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When Charlotte Bell takes a new position in Iceland, working for Ambassador Edgar Rawlings, she, stumbling upon a mystery that is begging to be solved, calls upon the keen skills of detection she has garnered from reading all fifty-six original Nancy Drew books.

The daily chronicle of a 30-something single English woman who is convinced her life would be perfect if she could lose weight, stop smoking and develop “Inner Poise.”

Jennifer is smart, sexy woman in a high-powered position on Wall Street. She agrees to take the fall for her boss when he is caught playing fast and loose with the SEC. Jennifer’s fiancé is a well-connected lawyer who is supposed to get her off. Instead she ends up in Jennings Correctional Facility for Women in a whole different world with a lot of well-connected women, including Movita, the crew leader.

Libby Mason has found the almost-perfect guy—Nick is good looking, fun to talk to and great in bed—but he’s always strapped for cash and allergic to commitment. Then there’s Ed—wealthy, longing for stability—but stodgy, awkward, and lousy in bed. It’s the classic story of what happens to a girl when her heart and her head aren’t looking for the same thing. What will Libby do?.

Reunited by the tragic death of one of their number, a group of former schoolmates works through their shared grief while evaluating the unforeseen ways in which each of their lives have been impacted.

After failing to score an important interview with a reclusive actor, Hollywood magazine reporter Ann Roth returns to her Missouri home only to discover that the actor is in her hometown, where he is using an alias while undergoing heart surgery.

Two urban couples seeking the rustic bliss of rural life head for the quaint village of Eight Mile Bottom, a rural utopia populated by eccentric residents, where both couples find a host of romantic complications.

When Anna Walsh—who has a job and husband in Manhattan—wakes up in her family’s house in Dublin badly injured and with no memory of what has happened, she returns to New York to find clues to her memory loss.

When her husband, James, leaves her after she delivers her first child, Claire retires to her family in Dublin, where she slowly recovers from the experience, giving James a big surprise when he shows up again.

Deciding that it is high time he had a baby, semi-famous sportswriter Charlie Feldman asks Lacy Gazzar, the feisty, thirty something advice columnist for his paper, for help, which results in a pregnancy he wants and she does not.

When she lands a spot on the reality TV show “Fame Game” and becomes the personal assistant to world-famous singer Evan David, Fern Kendal becomes close to her new boss, and, in a twist of fate, is shocked to learn that he is the newest judge on the show.

Heartache, new loves, professional differences, and other mistakes threaten to separate two very different sisters—Cassandra, a clever, charismatic, and successful woman caught in not-so-wonderful marriage, and Lizbet, a plump, plainer dreamer striving to make a name as a journalist.

Gabby Wolf, torn between two alternate realities when her wish to have it all comes true, plans the perfect wedding to her longtime boyfriend in Phoenix, while flying solo and working at her glamorous new job in New York City, and must decide which life is a dream and which is a reality.

Not sure if she is ready to go from “me” to “we” when her almost perfect boyfriend Max asks her to move in with him, commitment-phobic Maggie Hunter wishes Max could be more like her best friend Eliose’s boyfriend, who is allergic to forward planning, and wonders if people really can change.

Upset by a breakup with her boyfriend, Michael, free-spirited art dealer Freya seeks refuge at her friend Jack’s apartment, but her arrival complicates Jack’s relationship with his new girlfriend, Candace.

A collection of short stories that explores the progress of love and relationships over a course of a lifetime, from a teenager coming to terms with her father’s disappearance to a widow accepting two young women into her home.

The romantic relationship between Elise, a graduate student in Washington, D.C., and Donald, an investment banker-turned-teacher, is headed for a storybook wedding until the arrival of Donald’s gorgeous ex-fiancée, Adrienne.