Fiction - Women

He's not like other dukes...Paris, 1889Physician Aurora Montalban Wright takes risks in her career, but never with her heart. Running an underground women's clinic exposes her to certain dangers, but help arrives in the unexpected form of the infuriating Duke of Annan. Aurora begrudgingly...

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, fantasies, and wishes as she writes about--or tries to write about--Shakespeare's sonnets. Rosalind Brown's Practice shows us just one day. Annabel, sitting in her small student...

Can the future be rewritten?On the verge of her second marriage, Carla Carter knows she's finally found the one. She and her fiancé, Tom, met through Logical Love, a dating agency she founded for the pragmatically minded, and she's confident that, together, they will...

"It was Saturday. I remember. And while he was standing on a step ladder in the hall, changing a light bulb in the faint light coming through the window, I decided to love him." So begins this wonderfully exuberant novel of quixotic adolescent longing...

A love neither expected, begins at first sight. Since divorcing her ex-husband nine years ago, thirty-five-year-old Patience Harvey has focused on rebuilding her life and raising her eight-year-old daughter, Noelle. Thriving and content with her career and her growing family, the last thing that...

It's day one for newly hired hospice nurse, Amelia Bowden, 26 years old. Anxious and eager to prove herself as competent and caring, she is assigned to Carol Schultz, a sweet elderly woman on palliative care in need of assistance. Yet when Amelia arrives...

"A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman's coming-of-age... This is electrifying."--Publishers Weekly, starred review"Is this a ghost story?" Meena asked the barber's wife who told the tale. "I don't want to hear scary stories one night before I marry." "Not all ghost stories are...

Now that Nora is not dead, only one question remains: What does she want to do with her life?Nora November is alive--but she wasn't always. She was once clinically dead, having spent several minutes under water after a terrible surfing accident she doesn't remember....

The more you resist, the deeper you'll fallSerafine St. Romain doesn't need her psychic powers to know she's no longer in Tyler Leshuski's good graces. True, she did tear him to pieces when he asked her out, accusing him of being shallow and selfish....

A love neither expected, begins at first sight. Since divorcing her ex-husband nine years ago, thirty-five-year-old Patience Harvey has focused on rebuilding her life and raising her eight-year-old daughter, Noelle. Thriving and content with her career and her growing family, the last thing that...

Secrets from a boarding school past threaten a mother's future. Will truth or silence prevail?In the captivating narrative of What Goes Round..., Laura Stern stands on the threshold of new beginnings with Matthew Ward. However, to truly step into her future, she must first...

"Sophisticated with just the right dose of sinister, this coming-of-age story doesn't shy from the grisly power dynamics of privilege." --Library Journal When it comes to seeing the future--do you really want to know? Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in...

After a coffee date from hell, Sally Estes and her friends come up with an idea for a business-The Widower Whisperers, LLC. They train Newbies, recently widowed and divorced men, on how to start living again and to do the things their wives used...

When a woman who'd rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot-summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay's new rom-com. For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha's Vineyard at her family's tiny cottage was...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, comes a powerful, sweeping historical novel about a courageous woman in World War II Germany.Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin has had to grow up faster than most young women....

The unnamed narrator in Azeem Baig Chughtai's Vampire-written as a letter toGod-is a 16-year-old girl who has just had her nikah ceremony. She dreams ofa life of happiness with a loving, handsome husband-whose face, however, shewill only see at her rukhsati, when she finally...

"With its tight sentences and a fast pace, Afterlight moves like detective fiction. It's a poignant novel in which a single pregnant woman is mistreated in her conservative society; she remains resilient and determined to honor her baby's memory." -Foreword ReviewsThe young free-spirited florist...

'I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.' Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia-finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to 'exotic'...

Four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed. Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She's been married -- twice -- and widowed and divorced. Now in...

From the acclaimed author of A Good Family comes a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility, a twenty-first century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy love affairs, and one explosive secret that could ruin everything.Amelia Bae-Wood's life is falling...

"Combining history, the occult, human greed, and a touch of feminism, this is a fine addition to the gothic genre." --ALA's Booklist on The Last Heir to Blackwood Library In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars and the rise of the floriography craze in...

"A rich and rewarding take on romance, relationships, family, grief and finding your place in the world."--Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious ThingsKlara and Alex are having trouble connecting, but at least their calendars are in sync.Klara--who's always thought of herself as...

What if you could take a vacation from your marriage? A couple decides to give it a shot in this fun, adventurous novel by Lian Dolan, the popular author of The Sweeney Sisters and Lost and Found in Paris.After twenty-three years of building careers...

"No one should miss this beautiful legend." --Tony HillermanVelma Wallis's award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winterBased on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of...

Follow the pain, trauma, and tumultuous family saga of December Rose, from her mother's birth to watching her own children grow up and attend school.When December Rose's momma was born, she entered the world as the first daughter and fifth child of Edd and...

