Books like A girl like that by Frances Devine

A poignant young‑adult tale of two teens—Hazel and Augustus—who meet in a cancer support group, and whose unlikely romance forces them to confront love, illness, and the meaning of life.

At 17, Charlotte Davis has already faced the trauma of abandonment, abuse, and loss. Since her father and best friend are gone and her mother is unreachable, she learns to survive alone in a world that offers little compassion.

At Culver Creek Boarding School, Miles "Pudge" Halter leaves his uneventful home life to find adventure, only to be drawn into the complex world of Alaska Young – a brilliant, enigmatic student whose presence challenges and changes him forever.

On a private Massachusetts island, teen Cadence spends a summer with her cousins and a boy named Gat, only to wake up with amnesia and a tangled web of secrets, friendships, and loss that threaten to destroy the Liars.

Eighteen‑year‑old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital in 1967, where she documents life in the psychiatric ward, exploring mental illness, recovery, and the cultural landscape of the late 1960s.

At Pirriwee Public, a beachside school, a routine trivia night spirals into chaos when a parent dies—raising questions of murder, accidental death, or toxic truths. Parents discover how small lies can become deadly.

Set in a quiet 1950s American suburb, two orphaned sisters, Meg and Susan, are held captive in their aunt’s basement as her deteriorating mental health begins to poison their family and the surrounding community.

Elizabeth, a teacher turned pioneer, marries Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Wynn Delaney and faces isolation and hardship at their remote northern outpost, testing her love and faith.

A spunky Southern baker and a charming carpenter from Vermont embark on a Christmas journey to find Corrie's estranged father and build a gingerbread house.

When Charity Bloom is left at the altar by a best friend who elopes with her fiancé, a handsome stranger named Buddy Pierce discovers oil on her Texas ranch. With an ex‑fiancé’s return and a deceitful rival in the mix, Charity must decide who to trust with her heart and her future.

Emily Winslow seeks healing through a writing expedition to a headhunter tribe in the Amazon, yet past war wounds and new love threaten her trust and heart.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

At fifteen, Rose sails from rural Ireland to Chicago in 1902, confronting her father's alcoholism and brothers’ perilous political entanglements as she battles to carve out a future in a new world.

Sixteen‑year‑old Zarin Wadia, a half‑Hindu, half‑Parsi teen in Jeddah, struggles with school rumors, smoking, and a desire to escape her aunt and uncle’s home while navigating friendship and cultural tensions.

A wedding planner in Louisiana falls for a client, threatening her career and heart as she unravels the mystery of the groom’s true identity in this heartfelt Christian romance.

In 1860, young governess Ellen Paget travels to Paris to serve a noble family, only to find her life shattered by tragedy and scandal, forcing her back to a reluctant home life in Sussex.

A minister tries to integrate a new Hispanic community into his church with the help of a special group of women.

Irish immigrant Fiona uses her unique lace‑making talent to help her Chicago family survive adversity in this touching tale of perseverance and community.

When a relentless rainstorm and a plague threaten rural Thunder Ridge, Texas, schoolteacher Audrey Pride must care for the sick while confronting her growing affection for widower Eli Gray as their community battles water and disease.

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A nurse and former marine meet the woman he loves and try to rebuild their lives after a heart-breaking event that changes everything in their lives, including their children and the men they love, in a small town in the Virgin River valley in California. The stories are told as a series of connected Christmas stories that intertwine and build on each other, creating a beautifully crafted collection of love stories, adventure, and Christmas cheer.