Annabel Monaghan Books in Order

This guide encourages girls to identify what they want and focus their efforts toward personal goals. Drawing on positive-energy principles, it offers an optimistic approach to school, friendships and taking responsibility for everyday choices.

Math prodigy Farrah hides her talents to fit in during senior year. After decoding a terrorist group’s message, she finds herself fleeing danger and working with an FBI agent instead of enjoying an ordinary graduation.

Finally among fellow math enthusiasts at MIT, Digit recklessly hacks a defense database. With the CIA and an ecoterrorist already watching her computer, college life becomes a dangerous struggle against threats on both sides of the law.

In essays about children, school and family routines, Monaghan finds humor in the gap between perfect motherhood and ordinary life. Her observations connect playground anxieties, bewildering teenagers and the bittersweet experience of children leaving home.

A screenwriter turns her failed marriage into a film shot at her own home. When its famous leading man pays to stay another week, ordinary parenting and unexpected romance collide with the uncertainties of Hollywood.

While planning her wedding near her family’s beach house, Sam encounters the first love who broke her heart. Familiar places and resurfacing memories make her question the carefully arranged future she thought she wanted.

Professional organizer Ali Morris is raising children while trying to make sense of grief and a failed marriage. An unexpected connection offers the possibility of a summer romance, prompting questions about the life she wants and the changes she is ready to make.

Hollywood executive Jane claims she can recruit a famous singer for her film despite their painful history. To make good on the promise, she must spend a week with a frustrating cinematographer and confront her past.

Single mother Dolly returns to Rhode Island to help save her family’s home. A fake-dating arrangement with a wealthy workaholic becomes unexpectedly intimate, challenging her lifelong habit of solving every problem without relying on anyone else.