Fiction - Women

It is the late 1980s in southern Sri Lanka and Bradley Sirisena's father is abducted and tortured during the violent struggle for power between the state and local insurgents. Savi, a Sri Lankan research student long settled in the UK, has lost her way...

Some love is neverending. First love. A mother's love for her child. This, Jenny Mycroft learns when she finds herself unable to leave her husband, Ed and her daughter Bee, despite the fact she has died in a tragic car accident. But no matter...

She had to believe... Do wishes come true? Time was running out for Nora Elliott. Pieces of her heart drift just outside her desperate reach: one son who hates her and another son she never knew. She must believe...One man, one son can give...

Kat Marshall is torn from her sheltered world the night the doorbell rings. Creating a new life for herself, the sixty year old is caught up in a whirlwind. Two men find the green-eyed blond desirable, and introduce her to a world she never...

A hard-driving designer seeks acclaim by developing a Middle Eastern museum only to discover the project's real value is not what she imagined. Joanna and Ev have been partners for ten years--in business and in love--when one of the only women in government in...

Despite the good intentions of match-making friends, family, and neighbors, Rachel Springer, a tough Washington, D.C. lawyer, has spent a lifetime protecting her heart from the dangerous possibilities of love. When she finds a ragged stray dog on the streets of Georgetown and brings...

Paralegal Kristina Orris has moved to San Diego seeking a new life - a normal life. She is burdened by the memory of Hillari, a sister with an oversized head and disfigured face. After Kristina's dad died, she knew she couldn't stay. Kristina dreamed...

In Winter Winds, Gayle Roper concludes her delightful Seaside Seasons series with a tale of romance, crime, startling mix-ups, and a few hard hearts that just might get a much-needed midwinter thaw. After his guardian's severe illness, pastor Paul Trevelyan returns to his congregation...

"Go Back Jack" is a story about a young woman's search for her previous life as a black American blues musician who lived during the Great Depression and died tragically before realizing his musical dreams. After a series of psychic illuminations, she travels to...

Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.... Lisa Henderson's return trip to Denver after dropping off her youngest child at college in Texas has just hit a life-changing detour. With her adorable Westie in tow, Lisa is waiting at Delia's Diner in...

Viola Lee and Della Maypole lived a quiet life in a small Oklahoma town in the 1970's until rumors spread that they were lovers. Known affectionately as the Rhubarb Sisters, they were never more than a curiosity or less than normal to their friends...

From the author of the popular, Single Wide Female series... 199 pounds Any 200] lb woman on a weight loss mission, will tell you about the magic that happens when she steps on the scale and sees those magic numbers for the first time....

Herland is a utopian women's fiction novel written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1915. The genre fiction classic Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis also known as asexual reproduction. The result is an ideal social order:...

The Modern GriseldaA TaleMaria EdgeworthGriselda (anglicised to Grizzel and similar forms) is a figure from certain folklores, noted for her patience and obedience. In the tale as written by Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda marries Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo. He tests her by declaring that...

In the second book of The Lighthouse Trilogy we follow Charity, the third and youngest child of the Henley family. As a teen, in book one, she was sweet and lovable with a bit of a rebellious streak. Now as a grown woman fresh...

'Mr Right for Kurt & My Other Experiments' is a sequel to 'Mr Right & Mr Wrong'. Both books are social satire and light-hearted comedies about a modern, young female scientist. Having found her Prince Charming, Chloe makes herself busy with her other project...

Liz Alexander has spent many years keeping secrets from her friends. What's one or two more? That's what she'd been telling herself. Coming home to Jackson Beach, Florida was to recoop and get her head on straight. So telling her friends she was still...

CODENAME CUPCAKE is a laugh-out-loud send up of crime novels and the PTA. In other words, it is an old fashioned stay-at-home-mom turned superhero spy novel. Frazzled mom, Molly Peterson is zapped by an "enhancement ray" and recruited by a superspy agency to infiltrate...

'A writer to watch out for.' Mandasue Heller Welcome to The Estate - where even the darkest times have their lighter moments... Scars. Sometimes they're visible. Sometimes they're hidden deep within. After years of living as a single parent, all Donna Adams longs for...

The Magical World of Madame Metier weaves together magic, romance, and a powerful bond of friendship in celebration of the female spirit. Facing destitution after the untimely death of her husband, Madame M tier revisits a long-forgotten talent--the creation of healing botanical creams and...

USA Best Book Award Winner in General FictionFor overprotective parent Alyson Ward, any time her daughter, Lyla, is out of sight is reason to panic. So it's a big step for her when she lets Lyla attend a sleepover at her cousin's house. Comforted...

What if the one thing you want is the only thing you can't have?With her fortieth birthday approaching, Lucy Carpenter thinks she finally has it all: a wonderful new husband, Jonah, a successful career and the chance of a precious baby of her own....

The Garden Of Eve is a fictional tale of life for guests and employees at an educational escape resort for women. A place to learn or live out a fantasy of their choosing. The tangled webs they weave along the way bring laughter and...

May Monroe's life is defined by the fear of ending up alone and unloved, so she settles for a quiet life of desperation: but even that fails her. Emotionally damaged by dangerous men and physically attacked by cancer, she's challenged to find...within herself...the strength...

Growing up on the wooded slopes of Noah's Mountain, three sisters are trapped in poverty and violence. A year after fourteen-year old Tressa Stone is sold into a horrific marriage by her uncaring father, she finally escapes a vicious husband, nearly five times her...

