Fiction - Feminist

From the mind of acclaimed reporter Gary Baum comes In Pursuit of Beauty, a striking debut novel that examines the nature of truth and allure in our modern world. What would you endure to fulfill your dreams? What would you do to have the...

Two women do the best they can to make something of their lives--even at the expense of their friendship--in a witty, emotional, and startling novel by the author of Family Reservations.Helen Hicks may not have any friends, but she does have a plan: prove...

Welcome to the Rim - a brutal frontier where untamed desert hides deadly secrets. A land of scorching sun and unfulfilled dreams, the Rim is where the map ends and danger thrives. In this lawless world, survival is the only currency, and power belongs...

Author: Anna DornISBN-10: 1668085534ISBN-13: 9781668085530Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2026Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

With a precise and visceral style, Daniela Tarazona presents the clinical course of a radical mutation--a change whose physiological symptoms emerge from a more intimate evolution. After the death of her mother, Irma decides to take a plane and hole up on a faraway...

From a rising star of Russian literature, a collection of short stories that straddles the line between delight and horror.Twisting the art of the fairytale into something entirely her own, Alla Gorbunova's (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is an endlessly inventive collection thematically-linked short prose. Divided...

Hawk Island is plunged into crisis when a series of daring break-ins target the island's most wealthy and powerful families. The Sacristy-a group of unconventional women from the village of Two Brooks-tries to get to the bottom of the burglaries, while also bent on...

For fans of the new Matlock reboot, a legal thriller featuring an idealistic young lawyer who believes her bruised and abused client . . . even after discovering that client is keeping secrets that are beyond belief. Attorney Jessica Fischer is back, and this...

A gripping and poignant ode to chosen family, intergenerational friendship, and resolute persistence.This is not a good time for Berry Garland to realize her dream of opening a women's health center. Florida has become more conservative, and "women's health" raises a red flag. Berry's...

In the ancient myths of Greece, Persephone's name was once Kore, the maiden of the harvest. As the daughter of Demeter, she was loved for her beautyand innocence, but her destiny lay far beyond the surface. Known today as theQueen of the Underworld, her...

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.Seeking escape from their unfulfilling marriages and monotonous lives in 1920s England, two women become transfixed by an advertisement to rent a medieval Italian castle for the month of April. Lotty Wilkins, who feels...

Author: Kimberly SheeterISBN-10: 195962198XISBN-13: 9781959621980Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2025Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d

"Ira is a young noblewoman harboring a dark secret... She can control fire.In the citadel of Elyron where Ira lives, women are strictly forbidden from using magic. Only men are permitted to harness it for exceptional talents like scrying and potion making. Ira was...

Cassie Penbrook decides she's had enough of men invading her and other women's personal space and thinking they can treat women however they want. She places an ad in the local paper to form a group for women to vent about men. Cassie, along...

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, painting the brutal and captivating empire of gods and men, and the one queen destined to rule them all.A common woman. The governor she married. The king who loved them...

A stunning historical fantasy debut steeped in the salt and superstition of the Cornish coast. Perfect for readers of Circe and Godkiller by Hannah Kaner. Forgotten sirens, mischievous sea gods, and the lore from days long since passed weave an irresistible tale. The people...

A stunning historical fantasy debut steeped in the salt and superstition of the Cornish coast. Perfect for readers of Circe and Godkiller by Hannah Kaner. Forgotten sirens, mischievous sea gods, and the lore from days long since passed weave an irresistible tale. The people...

Author: Catherine MatthewsISBN-13: 9798989884049Publisher: Pacific Peaks PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2025Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.72d

"In a future where hearts are borrowed and truths are hidden, one woman's journey will redefine what it means to truly live."Author: Leslie J. LinderISBN-13: 9798230737087Publisher: Leslie J LinderLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2025Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.22d

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh faces her hardest challenge yet when she returns to her childhood home in the fourth book in the charming Saffron Everleigh mystery series."A cleverly plotted puzzle" (Ashley Weaver) in the vein of Opium and Absinthe, this is perfect for fans...

""In the Family Way bursts with the complexity, drama, and warmth of Call the Midwife, but set at the canasta and kitchen tables of 1960s suburban America. This timely, timeless novel captures not only the reproductive horrors of that era but also political awakening...

What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared, leaving the men to take their places, fill their roles, do what they did. What would happen? How would the men react?Here and now, women's subordination is so systemic it's unremarkable (to all but...

After 3 years of hiding, Lana returns to her hometown, Triville. This time, she must investigate the death of her best friend - the one who had died in suspicious circumstances after escaping Mercy House.Lana starts working in a Guardian House, helping her father...

London, beware: There's a new witch in town and she's about to ignite the city's streets...Expelled from witch college for her unruly conduct, 26-year-old Sofia Hausmann heeds the call of her foster father, Mardequai, summoning her to join his crusade for magical dominance over...

A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters--one in New York, one in Singapore--who are bound by an ancient secretSisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald...

