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Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot
Lizzie Nichols struggles to find a New York City apartment with her seemingly reluctant boyfriend, fantasizes about her ideal job, and inadvertently endangers her boyfriend's career. Three titles in this series.

Pink Slip by Rita Ciresi
When fiery and bold Lisa Diodetto decides to move to upstate New York after a painful break-up, she starts working at a pharmaceutical company and meets Eben Strauss, the stoic and reserved Vice President of Corporate Development, and the unlikely couple embarks on a journey of love and self-discovery. Sequel is Remind Me Again Why I Married You.

Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie
Rescued during a break-in by an unlikely hit man who has been directed by the mob to protect her, food writer Cranky Agnes finds her situation further complicated by a missing cache of money that becomes a key factor in a Southern mafia wedding.

Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
Journalist-turned-spy Olivia Joules finds herself drawn to Pierre Ferramo, a man of impeccable taste and extraordinary wealth, until she begins to worry that he is an International terrorist hiding behind a sophisticated smokescreen.

Bidding for Love by Katie Fforde
After a death in the family, fashionable Londoner Flora Stanza suddenly finds herself senior partner in Stanza and Stanza, a failing antiques business in the English countryside. Eager to investigate the inheritance, Flora shows up in the countryside, intending to make the most of this opportunity to escape London for a spell. Complicating matters greatly are Flora's distant cousin, Charles, and his prim, steely fiancée, Annabelle, who try to convince Flora to sign over her stake and return quickly to London. But Flora and her very pregnant cat, Imelda, will not be pushed back so easily.

Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin
New York City-based photographer Ellen Graham is a happy newlywed until a chance meeting with an old boyfriend leads her to revisit the past and question her present. When Ellen crosses paths with her journalist ex, Leo, her obsessive love for him resurfaces. Leo quickly finds an inroad to Ellen's life, offering her up a plum photography assignment she can't refuse.

Bet Your Bottom Dollar by Karin Gillespie
Running the local general store for their small-town South Carolina community, manager Elizabeth enlists her two fellow shopkeepers and a crew of friends to save the store from a rival who would put her out of business.

Swapping Lives by Jane Green
Longing for a traditional family life in the country in spite of her successful career, magazine director Vicky Townsley participates in a contest that has her switching places for one month with Amber Winslow, a busy wife and mother.

Anybody Out There? by Marion Keyes
So tantalizing is the mystery behind Anna Walsh’s multiple debilitating and disfiguring injuries, it would be criminal to explain why the self-proclaimed owner of the Best Job in the World (PR maven for Candy Grrrl cosmetics) has left her trendy New York life to recuperate in the good front room of her parents Dublin cottage, since Keyes herself strings readers along until the end of part 1 before revealing the cause of Anna’s broken bones and broken heart. Hardly sounds like the stuff of raucous humor, now does it? And yet Keyes latest madcap escapade starring one of the five wacky Walsh sisters teems with moments of joyous hilarity and laugh-out-loud humor.

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
Self-proclaimed "sucker" Lexi Smart has a thankless job and a boyfriend known as "Loser Dave." After wrapping up a night out with gal pals in London, Lexi struggles to find a taxi in the rain to take her home, and slips on the slick pavement. She wakes up with retrograde amnesia three years later. It seems Lexi has been busy in recent years—too bad she remembers none of it.

Cover the Butter by Carrie Kabak
Kate Cadogan has spent her entire life doing everything she could to please her
husband, her son, and her parents without once thinking about herself and what she needed. Then came the day that turned into the straw that broke the camel's back. She starts to go back in time to the beginning and watches as her dreams slipped away. Her sports fan husband doesn't really even know she exists. With the help of her two best friends, Kate decides to leave her husband and for the first time in her life do something she's always dreamed of.

Little Pink Slips by Sally Koslow
Hired to modernize the image of an outdated women's magazine, high-profile editor Magnolia Gold is horrified when she is ignominiously replaced by a brash television
personality who attempts to remake the magazine in her own tacky image.

Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
Ruth, a Minneapolis wife and mother, bakes to relax the way others do yoga. And it's a good thing she does, because a house full of cantankerous family members seriously challenges her ability to remain serene in this fluffy, enjoyable third novel by Ray. Cake is Ruth's version of Zen, allowing her to lose herself in the ritual of familiar smells and
precise measurements.

The Sleeping Beauty Proposal by Sarah Strohmeyer
Despairing of finding Mr. Right after years of tiresome dating, thirty-six-year-old Genie Michaels nevertheless falls for a best-selling author who proposes on national television to an anonymous other woman, a humiliating event after which Genie pretends to be the man's fiancée.

The Devil Wears Pradaby Lauren Weisberger
A small-town girl fresh out of an Ivy League college lands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine, but wonders if the glamorous perks are worth working for the editor from hell. Also, Everyone Worth Knowing by this author.