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                        If you like Jennifer Weiner
                        If you're a fan of Jennifer Weiner then check out these authors!
                     
                
                                                                
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Time is a river                                    By Mary Alice Monroe
                                    While recovering from breast cancer in a remote cabin in North Carolina, Mia Landan finds the journal of Kate Watkins, a 1920s fly fisher, and, inspired by Kate's example, learns to fish and uncovers many secrets around her.                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    The Best of us                                    By Sarah Pekkanen
                                    An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in Jamaica—it’s the invitation of a lifetime for a group of old college friends. All four women are desperate not just for a reunion, but for an escape: Tina is drowning under the demands of mothering four yo                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Animal Husbandry                                    By Laura Zigman
                                    Jane Goodall (no, not the Jane Goodall) was the single, overachieving prime-time talk show producer with her heart on the shelf; Ray was the young executive producer with the J. Crew good looks and, it seemed, a love life as lonely as Jane's.  They met fo                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    This is where I leave you                                    By Jonathan Tropper
                                    The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the entire Foxman clan has congregated in years. There is, however, one conspicuous absence: Judd's wife, Jen, whose affair with his radio- shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public.                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Falling Together                                    By Marisa De Los Santos
                                    Pen Calloway, estranged from her college friends Cat and Will for six years, has missed them through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the struggles of single motherhood, and must decide how far she will go to get her friends back in                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Past Perfect                                    By Susan Isaacs
                                    Having been fired from her CIA dream job without an explanation thirteen years earlier, cable television writer Katie Schottland is enlisted for help by a former colleague who offers insight into the mystery of Katie's dismissal                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Watermelon                                    By Marian Keyes
                                    Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpa                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Heart of the Matter                                    By Emily Griffin
                                    Following a tragic accident, two women--Tessa Russo, a renowned pediatric surgeon, and Valerie Anderson, an attorney and single mother--living in the same Boston suburb but with relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children conve                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                             
                                                                                
                    
                        If you liked The Kite Runner...
                        If you liked the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini check out some of these similar titles.
                     
                
                                                                
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Anil's Ghost                                    By Michael Ondaatje
                                    Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England an                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Sister of my heart                                    By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
                                    Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on which the two girls we                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    The namesake                                    By Jhumpa Lahiri
                                    The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engine                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    House of Sand and Fog                                    By Andre Dubus
                                    When a former colonel of the Iranian Air Force and his family purchase a small California home at auction, they are faced with a great conflict as the former owner and her police officer boyfriend fight to get it back at any cost.                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Little Bee                                    By Chris Cleave
                                    A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    The Swallows of Kabul                                    By Yasmina Khadra
                                    Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant t                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Running the Rift                                    By Naomi Benaron
                                    Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                                    
                            
                                                                                                    
                                                                
                                    Cutting for stone                                    By Abraham Verghese
                                    Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound tog                                                                     
                             
                                                                                 
                                                             
                     
     
    
 Why should kids have all the fun? We've got entertaining and educational activities for adults happening year round! We've got a daytime book club and a mystery book club, music, authors, and so much more! Excite your mind with these upcoming programs.
Why should kids have all the fun? We've got entertaining and educational activities for adults happening year round! We've got a daytime book club and a mystery book club, music, authors, and so much more! Excite your mind with these upcoming programs.
 We also have a huge collection of materials in all formats for your browsing pleasure including over 130
We also have a huge collection of materials in all formats for your browsing pleasure including over 130  print magazines. Still need something to read but can't make it to the libray? Download e-books on your device from the library using the app Libby.
print magazines. Still need something to read but can't make it to the libray? Download e-books on your device from the library using the app Libby.
 Looking for your next favorite read? Browse our booklists and you'll be sure to find a book to fit your fancy.
Looking for your next favorite read? Browse our booklists and you'll be sure to find a book to fit your fancy. 
 Need some quiet space to write the next great American novel, study for that exam, or have a small business meeting? Check out our rooms for public use.
Need some quiet space to write the next great American novel, study for that exam, or have a small business meeting? Check out our rooms for public use.
 Did your home printer run out of ink? Do you need a computer to do some genealogy research or just check your email? We've got the computers and printers available.
Did your home printer run out of ink? Do you need a computer to do some genealogy research or just check your email? We've got the computers and printers available.
 
 We also have lots of suggestions in our weekly blog.
We also have lots of suggestions in our weekly blog.
 Want something a little more personal? Get some reading recommendations hand picked just for you from our librarians.
Want something a little more personal? Get some reading recommendations hand picked just for you from our librarians. 
 Browse our Tea Time Book Club titles and see a list of previously read books.
Browse our Tea Time Book Club titles and see a list of previously read books.
 Looking for something to do outside of the house? Check out our community page to find out about happenings around the neighborhood.
Looking for something to do outside of the house? Check out our community page to find out about happenings around the neighborhood.