Fiction - Women

Karen Zumoff, a Russian immigrant, once a successful playwright, is obsessed with Tolstoy. Particularly with his reasons for killing Anna Karenina. His first draft ended with Anna still alive and well. Four years later, the final version culminated in Anna's death. What happened? Karen...

In Mackenna on the Edge, the sequel/prequel to The Incredible Transformations of Alice Hollywood, nearly twenty years have passed since a fiery crash changed Em Mart n's life forever. Now living in Los Angeles, and known as Mackenna, a recent life-altering tragedy has her...

Roommates Alice Hollywell, the young spitfire from Hollywood, and her best friend, the poor little rich girl Em Mart n from nearby Bel Air, CA, are stationed together on a remote Air Force base in West Texas in the mid-1970s. Worldly Alice "Hollywood" is...

This nationally bestselling coming-of-age novel tells the story of Mingus Browning and her fight to find her own identity amidst the powerful and painful questions of life that force her to confront everything and everyone that matters to her. In the midst of her...

"Compelling . . . The strength of Brand New Human Being is its realistic portrayal of trauma and its aftermath." --Washington Post Stay-at-home dad Logan Pyle is holding his life together by a thread: his larger-than-life father, Gus, has just died, his wife is...

The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the...

Back in print for the first time in decades, New York Times bestselling author Rona Jaffe's classic novel captures a time when women were caught between the institution of Mad Men and the revolution of Gloria Steinem.Carol Prince realized very early on that the...

"A sharp, wise, and hilarious novel. . . . We loved it!" -- Lucy Sykes & Jo Piazza, authors of The KnockoffAn addictively readable romantic comedy, drama, and mystery rolled into one, about two very different strangers whose lives become intertwined when they receive...

Mary Hogan's powerful and poignant debut novel about two sisters--opposites in every way--plus their mother and the secrets and lies that define them all.One family, two sisters, a lifetime of secrets . . .The third child in a family that wanted only two, Muriel...

The Curiosity, Stephen Kiernan's debut novel, is a gripping, poignant, and thoroughly original thriller that raises disturbing questions about the very nature of life and humanity--man as a scientific subject, as a tabloid plaything, as a living being, as a curiosity.... Dr. Kate Philo...

A Fierce and Hysterical TaleOf Self-Destruction OnThe Road to Being DiscoveredHannah is a struggling actress living in New York's Tribeca, and like any young thesp she is bent on success: finding paying jobs that offer good material, not just mindless roles for eager and...

The emotional finale to the bestselling Cornish Midwife series! Get your tissues ready!Midwife Jess is so used to helping other mums achieve their dreams that she's put her own hopes of motherhood firmly on hold. After having her heart broken once before, Jess is...

Author: Renee RosenISBN-10: 888579047XISBN-13: 9798885790475Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2023Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 8.72h x 5.39w x 1.45dLarge Print

The truth behind a teenage girl's disappearance becomes something to conceal in a gripping novel about justice, lies, and impossible choices by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.When nineteen-year-old Jill Moss goes missing near the Utah-Arizona border, everyone has an opinion. Only...

Author: A. C. ArthurISBN-10: 1491594667ISBN-13: 9781491594667Publisher: Brilliance AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2023Format: CD

When Hannah, a seventy-three-year-old widow, finds the semiconscious body of a fourteen-year-old Mexican national in a ditch along a remote central Texas road, she has no idea someone is watching. Not until the girl's brutal attacker arrives at Hannah's door in the middle of...

Author: Lauren DentonISBN-10: 8885784909ISBN-13: 9798885784900Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.43w x 0.94dLarge Print

At once a great love story and literary mystery, I'll See You in Paris will entertain and delight, with an unexpected ending that will leave readers satisfied and eager for Gable's next novel. Three women, born generations apart.One mysterious book that threads their lives...

A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel from Ella Berman. . . . Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared...

***** 2017 Kindle Book Awards WINNER - Literary Fiction ***** New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett has written her most gripping and poignant tale yet. Provocatively heart-breaking, audaciously irreverent and romantically fulfilling, The Hard Truth About Sunshine exposes just how very thin the...

Be careful what you wish for... Lt. Grayson Masters is focused on graduating the Apache helicopter course, and the last thing he needs is his gorgeous new roommate Samantha Fitzgerald distracting him. While her smart mouth and free spirit are irresistibly irritating, he can't...

There are some debts you can't repay... Josh Walker is loyal, reckless, and every girl's dream. But he only has eyes for December Howard, the girl he has yearned for since his high school hockey days. Together they have survived grief, the military, distance,...

At once a log of pandemic life in New York City and a meditation on selfhood, memory, and language, Emily Simon's first book is a lyrical and timely experiment in prose fragments.IN MANY WAYS describes a self in process, at odds, and enthralled, in...

Called "marvelous" and "absolutely stunning," this debut asks: What happens when a mother's death leaves her husband and daughter wondering why they thought everything was okay when it was not? "An emotional journey of love, loss, healing, and redemption. I rooted for every character."...

This finely crafted coming-of-age novel takes the reader on an unforgettable journey with a young woman whose life is shaken by world events. Set in the early twentieth-century Southwest, where water means everything, The Ways of Water is a poignant and heart-warming testament to...

