Fiction - Women

Hina's life takes a pivotal turn after one disastrously awkward job interview. Rather than bowing to defeat, she channels her frustration into an unexpected venture: launching a lingerie business. "The Girl with 1000 Interviews" is not just about the quirky business of fashion; it's...

Author: Hope HollowayISBN-10: 1952196396ISBN-13: 9781952196393Publisher: South Street PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2024Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.76d

The incredibly buzzy debut that everyone is talking about -- a love story about two people pulled apart by the same force that draws them together: music. It's a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is...

Author: Angela GreenISBN-13: 9798330257799Publisher: A.M. Green BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 434Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Harkening to Agatha Christie's classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them--from Ruth Ware, the New York Times bestselling author who "is turning out to be as ingenious and...

Rosa Brown was an educated sixty-year-old woman, who worked in the corporate world. Life was good until she was informed by her employer that her services were no longer needed. Devastated and confused, Rosa found herself living in a women's shelter in Washington, DC....

Author: Christi PopeISBN-10: 1977275575ISBN-13: 9781977275578Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

In a prequel to her appearance in Ellen Meister's "delicious"* Farewell, Dorothy Parker, the acid-tongued writer haunts the halls of the Algonquin Hotel with her piercing wit and unexpectedly tender wisdom. Death cannot quell the feisty spirit of Dorothy Parker. For more than forty...

France, 1939: A talented singer, Ruth Lacroix has left Maine to live with her aunt and uncle, dreaming of performing at the Casino de Paris. But with the outbreak of war, and the heartbreaking news that her cousin has been killed by German forces,...

Author: Maxine SwannISBN-10: 159448581XISBN-13: 9781594485817Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2012Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): New York Times Book Review 09/09/2012 pg. 24

"The author of New Uses for Old Boyfriends returns to the Delaware seashore town of Black Dog Bay, where one woman learns to put passion before practicality... Brighton Smith doesn't do outrageous. As an insurance actuary, it's her job to assess risk and avoid...

Includes discussion questions and an excerpt from Cure for the common breakup.Author: Beth KendrickISBN-10: 0451474198ISBN-13: 9780451474193Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2016Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Booklist 06/01/2016 pg. 62

A funny, fiercely intelligent and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition--including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld's iconic novel Prep--from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy. In her second story collection, Sittenfeld...

Author: Anna NorthISBN-10: 0399184473ISBN-13: 9780399184475Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2016Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d

In life, Frank Wildermuth could've had any woman he wanted. In death, he'll try to win back the only one that mattered.Author: Liz MichalskiISBN-10: 0425238725ISBN-13: 9780425238721Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2011Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.13w x 0.89dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/18/2011Romantic Times...

A haunting and absorbing debut - fans of Before I Go to Sleep and Sister will be hooked. She closed her eyes and he was gone - who is watching him now? When Carrie's five-year old son, Charlie, disappeared on a Norfolk beach, her...

A chance meeting between two old friends leads to an obsessive love which will unearth long-hidden secrets, causing a bitter rift between two families. Jenny and Ruth were best friends at school until Ruth abruptly moved away from their Cornish village and they lost...

A beautifully written novel with great emotional appeal, set in Cornwall and Canada. Marine historian Mark Hannah finds a hauntingly beautiful figurehead in Newfoundland. He traces her ship, The Lady Isabella, back to a small port in Cornwall where he meets Gabrielle Ellis, the...

An electrifying New York Times bestselling novel about marriage and deceit that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. With her inimitable...

Miss Julia faces a double dose of trouble-this time right under her own roof. Miss Julia's iron will and kind heart have assured her a spot among the most beloved characters of Southern literature. In her latest adventure, Miss Julia whisks Hazel Marie off...

A married couple joins a week-long wilderness expedition to help them reconnect in this heartfelt companion novel to the viral TikTok sensation Out on a Limb. High school sweethearts Sarah and Caleb Linwood have always been a sure thing. For the past seventeen years,...

From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story--by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming--of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew. "The bravest book you'll read all year."--Jodi Picoult "What Does It Feel Like? is fiction, but it...

Tina, a 30-year-old preschool teacher, sees her life slipping by. She is the mother of ten-year-old Matty, the product of an unexpected adventure on a European train. But he's a great kid, and she's a wonderful mother, if more than a bit economically challenged....

In 1944, Anna Mitchell is running from a life bound to suffocate her, the life her mother mapped out for her. She tosses aside that figurative map to draw a new one, enlisting as a U.S. Army nurse. Despite her mother's vehement protest, Anna...

What would you do if a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Egypt really did change your life?Plagued with anxiety and mental health struggles her whole life, Julia Wheelwright has always felt like something was missing. During a serendipitous tour of Hatshepsut's temple in Luxor, Julia is...

In 1944, Anna Mitchell is running from a life bound to suffocate her, the life her mother mapped out for her. She tosses aside that figurative map to draw a new one, enlisting as a U.S. Army nurse. Despite her mother's vehement protest, Anna...

Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters -- Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more -- as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be...

May 4, 1969. Four young women. Four dreams.And then everything changes...Ellen yearns to leave her rural Vermont town to pursue higher education, in defiance of her parents' expectations that she marry and stay close to home. A chance encounter with a stranger leads her...

From New York Times bestselling author Joanne DeMaio comes The Mistake, Book 21 of The Seaside Saga. Mistakes. Everyone in the New England beach town of Stony Point has made one. Some mistakes are as big as the blue depths of Long Island Sound....

In the swoon-worthy opener of her Princes of London series, Christy Carlyle takes readers on a breathless chase through Victorian London as a wild bluestocking from a family of treasure hunters and a handsome, serious gentleman from the Scotland Yard butt heads while attempting...

A Yorkshire orphan struggling for opportunity against 18th-century odds reluctantly transforms into a Venetian courtesan during the Empire's last days.Renna Covert dreams of a world beyond her Yorkshire life shelling cotton. Having an unlikely education, she hopes to be a maid or even a...

BRAND-NEW SWOONY, UPLIFTING, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD ROMCOM.THE PERFECT BEACH READ FOR SUMMER 2024.You only get one chance at love . . . don't you?When American tourist Halley Hart accidentally drenches shy academic Henry Inglis in an Oxford coffee shop, it's like he was struck by lightning....

One impulsive decision changes the lives of two best friends forever in a powerful novel of suspense by the USA Today bestselling author of The Last Caretaker.If Lark and Mikki didn't have each other, they'd have nothing in this miserable town. So the best...

A mother must fight for her daughter's life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic. Clem gets a call that is every mother's worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in...

Who can you trust, when you can't even trust what is right in front of you?After the death of her best friend and her own near-death experience in Italy, Cat Gabbiano returns to her home in Lowcountry of South Carolina. During Cat's absence, her...

In this heart-shattering WWII novel set during the Nazi occupation of Paris, a brave young woman pays a terrible price to save those she holds most dear. Louise Basset works as a housemaid at The Ritz Hotel, home to the most powerful Nazis in...

A woman escaping a violent past finds new friendships, romance, and tenuous sanctuary in an emotionally gripping novel by New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge.On the run from her abusive husband, Kyra Smith hits the road. Destination unknown. With a neglected dog she...

A young woman battles loss and addiction growing up in Saint Paul and finds her way to live her dream of becoming a Blues drummer."I know what I want to do, but I don't know how to do it." said Sarah."Oh yeah, what's that?"...

In the ancient Chinese game of mah jongg, each player must make the most of the tiles they've been given. It's the same in the game of life.When Roseann is called away to a family emergency, her mah jongg pals bring in a new...

Late spring 1945, London: The war in Europe is over. But for Briar Woods, a dancer at Sadler's Wells Ballet, the past resurfaces and she must come face to face with the truth. It feels as though her war has only just begun. Since...

An unforgettable and emotionally charged story of two mothers whose lives are changed forever by a devastating accusation - and how far they'll go to protect those they love. I was so happy when my son, Knox, began dating my best friend's daughter. Our...

Some friends--and friendships--are worth killing for in this dark, twisty suspense novel by national bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Jane is unhappy. A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to pay...

She can't remember. He can't forget.When Lauren Wentworth wakes up in the hospital after falling from a ladder, she has more questions than answers. Way more. She knows where she is--the wilds of New Hampshire. But she's apparently lost the last four months of...

The long-awaited follow-up to the Reese's Book Club pick and New York Times bestselling global phenomenon The Light We Lost a thrilling love story about the roles fate and choice play in shaping a life It's been ten years. In case you're out there...

Author: Kristy Woodson HarveyISBN-13: 9798891642522Publisher: Center PointLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2024Pages: 500Format: Library BindingLarge Print

A foster mother must contend with the emotional turmoil of her new blended family in a heartfelt novel of hope and second chances by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.Maggie Blount, divorced mother of two and California physician, puts her private practice...

He's the only person who can give me a ride to my brother's wedding, and he's also the one man I absolutely CANNOT have feelings for. My brother's best friend is strictly off limits... Isn't he?I should have known my mom would go totally...

What if a stranger held the secret to your past that would change your life forever?Seventy-year-old Goldie Sparrows faces declining finances, questionable health, and a late husband who torments her from the beyond. She seeks refuge in her butterfly garden, which is filled with...

After the splashy success of her last big case, Portland, Maine, sleuth Olivia Lively struggles to manage her one-woman firm's sudden growth spurt.When an old friend offers her a chunk of cash to investigate his wife and brother who may be having an affair,...

Written by the author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series, The Blue Castle is L. M. Montgomery's sophomore adult novel and a classic tale of romance. By society's standards, twenty-nine year old Valancy Stirling is an old maid. Ostracized by the community...