Lynn Austin
Until We Reach Home. Bethany, 2008.
After their mother's death and father's suicide, three Swedish sisters make the long, perilous ocean journey to America to make a life in the New World at the turn of the century.

Sandra Brown
The Switch. Warner, 2000.
As they have done so often in the past, twin sisters Gillian and Melina Lloyd switch identities. But this time the results are tragic and Melina will stop at nothing to learn the truth about her sister's murder.

Rita Ciresi
Sometimes I Dream in Italian. Delacorte, 2000.
As children Angel and Lina Lupo couldn't wait to flee their Italian-American household for the glamour of New York and Hollywood. Years later they have come to a crossroads in their lives and look back upon the past with wistfulness and sorrow, grappling with a past that seems too present and a future that seems too far away.

Karin Cook
What Girls Learn. Pantheon, 1997.
12-year old Tilden and her 11-year old sister, Elizabeth, are uprooted by their mother from Atlanta to Long Island after she falls for a man they've never met. But Nick seems an okay guy who helps them with their homework, and all goes well until their mother discovers a lump on her breast.

C.J. Darlington
Thicker than Blood. Tyndale, 2009.
Christy and May Williams have chosen very different paths since the death of their parents 15 years ago, but the death of a close relative brings the two estranged sisters together once again. Christy is certain her sister will never accept her because of the poor choices she's made in life, but both young women decide to work through the past & discover the possibility of second chances. .

Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant
Far From the Tree. St. Martin's, 2000.
They are as different as sisters can be, but after housewife Celeste and actress Ronnie inherit a house following the death of their father, old family secrets come to light and they must discover who they are and what the future holds for them.

Barbara Delinsky
While My Sister Sleeps. Doubleday, 2009.
When her 32-year-old sister, Robin, suffers a major heart attack while practicing for the Olympic marathon, Molly Snow rushes to her bedside filled with guilt because she refused to run with her ina fit of resentment towards the "favored" sister. With her family unable to cope with the reality that Robin may never awaken from her coma, it's up to Molly to make the tough decisions, and she soon makes discoveries that shatter some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew. .

Joy Fielding
Missing Pieces. Doubleday, 1997.
Therapist Kate Sinclair must come to terms with her rebellious daughter, her mother's declining mental state and her unconventional half-sister who falls in love with an accused serial killer.

Lisa Gabriele
The Almost Archer Sisters. S&S, 2008.
Beth and Georgia ("Peachy") Archer have chosen very different paths in life. While Beth moved to New York after high school to make it big as a TV personality, Peachy stayed behind in their small Canadian town and married Beth’s high-school sweetheart, Beau. What will happen when they change places for a weekend?.

Julia Glass
I See You Everywhere. Pantheon, 2008.
Follows the intertwined lives of Louisa Jardine, the conscientious, careful, and precise older sister who yearns for a good marriage, an artistic career, and a family, and her younger sister Clem, an iconoclastic, daring rebel, who focuses her passion on saving animels, over the course of twenty-five years.

Eileen Goudge
One Last Dance. Viking, 1999.
Daphne, Kitty and Alex Seagrave are planning their parents' 40^th Anniversary party when their mother inexplicably shoots their father to death.

Once in a Blue Moon. Vangard, 2009.
Separated in childhood and sent to foster homes after their neglectful mother's imprisonment on drug-possession charges, sisters Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are reunited 30 years later when each is in the throes of a personal crisis. While neither sister’s expectations are met when they re-connect, they are at last drawn together despite their differences and join forces to help each other.

Alice Hoffman
The Story Sisters. Shaye A., 2009.
Ever since their parents' divorce, the three Story sisters -- Elv, Meg and Claire -- have been wrapped up in the fairy-tale world of fairies, roses and otherworldly queens spun by Elv. But when Elv spends time in Paris, she comes back a changed girl, increasingly drawn into a world of teenage rebellion, sex and drugs, and her wild ways result in a devastating tragedy that tears her family apart.

Paulette Jiles
Stormy Weather. Morrow, 2007.
The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine--confront the hardship of the Great Depression in barren, drought-ravaged Texas.

