Fiction - Women

Author: Lynn PainterISBN-10: 1420530941ISBN-13: 9781420530940Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2026Format: PaperbackLarge Print

A new life filled with the celebrated seaside charm and small-town heart of Martha's Vineyard, a newfound family, romance--and an exciting venture. What more could Maddie Clarke ask for?And why would anyone want to stop her? It's been a life-changing year since Maddie moved...

The year is 2055. In a world where power reigns supreme, knowledge is the ultimate weapon, carefully guarded and ruthlessly controlled. But in the shadows, a strange alliance thrives: as underground libraries and sanctuaries for the keepers of forbidden wisdom are formed through covert...

When Callie Bishop takes a bad fall on a rural road, the last thing she wants is help from a stranger with military decals on his truck. Raised by a conscientious objector father, she's spent a lifetime avoiding men like Ben McAlester-a veteran with...

For fans of Kate Morton, Amy Harmon, and Sally Page comes a multigenerational novel infused with touches of magical realism about a woman's journey to find her place in an uncertain world as she unravels her family's legacy. In 1934, a child's death tears...

I will take revenge. Their day of disaster will arrive. I am their Ruin.I need to believe that, because someone has to push back against the crap in the world. That someone is us. What happened to my best friend may have formed Ruin,...

From the bestselling author of The Memory of Butterflies comes the first in a bittersweet series about love and loss.Kara Hart was scarred by loss―first the loss of her mother and now her husband. She feels broken, with no will to move forward, until...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, the basis for the major motion picture, comes the touching, unforgettable story of three generations of Irish women faced with the fundamental truths of love, duty, and the unbreakable bond that unites...

A teenage girl tempted from this world over a carpet of bluebells...A house full of shadows and a presence waiting to be let in...Finally, everything is going well for Erica Murray, witch and paranormal investigator. That is until the mother of a missing teenage...

She was born into darkness, but her dreams whispered of light.Birdie has spent her life in the shadows-serving a sick mother, enduring the cruelty of a stepfather, and raising a little sister in a home where love has long since died. Her only escape...

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes an utterly beautiful and charming novel full of mystery and secrets waiting to be uncovered ...Her new chapter starts now ...Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run...

USA Today bestseller Lenora Bell continues her sparkling, sensual Thunderbolt Club series with a marriage of convenience between a grumpy, combat-scarred duke and his cheerful and beautiful ward. War hero Deckard Payne, Duke of Warburton, made a battlefield promise to become guardian to orphan...

Victoria Sloan and Matthew Madison met at the wedding of her best friend. opera singer Alexandra Wesson-Grady. The sparks were instantaneous. Victoria's world is comprised of New York and marketing. Matthew is a former Navy Seal who lives on a horse farm in Virginia...

Thirteen Emotions is a collection of short stories and flash fiction inspired by grief, love, anger, fear, surprise, remorse, disgust, happiness, pleasure, trust, anticipation, sadness, and envy.From agonizing over the death of a loved one and missing someone you were once in love with...

Hope can be paralyzing. Ten years after her father's death, crime journalist Kylie Lewis wants to believe her father is really gone, especially when everyone around her insists on it. But when she sees a man resembling her father out in public, hope begins...

The House of Many Faces was first written as an English Honors Thesis. It was created and structured to be a social inquiry. The house - this work of art and artistic expression became vehicle and avatar of a young woman's life. What had...

When her mother became bedridden and her father bailed on the family, Sophie became a second mother to her twin brother, Seth, and younger sister, Jenna. Sophie supported her siblings through college, putting aside her own dream--opening a book shop in Hideaway Cove, a...

Years past her thirtieth birthday, English professor Caroline Jones's biological clock isn't just ticking, it's screaming.With her boyfriend dragging his feet, Caroline's attempt at an ultimatum shatters their troubled relationship and leaves her no closer to her goals. The dream of motherhood seems to...

Sometimes you don't know what you want until you find it. Recovering alcoholic/addict, Aileen MacEwan, travels from Toronto to the Isle of Skye in Scotland to spend a month deciding what to do with the house left to her by her paternal grandmother, discover...

In this swoon-worthy enemies-to-lovers tale, where grumpy meets sunshine, the tension between April and Carter is as palpable as the Tennessee mountain air. Perfect for fans of Paige Toon, Nicholas Spark, Colleen Hoover, Jennifer Hartmann, and Rebecca Yarros. April Simmons, a bestselling author, escapes...

★★★★★ "The love that grows, not only through tough angst but through unconditional moments had my heart. This is a spicy and riveting book"★★★★★ "Emmanuelle Snow doesn't just tell a story, she creates an entire world."Perfect for fans of Nicholas Sparks, Colleen Hoover, Mia...

When an unexpected challenge tests Addison Wilde and Tucker Philips's bond, they must decide if they have the strength to face it together or let it stand between them and shatter their burgeoning relationship. Brittle Scars is perfect for fans of Jennifer Hartmann, Paige...

Jaune, a 52-year-old widow, is haunted but memories of an abusive teacher and a violent, destructive marriage. A dedicated physician, she is determined to make a different in politics and is courted to run in a by-election. Despite her professional success, she is worried...

He warned me to stay away. But, what can you do when you fall for your best friend's sister?Ben: The moment Rory tells me not to go anywhere near her, I naturally want to.It's just a bit of harmless flirting, right?And when she needs...

A once tight family is not the same after an unexpected tragedy. The curveball life has thrown at them brings a weight of sadness to the family. Siblings find themselves with a new set of expectations, responsibilities, and a drastic change in their lives....

