Fiction - Women

"Gripping."--Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls"Shetterly's debut achieves a subtle grace, a quality of light and shadow worthy of a Bergman film."--Allegra Goodman, New York Times Book Review"Pete and Alice in Maine is a tender, big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of a marriage, and a family,...

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...

"A fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it down."--Gabriela Garcia, author of the New York Times bestseller and Good Morning America Pick Of Women and Salt"Clarke refuses to turn this story into a morality...

"With her eye for historical detail and flair for sympathetic heroines, Francesca Stanfill breathes new life into the medieval court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The Falcon's Eyes is a novel of epic proportions that succeeds in being both intimate and vast. History is Stanfill's...

"Wives Like Us made me laugh so hard I actually knocked over my lamp. Can a book be so wickedly smart, so effortless, so chic and hilarious that you would stumble through the night to find a new lightbulb just so you can keep...

'Sharp writing... great plot' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley Reviewer'[I] couldn't put it down. A twisty read [and] I had no clue' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley ReviewerThe locked-room thriller that will keep you up all night. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley.New Orleans: live music, endless...

Childhood betrayal casts a long shadow...From the author of The Haven and The Cliff House, this is a devastating thriller set in a Cornish boarding school.'A gripping page-turner' Tammy Cohen, author of The Wedding PartyAt a bleak boys' boarding school in Cornwall in the...

'If you only treat yourself to one festive read this year, it has to be this one' Goodreads ReviewerWhen Juliet Hill unwittingly discovers a most-definitely-not-hers-rhinestone-studded lace thong in her high-flying lawyer boyfriend's apartment, this usually feisty chef is suddenly single and facing a very...

Lillah Lawson has written a stunning elegy to America's past, its sins, and our constant drive to do better. SO LONG, BOBBY is a love letter not just to finding your home, but what it means to earn love, respect, and community. The secrets...

She's my boss, and she's a stone-cold fox. Two months ago, I lost my boat, my cat, and--with my leg in a cast--my income. Until I can walk again, the only job I'm fit for is one few have survived. See, my new boss...

It's late August, and the Cape May sunshine has everyone enjoying the last days of summer.Margaret is trying to put together a tea garden on her property, but Liz steps in and takes over, prompting Margaret to reassess what she really wants out of...

Margo Berdeshevsky's Kneel Said the Night weaves together intimacy, revamped fairy tales, erotic myths, and legends. Berdeshevsky articulates a composition that is balanced precariously between wonder and horror by merging poetry, prose, and visual art; the result is a fragmented world that offers a...

The orderly, sterile life of Martha Hahn Cotter is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the teenage granddaughter she's never met. Quick to send the girl back home, she reaches out to her estranged daughter. Days later, her daughter arrives, resulting in an inevitable...

The orderly, sterile life of Martha Hahn Cotter is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the teenage granddaughter she's never met. Quick to send the girl back home, she reaches out to her estranged daughter. Days later, her daughter arrives, resulting in an inevitable...

Detective Lola Harris returns from a miserable solo holiday - an effort to get over her useless ex - only to find herself in charge of a high-stakes investigation. She rushes to a crime scene in the historic Gallowgate neighbourhood. The smell in the...

No secret can stay hidden forever ... Submissive housewife, Becky, and feisty single parent, Abi, are unaware of each other's existence until their biological father, Henry Williams, dies and leaves them Vellangoose, a dilapidated smallholding in Cornwall. When both women find themselves homeless, living...

What if the Fountain of Youth is real?A 60-year-old virgin discovers the fountain of youth in her Miami backyard.Lorelei, the 60-year-old virgin, is part-owner of a Miami lingerie shop. When her well runs dry, she hires Juan, a Cuban well-digger, who taps into a...

* "Supple, superb." --The Boston Globe * "A deft mash of lonesomeness and wit." --Chicago Tribune * "Her best in more than two decades." --The New York Times * Award-winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a "sophisticated, idiosyncratic, and witty" (Star Tribune,...

Veronica Emma-Mae Husting has reinvented herself more than once in a chase for elusive happiness. Ronnie finally comes home but experiences a near-death accident that forces her to face the past, present, and possible future during a visit to the afterlife. She learns what's...

We said we could do casual. We swore we wouldn't fall in love. We lied. Charlie I didn't buy my house just so I could stare at the guy next door. I swear. It's not my fault he mows the lawn with his shirt...

