Contemporary, Fast-paced Women's Literature

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The Truth about Forever
By Sarah Dessen
YA F DESSEN
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

My Sister’s Keeper
By Jodi Picoult
F PICOULT
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.

Interred with Their Bones
By Jennifer Lee Carrell
F Carrell
Receiving a mysterious box from her eccentric mentor, who claims it contains a newly found work by Shakespeare, theater director/scholar Kate Shelton is horrified when her theater is burned to the ground and her mentor killed, an event that identifies the work of a murderer who sets up crime scenes to resemble Shakespearean deaths.

The Time Traveler’s Wife
By Audrey Lee Niffenegger
F Niffenegger
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

Watermelon
By Marian Keyes
F Keyes
When her husband, James, leaves her after she delivers her first child, Claire retires to her family in Dublin, where she slowly recovers from the experience, giving James a big surprise when he shows up again.