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Title: Rules for Second Chances

Author: Maggie North

Narrator: Gail Shalan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Brimming with heart and heat, Rules for Second Chances explores the hardest relationship question of all: can true love happen twice...with the same person? Liz Lewis has tried everything to be what people want. But she’s always been labeled different from everyone else in the boisterous world of wilderness expeditions—that is, if anyone notices her at all. Her marriage to popular adventure guide Tobin Renner-Lewis is a sinkhole of toxic positivity where she’s the only one saying no. In a mountain resort town built around excitement, introverted Liz gets…spreadsheets. When she gets mistaken for a server at her own thirtieth birthday party and her last line of communication with Tobin finally snaps, Liz vows to stop playing a minor character in her own life. The (incredibly well-researched and scientific) plan? A crash course in confidence…via improv comedy class. The catch? She’s terrible at it, and the only person willing to practice with her is a certain extroverted wilderness guide who seems dead set on saving their marriage one bonkers improv scenario at a time. But as Liz and Tobin get closer (...again), she’s forced to confront all the reasons they didn’t work the first time, along with her growing suspicion that there might be more to her social awkwardness than anyone realized. Liz has just eight weeks to learn improv’s most important lesson—'yes, and'—or she’ll have to choose between the love she always wanted and the dreams that got away. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

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Title: Hey, Zoey

Author: Sarah Crossan

Narrator: Sarah Crossan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

In this “brilliant . . . and darkly funny” (Sarah Dunn) novel, Dolores O'Shea’s marriage collapsed when she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll in the garage—but after moving “Zoey” into the house, they become oddly bonded, opening the door to a lifetime of repressed feelings and memories. 43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care of her mentally declining mother, and remains close with her old friends and her younger sister who's moved to New York. Though her marriage with David, an anesthesiologist, isn't what is used to be, nothing can quite prepare her for Zoey, the $8,000 AI sex doll that David has secretly purchased and stuffed away in the garage. At first, Zoey sparks an uncharacteristically strong violence in Dolores, whose entire life is suddenly cast in doubt. But then, Dolores and Zoey start to talk...and what surfaces runs deeper than Dolores could have ever expected, with consequences for all of the relationships in her life, especially her relationship to herself. Provocative, brilliant, and tender, Hey, Zoey is an electrifying new novel about the painful truths of modern-day connection and the complicated and unexpected forms that love can take in a lifetime.

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Title: After Annie

Author: Anna Quindlen

Narrator: Gilli Messer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

‘Candid and complex ­– and ultimately quite hopeful’ Claire Lombardo ‘Beautiful and deeply moving’ J. Courtney Sullivan ‘A story of abiding hope’ Mary Beth Keane   When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centred their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie’s best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie’s support. It is Annie’s daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to maintain some semblance of their former lives for them all, and who confronts the complicated truths of adulthood.   Yet over the course of the next year, while Annie looms large in their memories, all three are able to grow, to change, even to become stronger and more sure of themselves. The enduring power Annie gave to those who loved her is the power to love, and to go on without her.   Written in Quindlen’s emotionally resonant voice, and with her deep and generous understanding of people, After Annie is a story that ends with hope, a beautiful novel about how adversity can change us in profound ways.   Praise for Anna Quindlen ‘Leaves the reader feeling grateful, wide awake, lucky to be alive’ Michael Chabon ‘Simply impossible to forget’ Alice Hoffman ‘Qualities and shades of love are this writer's strong suit, and she has the unusual talent for writing about them with so much truth and heart’ Elizabeth Jane Howard ‘Breathtaking... Quindlen writes superbly about families, grief and betrayal. I was completely mesmerised’ Lisa Jewell ‘Engaging, immaculately constructed storytelling’ Guardian ‘One of our most astute chroniclers of modern life’ New York Times Book Review ‘Brave and beautiful’ The Times ‘Her storytelling is exemplary’ Sunday Telegraph ‘With relentless and dazzling brilliance, Quindlen grapples with the lancing pain and the swirls of disorientation experienced by anyone who has loved and lost’ Daily Mail ‘A wise, closely observed, achingly eloquent book’ Huffington Post ‘Overwhelmingly moving’ New York Times

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Title: How to Age Disgracefully

Author: Clare Pooley

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide Lydia imagines her new job running a Senior Citizen's Social Club three afternoons a week will involve drinking tea while playing gentle games of cards, listening to The Beatles and reminiscing about food rationing and The Blitz. She does not expect to find a failed actor addicted to shoplifting, a woman who's been hiding from a mysterious and very chequered past, and a prolific yarn-bomber. It turns out that their ideas about how to spend their afternoons are very different. After a tragic accident means the council threatens to sell the community centre, the Social Club, aided by their friends in the nursery next door and a geriatric orphaned dog, set out to save it. They might not be able to save the hall, but they might just save each other - if their pasts don't catch up with them first... ©2024 Clare Pooley (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: The Next Mrs. Parrish: A Novel

Author: Liv Constantine

Narrator: Raquel Beattie, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Erin Bennett, Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Release date: June 18, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 45