Annie Ernaux meets Annie Dillard in this sultry story of a woman's obsession with a painter -- and a river. A woman is on an artists' retreat on an island in the St. Lawrence Seaway, taking time away from her partner and her daughter...

For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti, an atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully preparing and deliberately eating a lethal dish of blowfish.Blowfish is a postmodern novel in four parts, alternating between the respective stories...

All things come to an end. Adelaide has always dreamed of one thing: freedom. Now, deeper in the West Rim than ever before, her second shadow--the mysterious Stranger--grows more restless, bloodthirsty, and dangerously real. Tesla's fight to carve a future for herself and other...

Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln annotated and wrote the introduction to the 1915 edition of Susan Glaspell's novel Fidelity, the only edition published during Glaspell's lifetime.Author: Susan GlaspellISBN-10: 0809370174ISBN-13: 9780809370177Publisher: Saluki PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2025Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bront?'s masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, and a silk ribbon bookmark. "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it...

"Once I read the first story in Are You Happy?, I put aside everything else to savor the rest. This is a wise collection, capturing its characters swimming upstream to encounter their fates. With vivid and compassionate prose that explores the countless ways we...

"A rich family saga about art and memory's power to inform the present, make peace with the past, and maybe even alter the future." -- Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts "[Asha] Thanki reinvents generational memory, conjuring inheritance as...

Author: Kirsten MillerISBN-10: 0063455773ISBN-13: 9780063455771Publisher: William Morrow Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2025Pages: 512Format: PaperbackLarge Print

A retro romp through the innovative eighties . . .Christina Como knows her way around the ER and a computer room.After a revealing truth and a shocking rejection leave her with shattered dreams, Christina sets out to reclaim her life. Her passion and drive...

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill Subs Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by Substack Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary...

These women are out for blood.Detective Luke Stockton is preparing for his first child with his wife, Beatrice, but balancing work and home is a challenge as she is behaving with increasing strangeness. Beatrice begins to frequent a medspa offering mysterious prenatal checkups, leech...

Claire Adams thought she had escaped the ghosts of her past-until they came hunting for her in the dead of night. A single gunshot shatters the fragile illusion of safety she had built, forcing her into the arms of the one man she swore...

Female protagonists turn Jewish folktales on their heads!What happens when stories with traditional male protagonists are updated with female characters? Timeless plots and values remain, while old tales transform to inspire and captivate a new generation.When Debra Gordon Zaslow first ventured into Jewish storytelling...

Katherine Center meets Really Good, Actually in this clever and poignant novel about an English professor who grieves the sudden loss of her husband the Victorian way, by wearing widow's weeds and escaping to London, where she unexpectedly discovers there's still love, life, snark,...

After the death of her parents, Christie Devon declares her autonomy and desire to pioneer a new option for women-working. As a single woman, Christie wants to maintain her independence and work outside the home. She begins her journey discouraged to find that as...

Offering the atmosphere of Twin Peaks and the queer camaraderie of comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, Veal is a thrilling exploration of friendship, fear, and the thin line between justice and vengeance. Delores "Lawrence" Franklin is a failed capitalist and a runaway...

The tense and emotional saga of a young woman's survival in the lawlessness of post-World War II France, by the New York Times bestselling author of the Aim?e Leduc series August 1945: Seventeen-year-old Huguette Faure is a survivor. The war has taken everything from...

A work of fabulist fiction that centers on the lives and protection of those living in sick, disabled, and other marginalized bodies. Arria Deepwater's Descent is a modern fairy tale exploring the vulnerability and strength that come with living in an unconventional body, especially...

A timely debate on women's rights and abortion. A unique and nostalgic study of Southern America following World War II. A dramatic mother/daughter conflict. In The Farm, Olaf "Ollie" Weber, a wounded Nazi prisoner of war, escapes a POW camp in Tennessee intent on...

Zoe Rose never quite fit in. As the only kid in kindergarten with an enormous red afro, Zoe was taunted by the other little girls for refusing to share her "Annie" wig, even when she swore it was her own hair (it was).In second...

An unflinching yet humorous perspective on modern campus life, from the highs of the non-stop party scene to the lows of prescription drug abuse, exploring issues of body dysmorphia and campus sexual assault. Perfect for fans of Mona Awad's Bunny, Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year...

Author: Mary Shelley, Deanna P. KoretskyISBN-10: 0192883046ISBN-13: 9780192883049Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2025Pages: 208Format: Paperback

Author: Laney Katz BeckerISBN-13: 9798228470361Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Format: MP3 CD

'A really thrilling and totally original story of Greek mythology that I can't recommend highly enough' JENNIFER SAINTBefore Gods and mortals, there were The Fates . . . You've heard the legends: three sisters born out of Nyx's darkness, destined to weave the lives,...

Author: Kirsten MillerISBN-10: 0063282852ISBN-13: 9780063282858Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2025Pages: 368Format: Hardcover