Fiction - Women

Heartache is par for the course.Fifteen years after her troubled daughter Julie ran away from home, Beth Sawyer stumbles across a newspaper photograph of an up-and-coming teen golfer, who not only shares her last name, but also looks just like her daughter. Sky Sawyer...

They last spoke as teens . . .But on a country road twelve years later, a surprise encounter reunites ornithologist Celia Burke with veterinary surgeon Burnaby Hayes, and they plunge into the most unusual romance of her life.After a decade of marriage, Celia and...

For fans of Rachel Hawkins with a salacious reality show edge, Then Things Went Dark follows a cast of hot-headed contestants competing to prove themselves to an audience of millions...but with eyes following you everywhere, how can you hide your motive to kill?The first...

Her destiny is determined by her family.Her dreams are overshadowed by her duty.Until, one night, it all changes Six years ago, Fatima al-Fatah was married off to a man old enough to be her father. At first, she had hoped to find love and...

The first in a BRAND NEW series from bestselling author Jo Bartlett... Welcome to The Cornish Country HospitalA new start...When Danni Carter moves to Cornwall from London, she hopes it will be the fresh start she so desperately needs. She's nervous, but hopefully the...

A powerful and hilarious debut novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts, from the author of the internationally bestselling story collection Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad. In Nigerian families, none of your business is private. Not even if...

Black Cake meets Death at a Funeral in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back--from an author with a "razor-sharp, smart, and...

Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium.Belgium, 1942.Young schoolteacher Andr馥 Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium, who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow...

"Utterly gripping, The Goddess of Warsaw is a transformative and immersive story so powerful and captivating that I could not put it down. Rarely does a protagonist leap off the page and win over the heart like the unforgettable Bina Blonski. Truly one of...

In a "thriller with a sharp take on wealth and privilege" (People, Book of the Week), two best friends grift their way through the California elite--until one scam goes awry. "A propulsive, sun-drenched adventure with smart, sharp commentary on wealth and power."--Grace D. Li,...

A suicide prevention hotline volunteer answers a call that may implicate her own son in a serious crime, in this edge-of-your-seat audio original thriller by the bestselling author of The Perfect Child and The Best of Friends, performed by A.J. Cook (Criminal Minds) and...

Two farmers. One market. Let the battle begin. Mia Pruitt and Dell Wainwright both have their reasons for needing to succeed at the Millertwon Farmer's Market. Mia's found herself after an adolescence of social anxiety, and she's ready to prove to herself and everyone...

Drama around a restaurant. Go from table to table as a fly on the wall and watch life happen from a beginning of a family, the ending of a family, the ending of a life and everything in between.Author: Adina LevISBN-10: 8856696266ISBN-13: 9798856696263Publisher: Independently...

Christina Lauren, the instant New York Times bestselling and "reigning romance queens" (PopSugar), returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance.Anna...

Author: Georgie BlalockISBN-10: 0063339846ISBN-13: 9780063339842Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2024Pages: 368Format: PaperbackReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/2024 pg. 89

South of France, 1942. Twenty-one-year-old Lilou is selling lavender honey in the village square when the Nazis arrive in her beloved Provence. And when her best friend is dragged away simply for being Jewish, Lilou is horrified. As the village begins to take sides,...

A bachelorette party scavenger hunt. A meet-cute with flowers. A jumbo stuffed llama. A promise of a phone call and Nutella stuffed french toast. What could go wrong?Everything, if you're Emilie Hensley.Pushing aside her hesitations so she can enjoy a weekend of fun with...

'A king adorns the throne... He has no subtlety, no grace but he does not deserve to die in the way that has been planned and this is why we shall stop them, our men, our kin and save us all.'1605Bess Throckmorton is well...

She thought she'd scripted the perfect boyfriend. But she's convinced that the actor cast to play him doesn't know a thing about real love.Frustrated with the sad state of her dating life, restaurateur Chloe Culpepper penned a single romance novel featuring the man of...

"Mrs. Dalloway," a literary masterpiece by Virginia Woolf, is a captivating exploration of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an elegant and sophisticated woman living in post-World War I London. Published in 1925, this novel is a tour de force of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this "spellbinding" (Vogue), "smoldering" (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. "Under Cline's command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing...

Eliza and Anna are a generation apart in age but are bound together by polygamy and the control of their husband, Joseph Brown. When Anna, the young second wife, wants to break free from her abusive marriage, it is only her sister wife who...

Vivien Grace Mills has been the center of my universe since the second she entered this world.Every memory I hold precious includes her.She's my biggest champion and the one person keeping me sane during some of the most testing times of my life.Vivien shows...

Katie Sanders, a senior paralegal and acting Human Resources Manager at the Weaver law firm is thrust into the high-powered world of sex, drugs, and coercion when she investigates a series of sexual assaults at the law firm. When she becomes the target of...

