Fiction - Women

Passions flare, secrets unravel and love blossoms in the heart of the summer season. As summertime flourishes, it's time for new beginnings... Heartsease House is in desperate need of renovation. Its owner, widower Joel, is struggling to come to terms with life as a...

The acclaimed authors of the "emotional literary roller coaster" (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on...

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...

Author: Jillian CantorISBN-10: 8885791174ISBN-13: 9798885791175Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/27/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90dLarge Print

New York Times BestsellerA Good Morning America Book Club Pick"A world-class whodunit."--Stephen King "An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills."--Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Laugh-out-loud funny, thrilling and twisty..."--Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERColorado Public Radio 2023 Books We Love"Beautiful . . . A striking first novel of love and strength and growth, set against the forests and rivers of Colorado's high country. Read is a gifted writer, and the book is a literary triumph."--Denver Post"With...

Meet Halle and Reed, strangers-to-situationship-to-exes-to-friends-to-lovers, in this honest and dynamic debut novel. When Halle Hevko starts her freshman year of college she is eighteen, has never kissed a boy, and has her whole life figured out. On an assignment for the school paper, she...

Because every wife deserves a happy ending. Three best friends decide they're finally done with their ex-husbands taking their work as wives and moms for granted. They're ready to monetize the mental load, stick it to their exes, and have a wild ride in...

From Tracey Lange, the New York Times bestselling author of We Are the Brennans, comes The Connellys of County Down: a story about fierce family loyalty, good intentions gone awry, and the consequences of improbable love. When Tara Connelly is released from prison after...

A heartwarming story about the power of books to bring us together, inspired by the true story of the underground library in WWII Warsaw, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop In London. "All her life, Zofia has found comfort...

When your life is chaotic, what's one more complication? Jane Tanner's friends are settling down, while she's been settling for less. She longs for adventure and the big city, but caring for her ailing grandfather means she's shackled to her small town. She's excited...

The Situe, or Arab grandmother, moves in and out of this collection of eleven short stories, forming an irresistible drama of an extended Arab family in twentieth-century America. Frances Khirallah Noble's deft and accomplished tales draw her experiences and the stories told by grandmothers,...

A woman never knows which decision she makes is the one that changes the trajectory of her life. Will the life she lives be the one society chooses for her or the one she chooses for herself? In 1946, twenty-two-year-old Genevieve Ryder knows that...

"I hope you never reach a day where you have to choose between your band and your relationship."Ava Tomei seems to have it all: she's the lead singer of Buffalo-based symphonic metal band Handel's Messiah and is in a committed relationship with the band's...

It is a long, hot summer at World's End, a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling, and the larger part is occupied by her daughter, Teresa; Teresa's baby; and her husband, Maurice,...

The brand new romance from the author of Duvet Day. Escape to the Arctic Circle and fall in love under the Northern Lights . . . *** 'The most gorgeous Finnish adventure . . . beautifully evocative and romantic' Rachael Lucas, bestselling author of...

Can she find love when she's healing from heartache?After a painful end to a long engagement, all Meg wants out of life is a fresh start.She can't think of a better way to begin than by advancing her career in the hotel industry. When...

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson, known for "blending sweetness and sensuality in a poignantly written story"(Booklist), delivers a contemporary-set romance that joins the Coulter and Harrigan families... When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn't expect to wind up in jail....

"Patterson and Lupica make a great team" (Carl Hiaasen) who get "deep into the lives of strong women" (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation--a badass lawyer with a year to live. "Jane Smith is the best character we've ever created. Bar...

"Patterson and Lupica make a great team" (Carl Hiaasen) who get "deep into the lives of strong women" (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation--a badass lawyer with a year to live. "Jane Smith is the best character we've ever created. Bar...

#1 New York Times bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron once again captures the bravery and determination of a very good dog in the gripping sequel to A Dog's Way Home, the acclaimed novel that inspired the hit movie! Bella was once a lost dog,...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Frederick Buechner's quartet of outrageously witty, inspirational Bebb novels in one volume.Author: Frederick BuechnerISBN-10: 0062517694ISBN-13: 9780062517692Publisher: HarperOneLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2001Pages: 544Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.50d

Author: Mary CalviISBN-10: 1250289866ISBN-13: 9781250289865Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2019Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d

The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to continue to present new volumes in our Catholic Women Writers series, which will shed new light on prose work of Catholic women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries.Josephine Ward is one of Catholicism's greatest...

Magic under the mistletoe . . .One spectacular Christmas, Lady Perdita Selby, known to her friends and family as Poppy, met the man she thought she would love forever. The devilishly attractive Duke of Fletcher was the perfect match for the innocent, breathtakingly beautiful...

Have you ever felt a deep connection with someone the instant you met?In the wake of a profound romantic relationship with a man, a woman is propelled into an obsessive search for answers. Is he her soulmate? As she tries to unravel the significance...

This extraordinary collection of fiction, representing some of Gabriel Garc? M疵quez's earlier work from the 1950s, as well as stories written in the 1960s and '70s, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Er駭dira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom...

Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story by Max Beerbohm. Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by Max Beerbohm, a very successful satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911. It includes the famous line...