She was supposed to be his one-night distraction. But their attraction is undeniable.Introverted Daisy McGregor is used to being a wallflower, but what she lacks in style, she makes up for with an acerbic wit, a passion for life, and a deep devotion to...

Poor Sabina Sunday! She's 30 years old, 100 pounds overweight, an unwilling virgin, and an accountant in a modeling agency full of lovely, skinny women. To make matters worse, she lives with her nagging Jewish mother, who never lets her forget that she isn't...

Lila, Sheila, and Greta are middle-aged housewives married to sex-challenged older men. Their solution is ingenious and wicked. The delicious home-baked chocolate cupcakes they feed their husbands are laced with sex-enhancing drugs. The women are deliriously happy until the pills run out, and Jerry's...

In Lost Rider, the first Western romance in New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Harper Sloan's Coming Home series, an injured rodeo star encounters an old flame but will she be just what he needs to get back in the saddle? Maverick...

The jury is out on whether this match is made in heaven--but with sexy Camden Whitman as lead counsel, they'll surely find in this sizzling couple's favor! You'll want to see the ultra-sexy new Unexpected Heroes romance, based on New York Times bestselling author...

A sexy seven-day job interview. Seven irresistible interviewers. Who will she choose at the end of the week? Working Girl is a sexy new story, perfect for fans of Audrey Carlan's Calendar Girl, Helen Hardt and Rhyannon Byrd. Tess has been determined to get...

"Laura Wiess's masterful prose kept me turning the pages. This is the first book in a very long time that made me say, 'Wish I'd written this'" (Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank, on Such a Pretty Girl). Laura Wiess captures the visceral emotion of...

A dancer's fall from grace ignites a dark ambition in this propulsive novel about the seductive, cutthroat world of professional ballet by debut author Melanie Hamrick. Five years into her career at the North American Ballet, Sylvie Carter has come a long way from...

Within the margins of an antique book, a timeless love waits for a young woman on the precipice of a terrible mistake in this enthralling new novel from the acclaimed author of Some of It Was Real. Constance Sparks always says yes...when her capricious...

One woman's trash is another woman's treasure. A woman with high standards. A rival coworker. And the promotion that stands between them . . . Coder Marina Spicer has no time to waste when it comes to love, hence her long list of dealbreakers....

"The perfect escape." --USA Today "Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script." --Shelf Awareness Named one of the Best Beach Reads of Summer 2022 by The Washington Post - USA Today - Cosmopolitan - Southern Living...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter's discovery that she has the power to change her family's legacy. "A rhapsodic hymn to...

One of Skimm's Books We Couldn't Put Down This Year Four friends. Fifteen years. Who We Are Now is a story of Sliding Doors moments, those seemingly small choices of early adulthood that determine the course of our lives. It is 2006 and Rachel,...

Rona Jaffe's beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition...

Author: Julia QuinnISBN-10: 006330371XISBN-13: 9780063303713Publisher: Avon BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2022Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.80lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 4.40d

"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...

"Filled with vivid details, shocking truths, and two sly, strong women who bring panache and humor to every scene. I'm simply in awe of the masterful, magical way Lauren Willig makes history come alive." -- Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The...

Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor"Ms. Demeanor is a complete and utter delight. Of course it is. What Elinor Lipman novel isn't?"--Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are . . ."Who knew house arrest could be sexy and fun? Not...

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...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life--the mundane, the trivial,...

New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis returns to Sunrise Cove with a heartwarming tale of three people who are brought together when they're bequeathed an old Wild West inn that has the potential to pull their lives apart, but instead turns into the...

Mia Thermopolis knows just what to do in a crisis: Rule.During the Covid-19 pandemic, a section of the diary of Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia fell into the hands of Meg Cabot, the Princess's royal biographer. As reported in media outlets such as Entertainment...

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...

New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan kicks off her amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton....

From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer--and the ghosts of her past. Years...

"Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin spirits readers away to the warm beaches of Sag Harbor in the second novel of her bestselling Summer series.Olivia Jones, hard-working and accomplished, has, against the odds, blazed an enviable...

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,...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Tessa Bailey--#1 New York Times bestselling author, TikTok favorite, and "the Michelangelo of dirty talk" (Entertainment Weekly)--comes a spicy small town rom-com about a grumpy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn...Hallie Welch fell...

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...