Fiction - Women

Reggie Cumberland got fired, and her man "done her wrong". Now she doesn't care what it takes to keep her new job as a Los Angeles talk show host, even if it means stealing someone else's idea. When that idea gets Della, a co-worker,...

Chasing after each other wasn't what we did. We excelled in letting each other go...I just never expected her not to come back.When Matti fell for Nessa, they did everything right. They fell in love young but gave each other time to grow up....

Just as Margaret Atwoods's Handmaid's Tale prophesied a repressive dystopian future, Kim Dempster's The Color of Mourning takes us on an intensely emotional journey into the very real world of today where women are confronted by fanatic religious fundamentalists in an existential fight for...

It is 1879 Germany, and we hear the story of how three generations of Schmidt men have successfully supported their families making buttons. Each father teaches his trade to his eldest son. Along with the trade, the Schmidt men teach their sons to have...

A charming literary-themed novel about a young woman determined to save her great-aunt's beloved bookshop from extinction by the shiny new competition--which also happens to be run by the handsome son of her family's rivals.The cute, seaside town of Portneath has been the home...

A stirring novel from the author of I Couldn't Love You More and Hideous Kinky: the story of two sisters who couldn't be more different and the great love that holds them together throughout a tumultuous youthFor as long as Lucy can remember, she's...

"Stunning: so clever, so gripping, so timely." -- Lucy FoleyWhen four influential members are poisoned at London's most exclusive private club, a young waitress is charged with their murder. Her personal life and upbringing are dissected, and five men begin to question how well...

For fans of Kate Quinn and The Nightingale, a gripping story of a young Jewish girl who joins an elite Russian sniper unit and embarks on a mission targeting the highest prize of World War II: Adolph Hitler.With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet...

In this imaginative cozy mystery, the search for a missing maid leads Miss Caroline Bingley from Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice into murder and mayhem in the gritty underbelly of Regency London.Two years after her brother Charles Bingley weds Miss Jane Bennett, Miss...

For fans of Kate Quinn and The Nightingale, a gripping story of a young Jewish girl who joins an elite Russian sniper unit and embarks on a mission targeting the highest prize of World War II: Adolph Hitler.With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet...

A Journey Through Time, Love, and Secrets"Love Child" is a poignant tale of love, loss, and redemption, capturing the struggles and triumphs of a woman bound by societal norms and personal regrets. It is a journey through time that highlights the enduring power of...

September, 1821. When her father announces that she must marry the ancient, grim-faced vicar, Lucy decides upon a desperate plan. Stealing his prized stallion, she escapes across the moors, only to fall into the hands of notorious horse thieves and the cheating arms of...

"Shouldn't we introduce ourselves before we get divorced?"With these words, American grad student Breanne Smith secures the attraction of Nicolas Brassard, French banker.Through tragedy, heartbreak and fear, Nick and Breanne forge a bond that takes them from the American Midwest to the shores of...

Secrets age like wine... and this one is ready to be uncorked.Elko, Nevada, 1955Seventy-six-year-old Meg Bruno has spent decades in quiet exile, keeping the past buried where it belongs. Once known as the infamous Bootlegging Queen, she smuggled sacramental wine during Prohibition-until the law...

What if Daisy Miller had survived? Lawrence Kessenich's captivating novella, boldly reimagines Henry James's classic tale, rescuing Daisy from the clutches of Roman fever and plunging her into vibrant new adventures in Paris.Free-spirited and fiercely independent, Daisy continues to defy the rigid norms of...

She barely escaped with her life. He's hellbent on helping lost souls. When a marriage of convenience leads to love, can their hearts keep them safe?Brynn Smith hides her battle scars well. On the run and in hiding from a dangerous cult, she's terrified...

In The Burning City, Alaya Dawn Johnson continues the trilogy begun with her debut, Racing the Dark, delving deeper into the world of magic wielded by women who understand the dark trade-offs of power and sacrifice. Lana, the heroine, has become the black ange...

A Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearA Globe & Mail Best Short Fiction TitleA National Post Best Short Fiction TitleA January Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2014 Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award "Complicated, passionate,...

"If Colette Maitland were a musician, you'd say she had perfect pitch."--Isabel Huggan A soldier's wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after her husband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames a town with gossip. A dog is shot....

A classic work of award-winning Atlantic fiction Leah is haunted: by the things she's done, and the things she has failed to do. And then there's the the ghost of her brother. She has to learn to let go of the past if she,...

Kess Hawkins just wants to play video games, eat pizza rolls, and hang out with her cat. But when a determined journalist comes asking about Kess' past, she is drawn into a thirty-year old mystery. A childhood photo sparks Kess's memories of an abandoned...

In the 'middle of life' Lavinia reviews her frustrations, her solitariness, the grief and the rapture, her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the masks of Owl, for winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. Dreaming of Dead People, first...

Escape to the sunshine with the queen of Greek romance, Mandy Baggot! An unexpected gift... A home in paradise? When Molly Adams finds out she's inherited an apartment in Kassiopi, Corfu, she's left thinking there must be some mistake. She doesn't know anyone in...

The BRAND NEW hilarious, feel-good read from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson Is it ever too late to bloom? Meet Celia. Life hasn't worked out quite how she'd planned. Since her son left for university, Celia has felt stuck at home - battling with...

