Fiction - Women

From the author of Semi-Sweet comes a delightful novel about the art of friendship, love, and (still) life. When Audrey Matthews offers an evening class in life drawing, all she's looking for is a little extra pocket money and something to fill her Tuesday...

"A mesmerizing tale of star-crossed love and of the dark secrets in a fracturing family . . . This novel is so full of wonders that it leaves you haunted, amazed, and, like every great read, irrevocably changed." -- Caroline Leavitt, New York Times...

A new take on Cinderella, told from the perspective of the fairy godmother living in modern-day Manhattan Lil is an old woman who spends her days shelving rare books in a tiny Manhattan bookstore and lonely nights at home in her apartment. But Lil...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In The Newlyweds, we follow the story of Amina Mazid, who at age twenty-four takes a leap of faith and moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. But as their relationship deepens, they discover that they both carry secrets...

A sexy single dad and nanny romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann ...Most college-aged girls go to Europe to experience their sexual awakening.All I had to do was come home.Ford Dalton isn't the kind of man I'd look at twice-because I can't...

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her husband, Travis, in the coal camp where he's working, she carries with her a history of loss and the hope of a secure future. She knows that making a home...

No matter how we try to hide our past, truth finds its way to the surface, sometimes in devastating ways.Mary Jo Johnson has a secret.In the summer of 1949, twelve-year-old Mary Jo is changed forever. Not understanding why, she suddenly has the attention of...

A Comedy about three women and their quest for beauty.Author: Diane RaihleISBN-10: 8357301150ISBN-13: 9798357301154Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2022Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

A microphone with her name on it. Thousands of fans screaming for her son and his band. A chance to heal their relationship, reclaim her musical voice, and find the confidence to risk falling in love. Megan Gamble never thought she'd sing for the...

These opening sentences begin a few of the stories within; stories of intrigue, fascination, and suspense. It was just an old cloak--the kind you see people wearing in those movies. You know, the kind of cloak people wore to escape from Paris and the...

The author of Monkeys and Evening focuses her observant eye and lyrical voice on the delicate emotional negotiations of young New Yorkers. As in a series of deceptively simple watercolors, these stories uncover small moments that yield larger truths--about the ways in which women...

Minot's bestselling debut: A moving novel of familial love and endurance in the face of shattering tragedy Monkeys is the remarkable story of a decade in the life of the Vincents, a colorful Irish Catholic family from the Boston suburbs. On the surface, they...

An injured army veteran. A near-fatal car accident. And a snow-capped Martha's Vineyard Christmas--the kind that can mend any broken family.Andrew Montgomery is the black sheep of the Montgomery family. Seventeen years ago, Andy and his best friend, Kurt, took off for the army...

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them.The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested...

The only thing Maddy knows for certain is that he died.I died. And I came here. To a place they call Two. They say one out of three people who die come here. Berlin is here. She's seven. She forgot to take her insulin....

Beloved author Susan Mallery brings readers an emotional, witty, and heartfelt story that explores the nuances of a broken family's emotions as they strive to become whole, in this uplifting story of human frailty and resilience.Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she is...

The headlines dubbed it the art heist of the decade ...Twenty years ago, Johanna Porter was a rising star in the art world. Now she's an unknown soccer mom. When an invitation arrives to an elite gallery opening for her former lover, the great...

The scandalous women of the SOCIETY OF SIRENS are back with an explosive secret...their ranks include a duchess in disguiseOnce upon a time she married in secret...An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But...

Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes a wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of...

One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate....

The summer holiday brings new passion and new challenges in the enchanting third book of Jenny Colgan's utterly delightful School by the Sea series, set at a girls' boarding school in Cornwall.School is out, following a bit of saucy scandal at Downey House...Beloved high...

"A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman's coming-of-age. The story opens with Meena, a 14-year-old girl from Darbhanga, preparing for her wedding to Manmohan, a 21-year-old Nepalese student. . . . Many Indian and Nepali stories, songs, and myths anchor the narrative, and by...

"Varina Palladino's Jersey Italian Love Story is fun and funny, wonderfully exuberant, and incredibly wise. These endearing characters--their voices and stories-- will be with me for a long time to come. I didn't want to say good-bye." -Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling author...

The critically acclaimed author of The Glass Woman and The Metal Heart reimagines the shocking story of one of the most controversial contests in history, the Great Stork Derby, in which a millionaire's death spawns a furious competition for his inheritance.Toronto, 1926. Knowing that...

Defending an accused rapist, a high-powered lawyer learns firsthand the terrible truth about her client . . . a discovery that propels her on a quest for justice and revenge in this addictively readable thriller from the author of The Cage.Kelly McCann is a...

From the author of The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes comes yet another sharp, page-turning novel about a forgotten child star and former Hollywood "It" Girl who is now fighting back against the conservatorship that has controlled her life for the past decade.It's been years...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and TikTok favorite Tessa Bailey comes a steamy new rom-com about a starchy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn...Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in...

France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, Pauline Deng runs away from her uncle's home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union, she needs the help of her cousin Theo, who...

In this glittering tale of forgotten treasures and long-held secrets, international bestseller Karen Swan explores one woman's journey to discovering the truth behind an abandoned apartment and a family whose mysteries may be better left undiscovered.When high-powered fine art agent Flora Sykes is called...

New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath begins a compelling new spin-off series, The Chessmen: Masters of Seduction, centering around three heroes--Knight, Bishop, and Rook--who play to win at any cost.Born into an aristocratic family, yearning for a life beyond Society's strictures, Marguerite "Daisy"...

If you love Jill Shalvis and Lori Wilde, then you won't want to miss this new novel--and start of a new series, The Snowflake Sisters--by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Greene, who returns with a poignantly emotional story about the joys--and frustrations--of family, sisters,...

Megan Frampton dazzles in the first book in her new series, A School for Scoundrels. Five gentlemen with unbreakable bonds navigate life--and love--in London. Perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean and anyone who loves BRIDGERTON! To Lady Wilhelmina Bettesford, the "game" of finding a...

From the acclaimed author of The Last Checkmate comes a brilliant novel spanning from the Russian Revolution to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union and following two unforgettable women...their fates intertwined by ties of family and interrupted by the tragedy of war. Perfect...

"Vintage Contemporaries is about being young and becoming less young, exploring friendship (sometimes magical, sometimes messy), parenthood (ditto), and how to reconcile youthful ambition and ideals with real life. It's a warm and big-hearted coming of age story that made me wistful for my...

"Divakaruni tells the story of India's independence through the eyes of three sisters, each of whom is uniquely different, with her own desires and flaws. I cheered for them and cried with them as they move through the history of their country that is...

A Knives Out-style whodunnit with a twist of Taylor Jenkins Reid, You Must Remember This is an immersive Gothic mystery, with a long-ago love affair, icy death, and a rich family gone bad, from Kat Rosenfield, the acclaimed author of No One Will Miss...

From bestselling author Laura Zigman comes a heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults--and finally reckon with their childhoodA year after her divorce, Joyce is settling into being single again. She likes her job archiving family...

An electrifying historical adventure about a ring of bold and resourceful women thieves in post-World War II London.Gangland was a man's world. Or so they thought. The women knew different.London, 1946. The city struggles to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Blitz. Food...

"One of the most hilarious and barbed accounts of unexpectedly starting over I've ever read. . . . If you've ever felt lost and hoped that it was leading towards wisdom, Really Good, Actually is your novel." -- Stephanie Danler, New York Times bestselling...

Brenda Lockhart's family has been living well beyond their means for too long when Brenda's husband leaves them―for an older and less attractive woman than Brenda, no less.Brenda has never worked outside the home, and the family's economic situation quickly declines. Oldest daughter Peggy...

A charming, uplifting debut novel--full of humor and depth--that has taken readers around the world by surprise. Everyone has a story to tell. But does Janice have the power to unlock her own?She can't recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a...

Happy Endings author Thien-Kim Lam is back--with a rom-com set during the divine madness of Mardi Gras as two lovers ask: Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing?Boudoir photographer Josie Parks never ever takes a vacation. But when a client cancels a...

A heartfelt, romantic novel inspired by Sweet Home Alabama and perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis, Kristan Higgins, and Susan Mallery, in which a young woman who only fosters dogs discovers an abandoned puppy and finally starts to open herself up to love again...Once...

For anyone who ever loved All Creatures Great and Small, Annie England Noblin's newest novel--about a big city vet transplanted to a small Wisconsin town--is pure delight as we meet aging alpacas, stump-tailed cats, goats in tutus, a vagabond border collie named Kevin, and...

"Hang on for this completely unexpected hard-hitting ride!"--Fresh Fiction on No Holding Back Being alone is what he wanted... All he needed was her. Hunter Osborn left his family, his friends and his job as a park ranger after uncovering a disturbing crime scene....

Award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous author Jennifer Givhan brings us an exquisitely written, spell-binding psychological thriller--weaving together folk magick with personal and cultural empowerment--that is perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic.When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her...

On a sunny Monday morning, Macy Moore was on the fast track to success. By noon, all of her dreams were derailed. Macy Moore skedaddled from her hometown of Beauty, Georgia, to Florida in order to make her own way in the world. Successful...

Vincent Artemis is alone, and it's his own fault. He spent a lifetime - four lifetimes, in fact - focused on revenge. Now, every bridge is burned and every ally is gone. There's no place left for him.Seren is never alone. The lives of...

Vincent Artemis is alone, and it's his own fault. He spent a lifetime - four lifetimes, in fact - focused on revenge. Now, every bridge is burned and every ally is gone. There's no place left for him.Seren is never alone. The lives of...

Vincent Artemis is alone, and it's his own fault. He spent a lifetime - four lifetimes, in fact - focused on revenge. Now, every bridge is burned and every ally is gone. There's no place left for him.Seren is never alone. The lives of...