"The perfect summer beach read! Rival bookshops, second chance romance, friend drama, it was the perfect book to curl up and escape to the Cape."--Pamela Kelley, bestselling author of Bookshop by the BayA bestselling author finds love and second chances in the stacks of...

A Brazilian tarot card reader and a Russian crime lord race to stop a conspiracy in this steamy science fiction adventure -- the sequel to the exciting series that began with The Rule of Luck. Mars, the terraformed jewel of the TriSystem, is the...

When their hard-drinking, but loving, father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for an uncertain life in Arizona with the mother who ran out on them years ago. But in a...

Perfect Beach Reading! 'The most successful novelist on Planet Earth' - Washington Post Treasures Kate Hardesty had inherited her father's charts for finding sunken treasure. So now she has to ask for help from the only man she trusts to tackle the treacherous dive:...

An obsessive quest to solve the mystery of her older sister's disappearance puts a young woman in mortal jeopardy in this taut, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense from the author of the "truly riveting" (New York Times) The Book of You. An intoxicating cocktail...

New York Times bestselling author Mary McNear introduces us to Butternut Lake and the unforgettable people who call it homeIt's summer, and Allie Beckett has returned to her family's cabin beside tranquil Butternut Lake, where as a teenager she spent so many carefree days....

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes the second installment in the Saints of Denver series featuring a bad girl and a by the book attorney who could be her salvation...or her ruin.Avett Walker and Quaid Jackson's worlds...

In the vein of Meg Donohue and Jennifer Close, comes Cecilia Galante's adult debut about the complicated and powerful bonds of female friendship--a compelling, moving novel that is told in both the present and the past.Thrown together by chance as teenagers at Turning Winds...

A moving story of the power of love and the miracles of life--chock full of Southern wit, sass, and charm Grace is an intelligent, (struggling-to-be) independent 31-year-old single woman living (in sin ) with the man she'd marry if they both weren't so commitment...

An enriching and deeply moving novel about love and loss, the bonds of family and friends, and coming home by the USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids.Life didn't turn out the way Jewel Sabatino planned. However long she's been gone,...

The wonderfully entertaining new novel from bestselling author of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin. Long-time Potherthwaite resident Sally Mottram cannot stand the decline of her town. The bookshop is about to close, abandoned buildings line the canal and Potherthwaite's residents seem stuck...

An irresistible and sweeping love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious violence and reignite their budding romance in Civil-War America."Vaz's work is gorgeous at every level--singing sentences and pull-you-in plot. She is the real thing, an American treasure." --Tayari Jones, New...

A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in this new edge-of-your-seat thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Kimberly Belle. When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy--a...

From the author of Recipe for Second Chances comes a smart, sexy, heartfelt romance about a single mother juggling homelife and career who finds unexpected complications while in Ireland for work.Beatrice Leal's personal life is complicated between her divorce and her precocious six-year-old. But...

15 summers ago, everything changed...Ava Howell seemed to have it all. She moved away from Emerald Creek, Idaho, married the love of her life and published a bestselling memoir. But she never expected that her husband would feel so betrayed by a secret from...

From the bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask comes an inspiring romance novel about honoring the past, living in the present, and loving for the future. In her small Montana hometown, Lauren Parker has assumed a few different roles: teenage hellraiser; sister of...

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, hope, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein. The three Blue sisters are exceptional--and exceptionally different....

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - READ WITH JENNA'S APRIL BOOK CLUB PICK - The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? ("A bottomless champagne flute of a novel --The Washington Post) When...

How to lose a duke in ten years...without losing your heart. Once upon a time, two sworn enemies--the bookish daughter of a scholar and the devilish heir to a duke--made a pact: If they were both still single in ten years, they would marry...

This delightfully funny and steamy novel about music, fate, and love from beloved songwriter and Bangles co-founder Susanna Hoffs is "a total knockout" and "the smart, ferocious rock-star redemption romance you didn't know you needed" (New York Times Book Review). "This Bird Has Flown...

From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change--or even make our peace with--the path we've taken. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to...

From the author of the flash fiction chapbook, A Bright and Pleading Dagger, comes the debut story collection, Tender Hoof: Stories. In these pages, Rivas compactly merges the brutal with the surreal, blurring the line between safety and danger, sinner and saint. Twin girls...

I cast my eyes over the impressive meal I've cooked and the half-empty crystal wine glasses. As our guests smile graciously, I squeeze my husband's shoulder. It's vital I get his friends to like me. To believe this version of me. Because I'll do...

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers "In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly layers."--New Yorker In this darkly comic...

Recommended by BookLife (Editor's Pick), Readers' Favorite, Indies Today, The Book Commentary, & IndieReader! When Anne Strafford wakes from a coma in a New York City hospital, she has no memory of who she is, how she got there, or why the handsome movie...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House,...