Fiction - Women

When her husband tells her, he wants a divorce, Amanda realizes she no longer knows who she is-her life revolved around her husband. At forty, she finds herself divorced, childless, living in an apartment with a roommate, with little education and no career path....

A YOUNG WOMAN'S HARROWING EMOTIONAL JOURNEY TO SAVE HERSELF AND HER DREAMS.From a childhood of parental loss, religious repression, and sexual shaming, Katie Thompson suffers deep wounds and persistent self-doubt. Her desire to find meaning through education and a career is threatened by those...

Must she choose between love and money?Or can Rook get both?ROOKI get it. Stripping naked and letting your boyfriend's best friend paint your body in order to sell custom motorcycles isn't the ideal way to start a brand-new relationship.Add in a TV reality show,...

Author: Jacqueline St JoanISBN-10: 1935708066ISBN-13: 9781935708063Publisher: Press 53Language: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2010Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61dReview Citation(s): Foreword 07/14/2011

Her life's a mess.And so is her kitchen.Divorced, heartbroken and living in a lonely New York apartment with a tiny kitchen, Rachel Goldman realizes she doesn't even know how to cook the simplest meal for herself. Can learning to fry an egg help her...

Every writer knows you can't go home again. But that's just what is required of West Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident.Single-again "Dr. Dee" has never been on the "A-team" in her trendy East Coast...

Sometimes the happiest "happily ever after" is learning to love yourself.School teacher Monica Humphrey is dangerously close to becoming the proverbial cat lady. Abandoned by her father after her mother's death, she's an adult now--alone with her fears, hazy impressions of childhood, and an...

Summer, 1871: the worst storm in living memory is battering the remote border town of Tres Cruces, flooding rivers, snapping telegraph lines, wrecking the ferry. Stranded miners and ranchers huddle in the town's leaky inns, fretting while their meager supplies dwindle. Only Diana Clayborn...

A young widow...A grieving brother...Could a second chance heal them both? Widowed too soon, leaving her alone with a young son and a broken heart. Drew's only priority is to rebuild a life for herself and her son. Love is the last thing on...

She needs a fresh start. He needs her to see how he's changed. Can time really heal everything...even a broken heart? Sixteen years ago, rejected by her high school sweetheart, Cam Riley ran straight into the arms of a man who wouldn't hurt her....

A mute Mayan girl held captive in a crate in the Guatemalan jungle, a big-city psychoanalyst with a rescue complex, and a journalist with a broken heart are the characters in Sheila Dalton's second literary novel. Inez, a traumatized young Mayan woman originally from...

Sometimes a tree change might be just what you need ... From the bestselling author of Brumby's Run, Currawong Creek and Turtle Reef comes an inspiring story of family, friendship and the healing power of love.When Sydney botanist Kim Sullivan and her husband inherit...

Twenty-eight year old Katie Cook lands her dream job in the world of professional tennis. It was like being invited to the Academy Awards, except they were all wearing branded tracksuits. Katie finds life in Sydney to be not quite measuring up and makes...

Jo had learned the hard way that life was not mystical, or magical; it was hard and grey and cold most of the time. Much better to see it for what it is than to be perennially disappointed. It's not as though Jo Liddell...

The Beckett sisters need to shake things up. Emma has been planning her dream wedding even since she was a little girl, and she's determined to get her happy ending. Just as soon as her boyfriend Blake gets around to proposing ... Liz is...

Helen and Gemma, two women who couldn't be more different, are thrown together when their lives take an unexpected turn. Helen always tries to be a good person - she recycles, she is even polite to telemarketers. As a mother, wife, daughter and nurse,...

'Well, we're different, we lead such different lives. I'm not sure how we'll go now without Annie. She was like Carrie, you know, in Sex and the City. Annie was our Carrie.' Without Annie, friends Catherine, Lexie and Rachel are lost. How will they...

'Taste was such an evocative sense; Andie had closed her eyes, with the scone melting in her mouth, and been transported back to her grandmother's kitchen ...' Nourishment is nurture. That's what Andie learned from her grandmother and what she's always believed, but somehow,...

Nepal. A country of mountains and monasteries, gurus and goddesses.Kathmandu. The ancient capital, where the fabric separating truth from legend is so thin it sometimes tears.Lara Gordon is a corporate high-flyer whose carefully constructed world falls apart when she finds herself fifty, unemployed, and...

Dead bodies, a complicated love life, a conflict between the local drug cartels, and a favour owed to the local bikies have Tara scrambling to stay ahead of the game.Just another Tuesday for Tara Sharp.Sharp Edge is book 4 in the Tara Sharp series....

Tara's quirky PI business is attracting some even quirkier customers. She's not sure how Madame Vine's Escort Agency got her number. And then there's the eccentric motorcycle racing team owner, Bolo Ignatius. Both these clients want to Tara to investigate suspicious circumstances that turn...

All Maya Galen wanted was a happy family, stifling her inner urges to explore the wider world for the sake of being there for her children. But parenting with her husband, Con, wasn't always easy. Their eldest son, Jamie, broke off all contact some...

Silver medal - Best Fiction (Europe), Independent Publisher Book Awards 2019Shortlisted - The Selfies 2019, London Book FairFinalist - Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2019DO YOU OWE YOUR FAMILY YOUR LIFE?When Grace's beloved sister Glory dies in a car crash, her life spirals out...

