The Year's Best in Women's Fiction

Check out these titles that landed on Library Journal's list for 2013 Best Books in Women's Fiction:

Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham - Stage and screen star Lauren Graham, best known for her work in the television series "Gilmore Girls" and "Parenthood," debuts with a novel that tells the story of a struggling actress in 1990's New York City who searches for work and the perfect hair product while befriending a rival and resisting her father's pressure to get a "real" job.

Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann
Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann - Amanda Rosenbloom, owner of a struggling vintage clothing shop, finds the journal of Olive, a woman who lived in New York one hundred years ago. As Amanda reads the journal, her life begins to unravel until she can no longer ignore this voice from the past. Despite being separated by one hundred years, Amanda finds she’s connected to Olive in ways neither could ever have imagined.

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore - Forging a friendship at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean meet regularly at the first diner owned by black proprietors in their Indiana city and are watched throughout the years by a big-hearted man who observes their struggles with school, marriage, parenthood and beyond.

Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer
Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer - After being fired from her job, Queenie Wake returns home to North Star to cook meals for death row inmates. Hopeful that the bad memories of her late mother and promiscuous sister (now the mother of the captain of the high school football team) have been forgotten by the locals, Queenie discovers that some people are harder to forget than others.When secrets from the past emerge, will Queenie be able to stick by her family or will she leave home again?

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