Fiction - Women

Shawna Charity has an abusive partner, little money, no skills, and three children under six, one with an intellectual disability. To save them all, she escapes with the children to her widowed mother's home. Shawna's goal: to become a hair-dresser so she can provide...

Sophie Ranald writes her second # 1 best-selling romantic comedy What can I say about this novel other than I loved it from start to finish ' Girls Love to ReadWhen you're tying the knot, you can end up in a tangle...Nick and Pippa...

Janelle Marshall's life is finally going according to plan. Her perfect, upscale career-and her perfect, successful boyfriend-will make her future as secure and predictable as her childhood never was. And with luck, Little Bill, the grandfather who raised her, will someday understand why she'd...

Trust is the most precious commodity of all. In the cutthroat world of Sweden's financial elite, no one knows that better than corporate raider David Hammar. Ruthless. Notorious. Unstoppable. He's out to hijack the ultimate prize, Investum. After years of planning, all the players...

Painfully shy and socially awkward, Ginny avoids engaging in a world filled with "other people" as best as she can. After a failed suicide attempt, Ginny is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and begins a journey towards improving her distraught life. In her quest...

Now that Lucas has declared his love for her, Sienna is sure the drama between them is over. But then he comes to her with a new offer: his band, Your Toxic Sequel, is going on tour and he wants her with him-working in...

A devastating earthquake. A life in chaos.Chloe is different. She has Asperger's Syndrome, Bipolar Disorder and a few other inconvenient conditions as well. She's quirky, resourceful and clever, but her world is literally about to be shaken apart.She's off her meds. Her oddly-named cat...

Game Warden Beau Thibodaux has his hands full with his new job but he gets a whole lot more than he bargained for when Jolie Boudreaux walks through his office door with a fishing violation he gave to her now dead grandfather months ago....

'You know how sometimes, you have these moments when everything in your life just falls into place in one perfect moment and you look around and think, this is it; this is what life is about, this exact, perfect moment in life that I'm...

When Minerva Day's grandson turns up missing at a Christmas carnival, her daughter accuses Minerva of his murder. Could she have done such a thing? Had she forgotten to take her medicine? The unnerving thought haunts Minerva, just like it did four years earlier...

"A young woman with chronic illness takes matters into her own hands in this debut novel ... the story does an excellent job of portraying the relentless difficulties of suffering from hard-to-treat, chronic illnesses ... a sometimes-exhausting but realistic portrait of life under physical...

Clair, a small-town girl attending Iowa State University in 1940, has her palm read for a laugh-and gets a surprisingly specific prediction about her career, marriage, and children. She laughs it off, with no idea of how accurate it will turn out to be....

Cassidy Newberry lives in Nova Scotia, in the small town of Cold Harbour. Along with her Papa, Mama, and sisters, Corrine and Ruth, she is happy with her "Allot" in life. A terrible car accident takes the lives of her Papa and sister, Corrine....

Hi, my name is Bella and I'm one of Heidi by Design signature creations. I'm a wedding dress. Someday I'll find a young bride with stars in her eyes and dreams of a future with her groom. I can imagine it now. The groom...

Is love ever enough?Faced with obstacles she could have never imagined, Blake is brought to darkness and back by forces in her past she never knew existed.Desperate to stay connected to the only thing he loves, Cole is forced to revisit his past and...

Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Writer Award, Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection from one contemporary fiction's newest literary star.Eva Crocker sees life in sharper focus than the rest of us. The objects, rituals,...

After the tumultuous ordeal Sienna had to go through to get Blake back, another hurdle surfaces, leaving her bruised and broken. Now back on her feet, will they find the culprit behind her accident, or will it find her first? Will Sienna finally find...

"Stuart, why can't anyone love me?" I wailed, crumpled on his sofa, tears rolling down my reddened face.Rachel Trent is a young woman plagued by a succession of would-be boyfriends who end up breaking her heart, as she confesses to her brother, Stuart. She...

Rachel has been living her dream as a lawyer in a top New York City law firm, and is living with Ben who she met and fell in love with during law school. Now she is looking to make a career change and is...

Natasha lived with abuse for years and now she has had enough. Her boss sends her south to work on her writing assignments. This inadvertently gives her an opportunity to get away and think about her life and what she wants, which is to...

Have You Ever Lost Someone Close To Your Heart? Jane Harper never understood why her husband was taken from her at such an early age. But is anyone ever really ready for death? Jane was not ready to say goodbye that evening in the...

The vet handed Maggie Baxter a plastic specimen bag containing a pair of size-tiny lavender thong panties extracted from her dog; but they were not hers. Or rather, they were hers now since she'd just paid $734 to have Dr. Carter surgically remove them...

People get divorced, but that's what happens to other people. That's what Claire thought anyway, until her husband, Charlie, tells her he wants a divorce. Claire has no choice but to take on the title of Divorced Woman, and face the question she has...

Set against the sweeping landscape of Virginia horse country, this breathtaking story of love in the wake of tragedy marks the debut of an exciting voice in romantic fiction. Cassie Miller was on track to be one of the best equestrian riders of the...

From the author of Somebody Like You, a RITA finalist, and one of Publishers Weekly's top ten books of 2014, comes the story of a woman who has everything for a perfect wedding--except the groom! Winning an all-expenses paid Colorado destination wedding might seem...

After sixteen years of marriage and family, Matt and Elizabeth Lovell risked everything to build an empire of their own. Soon they were an American success, caught up in the breathless glamour and power of celebrity. For Matt, it was a world of Senators'...