Amazon Charts bestselling authors Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke make their suspense debut in this twisty, emotional thriller.Elementary school teacher Jacqueline "Jacks" Morales's marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable, familiar. Or at least she thought...

Instant New York Times and USA Today bestsellerIndie Next Pick and LibraryReads Pick From Rachel Hawkins, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs, comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history. "A literary...

They got married ten days ago. They haven't had sex yet and they don't intend to. As it turned out, the only way to make their parents get off their backs about trying to "find someone" was actually finding somone--with whom to put marriage...

In the fourth sexy romance by the New York Times bestselling author of Tangled and Twisted, Drew and Kate can't wait to tie the knot--if they can survive the pre-wedding festivities. For most of my life, I never imagined I'd get married. But Kate...

Remember the world before iPhones, Ubers, and streaming on Netflix? It's 2004 in Manhattan, and real estate is the driving factor behind most relationship decisions. Only here can strangers go from roommates to friends to lovers in less time than it takes a co-op...

An instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn't let go until the final page. This is a terrific read." - Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author*A Marie Claire Book...

In a world where therapists look like the Real Housewives of Equinox, where friends dispense Xanax like Pez, and where a woman's status is directly linked to the how few carbs she eats...can one Hollywood wife take back her life? Agnes Murphy Nash is...

When I met Thayer Holmes, I had no idea how much he would single-handedly change my life. Our journey hasn't been an easy one, but it has been ours. We've fought through the impossible and come out stronger because of it. But happily-ever-after isn't...

Who would you become if you lost everything that defined you? Sarah knows the answer all too well. Lied to, manipulated, and abused her entire marriage, she has become a shell of her former self. But when she meets Adam and Sam, she is...

"Beautifully written, compulsively readable... " So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft - the riveting novel about a legendary woman in antebellum Missouri who allowed neither men nor society's conventions to keep her from cutting her own remarkable path. The year is...

After the sudden loss of her husband, Mariah returns to the sleepy beach town of Avalon, New Jersey, to save the house her grandfather built, a rambling Victorian lovingly nicknamed The Pink Poodle. There, she rekindles a romance with Trey, a lifeguard and the...

USA Today bestselling author Jamie Brenner's The Wedding Sisters invites readers to the most unpredictable wedding of the year. "Brenner tempers the weighty emotional aspects of the sisters' journey with the fluffy frivolity of wedding planning, a contrast that fans of Emily Giffin and...

In this latest Harlequin Medical Romance novel from Louisa Heaton, getting stuck in a blizzard was not on this phlebotomist's Christmas list! But getting rescued by a gorgeous single dad might just be the gift she never saw coming... Frosty beginnings... with a heartwarming...

This Halloween, an irresistible connection between a brooding surgeon and a cheerful nurse proves opposites do attract! Find out what happens in the latest Harlequin Medical Romance novel from Tina Beckett. He'll carve a place... in her heart! Nurse Shanna loves Halloween. So she's...

The past is never far away.When Cate Rivers leaves her husband in the middle of the night with their young daughter, Eliza, she has no idea what the future holds. Taking a live-in position at Hollow House on the Dorset coast, she determines to...

Are you living the life of your dreams? Or are you simply playing it safe?Single dad Nick Malone is successfully juggling his roles as devoted father and traveling musician-until his young son's unexpected request to join him on tour threatens to topple their carefully...

Lillie Crawford is dying. Her mind slowly succumbing to the ruthlessness of Alzheimer's, Lillie's remaining time on Earth is predicted to be a slow and difficult journey.But if you ask Norah, her mother's death could not come soon enough. Haunted by memories of the...

"Urban erotica has never been hotter "-Nikki Turner, author of Black Widow Have you ever been betrayed by those you love? Violated in the worst kind of way? And no matter how hard you tried to fight your way out of a trick bag,...

Knit with love, Prayer Shawls are handmade pieces of knitting that show someone you care. A Prayer Shawl wraps a person in prayer and love, just like a warm, fuzzy blanket.Each story in The Prayer Shawl Chronicles is a fictional tale of someone who...

Susan Jones, a brash and ballsy chef who hopscotches from one demanding restaurant job to the next, was barely in her twenties when she married and had a son, Henry. But after her marriage to Andrew fell apart, she ceded most of the raising...

From the bestselling author of Fat Chance and Checking Out comes a hilarious story about giving up... but definitely not giving in.Kate and Scott's marriage has always been a lot of fun, with alcohol at the heart of it. After all, what's more entertaining...

From bestselling author Amanda Prowse comes the poignant tale of a woman who has always been there for her family. But will they be there for her?Rae-Valentine and Howard were childhood sweethearts. They've shared twenty-five peaceful years since they were brought together by Dolly,...

From the bestselling author of Queen Move, a mysterious artist's dark past stands in the way of a second chance at love in this sizzling suburban romance. Can a secret crush become the love of a lifetime? Jo Walsh has loved Cameron Mitchell for...

But will she find it where she least expects it?Stella Shakespeare isn't having a good day, or month come to think of it. She's been unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend, cut off from the bank of dad and at thirty-two years old, she doesn't...

In a breathtaking island paradise, it's easy for a handsome local and a sexy tourist to get swept away in a tart and tempting romance by a USA Today bestselling author.A destination wedding on La Jarra Island for Tillie James's sister has its drawbacks:...