20 Times a Lady is former TV talk-show producer Karyn Bosnak’s second novel (though it is her first attempt at fiction). Her first publication was Saving Karyn, and this novel was based on her own life experience. Drowning in debt, Karyn took the unusual route of advertising her plight online, asking people who didn’t know her to help pay off her debt. Amazingly enough, it worked, and Saving Karyn was born. 20 Times a Lady, though not based on her own personal experiences, is a delightful fictitious tale that is surely well worth a read.

No one knows you like your sister. Mine is a vice-president, but I still remember her life-sized poster of Mark Spitz. She remembers diapering me, so if my ego were to grow too big, she'd remind me of that. She's also my biggest fan and I don't know where I'd be without her.

BETWEEN SISTERS by Kristin Hannah is about Meghann Dontess and Clair Cavenaugh, two sisters with different fathers. Their mother was a self-absorbed actress who often left them to fend for themselves. Thus Meghann found Clair's father and they went to live with him. Until Meghann felt she had to leave.