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THE SHITE BEFORE CHRISTMAS BY SERENA TERRY

12/17/2022

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I found this author by complete accident on tiktok and I am so glad that I did! Serena Terry is hilarious and I am officially obsessed with her content and novels!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: November 10, 2022
Genre: Christmas Momcom

Series: Book 2 in the series but can stand alone. 
Pages: 376 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Purchased.
One month to go. One stressed mum. Can she pull off the perfect family Christmas?

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

Like every mum, Tara wants a perfect Christmas for her family – but no-one else is lifting a finger and she’s losing her elf-ing mind.
From a vaping teen, explosive potty training and a disastrous Nativity, to a distracted husband acting very out of character, the final straw is Tara’s glamorous, feckless mother moving herself back in for the holidays.

Can Tara pull off the holly jolly Christmas of her dreams? Will she deck the halls and not her family? Or is this a Christmas catastrophe waiting to happen…

Hilarious, heartwarming and festive as f*ck – the new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Mammy Banter: The Secret Life of an Uncool Mum.

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THE CHRISTMAS WISH BY LINDSEY KELK

12/13/2022

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Lindsey Kelk is one of my top favorite authors! I loved this book to pieces! If you enjoy a "groundhog day" Christmas romcom then this is a must read for you!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: November 15, 2022
Genre: Christmas Romance

Series: None. 
Pages: 348 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Publisher. 
Newly single lawyer Gwen Baker is hoping that a family Christmas—countryside, a mountain of food and festive films—will salve the sting of her career hanging by a thread and her heart being trampled on. Because everyone else has their life sorted: even Dev, her boy-next-door crush, is now a tall, dark and handsome stranger with a fiancée. She can’t help wishing her future was clearer.

Then Gwen wakes up to discover it’s Christmas day all over again. Like Groundhog Day but with eggnog. And family arguments. On repeat.

As she figures out how to escape her own particular Christmas hell, Dev is the one bright spot. He might be all grown-up but underneath he’s just as kind and funny as she remembers.

Maybe, just maybe, her heart can be mended after all.

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SMELLS LIKE TWEEN SPIRIT BY LAURIE GELMAN

8/23/2022

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Smells Like Tween Spirit is absolutely hilarious! If you love "mom-coms" or "mommy-lit" then this is a series you don't want to miss! I laughed the whole way through!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: August 2, 2022
Genre: Women's Fiction.

Series: Class Mom series #4
Pages: 247 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Publisher. 
From the author of Class Mom and You’ve Been Volunteered comes Laurie Gelman's next laugh-out-loud novel Smells Like Tween Spirit.

As a new Mat Mom of the Pioneer Middle School (PMS) Wrestling team, Jen Dixon finds herself thrown in the middle of the “guerrilla war against so-called perfect mothers," armed only with her cutting wit and acerbic sense of humor. (New York Times Book Review)

Handling a whole host of new challenges, from the dreaded seventh-grade science fair to a school fundraiser (again!), Jen faces the somewhat-terrifying new social dynamics of the wrestling moms with her trademark combination of reluctance and exceptional delivery.

Between school events and teaching spin classes, Jen finds herself fully immersed in sports mom competitiveness. These parents 

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THE NANTUCKET INN BY PAMELA KELLEY

8/9/2022

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​The Nantucket Inn is book one Pamela Kelley's beloved Beach Plum Cove series and I'm so glad I took a chance and read it. I can tell this series is going to be a favorite. 
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: April 19, 2019
Genre: Women's Fiction

Series: Beach Plum Cove series #1
Pages: 389 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
Lisa Hodges needs to make a decision fast. Thanks to her dead husband’s gambling addiction, their savings is almost gone. In her early fifties with a large, waterfront home on Nantucket to support, Lisa hasn’t worked in over thirty years, has no in-demand skills and is virtually unemployable.

Her only options are to sell the house and move off-island, or, she could use her cooking and entertaining skills and turn her home into a bed and breakfast. She desperately needs it to succeed because she has four grown children with problems of their own and wants to stay close to them. 

Her oldest daughter, Kate, has a fabulous career in Boston--working as a writer for a popular fashion magazine and engaged to a dangerously handsome, photographer, who none of them have met.