Ratings of Narrator: 4.85 of Total 13

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish!   “Delicious and shocking.”—Jeneva Rose “A brilliant page-turner.”—Lisa Gardner “One hell of a ride!”—Andrea Bartz   CBS NEW YORK BOOK CLUB PICK • Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon the resurgence of a long-forgotten threat, forcing a vicious game of cat and mouse where everything is on the line. Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way. Hard work and immaculate planning turned her from invisible wallflower to prominent socialite, though there have been bumps along the way. Less than a year after her husband Jackson’s tax-evasion scandal, Amber reigns supreme over the Bishops Harbor community. But with Jackson being released from prison, Amber’s free time—and money—is vanishing. Meanwhile, Daphne Parrish left Bishops Harbor after her divorce from Jackson, swearing she would never go back. But when one of her daughters runs away from home, desperate to see her father, Daphne agrees to return for the summer for their daughters’ sake. Jackson swears he’s a changed man, but Daphne knows all too well that he can’t be trusted. When a ghost from Amber’s past emerges looking for revenge, these three figures find unlikely allies in one another. But who is playing who? When all is said and done, they’ll have to fight tooth and nail for everything they have left in this zero-sum game. With shocking turns and entertaining characters, The Next Mrs. Parrish will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about duplicity and betrayal.

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Title: Sandwich: A Novel

Author: Catherine Newman

Narrator: Nan Mcnamara

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Release date: June 18, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 33

Ratings of Narrator: 4.45 of Total 11

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life.''—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake “If you like my novels, you will love love love this . . . . I stand in awe, it’s just perfect.”—Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Swan Song “A total delight.”—Kate Christensen From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family summer vacation full of secrets, lunch, and learning to let go. For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all kinds: emotional, marital, and—thanks to the cottage’s ancient plumbing—septic too. This year’s vacation, with Rocky sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, promises to be just as delightful as summers past—except, perhaps, for Rocky’s hormonal bouts of rage and melancholy. (Hello, menopause!) Her body is changing—her life is, too. And then a chain of events sends Rocky into the past, reliving both the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers. It's one precious week: everything is in balance; everything is in flux. And when Rocky comes face to face with her family’s history and future, she is forced to accept that she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.

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Title: Reilly's Woman

Series: #28 of Americana

Author: Janet Dailey

Narrator: Shaina Summerville

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Release date: June 18, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Love and danger collide as the cross-country romance series heads to Nevada—from the bestselling author with more than 300 million books in print. The crash of a Cessna 310 charter flight on a Nevada mountainside has left two survivors: Leah Talbot, a young secretary from Las Vegas, and the pilot, lone wolf Reilly Smith. Part Native American, all man, Reilly is impassive, mysterious, and inscrutable. Under the noonday sun, they make their way across a hostile stretch of Nevada desert. Under the cold night rain, they have only their bodies, locked in embrace, to keep them warm. As two desperate strangers come together, so does a desire that burns as hot as the sand. But Reilly's instincts are as strong as his survival skills. They may share a love that's helping to keep them alive, but he knows that once they reach civilization the bond between them will be severed with a last kiss goodbye. Unless Reilly can make Leah realize that she's saved him as much as he's saved her.

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Title: The Memo: A Novel

Author: Rachel Dodes, Lauren Mechling

Narrator: Anna Caputo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Release date: June 18, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

''The perfect summer read: a novel both quick and funny.'' —Airmail “A total joyride of a novel. The Memo is a funny, fascinating exploration of love, friendship, ambition and what it truly means to live a good life. I loved it.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Commencement, Maine, and Friends and Strangers If you could rewrite your life story, would you dare? That’s the question at the heart of this funny, sharp and propulsive debut novel about love, life, and a woman finding herself and what it means to be happy and successful. Do you ever feel like your life doesn’t measure up to everyone else’s—and wonder if you just didn’t get the memo helping you make the right choices? Jenny Green dreads her upcoming college reunion. Once top of her class, the thirty-five-year-old finds herself stuck in a life that isn’t the one she expected. Her promising career has flamed out (literally) and her deadbeat boyfriend is cheating on her (again). All her friends seem to have it all figured it out, enjoying glittering lives and careers that she can only envy from the sidelines. Did she just not get the memo they all did? As it turns out, she didn’t! When she arrives at her alma mater for the festivities, she receives a text from an unlisted number. “Jenny Green: please collect your memo.” Somewhere on campus, a discreet female-led organization provides comprehensive memos to select students, a set of instructions that are a blueprint for success. The first time around, Jenny didn’t receive hers. Now, she’s being given the second chance she wants—an opportunity to relive her life and make all the right decisions this time around. But at what price? Smart, addictive, bittersweet, and ultimately triumphant, The Memo will enchant readers of In Five Years and Cassandra in Reverse as well as fans of Emma Straub and Maria Semple.

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Title: This Is Fine

Author: Poorna Bell

Narrator: Manpreet Bambra

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Release date: June 13, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relationship that feels . . . fine. Until Wallace gives Padma an ultimatum about starting a family she's not sure she even wants. Padma's fifteen-year-old niece Myra is reaching her own crisis point. When she falls in with the wrong crowd and her life ends up in danger, it's the final straw for her parents. Now Padma will spend the summer with her niece - in a ramshackle, ivy-clad house on the Kent clifftops - running a DIY rehab of sorts. Will this be a pressure too far for her and Wallace? And how will she spend six weeks with a niece who, thanks to her sister, she barely knows? It's the last place they want to be. But this could just be the summer that changes everything . . . ©2024 Poorna Bell (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: How to Age Disgracefully: A Novel

Author: Clare Pooley

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Release date: June 11, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

“An uproarious romp!” —People “Pooley weaves together the most cleverly flawed and lovable characters and then sets them free to prove that we are limitless at any age.” —Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Summer Romance A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times-bestselling author Clare Pooley When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide. When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.