Fiction - Women

By one of Southeast Asia's most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace of storytelling.In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia's deadliest race riots, a woman named Du Li An secures...

One horrible misunderstanding. Two heartbroken people.For seven long years, Anne Elliot of Kellynch Station quietly mourned the loss of her first love. Now that she's finally over Fred for good, her sister offers the perfect escape: Uppercross.This move, from one cattle station to another,...

The dramatic, uplifting conclusion to the Turbulent Skies Christian series. Join USA Today bestselling author Alana Terry and the passengers on board Flight 219 for the inspirational, heart-pounding finale to this intense Christian thriller. Grandma Lucy never set out to become a hero. But...

Large Print Version For Autumn Hickman, online dating has been an exercise in nothing more than coffee and failure. There simply isn't a man on the planet who can compare to her best friend, Trey Wattson. And while Trey is everything Autumn has ever...

Charlie Dawson is a co-owner of a successful design-build firm in his historic hometown of Plymouth, Massachusetts. More important to him is his happy marriage to Juliette, the girl he fell in love with in tenth-grade French class ... the one he married right...

Still reeling from her father's death, Carmen Delgado has no idea what it means to have dreams of her own. But when sexy Liam O'Leary inherits a share in her dad's successful food truck, Carmen is suddenly free to explore her life--never expecting Liam...

Determined to show her father she's capable of running the family business, Elizabeth Brannigan sets out to save a failing Chicago bar. As she struggles with the rough clientele, she encounters the handsome co-owner of a thriving Irish pub. With him she's ready to...

If Daria Demarest didn't have ice water in her veins, like her coalminer father taught her, life might look bleak. She's divorcing successful but unfaithful Ted. She's lost her glam job as a network morning show host, and she's discovered that Ted's secret gambling...

Kate's retirement plans are put on hold when her old nemesis, Ruby, reappears and both their lives are turned upside down. Two stubborn, independent women discover that the lines between love and hate, and between past and future, are muddled and transitory.Author: Emily GalloISBN-10:...

In August of 1844, aman named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois, and four days later he is dead. The cause? Arsenic poisoning. The suspect? Hiswife, Betsey. The chief witnessesagainst her? A hired girl, Eveline Deal, and the local...

A hallucinatory exploration into the origins of humans and human language perfect for fans of Brian Evenson and Eimear McBride.Lucy, a young woman with an uncertain past, finds herself thrust into a mysterious anthropology museum that converts into a disco club each night. Moving...

p>She had big dreams. But will war, tragedy, and naïveté ruin her aspirations?America, the 1940s. Margaret Rose longs to escape her family's poverty. So against her domineering father's wishes, the determined young woman elopes with an older man. But shortly after the US enters...

In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers readers transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone-runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American...

"He's alive and the worst thing about that is that it makes me free. I don't have to keep sitting shiva with Schrodinger's Dummy in the bed we used to share. He's alive and nothing is burning down. There is only myself to reckon...

This touching story of redemption illustrates the transformative power of love. Sequoia Carr is better off alone. At least, that's what she's been telling herself (and everyone else) since her ex-husband blamed his affair on her icy disposition. For the past six years, she's...

This story of self-discovery explores the complicated relationship between past and present in defining the future. It's Jasmine Carr's thirtieth birthday, and she's finally getting the one thing she's waited for her entire adult life. But is it still what she wants? Her first...

Don't ever let anyone tell you that getting on the wrong side of a curse is a small thing. Even when you think you've got a handle on them, those suckers have a way of jumping up and chewing on your nose before flinging...

They were never supposed to be. When their lives collide again, is it wrong to want what they could never have?Emma has kept her pain buried longer than she can remember. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, the successful rock star struggles...

A Black nurse with a teenager to raise. A White cop hiding a tender heart. Do they have what it takes to indulge their forbidden passion?Caregiver Belle Jones always puts her own needs last on the list. As a busy nurse and sole provider...

He's tormented by dark addictions. She's fighting for a lifelong dream. Can they rise from the ashes of despair and find happily ever after?Mikel Evans is broken. With all his attention focused on dealing with blackmail and a drug dependency, his day-to-day is barely...

Newly retired and excited to finally accomplish her dreams, Gayle Young soon finds that living her best life is not any easier just because she has more free time. In this memoir, truth and fantasy coalesce into one reality as Gayle weaves the art...

Gone. . . but not forgotten?Amy loved everything about her mom: her smile, her smell, her gentle laugh. On the day her mom died, it felt as though the sun went dark. Her dad bought a house with wheels and they started moving, but...

There are some wounds time just can't heal.Brekka Thornton is headed for Olympic fame and glory until a car accident destroys all her plans. She redirects her efforts toward conquering the business world with her brother Trig, closing the door on her old life...

Life gave her lemons, so Trudy chucked them back.Trudy's life is a wreck. No job, a sick son, and a thick stack of unpaid medical bills. Her family and friends keep trying to set her up. (As if a man will solve all her...

A FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE On a Woman's Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her own choosing. When her abusive husband of just nine days refuses her request...

