A cross-country road trip with the second Saturday Book Club goes afoul when the four women meet the author of a classic, beloved children's book at he Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas, and offer her a ride to Branson, Missouri.

The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books. No pressure. Yes, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads. Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys. Paris is still reeling after chasing off the only man brave and foolish enough to marry her. Inspired by the heroines...

"In the colorful small town of Cherico, Mississippi, librarian Maura Beth McShay is overseeing the opening of the new library and preparing for the birth of her first child with some help from the Cherry Cola Book Club. In another plot twist, her husband's sister has come to stay during her own pregnancy"--

Chericos newlywed librarian Maura Beth Mayhew is back from her honeymoon and she and Jeremy McShay are settling into married life. Maura Beths father has even given them the down payment on a charming cottage. But as the holidays approach, Chericos economy is struggling. Beloved local shops have closed, jobs have been lost, and theres even a mysterious crime spree afoot. Amid the gloom, Maura Beth decides what the community needs is a healthy dose...

A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California. Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...

"Summer is busy season for Mackenzie "Mac" Almeida's bicycle shop, nestled in the quaint, seaside hamlet of Westham, Massachusetts. She's expecting an influx of tourists at Mac's Bikes; instead she discovers the body of Jake Lacey. Mac can't imagine anyone stabbing the down-on-his-luck handyman. However, the authorities seem to think Mac is a strong suspect after she was spotted arguing with Jake just hours before his death. Mac knows she didn't do...

Bath, England, 1892. Celebrated mystery author Lady Amy Lovell is set to tie the knot with a fellow member of the Mystery Book Club of Bath. Amy's great-aunt has offered to host their wedding at her stately manor house. But on the eve of the ceremony, the festive air in the drawing room is marred by Mr. and Mrs. Finch arguing in another room. The next morning at the wedding breakfast, Mrs. Finch falls face-first into her breakfast--dead. When Amy's...

On the Finfarran Peninsula on Ireland's west coast, at the Lissbeg Library, a group of women gather together for the first book club of the summer where they'll all face difficult choices and hope to get the happy endings they all deserve.

"In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. The women she convinces to attend the first meeting couldn't be more different -- a wealthy spinster determined to aid the war effort, an...

"It was only a few months ago that the ladies of Arlo's Friday Night Book Club--Fern, Camille, and Helen--solved the murder of the renowned author, Wally Harrison. So when they select Wally's bestseller, Missing Girl, for their next discussion, Arlo is hopeful it will be the end of their mystery hunt. But the women are convinced Missing Girl was inspired by a 50-year-old cold case from their own Sugar Springs, Mississippi--the disappearance of Mary...