If you miss Maeve Binchy...

Published in the United States just last month, Maeve Binchy's final book, A Week in Winter, quickly reached the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list. Binchy died last July at the age of 72, and her many admirers feel a sense of loss knowing that there will be no more novels from this extremely popular Irish author.

Binchy's warm, compassionate, upbeat stories about women's lives and relationships certainly have many fans in Glenview. The hold list at the library for A Week in Winter seems to grow daily. (Worry not! More copies are on the way!) If you are impatiently waiting your turn for Binchy's last book or are just looking for another author to help to fill the void that Binchy's death has left, consider some of the titles and authors below.

• P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
• Lake News by Barbara Delinsky
• Dancing in a Distant Place by Isla Dewar
• Wild Designs by Katie Fforde
• Flight Lessons by Patricia Gaffney
• Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
• Always and Forever by Cathy Kelly
• The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes
• Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons by Lorna Landvik
• The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
• Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
• Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope
• A Summer in the Country by Marcia Willett