There is romantic, erotic love. There is game-playing, uncommitted love. There is obsessive, possessive love, and there is friendship-based love. There is pragmatic, practical love, and there is gentle, caring, unconditional love. Where does self-love fit in? Just Passing Thru is a tale of...

When fifty-something Naina Mehta's husband dies of a heart attack, she transforms herself from a suburban wife into a bold woman thirsty for new experiences. A far cry from the classic image of the aging Indian widow who dresses in subdued colors and focuses...

Lorelei Bauer is a modern day woman with a penchant for Sylvia Plath, a woman struggling with the injustices of the fifties with her marriage, her role and status as a poet, her "job" as a mother, and her mental illness.Lorelei's own mother suffered...

In the backyard of a the bride's grandparents' Southern California home, a group of family, friends and strangers come together to celebrate the wedding of two people in love, but each brings with them conflicts they can't leave behind. The bride's brother Ian brings...

With pathos and insight, each of the sixteen accomplished authors-among them Lynn Freed, Karen Bender, May-lee Chai, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Amina Gautier--featured in Love in the Time of Time's Up skillfully explores the complexities of desire, intention, and what it means to...

Sof? is thirty-five and her husband has left her. Her father died the year before, and her mother is living in the Canary Islands with a new partner. Sof? flees the city with her young son, seeking refuge in her father's house on the...

A novel about the curse of self-knowledge and the blessings of denial; a medical romance unlike any other. No one can sense the undercurrents of a populace better than a general practitioner. I have seen it all: gluten free, lactose free, sugar free, every...

From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not ReadingFrom the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are always smart and endlessly entertaining. The former story paints...

From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women's...

A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator of this story, is about to give birth. She is a writer, and she realizes that she knows the woman who committed the infanticide. An obsession is born. She takes an extended leave, not for...

Glenna Daniels faces a midlife cul-de-sac. She bears a recent miscarriage and third divorce the way her Appalachian parents taught her to cope with tragedy-in stoic secrecy. She quits her social work position in Knoxville and runs away from home at the age of...

Where your heart is, there will your treasure be also. Matthew 6:21 A torn flyer from the 1939 World's Fair. Faded movie ticket stubs for Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. A bill of lading with my husband's signature scrawled at...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD longlist nominee, Helen Phillips's debut novel, And Yet They Were Happy is "A gallery of marvels."--Washington PostWinner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction PrizeA young couple comes of age in a surreal world of apocalypse, delight, longing, and tenderness. A young couple...

5 stars A light and enjoyable adventure that comments on human nature and the beauty of our world....Very funny, but it was the wider ethos of the tale that really grabbed me. Overall a brighter look at life today that is sure to keep...

"This novel is an opportunity for the modern women to identify themselves. The Fractals transcends from darkness and suffocation to an immaculate breath of life. Unsullied, evoking and graced with a perfect voice." RAJATHI SALMA Writer & Activist "The Fractals is one of the...

In this historical novel, Allinji is an adventurous and valiant woman living 4,000 years ago in Ur, the capital of Sumeria (now southern Iraq). Ur and Sumeria have been called "the Cradle of Civilization."The Sumerians made advances in architecture, literature, farming, technology, and the...

Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing, and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the Bradens.In LOVERS AT HEART, REIMAGINED...Treat Braden wasn't looking for love when Max Armstrong walked into his Nassau resort, but he saw...

She never trusted unconditional love. He never believed he'd be worthy. Almost-Olympian gymnast Jordan Beck has coordinated an emergency vacation getaway in Puerto Vallarta for her broken-hearted bestie. Nightly parties, exotic drinks, and sandy beaches are just what she has in mind for her...

Madison deCordova has another quirky assignment. This time, a highly superstitious client wants her to spend seven days and seven nights in a newly inherited house to declare it 'haunt-free.' With an address like 1313 Omen Lane, he's not taking any chances! She can...

Embark on a flight with Lily as she faces her secret fear and lands in the precise spot that God intended all along.Lily s life changes in a heartbeat when a fiery confrontation with her mother uncovers a mystery about her "totally" dysfunctional family,...

Marnie Hunter seems to glide through life until that fateful night on a dark country road when the idealistic minister must reconcile theology, her Christian upbringing, and the real world. Marnie has reached an impasse. And until she comes to terms with her past...

Monument Bingo: five guys... five kisses... one winner. The rules are simple... but the game is bound to change when each of these women meets the man of her dreams.He's reaching for a higher prize...Congressman Lincoln Pierce is going to be president one day....

Four stories twine together in this novel set in both contemporary and 1950's Maine. Kiya, a Portland hair stylist in her early 20's, becomes unexpectedly pregnant and determined to keep the baby as she struggles to recover from her brother's suicide. Peter, the baby's...

In this lighthearted, nontraditional superhero novel, four menopausal women in the same town start to exhibit strange abilities: incredible strength, the ability to wield fire, to fly (sort of), and armor-plated skin. Each woman struggles to deal with her changes in her own way,...

Lexie Logan learned her lessons--or did she?Spending three months in 1857 Kansas forced her to evaluate her priorities. She has returned to the twenty-first century and now must face the fears that caused her to rebel in the first place.How can Lexie explain the...