Hannah Kristen
True Colors. St. martin's, 2009.
What do you get when you combine three sisters and a tale of vengeance, jealousy, betrayal, redemption & forgiveness? A ripping good story..

Claire LaZebnik
The Smart One and the Pretty One. 5Spot, 2008.
Busy, single attorney Ava Nickerson is set up by her interfering sister with a man who had been "contracted" for her by their parents 30 years earlier. But Russell Markowitz, charming though he is, seems hardly the ideal mate with two divorces already behind him.

Anne LeClaire
The Law of Bound Hearts. Ballantine, 2004.
Sisters Libby and Sam Lewis were inseparable growing up, until a terrible event during in their 30s completely shatters their relationship. Now Libby discovers she has contracted a rare kidney disease that could end her life.

Helen Elaine Lee
Water Marked. Scribner, 1999.
Two estranged African-American sisters reunite in a search to understand their father and their family history.

Lorrain Lopez
The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters. GCP, 2008.
Meet the Latina Gabaldon sisters--Bette Davis, Loretta Young, Rita Hayworth, & Sophia Loren-- given the names of famous Hollywood stars and raised by their utility-worker father and elderly Hopi housekeeper, Fermina. With the beloved Fermina's passing, the sisters are left to ponder the nature of the "special gift" the spiritual woman promised each of them on her deathbed.

Tessa de Loo
The Twins. Soho, 2000.
Twins sisters, orphaned at the age of 6 in Cologne, Germany, are farmed out to relatives and raised under very different circumstances. Separated for many years,and divided by WWII and their opposing allegiances, the now elderly sisters meet again by chance at a spa in Belgium.

Sarah-Kate Lynch
House of Daughters. Plume, 2008.
Brought up as the heir to the House of Peine, the vineyard in the French province of Champagne that has been in the family for generations, Clementine is shocked & distressed to learn following her father's death hat she must share the vineyard not only with Mathilde, a half-sister she has not seen in 20 years and who she considers an enemy, but Sophie, a total stranger.and sister she never knew existed.

Ann Mah
Kitchen Chinese. Avon, 2010.
When her love-life (she gets dumped) career (she's fired) are derailed, Chinese-American Isabelle Lee decides it's time for a change, so she goes to Beijing to stay with her older sister, Claire, whom she's never really known, and to connect with her "roots." It turns out to be a real culture shock for Isabelle, but also a personal journey to find out who she really is.

Ellen Meister
The Smart One. Avon, 2008.
Bev (The Smart One), who abandoned her artistic ambitions to become a schoolteacher, Clare (The Pretty One), who seems to have a storybook marriage, & Joey (The Wild One), who made it, if breifly, as a rock-star, are as different as three sisters can be. While jealousies and old resentments color their relationship, events unfold that will either bring them together . . . or tear them apart for good.

Jenny McPhee
No Ordinary Matter. S&S, 2004.
Veronica Moore, who writes for a daytime drama, find herself in her own soap opera when she learns that her neurologist sister, Lillian, has intentionaly gotten pregnant from a one-night stand. Meanwhile, secrets about their father who died in a crash 25 years earlier are uncovered, Veronica starts dating Lillian's sperm donor, and another detective contacts them with the news that he has found their long lost brother.

Jo-Ann Mapson
The Wilder Sisters. HarperFlamingo, 1999.
Lily, tired of her high-powered sales job and Rose, recently widowed, return to the horse ranch in New Mexico where they grew up, each to deal with her individual mid-life crises. Over the course of a year, each falls in love with men who come with their own personal baggage.

Jean Marsh
The House of Eliott. St. Martin's, 1994.
Left virtually penniless after the death of their father Beatrice and Evangeline Eliott open a fashion house in 1920s London.

Randy Susan Meyers
The Murderer's Daughters. St. Martin's, 2010.
When she was 10 Lulu she opened the door for her drunken father and watched as he killed her mother, stabbed her five-year-old sister Merry and tried to take his own life. Over the years Lulu has continued to deny her father’s existence and has forced Merry into a web of lies about his "death," but that falsehood is about to haunt them and their loved ones all when they learn that the unrepentant man is about to be paroled.