Madeline is a young woman that has reached a small measure of success in her life as she has a successful art gallery, but underneath the facade of her successful career there is a lurking predator that haunts her. She is trapped nightly by...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights includes the complete, unabridged text; 12 starkly beautiful woodcut illustrations by renowned artist Clare Leighton (which were the inspiration for the sets of the classic 1939 Laurence Olivier-Merle Oberon film adaptation), as well...

"[Sallie] Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human and transgressive."--Paula Fox"Restrained and wise, these lovely stories unfold like lavender-scented linens, quieting the fretful mind."--Joe Ashby PorterForty-year veteran of the novel, noted feminist, and author of over...

New and brutal Norman overlords have turned the world upside-down in Eleventh century England. Eitel, the Lord of Bradwald, is dead in battle and one of King William's armourers is now in charge; Rolf, a man inexperienced in ruling others and uncertain of his...

With the death of her old self that she'd long been expecting and the birth of another, happier, higher one, Gabrielle stood erect and strong, drawing high and higher, until her stretched-out wings broke into fire.She finally found a place to stand still, in...

The Nine Lives of Gabrielle: For Three, She Plays - Book 1As Gabrielle continues in her daily life, now out of lockdown and with a new man in her life, the "continuous present" of her life continues to intrude, and the recollections of her...

"This book not only won [Oñederra] the Critics Award, but also captivated many readers in its courageous and risky account of the confessions of a married woman. Revolving around the feelings and experiences written in a diary and divided into the four seasons, a...

When Janine and Dougie fell in love they thought it would be for ever.Fifteen years later their relationship is well and truly over, their daughter Stevie their one remaining connection.Stevie is on the cusp of adulthood. At sixteen, she's not quite a child, but...

A 'stray' cat called Paws, a bar of lavender perfumed soap and a posy of snowdrops, entice Ellen - a young workhouse inmate in 1881 - to believe in the impossible: that Susie, barely tolerating a crumbling marriage, living in a cottage in the...

Women who have power over their own lives are powerful agents for other women. Evidence is about four women who find the way to help each other overcome harrowing circumstances and dark places. The women are powerful and the story is powerful with a...

Charlotte's return to a normal life, full of happiness and love, is turned upside down when an unscrupulous man leaves her destitute.Will she crumble under the harsh reality of heartbreak, loneliness, and despair? Or earn the acceptance of the new people around her, confront...

Lila loves to have fun. Free and in her late forties she enjoys the thrill of dating younger men, no strings attached just plenty of good times. So why then has the dating scene lost its sparkle? The thrill has gone, and she would...

Katie's dream was to keep her bed and breakfast in the mountains of Virginia running. After her husband died at a young age, she'd given up on love and just worked hard, trying to keep her mind off the grief. Noah only wanted to...

She killed her treacherous lover before she escaped the prison camp. Safely back on ship, will she fall prey to her enemy's sinister revenge?US Navy Commander Jessica "Cricket" Squire is a survivor. Suffering from PTSD after her capture, torture, and rape, the strong-willed pilot...

A Faulknerian novel for the Midwest, This Earth You'll Come Back Tocaptures the unpretentious colloquial voice of the region while exposing an archetypal story of startling sophistication. Tragic, triumphant, and wholly original, this story introduces a new breed of literary heroesAuthor: Barbara RoetherISBN-10: 1620540150ISBN-13:...

Her fingerprints are on the gun, but Sarah swears she's innocent. Although Sarah Anne Martin admits to pulling the trigger, she swears someone forced her to kill her lover. Homicide detective Jay Christianso is skeptical, but enough ambiguous evidence exists to make her story...

Distant Voice, Distant Rooms is loosely based on my partner's many years spent behind the walls of mental institutions. It is factual in the humor that Megan, the main character, holds dear, and in the perseverance of strong women everywhere. The book talks of...

He's about to be conquered and hasn't a clue . . .After college, Birdie Ferguson hits London like a ray of California sunshine. She's fresh, cheery, and positive she's about to be the best Executive Assistant her father has ever had. But her chipper...

Sometimes facing the future means saying goodbye to the past.A remarkable story of love and loss, Dona Sarkar's latest novel explores the timely subject of cultural diversity and the timeless matters of trust, faith, and grief through the eyes of one extraordinary young woman....

In Kara Sheridan's sexy new series, these hard-hitting pro footballers don't play by the book. In Kara Sheridan's sexy series, these hard-hitting pro footballers don't play by the book. Playbook Rule #1: Never ever give up It's official. The Alabama Warriors have the worst...

"Miss Meredith" is an 1889 novel by Amy Levy. A romantic novel set in Pisa, Italy, "Miss Meredith" is a must read for classic romantic fiction fans. Amy Judith Levy (1861-1889) was a British poet, novelist, and essayist. She was notably the first Jewish...

This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts its facts and figures is referred to "Social Diseases and Marriage," by Dr. Prince Morrow, or to "Hygiene and...

From the prize-winning, internationally bestselling novelist Marcos Aguinis comes an epic love saga set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Cuban Revolution.It is a time for upheaval in Cuba: the time to build a new society. Even from her position of privilege, idealistic divorcée...

Love shouldn't be judged by race, disability, wealth, gender, or anything else. Let us all love one another, and we will all make the world a better place. Author Gheda Vuai has seen young and innocent children playing together in the parks without having...

Like the rare Mother Argonaut, which cradles her young but is not attached, Anna Tougas was destined to cast off her child and start a new life.That the purpose of that life was revolution was a mystery to Maude Digby until she determined to...