Devoted mother, foster mother and farmer, May Sheppard, can't stop taking on everyone else's problems.Life is hard eighteen months after VE Day. And then the worst winter of the century sets in. Struggling to cope, May is knocked sideways by a further threat to...

Suitable for 18+ OnlyGrowing up, the eldest of six girls in a run-down tiny house in an old unused mining town in Russia, Svetlana dreamed of falling in love just like in the books she read. Her dream became a reality after coming across...

This book is about how to take a stand as a woman! How to run a business being a woman after being told that she couldn't run a business just because she was a woman! And well, guess what? She proved them wrong! The...

There is a madness come upon England of late.When Jane's lover, Tom, returns from the navy to find her unhappily married to his betrayer, Jane is caught in an impossible situation.Still reeling from the loss of her mother at the hands of the witchfinder,...

What would you do after your first real relationship breaks down?After nearly four years with Jeff, everything fell apart. For the first time in my adult life, I found myself single, scared, but liberated as well. Rather than stumble into another ill advised relationship,...

In a man's world, can a woman survive?Liverpool 1882: Nell's dream of travelling on a transatlantic steamship is about to come true. Although not in the way she expected.Life is hard, and with only three women working amongst a crew of eighty, there are...

"One is immersed in this epic story immediately and effortlessly... The main characters are so well-drawn that you feel you have heard about them in your own life." - The Evening Herald A death in the present-a killing in the past. After twenty years...

Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants...

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she's covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses...

A writer in her late thirties retreats to Landes in France for a while, fleeing from her own suffering after the break-up of a relationship. Little by little, she finds solace in writing about the losses in her life, about her person, and about...

'The Angel Bug', Ann Foweraker's fourth novel, is set at the world famous Eden Project in Cornwall, UK. This is a contemporary light thriller combining science fact and fiction, told by the people at the heart of the discovery. It all starts simply enough...

"Love doesn't warn you when it hits. It's like a drug. You're on an awesome high; but when you try to wean yourself off, knowing that in the long run you'll be better off without it, you start to get withdrawal symptoms. So you...

Letters Between Us is a powerful story of search for self, identity, of losing a friend and finding her in a deeper sense, and through her, making discoveries and gaining insights. Overman grips you with intimate, startling details so that you can't stop reading...

Million-copy bestselling author Jodi Ellen Malpas is back with a scorching Regency series, perfect for fans of Bridgerton.It's 1814 and nineteen-year-old Eliza Melrose is about to be launched into London's high society--much to her dismay. The last thing she wants is a husband.Eliza's misplaced'...

New York Times bestselling author, Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with the perfect story of friendship.Serena, Michelle, Kenya, and Lynette have known each other since they were small children. They grew up in different neighborhoods, but they also grew up in the same church (which...

This dazzling thriller and sequel to the national bestseller Conviction finds Anna and Fin reunited for an even bigger adventure, as they once more go on the lam to solve a murder--and make another podcast.Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence.Anna McDonald has...

From the author of Mrs. and TheFundamentals of Play comes a brilliant and biting short story collection about pride, privilege, and our nagging need to belong.In an era of hot takes and easy generalizations, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as...

The story of two young women whose friendship offered--and demanded--more than either should share. For fans of Sally Rooney and Claire North.Sometimes I wondered if I imagined it, said Nina. But deep down I knew I didn't.Jess said, We did too much damage for...

Love knows no seasonSpring should bring renewal, but Maura McKnight-Parker cannot escape the past. Still reeling from the loss of one daughter, the former free spirit is thrown for a loop by the return of her older daughter, Sage, and the reappearance of her...

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...

Peaky Blinders meets Ocean's 8 in The Forty Elephants, an epic novel set in Roaring Twenties London, based on the real-life, all-female gang of the same name who specialized in crime as high art, targeting posh department stores and elites.London in the 1920s is...

Sarah Copeland-Patterson's college experience is derailed when she is raped, and her best friend killed a week later. She descends into an emotional spiral which sends her on a journey for spiritual meaning. She stumbles upon a campus Orthodox Jewish community and questions if...

Sarah Copeland-Patterson's college experience is derailed when she is raped, and her best friend killed a week later. She descends into an emotional spiral which sends her on a journey for spiritual meaning. She stumbles upon a campus Orthodox Jewish community and questions if...

A death, a lie, a secret. For twenty-six summers he didn't have the courage to face the past.Lee Hanjo is an artist at the peak of his fame, envied and celebrated. Then, on his forty-third birthday, he awakens to find that his devoted wife...

In this romantic tale in the Escape to France collection from bestselling author Fiona Valpy, Sara has one summer to make wedding wishes come true. But can she save her own happy-ever-after?Revised edition: Previously published as The French for Always, this edition of The...

In this tale of fresh starts in the Escape to France collection from bestselling author Fiona Valpy, Gina has lost everything. Can a crumbling old cottage offer her a new life, new love--and new hope?Revised edition: Previously published as The French for Love, this...

In this charming novel from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker's Gift, food was once the language of Evie's soul. Now, can she remember the recipe for happiness?Revised edition: Previously published as The French for Christmas, this edition of The Recipe for Hope includes...