A novel of women's friendship, loss, and recovery from the author of The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship. TOP THREE REASONS TO VISIT EUROPE: 1. Explore foreign cultures 2. Sample outstanding food 3. Desperately flee impending personal crisis Lenny left his wife, Monique,...

Award-winning writer Diana Renfro offers readers an unforgettable drama in Spanish Doors, her debut novel that shows how a woman makes sense of the loss of her father. Nutritionist Arden Sidonia is devoted to her patients and cares for her Gramma Kaira though Arden...

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher's Sleeping Tiger, a woman's search for answers about her family history takes her on an unexpected journey of self-discovery... Whenever Selina asked about her late father, the grandmother who raised her changed the subject. The...

In acclaimed bestselling author Lisa Tucker's mesmerizing and suspenseful tale of intimacy, betrayal, and lost innocence, a literature professor's carefully constructed life shatters after her twin brother's death.On a March afternoon, while Lila Cole is working in her quiet office, her twin brother, Billy,...

Say "I do" to five surprising stories of women grappling with love and marriage and whether to walk down the aisle or run away. In Elise Juska's "Perfect Weather for Driving," Megan and Joel's sunset fender-bender makes for a great drunken story at his...

Dark waters are rising. Who will stay afloat?Architect Vance Nolan has crafted a marvel--shining apartments floating in the peaceful cove of a winding river. The project is partially occupied and about to make investors rich when a sinkhole gives way.Torrential rains quickly flood the...

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in...

The Bloody Trail of Disenchantment is a series about the aftermath of infidelity. The first volume in the series, Sins of the Father includes stories about how the infidelities of father figures affect the children in their lives. As in life, some stories have...

He Done Her Wrong, the revised second volume in the Bloody Trail of Disenchantment series, includes vignettes about infidelities (real and perceived) and their effect on a variety of souls. Some stories have funny moments, some have tragic moments, some stories have horrific details...

Two women's lives collide when a priceless Russian artifact comes to light. Tanya Kagan, a rising specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, the...

Any risk is worth taking when you have this much to lose.Estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon combines business with pleasure as she plans a sale at the exquisite beach home of the Gardner family. But the romantic getaway weekend with her husband is shattered...

War. Genocide. Rape. Poverty. Climate disruption. Weapons of mass destruction. Inadequate education and healthcare. Hunger. Corruption. Crime. Injustice. Inequality. Is there a common denominator underpinning these pervasive crimes? Heidi Delisle, CEO of Illumina, a technology powerhouse, believes there is. From her vantage point, testosterone...

What happens when you lose your marriage, and then gain your ex's dad's trust? Kate Bergin, a married Manhattan attorney, was always attracted to aviation and learned to fly during her marriage, acquiring her pilot's license. Kate and her beloved father-in-law, Warren Ethan, a...

PLEASE NOTE: This book has been rewritten as LOVERS AT HEART, REIMAGINED, now available on this retailer.In LOVERS AT HEART...Handsome, wealthy resort owner Treat Braden is used to getting what he wants. When Max Armstrong walked into his life six months earlier, he saw...

Psychiatrist Stephen Forester and his wife Brea left the frenzy of New York City ten years before in search of a quiet life in a tranquil seaside community in New Hampshire. But when the elusive Eva Hathaway steps into Stephen's office and begins to...

Sara wants this baby more than she has ever wanted anything.Sara has worked her entire life to overcome the name Barefield. To be a Barefield in the Appalachian town where she grew up means that you are the poorest of the poor, that you...

The story begins with the stereotype of a beauty pageant contestant calling for world peace, and then explores what might have to happen in our contemporary world to make such a dream a reality. Includes strong themes of art, women's issues, and American folklore.Author:...

In a small town on the coast of North Carolina, four ladies' bridge game is delayed as they cope with growing older. Will the hippie, Stella find her long lost son? What is Penny hiding behind her socialite exterior? Can Lillian achieve fulfillment? How...

From New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick comes a beautiful novel of sisterhood lost and found--and of the ways we create the rich tapestries that encompass the past and the future... The economic downturn has hit New Bern, Connecticut, and Tessa Woodruff's herbal...

From Lisa Tucker, the critically acclaimed author of Once Upon a Day and The Song Reader, comes an extraordinary novel about the way we live now: the choices we make and the decisions we let life make for us. Matthew and Amelia were once...

The romantic story of a young female pianist in cholera-ravaged Paris of 1832, whose own tragedy leaves her susceptible to the passions and scandals of the composer Franz Liszt At the height of the Romantic era in Paris, there was no bigger celebrity than...

Taylor Antrim's novel is a darkly comic, clear-eyed look at hidden worlds whose complexities and rules can be understood only from inside: the insular hothouse of boarding school, the thorny dynamics between father and son, and the self-delusion of blind ideological commitment. Dyer Martin,...

There's a storm brewing in the quiet town of Litchfield. A whirlwind of media attention, political debate, and anger is about to sweep through and hold the fate of three women captive.In the eye of the storm are sixteen-year-old Clara Mahoney, a lonesome girl...

"A cheeky tale for recession-era romantics," (More) from a bestselling author The year is 2006 and Holly Talbott is married to the founder of Comer Capital at the apex of excess on Wall street. Sure, Holly loves being a stay-at-home mom and keeping house...

There's a cougar on the prowl in Manhattan's Upper East Side in the latest laugh-out-loud romance from "Queen of the beach read" (Washington Post Express) Jill Klargman. Eighteen years ago, Eden Clyde exchanged her dreams of true love for a life of wealth and...