Ashira Mori, a seventeen-year-old veteran, is thrust into the unforgiving wilderness after a wrongful accusation tears her from the only life she's known. Homeless, ostracized, and haunted by the echoes of war, she must grapple with a brutal reality far removed from the battlefield.But...

Days after graduating from college, Betsabé Ruiz begins her first job on Wall Street, where she plans to save enough money to eventually pursue her dreams of becoming a theatre actress. What she didn't anticipate was that this job would allow her barely enough...

In pursuit of happiness, a young woman's dreams extend beyond money and marriage in this aspirational historical novel by the international bestselling author of The Light After the War.It's 1927, and Helen Montgomery is coming of age on Philadelphia's Main Line, where privileged young...

Emerald is determined to find five strong women that are dedicated to preserving her vision of the Saint Augustine Gypsy Sisterhood while she continues to search for Liam, her lover and husband for over two hundred years. Yes, Emerald is a time traveler who...

'Nicola's writing is so vivid and beautiful and perfectly pitched, her plotting addictive.' Jenny Ashcroft1671 - LondonThe Civil War is over and Charles II, the 'Merry Monarch', is revelling in the throne of his murdered father and all the privileges and power that comes...

"Beautiful." --Sarah Jessica Parker "Funny and painfully true. . . . The best thing you'll read this year." --Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age A raw, tenderly comic, and perfectly off-kilter novel about a woman with a mysterious illness who occasionally finds...

Two fearless women--living a century apart--find themselves entangled in the mystery surrounding the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus.1808 Agnes Banks, NSWRose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent naturalist Charles Winton, on his...

She helped her brothers soar... but was the flight worth the fall? It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding...

Unspeakable tragedy unravels the fabric of a picture-perfect partnership in Bumble Bees & White Balloons. Abbi and Jordan are the queer couple who seems to have it all: jobs they love; a storybook romance in a safe, ethically non-monogamous relationship; a beautiful home in...

"No one should miss this beautiful legend." --Tony HillermanVelma Wallis's award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winterBased on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of...

Secrets are revealed and forbidden sparks ignited in this sizzling Sunrise Cove tale of enemies to lovers, redemption, missing treasures, and love--by this superstar New York Times bestselling romance author.Anna Moore didn't just wake up one day and decide to go on a wild...

There's only one way to be virtuous. Or is there?In the two years since her mother's death, seventeen-year-old Hope Wagner has single-handedly raised and homeschooled her ten younger siblings while keeping her father's house. When her father marries the strange newcomer to their church,...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR - The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth - Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past...

Two years after the man she loved was killed in Afghanistan, Morgan Bartley is trying to put the pieces of her life back together. The reno on her dilapidated beach house in the Outer Banks might be just the distraction she needs to keep...

Two years after the man she loved was killed in Afghanistan, Morgan Bartley is trying to put the pieces of her life back together. The reno on her dilapidated beach house in the Outer Banks might be just the distraction she needs to keep...

Maxine Aronheart is the stunning wife of a handsome and successful Beverly Hills hedge fund manager. A celebratory evening on the company yacht Copious turns to horror as the yacht suddenly explodes and is engulfed in flames. Maxine is thrown overboard by her husband...

"Smart and funny, The Baby Plan is irresistible A winner." -Susan Mallery, #1 New York Times bestselling authorIn The Lizzie Bennet Diaries creator Kate Rorick's first adult fiction novel, we enter the wild, bewildering world of modern pregnancies. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll shake...

Except for her mother in a mental institution, the President of the United States, KC Kingsley, was the only person who knew that Katherine Ross was his biological daughter. The baby girl, crying and squirming, came from the womb to the guilt ridden mother...

Chet Wilde didn't just grow up with dreams of becoming a rancher. It was in his blood the day he was born. For the Wildes, ranching is a family affair-a Wilde thing. But that solitary kind of life can wear on a man, and...

Hank Wilde and Mollie Williams grew up in completely different worlds. Worlds neatly tucked away in the same small Northern Colorado town. Hank comes from a large, close-knit family of six boys. The Wildes are pillars of the community, and the family's ranch, the...

From a "fresh and fun new voice in women's fiction" a divorcee finds her voice and courage thanks to an account of war and survival out of her family history.Patricia Moore is coming of age. The age is menopause. And she might not survive...

Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial,...

The story of the Echoes of Laughter carries more than a tale of one young lady by the name of Farkhunda. It carries the hope, determination and courage of many Afghan girls like her. Girls who see the beauty within their culture, but also...

A whimsical story about facing our deepest fears and greatest loves, and what we all must do to grow into the life we were meant to experience.Elizabeth's secret began when she was five years old, a secret she held close her entire life. As...

Calling all Jane Austen fans Love Jane Austen, but short on time? This boxed set collects short pieces inspired by the author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility in one fun-sized collection. Alison's the Sensible One: Alison Dash was always the...