Fiction - Women

Olivia Northman's world shattered the day she lost her wife to a drunk driver. Three years later, she still struggles with grief and the demands of being a single parent to their autistic son, Ben. After her first attempt at a new relationship crumbles,...

A Compelling Pulitzer Prize-Winning Saga of a Family's Fall from Power"TRULY LOVELY" -Gillian Flynn, author of Gone GirlFor generations, the proud Pentland family name meant wealth, class, and status. In the years following the first World War, however, change was in the air, with...

A Compelling Pulitzer Prize-Winning Saga of a Family's Fall from Power"TRULY LOVELY" -Gillian Flynn, author of Gone GirlFor generations, the proud Pentland family name meant wealth, class, and status. In the years following the first World War, however, change was in the air, with...

An Academy Award night jewel heist in Hollywood. An international insurance investigator. What happens when Jake falls for Elena, the sassy jeweler-to-the-stars he's investigating? A fun, circle-of-friends series from a USA Today bestselling author.When jeweler Elena Eaton is ensnared in a daring jewelry heist...

An Academy Award night jewel heist in Hollywood. An international insurance investigator. What happens when Jake falls for Elena, the sassy jeweler-to-the-stars he's investigating? A fun, circle-of-friends series from a USA Today bestselling author.When jeweler Elena Eaton is ensnared in a daring jewelry heist...

Stalked by paparazzi, top model Penelope Plessen stands to lose everything. Though Stefan once broke her heart, he's the only man she trusts. Should she risk her heart to save her life? A fun, circle-of-friends series from a USA Today bestselling author.As a top...

An old family secret. A handsome Formula 1 race car driver. Can Dahlia handle the dangerous curves ahead when their worlds collide? A fun, circle-of-friends book from a USA Today bestselling author.When indie perfumer Dahlia Dubois steps in to lead the iconic, international perfume...

An old family secret. A handsome Formula 1 race car driver. Can Dahlia handle the dangerous curves ahead when their worlds collide? A fun, circle-of-friends book from a USA Today bestselling author.When indie perfumer Dahlia Dubois steps in to lead the iconic, international perfume...

A sabotaged fashion show. An Irish rock star. A missing bride. Can designer Fianna Fitzgerald survive her debut season? A fun, circle-of-friends series from a USA Today bestselling author.After Fianna Fitzgerald's debut runway show of her fashion designs, a walk on the Malibu beach...

A sabotaged fashion show. An Irish rock star. A missing bride. Can designer Fianna Fitzgerald survive her debut season? A fun, circle-of-friends series from a USA Today bestselling author.After Fianna Fitzgerald's debut runway show of her fashion designs, a walk on the Malibu beach...

A treacherous boss. The client from hell. Can Scarlett survive a deadly career while an old friend turns into a new love?A fun, circle-of-friends series from a USA Today bestselling author.Style meets suspense... In the glamorous world of high-stakes beauty and fashion, Scarlett Sandoval...

A treacherous boss. The client from hell. Can Scarlett survive a deadly career while an old friend turns into a new love?A fun, circle-of-friends series from a USA Today bestselling author.Style meets suspense... In the glamorous world of high-stakes beauty and fashion, Scarlett Sandoval...

A handsome celebrity chef. A treacherous ex. Can Verena Valent survive the biggest break of her career, or will it break her? A fun, circle-of-friends series from a USA Today bestselling author.After a chance meeting with celebrity chef Lance Martel in Beverly Hills, Verena...

A handsome celebrity chef. A treacherous ex. Can Verena Valent survive the biggest break of her career, or will it break her? A fun, circle-of-friends series from a USA Today bestselling author.After a chance meeting with celebrity chef Lance Martel in Beverly Hills, Verena...

2023 Bookshelf Writing Award Winner 1st Place - 2022 NYC Big Book Award Winner - 2022 Gold Medal Winner Reader Views - 2022 Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence - 2022 Literary Titan Silver Award - 2022 Firebird Book Award - 2022 Hawthorne Prize Finalist...

2023 Bookshelf Writing Award Winner 1st Place - 2022 NYC Big Book Award Winner - 2022 Gold Medal Winner Reader Views - 2022 Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence - 2022 Literary Titan Silver Award - 2022 Firebird Book Award - 2022 Hawthorne Prize Finalist...

AMSTERDAM, 1941. Hanna is a young Jewish woman who is eager to have a child of her own, despite the harrowing conditions the family is facing. Nine months later, Hanna and her husband, Nico, welcome their beautiful baby girl into the world. As the...

AMSTERDAM, 1941. Hanna is a young Jewish woman who is eager to have a child of her own, despite the harrowing conditions the family is facing. Nine months later, Hanna and her husband, Nico, welcome their beautiful baby girl into the world. As the...

Dr. Harold Merton, the kindly and caring General Practitioner (GP) for the village of Bellechester, is worried. A near-fatal bout with pneumonia last winter has made him think about the future. If something happened to him, who would take over his practice? Rarely leaving...

A novel that will appeal to readers of Jodi Picoult, Miriam Toews and Jennifer Weiner.A sister's love versus a cruel fate. A story of fierce love and heartbreaking grief. Claire Waters, an Italian mystery writer living in Los Angeles, rushes to Italy after her...

Praise for Walk Out the Door "Walk Out the Door is a vivid and visceral reading experience, and more than that, an education.Hard-hitting, engaging, empowering, Walk Out the Door is a fresh, unflinchingly realistic, and ultimately redemptive story of generational domestic violence. The situations...