In this third installment of the popular Dirty Girls Social Club series by NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Alisa Valdes (formerly Valdes-Rodriguez) we find Boston newspaper columnist Lauren Fernandez running for her life from a handsome sociopathic killer, with the help of...

When renowned art history professor Miki Ai'Lee returns home to Hawaii after 12 years, she runs into her first love, Alex, who bears scars he is unwilling to explain. He tracks art and temple thieves in the steamy jungles of Southeast Asia. She thrives...

She felt his distress and turmoil and went right up to him in a coffee shop, not even knowing who he was. What happened next was more than love.When an American tourist and a member of a successful British band fall in love -...

A coming-of-age prequel to "Some Rivers End on the Day of the Dead," we follow the struggle of Carmen Principia to achieve her dreams, despite her impoverished beginnings as the Pinata-Maker's daughter in San Ysidro, California. She has a college degree in mind; her...

Emily McCarthy is living in fear of a dark and dangerous past. A gifted mathematician, she is little more than a hollow, broken shell, trying desperately to make ends meet long enough to finish her degree. Through an unlikely friendship with the aging, cantankerous...

The men of Twisted Steel are great with their hands. And they're not afraid to get dirty. Asa Barrons is never lonely for long. Co-owner of the Twisted Steel custom motorcycle shop, he works hard and plays harder. But he never allows his after-hours...

"This debut romance sparkles." -- Library Journal on Unbuttoning the CEO TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE After some disappointing dates, Karen Ramirez has concluded that great sex is for other people. Especially since medical school won't leave her much time for romance anyway. Then she...

"Perfect book for the beach." --Library Journal World-renowned polo player and global face of Ralph Lauren, Nacho Figueras dives into the world of scandal and seduction with a new fiction series set in the glamorous, treacherous world of high-stakes polo competition. Georgia never wanted...

For fans of New York Times bestselling authors Samantha Young, Sylvia Day, and E. L. James comes the erotically charged story of a passionate woman, a powerful billionaire, and the soul-searing love that binds them . . . forever. Allegra Orsini's dreams are all...

Ty Rawlins, the widowed father of rambunctious triplets, is at odds with Sophie London when she returns to Maverick Junction at Thanksgiving for her cousin Annelise Montjoy's wedding to Cash Hardeman. Chicago is home, where she runs Starlight Productions, her greeting card company. Sophie...

She didn't bring the gun. She didn't pull the trigger. But she tried to stop the blood, and she held him as he died.When an elementary school teacher witnesses murder, she's left with painful memories and an inability to make peace with her experience....

From an award-winning Australian novelist comes a wonderfully inspiring story about the ill-fated love affair between a white female jazz saxophonist and a black American GI, set against the backdrop of 1940s Sydney. From an award-winning novelAuthor: Mandy SayerISBN-10: 1451678460ISBN-13: 9781451678468Publisher: Atria BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A charming novel in the vein of The Wedding Planner featuring an ambitious and by-the-books event planner who finds herself at odds with her new assistant, who happens to be the son of her boss, on the eve of the biggest wedding of her...

The witty and wise authors of The Nanny Diaries are back with an irresistible comedy about a forty-something wife and mother thrust back into the workforce, where she finds herself at the mercy of a #BossHalfHerAge. When Rory McGovern's actor husband, Blake, loses his...

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries return with "a convincing portrait of a damaged young woman whose head is turned by the attentions of a dashing and powerful political figure....An utterly absorbing page-turner" (Booklist). I was twenty-two years old...

Meet the man and woman that made the man.Go back in time and see the love affair that pulled Jack Storm's parents from the dark into the light. Workingman meets debutant. If America had a monarchy, Law student Katherine Chase would be a princess....

It couldn't be a worse time for Mattie Jones' ex-husband to show up. Not only was he unexpected, but he's got a broken arm from a car wreck with a pregnant passenger he swears is a stranger. Mattie's already dizzy from what she thinks...

Now in paperback, the acclaimed debut novel featuring the ghost of a murdered cowgirl who guides her grief-stricken father and a disgraced former detective to her killer--and a long-hidden family secret. The celebrated novel from a shimmering new voice in Southern fiction, Anna Michaels...

Elizabeth von Armin (1866 - 1941) was born in Australia and grew up in England. After marrying a German count and moving to his estate she began writing children's books. In this sequel to Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth discusses the summer she...

Author: Viola ShipmanISBN-10: 1432864610ISBN-13: 9781432864613Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2019Pages: 545Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.10dLarge Print

NO GOOD DEED By Jeanette A. Fratto When Hollywood clashes with conservative Orange County, California, probation officer Linda Davenport finds herself in the middle of the uproar. "Anyone but me " she declares, upon learning that handsome, squeaky clean, movie star, Damian Calloway, has...

Is There Really a Fountain of Youth in Paradise? Welcome back to Bright 's Pond, where strange happenings are afoot at the Greenbrier Nursing Home. Strange even for Bright 's Pond. The residents suddenly act like kids again riding trikes, climbing trees, and of...

Now that her morbidly obese sister, Agnes Sparrow, is comfortably dieting at the Greenbrier Nursing Home, Griselda learns to fly--literally--after a pilot makes an emergency landing and creates quite a ruckus in the otherwise sleepy town of Bright's Pond. But Griselda's newfound freedom--and her...

When newly married Sharon Gold suddenly finds herself in the unfamiliar culture of the U.S. Army during the unpopular Vietnam War, she realizes she must quickly adapt to this alien world. If she does not learn to "fit in," the consequences could have a...