1939. Bombs threaten London and five small children step onto a rickety train, clutching their gas masks, heading to an uncertain future...When the war with Nazi Germany sends five displaced children to her door, Dodie Fitznorton knows life in her quiet village will never...

Life--and love--is better with a bulldog...right?Everything is changing for Tiffany. Things used to be simple--Friendship Friday nights with her besties, Mackenzie and Molly, meeting up for late afternoon lattes and just enjoying the single life in Seattle. Now Molly is engaged. Can their friendship...

He's a famous rock star...and an irresistible Dom. She might be his submissive but she'll be damned if she's going to let him think he's better than her. Evie Lloyd was heartbroken when an injury ended her promising career as a ballet dancer. But...

The tale begins in the sacred city of Machu Picchu when a temple virgin is immaculately impregnated by Inti, the Sun God, during the June Solstice of 1511. Her child will become a prophet and will be a boy, because all children conceived in...

A Century Later, Mrs. Dalloway Still Exposes the Fragile Nature of IdentityBeneath the refined surface of Mrs. Dalloway lies a startling exploration of mental illness, time, and the unseen battles we all fight. Virginia Woolf masterfully dismantles the ordinary, revealing the fractures beneath-how memories...

Betty meets Queenie in a courageous debut novel about a mixed-race Black girl fighting for recognition in a Cherokee Indian community that refuses to accept her ancestry as legitimate.Ophelia Blue Rivers is the specificity of her circumstance. She's not just mixed in the American...

Wedding fever hits Abbotsville and several of Miss Julia's friends have plans to tie the knot. But, as usual, nothing is so simple. Christy Hargrove suddenly gives up a lifelong dream and drops out of medical school to marry, Helen Stroud and Thurlow Jones...

An empowering and heartfelt novel about the complexities of family, the power of sisterhood, and the bravery it takes to choose happiness when all seems lost.My life is perfectly fine.Alex has pretended this for years--despite an emotionally absent father, a best friend drifting away,...

The author of Call the Canaries Home returns with an enchanting novel about marriage, friendship, and second chances, where the power of a new perspective reveals the impact of time lost...and found.Selling real estate full time, raising two young daughters, clinging to a slipping...

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...

John and Erica Mason-Grey are hard-working artists and loving parents--but when John dies, their teenage daughter Mona's casual drug use spirals into heroin addiction. She and her mother soon begin an anguished game of hide-and-seek leading to countless arguments, arrests, thefts, rehabs, and relapse,...

Against the backdrop of a boozy, restless late-90s Chicago, creative writing graduate student Mary Van Pelt and her eccentric roommate navigate the collision between party life, domestic harmony, and academic ambition in The Girl with the Black Lipstick. Author: Mary BiddingerISBN-10: 1625571615ISBN-13: 9781625571618Publisher: Black...

Author: Roxanne SmithISBN-10: 161650692XISBN-13: 9781616506926Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2015Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

Author: Melissa ShirleyISBN-10: 1601836120ISBN-13: 9781601836120Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2016Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d

Dottie Trout has happily written film reviews at the Southern Times for five years when she is suddenly informed the newspaper has been bought by a conglomerate of businessmen referred to as Thems Upstairs, who decided she would be better utilized writing restaurant reviews....

From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home. Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives...

An unexpected conflict forces Verna to re-examine her life. What was it Donald used to say? "When it comes to children, you pay now or pay later. You never don't pay."Middle-aged Verna Macoun Woodcock returns to the family cottage for the first time in...

How do you cope when your husband of more than 30 years announces he's leaving -- and you didn't see it coming? Ellen is blindsided by her husband's request for a divorce and the news that everything she thought they jointly owned is in...

Author: Sarah PekkanenISBN-10: 1420526928ISBN-13: 9781420526929Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/13/2025Format: HardcoverLarge Print

Set in 1998 Hawai'i, this nostalgic women's fiction combines the atmosphere and family dynamics of The Cliffs with the drive of a heroine working in a male dominated field in Lessons in Chemistry. The Shark House follows a marine biologist who must confront both...

The holidays are the perfect time for romance--and no one knows that better than the MacGregors! The only thing Daniel MacGregor truly wants to see is his three beloved granddaughters happily married to their perfect matches. The clever patriarch of the MacGregor clan knows...

Rachelle Martin is a hot mess. After losing 110 pounds, she expected to be happily flirting her way through countless dates, not lost as a college dropout. Now that she's arrived at her ideal weight, why isn't she happy? When an injury prevents her...

Mira Montgomery is the only one left. Her brothers unexpected death leaves her tragically alone. No kids. No husband. No family. Fifty-one years of unrealized dreams crash down on her when a real estate development company threatens the only stability she has left: her...

A young widow. A deadly search. When the tables are turned, who will survive?A year after her fiancé's sudden death, volcano seismologist Dr. Cassidy Kincaid barely finishes a brutal week of field work on Volcán Arenal when a call from an estranged family member...

Jennifer Jones is in control.Jen is confident she has complete control over the things that are trying to control her. Until she isn't. Until she hasn't. Until she realises she has never been in control at all.She's been papering over it for years.It's the...

Fanny Fern's "Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time" is a powerful work of 19th-century domestic fiction exploring the challenges faced by women in marriage and widowhood. This literary novel delves into the experiences of a married woman navigating the complexities of...