Randi Samuelson-Brown, known for her award nominated and compelling historical fiction of the Old West, engages her passion for storytelling to paint an unflinching portrait of the seedy underbelly of the modern-day West.Emory Cross is a young and tough, no nonsense brand inspector in...

A missed opportunity five years ago makes for an unexpected encounter now between two people meant for each other - but who square off in a very public battle of wills in the small town of Love You, Maine, where every day is Valentine's...

Annie Mason is ready for a holiday where someone else decides the menu, makes the food, and provides the entertainment for her two teenage girls. So it's easy to board the ferry and go to Nantucket, where her sister has invited her for a...

Just weeks after World War II ends, three women from different corners of the world arrive in Germany to run a Displaced Persons camp. They long to help rebuild shattered lives -- including their own . . .Author: Lindsay Jayne AshfordISBN-10: 1638084521ISBN-13: 9781638084525Publisher: Center...

Sadie Way Scott has been avoiding her family and hometown of Sugarberry Cove, Alabama, since she nearly drowned in the lake just outside her mother's B and B. Eight years later, Sadie is the host of a much-loved show about southern cooking and family,...

Lee Stone is a twenty-first-century woman: she kicks butt at her job as a communications director at a women-run electric car company (that's better than Tesla, thank you), and after work she is "Stoner," drinking guys under the table and never letting any of...

When Leeds meets Layla, he's convinced he'll spend the rest of his life with her -- until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman...

In the wake of her daughter's unexplained suicide and her husband Jim's sudden abandonment, Liddy Bryant is determined to move on and make some positive changes in her life. In her hometown of Wyndham Beach, the neglected and shuttered bookstore is also in need...

Three siblings. A priceless family ring. One legendary love story.Author: Brenda JanowitzISBN-10: 1638084203ISBN-13: 9781638084204Publisher: Center PointLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2022Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 8.55h x 5.72w x 1.30dLarge Print

When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter -- as well as a gift of saffron -- to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen...

Few in sleepy Sumner's Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his wife and two young daughters there, a shocking, gruesome crime that the sleepy upstate New York...

Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books...

Four years after his wife's death, art history teacher Derek Gaines has finally made a kind of peace with himself. He tries his best to stave off memories. His days are ones of familiar routine. Guarded against further pain, he keeps relationships at a...

Blood defines family. Blood reveals betrayal.Heartbreaking, guttural, and uncomfortably close to home, award-winning author Staci Troilo brings to life the riveting story of a marriage on the rocks and a family in crisis. Dr. Royce Keller is no stranger to blood. As a world-class...

In this deadly-funny debut novel by renowned Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, five macho friends in Rio's Copacabana reflect on their hedonistic glory days--now supplanted by the indignities of aging--in what turn out to be their final moments. With uncanny insight into the less virtuous...

An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La B穰arde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men...

As a child, Annie Baskin envied her older sister. Sarah was beautiful, smart, popular, and contemptuous of her messy, graceless kid sister. Annie grew up in Sarah's shadow, knowing she was second-tier, second-rate, an also-ran. The other Baskin girl. Now an adult, Sarah lives...

Recent retiree Ruth Singer is reflecting on her life and wondering what direction it might have taken if she'd made different choices. What if she'd learned to ski? What if she'd had her tubes tied before her difficult youngest child was born? What if...

After meeting at a boatman's bash on the Snake River, river runners Maddy and Dalt embark on a lifelong love affair. They marry on the banks of the Buffalo Fork, sure they'll live there the rest of their days. Forced by the economics of...

Sadira Doyle believes the best years of her life are behind her. A housewife and mother in a parochial town during the latter years of the depression, she yearns for more. Her husband is an alcoholic sinking into despair; her eldest son's eccentricities make...

Shy bookstore owner Jane Finch grew up hiding in the margins of her own life while her vibrant, adventure-loving sister, Samantha, dominated every plotline. She's made peace with it, unlike Sam's business partner, Caleb, who's always nudging Jane to go after what she really...

"A powerful and thought-provoking story that is impossible to put down." --Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Four Winds and The NightingaleA reformist teacher. A dangerous student clique. A powerful novel about secrets and redemption set in the shadows of McCarthy-era...

Two people find love in the embers of their painful pasts in this slow-burn romance from Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author Winter Renshaw.For me, family is a curse. My father and brother made my life hell. My mother's untimely death still...

Navsari, India. Penniless and trapped in a loveless marriage, Nirmala spends her days anxiously caring for her sick young son, Varun. Looming over Nirmala's impoverished home is an imposing mansion built by her grandfather, and from its balcony her cruel aunt scorns them, refusing...

Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterhood, and survival by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow.1857. Three women--once strangers--come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll...

A sleight of hand. A trick up the sleeve. A call for the dead. It's all part of the game in this twisty tale by the bestselling author of After Alice Fell.New Hampshire, 1877. Maud Price was once a celebrated child medium, a true...

An unusual inheritance leads to a life-changing journey in a novel of romance, secrets, and the treasure of found family.Blythe Harmon is on the fast track to a life she never wanted. On her thirtieth birthday, just as she's about to lock herself into...

From the authors of Tiny Imperfections comes a riotously funny, emotionally real look at race and religion, love and heartache, and the realities of parenting through it all.Self-appointed fixer of other people's woes Marjette Lewis is uncharacteristically determined to keep to her side of...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hook, Line, & Sinker comes "a sparkling rom-com that will have readers hooked." (Publishers Weekly) The road trip was definitely a bad idea. Having already flamb馥d her culinary career beyond recognition, Rita Clarkson is now...