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Baby Proof
This is a story of a woman who chooses to have a child-free life and meets a man who feels the same way, yet changes in mind. Claudia is a successful Manahattan book editor and has decided to never have children as she considers being already fulfilled in her life; she has a great family, great friends and a great career. She meets a man, Ben, who turns out to be her soul mate. Not only are they madly in love with one another, they both value a child-fre...
Heart of the Matter
Heart of the Matter is a book written by Emily Giffin. This is the story of two women who live in a Boston suburb and whose lives are distinct yet intertwined in ways no one could have foreseen. Tessa is a housewife with two children and she is married to a surgeon, Nick. She has given up her career to be with her family. Valerie is an attorney who is a single-mother of one, Charlie, and who has stopped believing in love. One day, Charlie gets severely b...
Love The One You're With
Love The One You're With is a book written by Emily Giffin. This is the story of Ellen, a woman who lost the greatest love of her life, yet managed to marry somebody else. Her long-lost love comes back into her life and she is faced with an incredible dilemma: to stay with her husband or go back to her first love. Ellen and Andy are newlyweds and are happily married. One day, Ellen runs into her long-lost love, Leo, after eight years and a painful breaku...
Something Blue
This is the story of Darcy, a selfish woman who's still reeling because her goody-goody friend stole her fiance, Dex. Darcy cheated on Dex with Dex's college roommate, Marcus...and Darcy is pregnant with Marcus's baby. Darcy hates Dex and Rachel for betraying her. Darcy's life falls further to pieces when Marcus breaks up with her because he's tired of her obsessing about Dex and Rachel. Thinking quickly, Darcy contacts her fifth-grade boyfriend, Eth...

Giffin booklist

Something Borrowed (Literature)
Rachel is a lawyer in New York City. On her thirtieth birthday, she sleeps with her best friend's fiancee Dex. She keeps this secret from her best friend Darcy and continues the affair, while she helps Darcy plan her wedding. Rachel slowly falls in love with Dex, and Dex falls in love with Rachel. Darcy is revealed to be a very selfish fiancee and best friend who has a tendency to manipulate people for her own personal gain. Rachel m...
Something Borrowed (Romance)
The story starts out with two good friends since childhood who later become adult best friends. Unplanned Rachel sleeps with her best friends fiance' the night she is given a birthday party. Lucky to her amazement, she finds out that he has feelings for her. The same feelings that she secretly has for him. The only problem is he is marrying her best friend Darcy. They try to be true to Darcy and each other considering the feelings they have; but someho...
The One and Only
The One and Only is about Shea Rigsby, who has never left her small home town of Walker, Texas, and her struggles as she comes to terms with what her small town life has come to, as well as the internal battle over her heart and lusts. Shea Rigsby grew up in Walker, Texas - and never left. Walker is a small college town whose football roots and loyalties run deep. Shea never left Rigsby, whether from loyalty to her small town, ear, or both. She takes ...
Where We Belong
Where we belong is a book written by Emily Giffin wherein a woman gave up her child for adoption 18 years ago and the story depicts her journey through the lies that consumed her for years. Marian is a television producer who gave up her child 18 years ago as she was 18-year-old and could not picture herself being a young mother. Marian now has a successful career and a boyfriend - Peter - and the child, who is now 18-year-old herself - Kirby Rose - show...