Fiction - Women

A boy who doesn't believe in Santa Claus and a woman eager to help him discover the joy of giving to others. When Juanita Sanchez and the Desert Flowers-Willow Sanchez Kincaid, Rose Bowers, and Lily Walden -open Juanita's Kitchen, the food kitchen Alec Thurston...

Emma Turner has spent eight years running, hiding, dodging...limiting her short stays to big cities where she could easily get lost in the crowd. But when she steps onto Tempest Island, something changes. The tiny island speaks to her in ways no other place...

Rachel Farrowsworth did not plan to be single and unemployed at fifty-six. With limited education, she is rejected for hundreds of low-level jobs and is one step away from being homeless on the streets of SouthWestern Sydney. Her daily routine is receiving a never-ending...

On a windswept island off Cape Cod, Delilah moves into a cottage by the shore. After growing up in precarious circumstances with her Abuela, both of them hiding a terrible secret, all Delilah wants now is a beautiful place of her own - and...

A relatable story of life on the front line of parenting with a slow burn Irish mystery at its center, from the author of Three Little Truths and Grace after Henry Their school is about to be taught a lesson... Beverley Franklin will do...

The brand new instalment in the top 10 bestselling Cornish Midwife series!It's the most wonderful time of the year...But for single mum and busy midwife Nadia, it's quickly turning into her worst Christmas ever.Her marriage is over, and whilst her husband has moved on,...

The captivating new novel from Diney Costeloe, bestselling author of The Throwaway Children and The Girl With No Name. In London in 1912, Mabel Oakley and her family are typical of their time. Her father Andrew is a solicitor, her mother Alice keeps the...

An emotional and uplifting Irish bestseller, perfect for fans of Sheila O'Flanagan and Heidi Swain. Three estranged sisters. Six months to come back together. When Georgie, Iris and Nola's mother died, the sisters made a pact: they would always be there for one another,...

"A perfect holiday read, compulsively readable but also intriguing, thought-provoking and so good on female friendship." Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request. Three best friends. A weekend away. And a whole lot of baggage. Alice, Nina and Jules have been best friends for twenty...

Get the complete love and friendship series about Ellie and Cassie, two best friends.Book 1: My Dear Ellie Book 2: Eleanor's Travels Book 3: Ellie's FateWhat would you do for your best friend? Cassandra Grace will live through heartbreaks over a thousand lifetimes. A...

Three generations of Acadian women grapple with the impacts of dislocation, exile, and violence in award-winning writer Judy LeBlanc's debut novel, The Broken Heart of Winter. Lise, Appoline, and Anne are related, though they live on opposite coasts at different moments of time, with...

In an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to craft an identity for herself--especially as the artist she wants to be.There is little help around her. Her only friends are...

In her first book, Hallie shares the many thoughts and emotions she felt in an intensely transformative time in her life. Her raw delivery takes the reader into her every emotion as she grapples with the many questions and feelings that are fundamental to...

A vintage necklace. A long-hidden secret. A second chance for love.When costume designer Ariana Ricci leaves her groom at the altar, she seeks solace at the Palm Springs home of her great-aunt, a Texas-born Hollywood legend who began her career as an extra on...

"Trust me, this is an invitation you want to accept." --Katrina Kittle, author of The Kindness of StrangersGarnet, a poet, resides in the fictional western New York village of Haven. Retired bookstore manager, she is a loving sister, bitter ex-wife, devoted aunt, failure as...

To see a change, you must be the change.Mary Parker has just settled down for her usual morning breakfast when a scream of sirens blazes past her manor drawing her attention away from the flowers and birds of early Spring. Her old high school...

Ellen Pall's Must Read Well immerses the reader in an escalating game of cat-and-mouse between two women: a millennial scholar driven to deceit to reach her goals and a frail octogenarian no less capable of deception. Narrated by Liz Miller, a penniless Ph.D. candidate...

A disgruntled Community College professor who loves literature but loathes his students. A homicide detective who takes her inspiration from Patti Smith's punk period. A cult of Christian zealots who livestream actual crucifixions. And a writer of porn movies whose career does not have...

Eighteen-year-old Dakota Buchannan is determined not to be the messed-up, orphaned teenager with an over the top imagination the media describes her as. After her father's accidental death at Jennings oil refinery, she finds out that she has a much older half-brother and moves...

The New York Times bestselling author delivers an emotional, intimate work of women's fiction centered on a young widow, and filled with reflections on love, loss, and finding hope, and even joy, after heartache--for fans of Josie Silver, Sophie Cousins, and Rebecca Serle. No...

"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...

"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...

After the deep bond of friendship between two young women is torn apart, what will it take to bring them together again? In Ladies of the Lake, the beloved author of Saving Amelie and Night Bird Calling returns with a transformative new historical novel...

After the deep bond of friendship between two young women is torn apart, what will it take to bring them together again? In Ladies of the Lake, the beloved author of Saving Amelie and Night Bird Calling returns with a transformative new historical novel...

"Marcie Latimer longs to run away from Someday Valley--especially since her ex-boyfriend spun a web of lies that almost led to tragedy in neighboring Honey Creek. Little wonder so many locals have turned their backs on her. But not Brand Rodgers. The quiet cowboy...

A sparkling new historical novel set in the 1920s, inspired by the notorious all-female crime syndicate known as the Forty Thieves who operated out of the slums of south LondonRuby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Forty Thieves' most...

The launch of a brand new British cozy crime seriesperfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and SJ Bennett's The Queen Investigates series. When Emily's boyfriend walks out, she is devastated. As she is puzzling over what to do with the...

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...

Two Sisters. One Single Event. A Family Changed Forever.At the turn of the twentieth century, sisters Emmy and Callie Bullock are living a privileged life as the only daughters of a wealthy Alabama cotton farmer when their well-ordered household gets turned upside down by...

A 2024 Michigan Notable Book"A moving novel, fit for inspiring any reader to dream big and believe that anything is possible."--BookPage***Two sisters discover how much good there is in the world--even in the hardest of circumstancesIt is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old...

Summer Wilde is a wannabe country music star. But when her latest girl band abandons her in a motel outside Tulsa, she is forced to face the shadows of her past. Twenty years ago, the summer of '77 was supposed to be the best...

Heartache is par for the course.Fifteen years after her troubled daughter Julie ran away from home, Beth Sawyer stumbles across a newspaper photograph of an up-and-coming teen golfer, who not only shares her last name, but also looks just like her daughter. Sky Sawyer...

"A beautifully observed, tender love story with characters you really care about...a bit like Normal People. I devoured it."―Jojo Moyes, New York Times bestselling author of Someone Else's Shoes "I absolutely adored Talking at Night... A gorgeous story of first love, loss, and the...

A propulsive page-turner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens--and what is lost when good people make unconscionable choices With The Push, Ashley Audrain gave us a transgressive, bestselling novel about motherhood. Now she delves into the secretive world...

A poignant, modern love story about a young widow and widower and the two ghosts that bring them together because although love changes form, it never dies. "Heart-stoppingly romantic."--The Express (UK) Two couples. Four unfinished lives. A love that transcends space and time. Rasmus...

"Sophie Irwin is an exciting and original voice. She's a must-buy author for me."―Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Carrie Soto Is Back Internationally bestselling author Sophie Irwin brings us another delightful, escapist historical romance, led by an audacious heroine who...

If you could test your son for a gene that predicts violence, would you do it? From the author of Curfew comes a suspenseful, heart-wrenching novel about the consequences of your answer. Antonia and Bea are sisters, and doting mothers to their sons. But...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "Gripping, heartbreaking and impossible to put down."--Laura Dave "A dazzling supernova of a book, it picks you up on line one and doesn't let you go until the very end." --Lisa Jewell From...

The Glimmung is a mysterious alien, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In this hilarious Philip K. Dick novel, it recruits a disparate group of humans and aliens to help it raise a...

In Vulcan's Hammer a super-computer makes all the important decisions for a worldwide government. But when religious fanatics decide to fight back, it leads a high-ranking official to question whether the peace provided by the computer is worth the abnegation of free will.Author: Philip...

A Nebula Award nominee, Dr. Bloodmoney is Hugo Award-winner Philip K. Dick's darkly comic riff on Stanley Kubrick's Cold War black comedy, Dr. Strangelove, a look at how humanity gets along after the end of the world. "A masterpiece."--Roberto BolaWhat happens after the bombs...

From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?--the basis for the film Blade Runner--Now Wait for Last Year is the novel of an Earth caught in an interstellar war and...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can't be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL - "A deeply felt portrait . . ....

The first in a fantastic New Adult series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack--revised and updated and featuring a new epilogue.Virginity.Bliss Edwards is about to graduate from college and still has hers. Sick of being the only virgin among...

From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress, a gripping historical drama about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair."The magnificent Anika Scott has written a lush and beautifully rendered novel that...

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie...

In this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, adult siblings find their way back home--and back to each other--after loss. Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of six children raised in a...

If he truly loves her, he'll break her heartWhen Liam O'Connor stole Cora McLeod from her destined soul mate, Finley Walsh, in 1844, he changed the course of history. Now Liam has been given three months to set things right, but he has failed...

Inspired by the real team of female pilots who trained World War II soldiers, The Flight Girls is a stunning debut novel about friendship and its power to make us soarAudrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to...

"Put on the coffee pot, whip up a batch of muffins (yes, two recipes are included), and enjoy this thoroughly original tale. Strongly recommended for fans of offbeat mysteries." --Library Journal STARRED reviewOne day, Corinna Chapman, high profile accountant and banker, walked out on...