Judith Michael
A Tangled Web. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Glamorous divorcee Sabrina Longworth changes places with her twin sister, a housewife, for a week, but when Stephanie/Sabrina is reported killed an a boat accident Sabrina's life gets complicated.

Risa Miller
My Before and After Life. St. Martin's, 2010.
Honey and Susan, two sisters in Boston, enjoy a close relationship with their widowed father and are shocked to learn that during his vacation in the Holy Land he has embraced Orthodox Judaism. They fly to Israel to convince him to return, but he is more interested in talking about his new religious spirit. Honey in particular feels abandoned & angry, even while she cannot exactly figure out why she is so condemning of his choice.

Audrey Niffenegger
Her Fearful Symmetry. Scribner, 2009.
American twin sisters Julia & Valentina Poole go to London when they inherit a flat near Highgate Cemetery from an aunt they have never met. It doesn't take long for them to wonder if dear departed Aunt Elspeth hasn't quite been able to leave her old life behind.

Elizabeth Noble
Things I Want My Daughters to Know. Morrow, 2008.
When cancer-stricken Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to each of her four daughters, filled with advice on life, love and matters of the heart, hoping they will bring them comfort & strength as they face the future without her.

Patricia O'Brien
Harriet & Isabella. Touchstone, 2008.
A novelization of the 1875 trial for adultery of Henry Ward Beecher that split apart his family when one sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, stood by his side & supported him, while another, suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker, condemned him and publicly called for him to admit his guilt.

Jill Pitkeathley
Cassandra & Jane. Harper, 2008.
A tale inspired by the relationship between outgoing Jane Austen and her quieter sister, imagining their lives, sisterly spats & romantic disappointments as they might have been detailed in the letters that Cassandra famously burned toward the end of her life.

Luanne Rice
The Geometry of Sisters. Bantam, 2009.
After the loss at sea of her husband and oldest daughter, English teacher Maggie Shaw comes to Newport Academy, an elite private high school, with her two remaining children.While daughter Beck clings to the hope that her sister will somehow return, Maggie thinks about her long-unresolved estrangement from her own beloved sister.

Lucinda Roy
The Hotel Alleluia. HarperCollins, 2000.
Separated at birth, two half sisters--one white and one black--grow up continents apart. Driven by their mother's death and the shadow of lonliness that haunts her life, Joan, a successful North Carolina businesswoman, departs for Africa to reclaim her sister Ursuline, who had been left behind as an orphan and is trying to decide if she has a vocation for the sisterhood. Soon after they are reunited, they country is torn apart by civil strife and the days they spend together will change them forever.

Lisa See
Shanghai Girls. Randon House, 2009.
In 1937, sisters May & Pearl are forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors to cover his gambling debts. Deeply devoted to each other, May and Pearl face a perilous journey filled with discrimination, rape and murder, betrayal, abandonment, poverty and a secret pact that will dominate their destinies.

Susan Sellers
Vanessa & Virginia. HM, 2009.
Painter Vanessa Bell recounts her relationship with the novelist sister, Virginia Woolf, who overshadowed her througout their lives.

Danielle Steel
Sisters. Delacorte, 2007.
Four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family’s annual gathering. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is utterly changed. Now these sisters, who been fervently pursuing success and their own lives—on opposite sides of the world—reunite to share one New York brownstone, to support each other. More sisterly stories by the same author: Mirror Image (1998); One Day at a Time (2009).

Cynthia Victor
The Sisters. Onyx, 1999.
Two feuding sisters who work in their father's law firm must rely on each other when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of their mother.

Mia Yun
Translations of Beauty. Atria, 2004.
A terrible childhood accident leaves Inah disfigured for life and leaves her twin sister, Yunah, with feeling of guilt for having been spraed the same fate. Years later Yunah reaches out to her sister, who has drifted away from her family and the sisters find their relationship tested as they are forced to confront unresolved issues.

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