One powerful woman's story plays out as she lives three lives in Northern Italy, each incarnation separated by centuries yet linked across time. Her fate unfolds vertically as she moves through space and time to recover an ancient wisdom with the power to restore...

Edna O'Brien's classic novel NIGHT takes us through one long, sleepless night with Mary Hooligan. From the center of her bed, "a four poster no less," Mary recalls her fertile past, from her childhood in the Irish countryside to the love affairs she has...

First in the Flyover County Series!Tom and Sarah had everything going for them, until the rug was pulled out from under their feet. They were living the American dream with high paying jobs, a beautiful suburban home, and a secure future. But when Tom's...

In this very small, agricultural town of Spring Grove, located in California's central valley and populated primarily with first-generation survivors (commonly called by the pejorative, "Okie") of the tragic Midwest Dust Bowl of the 1930s, no one anticipated that mentally challenged Pearle Blinky could...

Playful, outrageous and edgy, 'S is for Spanking' is another pacy, modern romp from the author of 'A Study in Shame'.Respectable PA Lucy Salisbury finds herself on a management training course that's more like a boot camp. Everybody wants a piece of her, from...

After receiving a rather odd inheritance from an uncle she barely knew, Autumn Tucker decides to do something she's never done before. Instead of overthinking what's right in front of her, she embraces the freedom of the unknown and the thrill of leaving everything...

When a small town teacher meets her new neighbor, she's failing at remaining professional.Tricia Carter loves teaching, but as a high school teacher, her newest student puzzles her. When she calls home to discuss her concerns, she learns the child lives with a much...

The Arctic summer is short.Jennifer is working hard to experience all the intensity the Arctic has to offer. But she struggles with old scars of childhood trauma and new wounds from climate crisis. As polar night descends, Svalbard is haunted by an ancient monster,...

After unspeakable tragedy, will her heart take a new journey...or walk a well-worn path? The Gansett Island Series, Book 3 For four of the best summers of his young life, Luke Harris was in love with Sydney Donovan, a wealthy seasonal visitor to Gansett...

"When Susan Richards writes about horses and the interactions of the people involved with them, she brilliantly captures the characters, equine and human."--Maxine KuminStrong, startling, funny--these stories are rich in their feeling for the human, natural, and sometimes supernatural world of Kentucky.Susan Starr Richards...

What creates a family? Is it more than blood? Is it love, forgiveness, or trust? What brings people together to live, love, and learn together? Most families are created the same way, but not the Murphy Family. Brought together by love and forgiveness this...

When Emma wants something, nothing and no-one will get in her way! Has she finally met her match...?Emma Hartman has just graduated from Cinema Studies college, and she's aching to work for tall, dark-haired handsome executive, Zach Taylor.Zach is the head of Motion Picture...

Uplifting short stories about the second half of life! After fifty, a person can find hidden strengths. In this warm-hearted collection, a long-married couple tries role-reversal in retirement. Four friends deal with loss of purpose. An aging playboy must confront reality. A struggling hotel...

LOVE, AMBITION & SCANDAL COLLIDE AT THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIRDora Chambers may be the newest Lady Manager at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, but it isn't quite the plum position she expected. Instead of afternoon teas and fancy dinner parties, she finds herself...

A touching story that many women have been through; have you ever been 'Blinded by Love?' Have you ever been or are being lied to, cheated on, walked over, used, and abused? Were you or are you so tired of it and you don't...

More than a century has passed since the mighty struggle between the wizards and the mages ended in their mutual destruction, and more than forty years since the Empress Ouri na became the Divine Incarnation of the Devouring Moon. Appointing twelve deadly sorcerers as...

The closer Janine gets to Davian, the closer she gets to choosing between the safe life she thought she wanted, and a dazzling but dangerous future of adventure and pleasure.Shanna Germain's 'Leather Bound' is a sexy erotic novel perfect for fans of Sylvia Day's...

"Roberts proves again why she is the premier purveyor of small-town, feel-good romance." --Booklist USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts takes readers back to Moonlight Harbor with a story of music, hopes, dreams and family, brimming with Sheila's trademark humor and heart. Bonnie Brinks...

"Roberts proves again why she is the premier purveyor of small-town, feel-good romance." --Booklist USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts takes readers back to Moonlight Harbor with a story of music, hopes, dreams and family, brimming with Sheila's trademark humor and heart. Bonnie Brinks...

Praise for Sallie Bingham: "Sallie Bingham binds her collection together with sheer talent. The title novella is absolutely first-rate--a skillfully suggestive amalgam of Katherine Mansfield and Eudora Welty. This same unblinking gaze is hard at work on the essential weakness and dependence of men...

She saw him in the shadows. She felt him watching her. She knew he was going to get her... The killer always left a signature on his victims...an X carved in their flesh. But he'd spent the last twenty years in a mental hospital....

She's back Join everybody's favourite beer-swilling, chain-smoking, kangaroo-lurving lunatic as she embarks on her first 'proper' literary excursion. Violence Time travel Midgets Yes, tremble in fear at Tank Girl: The Novel Tank Girl and Booga have launched an all-out assault on the town of...