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WITH NEIGHBORS LIKE THIS BY TRACY GOODWIN

8/2/2022

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With Neighbors like this is the perfect "mom-com". I love reading "mommy" and family fiction. And if you add a splash of romance like this one does then it's perfect!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: August 2, 2022
Genre: Women's Fiction.

Series: None. 
Pages: 288 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Publisher. 
USA Today bestselling author Tracy Goodwin gives you a charming story of a mother determined to give her kids a wonderful home in a neighborly community. But to do that, she's going to have to take on the HOA--
  • A single mom fighting for what's right 
  • Enemies-to-lovers romance by way of the Homeowners Association
  • Building a community of friends and neighbors
  • What makes a house a home is the people inside, not the decor outside

When divorced mom of two Amelia Marsh relocates to a northern suburb of Houston, all she wants is a bit of normalcy for her children. The last thing she needs is to be the center of community gossip. But when a disagreement arises between Amelia and the HOA representative over whether or not her children's garden

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THE HOMEWRECKERS BY MARY KAY ANDREWS

5/14/2022

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I've been a longtime fan of Mary Kay Andrews and haven't been disappointed with her books ever! She writes amazing beach reads and they always have their own little twists!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: May 3, 2022
Genre: Women's Fiction. Mystery. 

Series: None.
Pages: 442 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Publisher. 
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Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love.

Hattie Kavanaugh went to work restoring homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen, married the boss’s son at twenty, and became a widow at twenty-five. Now, she’s passionate about her work, but that’s the only passion in her life. “Never love something that can’t love you back,” is advice her father-in-law gives her, but Hattie doesn’t follow it and falls head-over-heels for a money pit of a house. She’s determined to make it work, but disaster after disaster occurs, and Hattie’s dream might cost Kavanaugh & Son their livelihood. Hattie needs money, and fast.

When a slick Hollywood producer shows up in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, she gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: star in a beach house renovation reality show called The Homewreckers
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THE SUMMER PLACE BY JENNIFER WEINER

5/10/2022

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Jennifer Weiner brings her characters to life in this moving portrait about families and the secrets they keep.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: May 10, 2022
Genre: Women's Fiction. Family Drama. 

Series: None.
Pages: 406 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Publisher.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind.

When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah’s mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family’s beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market.

But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling

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YOGA PANT NATION BY LAURIE GELMAN

3/15/2022

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Laurie Gelman pens another hilarious book in the Class Mom series! If you enjoy books with a ton of humor and the trials and tribulations of motherhood, then this series is a must read!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: July 13, 2021
Genre: Women's Fiction / Chick Lit 

Series: Class Mom #3
Pages: 256 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Purchased.
From the author of Class Mom and You've Been Volunteered comes Yoga Pant Nation--a novel about one mom's challenges through parenting and life, keeping her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants.

Jen Dixon of Overland Park, Kansas—fearless mother of a fifth-grade boy and two thirty-something daughters—is used to juggling a lot, from her mission to become a spin instructor, to stepping in as the most acerbic class mom ever (again), to taking care of her two-year-old granddaughter. But when the PTA president throws her a mandate to raise $10,000 for the fifth-grade class, even unflappable Jen is going to need more than her regular spin class to get her through this final year at William Taft Elementary School.

In the midst of new complications—organizing the class overnight to Topeka, an unexpected spin class fan in the form of her

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DECONSTRUCTED BY LIZ TALLEY

2/6/2022

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Deconstructed is another winner from Liz Talley. If you enjoy women’s fiction novels about friendships and overcoming life’s hurdles, then you don’t want to miss this one!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: February 1, 2022
Genre: Women's Fiction

Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 331 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Amazon First Reads.
​An exhilarating novel about fast friends and fashionable revenge by Liz Talley, the USA Today bestselling author of Adulting.

Antique-store owner Cricket Crosby’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that the rumors of her husband’s affair aren’t just leisurely southern gossip. Her plan: hire an investigator; find an attorney; enlist the help of her new assistant, Ruby; and make her husband pay.

Ruby knows how quickly everything changes. After a dicey past, she’s determined to forge a new future by working for Cricket and reinventing herself as a designer, deconstructing vintage haute couture. If anybody can help mend a few tears in Cricket’s life, she can.

But turns out Cricket’s life isn’t just a little torn. It’s wrinkled, stained, and falling apart at the seams. With Ruby and her ragtag relatives

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