If you are a fan of Robyn Carr's Virgin River series or Debbie Macomber's Blossom Street series you may enjoy these authors.

Sullivan's Island [Large print]: a Lowcountry tale by Dorothea Benton Frank

Big Stone Gap [large print] by Adriana Trigiani

Lover's leap [Large print] by Emily March

Forsaking all others [large print] by LaVyrle Spencer

A cowboy kind of daddy [Large print] by Cathy Gillen Thacker

This is how: proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more — for young and old alike by Augusten Burroughs — According to Amazon.com reviewer Mari Malcolm: In writing and in life, Augusten Burroughs has repeatedly summoned the courage to grab the wolves of his past by their foaming muzzles and peer into their wild eyes until he owns them — and because of this, he's survived nearly every horrific experience a person in a modern-day, first-world country could face and emerged as an astonishingly well-adjusted person. After turning his profoundly messed-up early life and its alcoholic aftermath into six harrowing, uplifting memoirs — including Running with Scissors and Dry — Burroughs lost interest in writing about himself. He kept meeting people who were locked in the same struggles he’d overcome and decided they needed to know they had options for fixing their lives. In This Is How, Burroughs delivers prescriptions for handling life's most pernicious problems. Don't let the snake-oil-salesmannish title put you off: this is raw, hard-knock-life advice, veering from brutal to hilarious to deeply compassionate.

Don't let your book group miss these.

The three Weissmanns of Westport [kit] by Cathleen Schine

Annie's ghosts [kit]: a journey into a family secret by Steve Luxenberg

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks [kit] by Rebecca Skloot

The reading group by Elizabeth Noble

The pilot's wife: a novel by Anita Shreve

Battle hymn of the tiger mother by Amy Chua

Sworn to silence by Linda Castillo.   Meet Linda Castillo author of the award winning Amish thriller series featuring Chief of Police Kate Burkholder.  Ms. Castillo will talk about her series set in an Ohio Amish community on Tuesday, June 26 at 7:00pm at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor.