Fiction - Women

Take your stationery, art supplies, makeup, earbuds, and chargers on the go with this beautiful pencil pouch celebrating the literary genius of Jane Austen's Emma. - Show your love of Jane Austen's Emma: Celebrate your Jane Austen fandom with this pencil pouch. Take your...

Spruce up your office space with this file folder set, each with a different beautiful floral pattern and one of Jane Austen's most beloved literary quotes. Each set includes nine file folders with 3 each of three designs, so you can organize in style.Author:...

Blake Harrison is rich, titled, and charming . . . and in need of a wife by Wednesday. Blake turns to matchmaker Sam Elliot, who isn t the businessman he expected. Instead, Blake is faced with Samantha Elliot, a beautiful and feisty woman with...

How far would you go to save your family? Every morning, as her husband Mike straps on his SIG Sauer and pulls on his heavy Magnum boots, Jamie Anderson tenses up. Then comes the call she has always dreaded: there's been a shooting at...

Mary Hogan's powerful and poignant debut novel about two sisters -- opposites in every way -- and their mother and the secrets and lies that define them all. One family, two sisters, a lifetime of secrets . . .Author: Mary HoganISBN-10: 1628991577ISBN-13: 9781628991574Publisher: Center...

Twice in her life, college counselor Gayla Oliver fell in love at first sight. The first time was with Brian -- a lean, longhaired, British bass player. Marriage followed quickly, then twins, and gradually their bohemian lifestyle gave way to busy careers in New...

New York Times bestselling author Jenna Jameson (How to Make Love Like a Porn Star) teams up with romance author Hope Tarr for this wild erotic novel--Jenna's first tantalizing foray into fiction. Fleeing Los Angeles and her scarlet past a former porn star returns...

At twenty-one, Ashley Barton was on her way to the alter to marry Burke Morrison, her high school sweetheart, when something derailed her. Rather, someone derailed her -- another man who begged her right up to the last minute to reconsider the marriage because...

From the pen of Laurence Coss , author of A Novel Bookstore, comes this delightful story about friendship across racial and economic barriers set in contemporary paris. dith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. How...

Laney Cavallo had a charmed life. Two wonderful kids and the love of the best woman she'd ever known--after years of unhappiness, she had it all. Past tense. The one evil in her life she couldn't shed finally did his worst: after years of...

"A fascinating look at contemporary archaeology but also a twisted story of greed and its effects." --Dallas Morning NewsFaye Longchamp, back in school to pursue her dream of becoming an archaeologist, has been asked to run a project for which she is barely qualified,...

When Pru Marlowe gets the call that there's been a cat shooting, she's furious. Animal brutality is the one thing that this tough animal psychic won't stand for, and she's determined to care for the traumatized pet. But when Pru finds out that the...

Returning from a video shoot at The Lodge, a newly renovated, upscale resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker Ellie Foreman befriends a woman who claims her ride abandoned her at a highway rest stop. But Ellie's kindness is brutally cut short when a...

"Donis Casey's voice flows like tea syrup, transporting you effortlessly to the Oklahoma frontier....A welcome invite to your great-grandmother's front porch swing." --JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING, New York Times bestselling authorIt's spring 1913, and love is in bloom for Alice Tucker. Walter Kelley is handsome, popular,...

2007 - Florida Book Award Bronze Medal Winner"As an archeological tour alone the book would be worth reading, but it's the fascinating and complex characters that give the story life and vibrancy." --Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling authorFaye Longchamp and Joe Wolf Mantooth...

In this luminous novel about romance and illusion--and what's left of love when they're stripped away--an American Anglophile is drawn into the lives of a disintegrating aristocratic family. After the sudden death of her husband, Annie Devereaux flees to England, site of the nostalgic...

"Mary Jane Myers skillfully paints the many shades of loneliness. . . A highly thought-provoking collection."--Daniel M. Jaffe, editor of With Signs and Wonders: An International Anthology of Jewish Fabulist Fiction; author of The Genealogy of Understanding "The personal, the artistic, and the spiritual...

From a masterful storyteller, comes a Midwestern epic that illuminates the majestic in the commonplace.When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the 1970s, he was hailed as "a brilliant visionary" (John Gardner), and compared to Sherwood Anderson and Marilynne Robinson. In...

A new novel from award-winning Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan. "Did I live many lives or only one life enough for many women?" asks Miriyam in Other Lives. This third novel by Lebanese writer, Iman Humaydan, starkly and poignantly demonstrates how war, violence and dislocation...

While making a documentary film about the reconstruction of downtown Beirut, Maya Amer stumbles upon a battered leather suitcase that will change her life forever. Inside it she finds letters, photographs, a diary, and an envelope labeled: Letters from Istanbul. The Weight of Paradise...

At twenty-three, Ann-Marie is single, broke, and furious, and convinced that love--sweet love --is the answer to all of her problems. Then she meets legendary second wave feminist Stephanie Haight, who becomes obsessed with the idea that she can save Ann-Marie and her entire...

In her heyday, between 1910 and the mid-1930s, Fannie Hurst was the most popular writer in America. Twenty-nine films were based on her novels and short stories. Her fiction was not only beloved by readers, but also acclaimed by reviewers and regularly included in...

A quintessential immigrant narrative, now acknowledged as a contemporary classic of Italian-American women's literature.Author: Helena BaroliniISBN-10: 155861205XISBN-13: 9781558612051Publisher: Feminist PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1998Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.42h x 5.36w x 1.18dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 02/15/1999 pg. 189

A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them.Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess--lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries....

'Kit Fielding's debut is a triumph. A story told with brutal honesty, underpinned by humour, love, hope and the inestimable power of friendship.' RUTH HOGAN, author of The Keeper of Lost Things In every pub in every town unspoken stories lie beneath the surface....

Lori Golden's family have had more than their fair share of troubles. But through it all, Lori and her sister, Jessie, have always supported each other. Then Jessie is killed. And Lori's world turns upside down.Devastated, Lori struggles to cope with her loss, and...

From USA Today bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby comes a heartwarming novel about letting go of the past to make way for a brighter future.Tracy Briggs has finally gotten her act together. She's focusing on her own life and helping her hearing-impaired son learn...

All the love she ever gave. Every secret she never told.Catherine was the love of Sean's life. But now she is gone. All that's left is a box full of envelopes, each containing a snapshot and a cassette tape.Through a series of recordings, Catherine...

This sparkling collection of short stories explores the effects of loss, and the surprising ways people find to keep going, for "fans of Alice Munro and Marilynne Robinson" (Refinery29). In these lucid, sharply observant stories, Mandeliene Smith traces the lives of men and women...

By the award-winning author of East of the Sun, "a powerful and memorable novel" (Publishers Weekly) about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife. Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the...

She's blossomed from a wealthy surgeon's beautiful daughter to elegant socialite to being the top fashion stylist in the country. And Nora Mackenzie is only days away from marrying into one of New York's richest, most powerful families. But her fairy tale rise is...

Two female spies risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi in this sweeping, profound tale of bravery from the bestselling author of Lilac Girls. "A riveting story of two brave and amazing women who work in the French resistance during World War II...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this captivating novel from Danielle Steel, a wildly successful, unmarried wedding planner leads her clients to happily ever after. Faith Ferguson is New York's most in-demand wedding planner, an arbiter of taste for elegant affairs, lavish ceremonies,...

A ballerina at the height of her powers becomes consumed with finding her missing brother in this "striking debut" (Oprah Daily). "A compelling novel about the spiritual and bodily costs of the dogged pursuit of art."--Raven Leilani, author of Luster LONGLISTED FOR THE CAROL...

One night. That's all the time a family has to decide what to do with the man they believe murdered their daughter: Do they forgive him, or do they take justice into their own hands? "One Night is a locked-room stunner that unfolds at...

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Two American ex-pats obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial find themselves at the nexus of murder and celebrity in glittering late-aughts Berlin in this "hugely entertaining" (The New York Times) debut with a wicked sense of humor. "Darkly funny, psychologically rich and utterly addictive......

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A "boisterous and infectious debut novel" (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York--a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls. "An acute study of...

Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family. "Readers will find a poignant, memorable voice they'll feel lucky to have met."--Harper's...

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them all--from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses "Riveting...the feel of extremely good gossip told across a hightop table over...

From internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes comes the eagerly awaited sequel to Rachel's Holiday. Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family,...

"I'm fine." That Southern expression which says, "I am spiraling madly out of control, but don't you worry, sweetheart."Welcome to Liberty, Georgia. Population 2,424. Sweet old Ruth Chambers passed away after a lengthy illness, so that number might be off by one or two....

No Gentle Rain is set in the new state of Wisconsin after the end of the Civil War, known as the Great Rebellion in the North. When America's Second Industrial Revolution is in full swing, a successful German brewer will do anything to gain...

Large Print EditionEmma Dance has the chance to reclaim the happiest time of her life or build a new future. Which will she choose? Emma made her best childhood memories at the beach at Emerald Isle, NC with her great aunt, Eva, at her...

Emma Dance has the chance to reclaim the happiest time of her life or leave it behind and build a new future. Which will she choose?Emma made her best childhood memories at the beach at Emerald Isle, NC with her great aunt, Eva, at...

Between the Acts is an enormous pageant: the reader watches a play in which the characters watch a pageant in which the players watch a play about the death of the bawdy Restoration Period. But the characters watching the pageant are themselves engaged in...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this riveting novel from Danielle Steel, a gifted young woman must grapple with the legacy of a troubled childhood in order to pursue her dreams. Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between an aspiring...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Atomic City Girls, a provocative novel set in eastern Tennessee that "explores the legacies--of passion and violence, music and faith--that haunt one family across the generations" (Jillian Medoff, author of This Could Hurt). Ten-year-old Grace is in...

Womenscape is a collection of twelve stories, each a life-changing moment in a woman's life. These women, who range from five to ninety-five, navigate through the varied landscapes of their lives with surprising results. There are disappointments and triumphs, tears and laughter, and many...

Eve is a 27-year-old sex worker living in Portland, Oregon. She dabbles in escorting, prostitution, stripping, and any avenue she can think of for exploiting men. She has an eating disorder and daily existential crises, but is otherwise an altogether well-adjusted adult, thanks to...