Fiction - Women

Author: Jokha AlharthiISBN-10: 8200646459ISBN-13: 9798200646456Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs

Sabine Kumar, a con-artist and cat burglar, returns to Delhi with a scheme to exact revenge on JJ Singh, her ex-partner and lover, who, five years prior, gave her up to the Indian police and cut a deal to save himself, sending her on...

A tender story of mother-daughter relationships over three generations unfolds amid secrets and revelations.Author: Carolyn MeyerISBN-10: 1882593839ISBN-13: 9781882593835Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2004Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.16h x 5.12w x 0.52d

This is a full-length, stand-alone, second chance, enemies to lovers romance peppered with lots of humor. Sit down, fasten your seat belt, and enjoy the ride, although it may get a bit bumpy at times.How much are you willing to trust a liar? Years...

Sometimes getting exactly what you want is the worst thing ever.Dream job? Check. Man to make every woman you know stop and turn? Check. But when having one means giving up the other, what's a girl ... excuse me, woman to do?Eloise Grant, a...

Baker Corinna Chapman is happy with her life. Jason, the former addict she rescued from her alleyway, is shaping into a good apprentice. And her beautiful Israeli lover, Daniel, though away for the last couple of weeks, is as enchanting as ever. Corinna has...

Peking, 1900. Amidst the violence and terror of the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion, a young China-born Englishwoman finds herself under siege alongside the city's overseas population. Independent-minded and unaccustomed to European ways, Nina Ward embarks on an affair with married diplomat Oscar Fairchild, risking her...

Joanna was brought up to believe life is meant to follow a certain path. You meet a wonderful man, get married, have children--all in that order. Maybe, if you're really ambitious, you have a career too. But a career isn't what Joanna wants. She...

Flowers for Algernon meets Girl, Interrupted in this stream-of-consciousness diary dive into what it's like to do battle with your own mind. Ayla is getting close to the big thirty, and she should have her life together. She always thought she would. And, she...

Billionaire Jared James has everything a man could ever want except for the one thing money can't buy... CHANCE FOR LOVE A Gansett Island Novella After forty days holed up in his house on Gansett Island nursing a broken heart, Jared James decides enough...

Nearly destitute after abandoning her job in a small town where she was the subject of public scrutiny and gossip, Andreea takes refuge in her sister's unwelcoming apartment in Manhattan. Her only hope for a brilliant future is writing the next great American novel....

Longlisted for the 2016 Giller Prize Page] is a fierce writer.--Kirkus ReviewsThe stories in this collection focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters. Characters undergo genetic testing, garden, overeat, starve themselves, travel, fall pregnant, all while simultaneously driving each other towards moments where...

An Italian Downton Abbey (1870-1950). This enticing family saga unfolds on the background of Italian history. The rich narrative tapestry includes a castle in the Piedmont countryside near Turin, three women, three generations, and a multitude of minor characters. It brings to the fore...

The chance of a lifetime. A forbidden love. Are workplace romances always so complicated? Amy got her dream internship, and on her first day, she catches the eye of her boss. Older, controlled, and refined, he instantly makes her heart flutter. His kindness entices...

A cold case is suddenly too hot to handle in the second installment of the Winchester Brothers romantic suspense series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Leslie A. Kelly.Police officer Rowan Winchester wants nothing to do with his family's legacy. Working...

A young woman is forced to deal with the past in order to create her future.Yasmin, a beautiful and ambitious Tel Avivian journalist, meets Nir, a wealthy doctor who is a second generation to the Holocaust, like herself. Yasmin is very successful at her...

She hadn't wanted to run away from home like some rebellious teenager but she'd had no choice. Tomorrow she was to be declared mentally incompetent, robbed of her estate, and imprisoned in 'the worst care facility' her stepdaughter could find. At seventy-five, forgetful and...

A questing we will go....Now that the Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc. team has defeated the nefarious Spellworks, the only "competition" in town, Katie Chandler doesn't have much to do as director of marketing, and she's starting to question her role at MSI. Her...

With great power comes great danger....When a freak accident leaves Katie Chandler with magical powers, it seems like a wish come true for the former magical immune. But it also means she's vulnerable to magic, just when the dangerous Elf Lord is cooking up...

One innocent mistake... a lifetime of consequences. After growing up an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can't afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn money as a gestational carrier for...

Author: Shanthi SekaranISBN-10: 141049831XISBN-13: 9781410498311Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/08/2017Pages: 732Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.60h x 3.40w x 1.30dLarge Print

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. Loyalty can save a soul--or destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a...

Sylvie considers herself a team player at her artificial intelligence (AI) company, but when she uncovers her colleagues' illegal activities, pleasing everyone becomes impossible. Torn about what to do, she confides in her personal trainer, who's dismayed not only by the choices she faces...

In 1965 Chicago, thirteen-year-old Dani Marek declares she's in love, and you best believe it. This is no crush, and for six blissful years she fills her hope chest with linens, dinnerware, and dreams of an idyllic future with John. When he is killed...

"Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book." --Reema Patel, author of Such Big Dreams Gorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland--told in the voices of four...

Hockey, holidays, and a slap shot to the heart Jillian Morgan is a single mom and flower shop owner. She once had a promising career as a women's hockey player. But life gave her a slap shot to the heart; she left the ice...

In this charming and exciting women's fiction novel, Giovanna Fletcher explores the complicated relationship between three friends--Maddy, her fiancé Rob, and their best friend Ben. Maddy, dressed in white, stands at the back of the church. At the end of the aisle is Rob--the...

Journalist Chris Baxter is at a crossroads. He has an enviable life as a journalist in the U.S. and the prospect of an exciting new post in Thailand. But his needs aren't the only ones he must consider. His daughter is struggling with the...

Shannon O'Sullivan and Declan McGuire were an unlikely pair, meeting for the first time on a night of a mutual friend's birthday party. But the chemistry between them was undeniable, and what started as a spark soon became a flame. Shannon's entire world is...

Now in her nineties, a woman reflects on the seminal decision she made, to flee an abusive husband in Vancouver and take her little boy to live with her on the remote, northern farm that her late parents had created from the wilderness. As...

Ava and Harper's honeymoon phase came to a screeching halt as soon as she met Mario. Ava battled with the guilt of fantasizing about one man while being married to another...even if the one she was married to increasingly felt like a stranger the...

This 2006 collection of short stories is in line with the unsettling, engrossing style of Ha's other two collections that have been translated into English, the critical and commercial successes Flowers of Mold and Bluebeard's First Wife. A best-seller in Korea, Ha Seong-nan is...

Viye Raines' novel The Levite's Concubine is an engrossing retelling of the most bizarre and savage chapter in the entire Bible - Judges Chapter 19. Told with striking historical detail, one of the most ancient parts of the Old Testament comes alive, opening with...

In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's mother...

Socially awkward, anxiety-riddled Beverly Bonnefinche only loves three things in life: her parents, books, and a homeless man named Bill. Without them, the only way Beverly manages to get by each day is with the help of a peculiar coping mechanism that allows her...

A poignant and evocative novel that explores the bounds of familial love, the high stakes of parenthood, and the tenuous divide between fiction and reality. Thirteen years ago, Sylvia Gray's young daughter, Faye, attacked her babysitter in order to impress the Kingman, a monster...

It's never too late to have fun in this heartwarming and hilarious new novel from the author of The Big Five 0. Perfect for fans of The Old Girls Network 'So real, wise and funny...an absolute triumph!' Katie Fforde When her daughter, Ellie, brings...

A gorgeously uplifting story about memories, storytelling, love and friendship, about the journeys we take and the people we meet, what we remember and how there are some things we can never forget.Alex would like to believe she's a woman who has it all....

An exhilarating and emotional novel about grief, hope, friendship, and taking life one beautiful and spontaneous day at a time by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.Freakishly smart. That's the unwelcome box Ru Evans is put into for life. After all, she...

A powerful mother. Three daughters. And a fast-paced, cutthroat culinary legacy up for grabs in a darkly witty novel about a family on the edge by the bestselling author of The Nobodies and The F Word.Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built...

A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth.In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. Belén López Peiró places us squarely in the tenderest of times--young teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual...

We make hundreds of choices a day. Some seem of no consequence, and yet . . . are they really?A strange man goes around town delivering unusual invitations. The recipients are invited to visit an odd-sounding place called the Discovery Room. Why? So they...

Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureTonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent . . . when I think of all those little...

Evelyn's newest boarders are penniless...but God is watching over the Sister Circle.Evelyn Peerbaugh is worried. Once again she has taken in new boarders, but this time she's opened the doors of Peerbaugh Place to women who can't pay a cent for her services. But...

Ace Reynolds is missing, after shifting into his werewolf form live on TikTok for the whole world to see. It's my job to find him. I'm Izzy Hart, and I work for the Council, a covert organization that helps to keep the world safe...

"Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring." --GEORGE SAUNDERS"Madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good." --KELLY LINK"A delightfully bizarre and unabashedly queer revelation." --TEGAN and SARA QUIN "A beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad stunner of a debut that never forgets about the heart." --NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAHWhat if you had the chance...

A destination wedding in Italy's Lake Como brings three best friends back together to face the secrets of the past in this romantic novel from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst. Best friends Ava, Madison, and Chelsea made a pact to reunite for...

Id Book 1 takes you on a ride through the internal maze of the stories we tell ourselves when no one else is watching. Spend some time inside the mind of this recently single mother of two as she tries to make her new...

From the author of The Secret Society of Salzburg comes a powerful and moving story of bravery and resilience in World War II Paris and one woman who must face impossible choices to survive ...Paris, 1940. German tanks rumble through the streets of Paris,...

Thrills, fears, enticements, and enchantments creep through the poems of Deeds: hear a tale of terror passed down through generations of whippoorwills, have a quiet word with deadly plants, meet a witch with much to teach you, or discover a lonely ghost who just...