story of friendship, sisterhood and the transformative power of love.



Don't miss Home Sweet Christmas, a witty and heartfelt story of two friends who unexpectedly find the person-and the place in which-they belong this Christmas by #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery!

 



 

The Boardwalk Bookshop

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Eva Hagberg

Oregon

A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship

A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost--and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help



Eva Hagberg spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists, boyfriends, girlfriends. Sometimes she found it, but always temporarily. Then, at age thirty, an undiscovered mass in her brain ruptured. So did her life. A brain surgery marked only the beginning of a long journey, and when her illness hit a critical stage, it forced her to finally admit the long-suppressed truth: she was vulnerable, she needed help, and she longed to grow. She needed true friendship for the first time.

       

How to Be Loved is the story of how an isolated person's life was ripped apart only to be gently stitched back together through friendship, and the recovery--of many stripes--that came along the way. It explores the isolation so many of us feel despite living in an age of constant connectivity; how our ambitions sometimes pull us apart more than bring us together; and how a simple doughnut, delivered by a caring soul, can become the essence of what makes a life valuable. With gorgeous prose shot through with empathy, pain, fear, and the secret truths inside all of us, Eva writes about the friends who taught her to grow up and open her heart--and how the relentlessness of suffering can give rise to the greatest joy. 

How to Be Loved

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Virginia

A Novel

Follows the growing friendship between fifty-nine-year-old Kathleen, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and the slightly younger Joyce, increasingly distant from her teenage daughter and struggling to write a second novel.

Good Harbor

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Tracy Klehn

Texas

Connecting More Deeply with Those Who Matter Most

"Practical ways and encouragement for mothers of young children to make friends and nurture ongoing friendships. It includes, among other topics, the value of friends, making new friends after a move, maintaining longtime friendships, and restoration of b

Growing Friendships

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#hardcover #friendships #fiction #thriller #obsessions 
This is a former library book

"Part THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, part Bret Easton Ellis's THE RULES OF ATTRACTION, about a small-town girl trying to survive in New York and become part of the city's literati, who forms an intense friendship with a troubled socialite, leading to extreme consequences"--

Social Creature

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Tara Isabella Burton

Pre-library owned with its labels/stamps. Minor shelf wear (see photos).

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Molly C. Detweiler

Utah

Inspirational Thoughts on Love and Friendship

These ebooks are brimming with inspirational poetry, prose, and Scripture about love and friendship with photos of the Love Bears.

Heart to Heart

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New York

Drita My Homegirl

Anne Rivers Siddons

Now in paperback, Anne Rivers Siddons's New York Times bestselling novel about four friends whose lives are forever changed by the events of one summer. Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began in their twenties when their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. The only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire was to strengthen far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the women dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women make startling discoveries that change them in ways they never expected.

The Girls of August

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Elizabeth Berg

The Story of Arthur Truluv

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Louisa Ermelino

As People Magazine reviewed, this book is most definitely “an Italian version of The Joy Luck Club”

Thanks to a run of good fortune, three women in New York's Little Italy believe that the renowned black-faced statue of the Madonna at Viggiano has finally heard their prayers from across the sea.

The Black Madonna

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#friendships #crafts #recipes #stories #creativity #correspondence #letters #relationships #photography #exlibrary. Ex-library book in excellent condition.

An exploration of 365 days of shared experiences between two friends on opposite sides of the country, inspired by their blog, 3191 Miles Apart.

Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes share a love of art and design, handmade pleasures, and a well-lived domestic life. Almost a decade ago, they began their first year-long project together, posting a photo from each of their mornings on their blog, 3191 Miles Apart, named for the distance between their homes in Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. 3191 Miles Apart quickly acquired a worldwide following of readers drawn in by the delicate intimacy of their shared experiences.

A Year Between Friends celebrates their most recent project together - a visual representation of 2015, month-by-month, side-by-side, but miles apart. In addition to 400 photographs recording their daily inspirations and creative undertakings and a foreword from New York Times bestselling author Molly Wizenberg, this unique collaboration expands on their prior work with over 25 handmade crafts and seasonal recipes, notes on simple living, and personal stories that follow the tide of a year filled with new life, change, and loss. It is an intimate joint portrait revealed through photographic snippets - mending a sweater, making a mobile from a cherished collection, creating fabric dyes from natural materials, baking scones - that defies distance through the celebration of shared moments of calmness, warmth, and family.

Both aspirational and down-to-earth, A Year Between Friends is an inspiring visual love letter to friendship and creativity, a timeless reminder to appreciate life one day at a time, to slow down, to cherish simplicity, and to make the extra effort to do things with care and with the people we love.

Year Between Friends: 3191 Miles Apart

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Gail Cohen

Only marking as excellent the inside cover had a name inscribed message and it’s glued together. See sequential order of pics to see.

Stories to Warm Your Heart

Friends

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#paperback #fiction #suspense #thriller #mystery #detective #sisterhood #fernmichaels #sleuths #friendships 

The women of the Sisterhood come to the aid of their ally, attorney Lizzie Fox, who has agreed to defend Lily Flowers, the madam of a bordello that counted some of the richest and most influential men in the country as clients.

Razor Sharp

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Kerry Winfrey

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Washington

Months before surgery to correct her underbite, Jolie decides she needs to live life to the fullest--just in case the surgery doesn't go as expected--in this funny and honest new novel from the author of the acclaimed "Love and Other Alien Experiences."

Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It

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Neta Jackson

Iowa

Kat Davies finds a practical way to channel her passion for healthy eating by starting a food pantry at the church, but it is not until she looks beyond food as an issue that she sees the deeper significance of inviting people to "come to the table." Original.

Come to the Table

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#paperback #fiction #youngadult #juvenilefiction #ya #contemporaryfiction #teen #ages14-17 #friendships #booktomovie  

After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

Before I Fall

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#paperback #fiction #bestseller #satire #relationships #domesticfiction #friendships #fateandfortune #nyc #witty 

A Novel 

Three friends on the verge of their thirties--beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite; Danielle, a quiet TV producer; and Julius, a freelance writer--make their way through New York City, until Marina's idealistic cousin, Bootie, arrives to complicate their lives.

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