Just Plain Great Fiction
Discover a curated list of just plain great fiction books. Explore timeless stories, captivating novels, and must-read fiction for every book lover.
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Tangerine Dream
by Ken Douglas
Best friends Haley and Taylor must deal with a terrible loss when Taylor's twin sister, Dylan, is killed in a car crash. Meanwhile, Taylor and Dylan's father, a senator running for president and supposedly somewhere on the campaign trail, can't be reached because he is in the arms of a prostitute. While the girls and the twins' mother try to recover and avoid the press in New Zealand, Nick Nesbitt, a television news reporter, senses a story and will stop at nothing to get it.
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A Good Yarn
by Debbie Macomber
The shop on Blossom Street called The Good Yarn has now been open for a year and Lydia Hoffman is starting a new session of knitting classes.
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The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd
Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid.
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The Interruption of Everything
by Terry McMillan
An African-American woman in her forties discovers that the unplanned life may be the best.
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My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
Written with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity, this novel is about a teen who was conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister Kate, and what happens when she begins to question who she really is.
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Making it Up as I Go Along
by Maria T. Lennon
Newly jobless and single at 38, Saffron Roch discovers that she's pregnant with her cheating boyfriend's child. She moves to Los Angeles and joins a trendy breast-feeding support group, where she meets a group of mothers who seem overly superficial and egocentric at first, but turn out to have quite a bit to teach Saffron.
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Genevieve
by Eric Jerome Dickey
Eric Jerome Dickey's boldly sensual new novel centres on what his fans love best - steamy romance and shocking betrayal. This is an edge-of-your-seat novel about a good man who loves his wife, genevieve, but finds himself drawn against his best intentions into an affair with his wife's sister. Both women have a mysterious and tragic past that raises the stakes even higher in this fast-paced novel. Genevieve hits all the crowd-pleasing notes that we have come to expect from a Dickey novel and it is delivered in a style that is sexy, raw humourous and thrilling.
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Match Me If You Can
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Annabelle Granger takes over her late grandmother's matchmaking business, and in order to become the most sought after matchmaker in Chicago, she tries to land Heath Campion, the city's hottest bachelor, as her client.
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The Garden of Eden
by Eve Adams
A "New York Times" bestselling author writing under a pseudonym tells a parable for the times--a take on small-town America that is hilarious, moving, and utterly original.
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Until I Find You
by John Irving
Chronicles the life and times of actor Jack Burns, whose unique bond with his mother, Alice, a Toronto tattoo artist, and their search for his missing father, William, shapes his relationships with women and his Hollywood career.
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Light from Heaven
by Jan Karon
In the final volume in the phenomenally successful Mitford Years ties up all the loose ends of Father Timothy Kavanagh's deeply affecting life. The novel is filled with old and new characters and the answers to questions readers have asked since the series began nearly a decade ago.
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The Divide
by Nicholas Evans
A devastating journey of discovery that extends from the streets of New York to the daunting grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. A family fractured by betrayal and struggling in search of lost happiness.
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Ya-Yas in Bloom
by Rebecca Wells
Follows the childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood of Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie from the time they first meet in the 1930s through their many experiences and years of friendship.
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Dinner With A Perfect Stranger
by David Gregory
Thinking the guys at work are playing an absurd joke on him, Nick Cominsky accepts a dinner invitation with Jesus Christ, and soon finds himself deep in conversation about family, religion, and faith, and confronting his doubts.
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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
by Alexander McCall Smith
Precious Ramotswe finds herself overburdened at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and faces more complications when she finds a strange intruder in her house and a mysterious pumpkin in her yard.
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Pawleys Island
by Dorothea Benton Frank
Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed forever by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a new novel set against the backdrop of small-town South Carolina. 250,000 first printing.
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Summer of Roses
by Luanne Rice
Lily Malone is forced to confront the events and relationships of the past as she deals with the man who has separated her from everything she has ever loved, but who could hold the key to her young daughter Rose's future.
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Really Unusual Bad Boys
by MaryJanice Davidson
"Meet Damon, Maltese, and Shakar--three noble brothers from an enchanted kingdom where wooing and pleasuring is practically a royal commandment. They're hot. Irresistible. And just a little different. But what woman doesn't like a guy with a few surprises?"--Cover, P. [4].
