single women

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Down by the river

1997
Fourteen-year-old Mary MacNamara, raped and impregnanted by her own father, becomes a pawn in the political battle between pro-life and pro-choice advocates in Ireland.

The lie

2009
Berlin investment counselor Nadia Trenkler, having by chance met unemployed divorc?e Susanne Lasko and realized they look exactly alike, asks Susanne to pose as her during a weekend with her husband so she can spend time with her lover, and when Nadia disappears, Susanne decides to continue the charade, which results in Susanne getting caught up in a deadly web of lies.

The godmother

a novel
2008
Tessa King returns to London after a five-week vacation ready to move on with her life and looks to her friends and family to try and figure out what it means to be truly happy and content.

Wonderland Creek

2011
Alice Grace Ripley, let go from her library job because of the Great Depression and dumped by her boyfriend who accuses her of living in a dream world, takes the chance to escape the gossips by traveling to Acorn, Kentucky, to deliver five boxes of donated books, and finds the adventure and romance she had previouly only read about.

Pinch me

2011
Warned about a family curse that strikes whenever one of them marries happily, Lily Burns nevertheless falls in love and elopes before experiencing a profound reality shift where she is single again and her beloved husband has no memory of her and is married to someone else.

Houston, we have a problema

2009
A superstitious young woman relies upon a plastic Virgin Mary and a fortune teller when she has trouble finding love and living her life.

The girls' guide to hunting and fishing

2000
Single woman Jane Rosenal takes to the self-help shelves in search of information on how to find and manage a love relationship, but discovers, after a few mishaps, that she must make her own rules.

Austenland

a novel
2008
Thirty-something New Yorker, Jane Hayes, who is obsessed with Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice," is gifted a vacation to an estate where fans are transported back in time and actors pretend to be characters from Austen novels; and things get confusing when she blurs the line between fiction and reality by becoming attracted to two of the actors.

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