Fiction - Women

This utterly enchanting and heartbreaking novel tells the story of lost loves, family secrets and enduring hope--perfect for fans of Rebecca Serle, Sophie Kinsella, and Alys Murray. Italy, 1946. "Estee, I bought this ring years ago and have kept it safe ever since. You're...

"[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths."--New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors' Choice)A Boston.com Book Club Pick!From bestselling author Laura Zigman comes a heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults--and finally...

Readers who love Susan Wiggs and Susan Mallery will adore New York Times bestselling author Mary McNear newest novel. A young woman travels home to Butternut Lake, confronting her past and the tragedy she and her friends have silently carried with them for over...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Proby's brand new series, five best friends open a hot new restaurant, but one of them gets much more than she bargained for when a sexy former rock star walks...

Playing naughty or nice . . .Fiona Wilder knows all about falling in lust. Love? That's another story. Determined not to repeat past mistakes, the single mom and cupcake shop owner is focused on walking the straight and narrow. But trouble has a way...

Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich is a rollicking and poignant romantic comedy about a young widow who decides to get in shape...and winds up getting her groove back--and a whole lot more Holly Brennan used food to comfort herself through her husband's illness...

One-off, moving on sex, wasn't meant to be this hot...When determined singleton Shea Summers is persuaded to become the "wife" of the Lord of Edgerton Manor, the last thing she wants to do is play house with a stranger.Brooding playboy Brando Marshall is far...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her "superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose" (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating...

"Patterson and Lupica make a great team" (Carl Hiaasen) who get "deep into the lives of strong women" (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation--a badass lawyer with a year to live. "Jane Smith is the best character we've ever created. Bar...

This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off on a joyride with a new young friend--who may have some secrets of her own. A driving force in literature, the one and only Lee Smith returns...

A stunning, contemporary Black southern gothic novel about what it means to be a poor woman in the God fearing south in the age of OnlyFans, by a breakout new Affrilachian writer, perfect for readers of The Other Black Girl and Luster "A new,...

Helen wanted to break the cycle.Raised in the deserts of Southern California by a family plagued with addiction, poverty, and trauma, Helen's life was fraught with heartache and turmoil. Nevertheless, this fueled her desire to make it out. That was until one day, she...

A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls....

The summer of '77 was supposed to be the best of Summer Wilde's life. But those plans never had a chance when a teenage prank when awry. Now thirty-something, after her music career crumbles, she returns to the place where everything changed and must...

A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love. Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that...

Author: Holly SmaleISBN-10: 8885790178ISBN-13: 9798885790178Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2023Pages: 562Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.80w x 1.60dLarge Print

Friends since high school, four 30-something women reunite for a Christmas skip trip filled with a few unexpected bumps--and lots of laughter - in this humorous, heartwarming celebration of female friendship from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels... When longtime friends Amy,...

The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and In the Country of Others. It's the 1960s, and the air...

Helen wanted to break the cycle.Raised in the deserts of Southern California by a family plagued with addiction, poverty, and trauma, Helen's life was fraught with heartache and turmoil. Nevertheless, this fueled her desire to make it out. That was until one day, she...

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate...only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author...

Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day. What if your two favorite people hated each other with a passion?...

A D.C. philanthropist suspects that her seemingly perfect employee is secretly plotting to steal her husband, her reputation--even her life--in this seductive novel of psychological suspense from the internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish. In this town, anyone is replaceable. ... After...

They say love is all you need... "Extraordinarily brave...plain funny as hell, too." --Zakiya Dalila Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Black Girl When Jess lands a job as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll...

Author: Annie RainsISBN-10: 8885790801ISBN-13: 9798885790802Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.00dLarge Print

Kira's back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother's death--hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind-- even if it kills her. . . . After her troublemaker mother's mysterious death, Kira...

"Dazzling...as funny as it is poignant, nostalgic as it is sharp." --Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After A book editor spends one last summer on Fire Island in this sparkling and surprising new novel from the author of A...

Traditional Chinese edition of When She Was GoodAuthor: Michael RobothamISBN-10: 8885790712ISBN-13: 9798885790710Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2023Pages: 690Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.20dLarge Print

This "powerful, uplifting, and deeply personal novel" (Kristin Hannah, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Four Winds), at once "a heart-wrenching wartime drama" (Christina Baker Kline, #1 NYT bestselling author of Orphan Train) and "a moving and graceful tribute to heroic women" (Publishers Weekly,...

Author: Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-BrokaISBN-10: 888579159XISBN-13: 9798885791595Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.59w x 0.94dLarge Print

Author: Eliza BrazierISBN-10: 8885790135ISBN-13: 9798885790130Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.18dLarge Print

A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married...

"Storms show up and there ain't a thing we can do to stop them."Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she's a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is...

From Sherry Parnell, author of Let The Willows Weep, comes a long-awaited new novel that unwinds a family's darkest secrets and takes an unflinching look at life in the rural South. Effie Bilfrey has lived her entire life on Talon Ridge, a dead-end Appalachian...

Based on the true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to aid children orphaned during the Spanish Civil War. Now, her work...

It's a long way from a Christmas tree farm in the mountains of North Carolina to a certain street corner in Greenwich Village, but Kerry Tolliver, newly unemployed and romantically unattached, reluctantly agrees to make the trek, and live in a tiny vintage camper...

What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying...

A second chance at love or heartbreak... Socially awkward and prone to accidents, Franny Dawson has a brand new project-herself. Owning the local bakery, The Sweet Spot, has taken all her time and energy and she's neglected the social aspects of her life. The...

Everyone thought they had the perfect marriage.But things are sometimes not what they seem.Lisa Hodges has always thought her best friend Sue had a dream marriage. She'd married Curt, her high school sweetheart and current business partner. After thirty-five years of marriage, she never...

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...

Gilmore Girls meets Practical Magic in the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters, the story of one woman's Halloween homecoming to the town where she swore off magic, and where she must reclaim it in order to...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Naina Kumar turns the arranged marriage plot on its head. . . . A sparkling new voice in the romance stratosphere."--Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-) "I couldn't put down this page-turner. . . . The new When Harry Met Sally . ....

Sparks fly in this delightful novel about two burned out professionals who meet at a ramshackle resort on the British seaside--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher. She can do anything . . . just not everything. Sasha has...

Instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today best seller.Growing up as an orphan, Angela Stark has never been a fan of the holiday season, even though she was a Christmas baby. This year is no exception when everything that could possibly go wrong does,...

From the bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends comes a moving novel of two unfinished love stories and the music and lyrics that bring them together.Journalist Cecilia James is a sucker for a love song. So when she stumbles across a...

Is the Life She Can't Remember One She'd Rather Forget?One year after her family was in a tragic car accident that killed her teenage son, Lori Mendenhall returns home with a traumatic brain injury that has stolen the last eight years of memories from...

Author: Heidi McCahanISBN-10: 8885791581ISBN-13: 9798885791588Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dLarge Print

A woman has no choice left but to enjoy the adventure of life--and its surprises--in a funny and emotionally moving comedy of errors about the gifts of growing older.Olivia Strauss is turning thirty-nine. No major milestone. She still considers herself young. At least young...

From the New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster comes a funny, sexy romantic comedy featuring a twice-divorced, stressed-out romance writer who finds out that sometimes true love can be a hot mess.Who buys a cottage in a New England fishing village on a...

From the New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster comes a funny, sexy romantic comedy featuring a twice-divorced, stressed-out romance writer who finds out that sometimes true love can be a hot mess.Who buys a cottage in a New England fishing village on a...

A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and murder in this stylish, twisty thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Lisa Jewell. Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, S駻aphine...