Fiction - Women

She thought the best part of her life was over, but now she knows it's just beginning.Liz Weston's life has reached rock bottom. Her husband dumped her, her life savings are gone and her apartment is being turned into condos that she can't afford....

You can always trust your friends. Can't you? For as long as I can remember my best friend Abi has been in love with Cal and I could not have been happier for her. What started as a crush in high school, blossomed into...

As a flight to St Lucia leaves the runway, four passengers meet for the first time.After escaping her controlling husband, Bernadette Manson is taking the first extravagant holiday of her new life. But when her best friend cancels, will she be strong enough to...

A heartwarming novel about hope after loss as a young widow receives mysterious messages of love from the author of Eight Perfect HoursSparkly and charming Natalie Fincher has it all--a handsome new husband, a fixer-upper cottage of her dreams, and the opportunity to tour...

'They speak to me, Vicks.' Celandine hugs Vicky in windswept Kensington Gore. 'They speak to me from heaven.' London 1921. 24-year-old Celandine Greenstreet wants to write symphonies, but she hides an astonishing secret. What is the dreadful rift that forms between her and Alex?...

2019... In Spain, at a remote mountain retreat centre, Tyra Alstrom is facing her 65th birthday alone. It wasn't always like this. In 1976, Alstrom, the band formed by her brother, and fronted by Tyra, had just recorded their first album, and were about...

In the wake of a devastating family tragedy, nineteen-year-old Lennon Camek swears never to return to small-town life. She's forced to face the aftermath of her family's sordid past when her younger sister, Olivia, is hospitalized. And Lennon wonders if someone is up to...

Caroline B. Cooney, beloved international bestselling author, captures the technicolor complicated human heart in this literary Southern mystery about one secret afternoon in 1964 when a young wife barreling down a dirt road in her station wagon chooses not to be a bystander. Until...

She thought she had left that life behind forever. She was wrong.1964: Christaphine is twenty years old, newly married, and determined to make a home and a life for her and her husband, Tommy. But when Christaphine discovers Tommy and his friends on the...

"Heartfelt, thrilling, and emotionally complex, this is the author's best work yet." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED reviewTwo women will do whatever it takes to protect their own - no matter the cost to anyone else. Cerys leaves her life behind in a fiery wreck. Lily...

"Atmospheric and uplifting...for fans of Marian Keyes and Emily Giffin." --Booklist, STARRED reviewA heartfelt, hilarious beach read about learning to love (and forgive) your family...even when they accidentally put you behind bars.All families are messy. Some are disasters.Natalie Walker is the reason her older...

Coming home will always give you a second chance...When Riley Leighton and Levi Duncan finally meet again, the chemistry between them is as hot as ever. But as much as Levi has missed Riley all these years, he still remembers the heartbreak when she...

In this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, adult siblings find their way back home--and back to each other--after loss. Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of six children raised in a...

In this heartfelt novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a young woman with an unforgettable voice fights for the freedom to pursue her dreams. Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no...

Annie feigns interest as her client studies the OPI color chart. After years of selecting polishes, one to her is no different from the other. What's far more interesting is the conversation from the last manicure appointment that is sure to continue about the...

An ambitious podcaster and her reclusive interviewee embark on a life-altering journey to uncover long-lost truths in this immersive story about love, travel, and family secrets.Forty years ago, aspiring writer Ann Fawkes left the United States for a Mediterranean adventure that opened her heart...

Sparks fly when an ob-gyn butts heads with a doctor at her new hospital in this delightfully charming romance about bad timing, good friends, and fresh starts.The last thing I ever expected was to insult a colleague before I even started a new job.But...

Disaster strikes a wagon train en route to Texas, leaving 18-year-old Abby in charge of the survivors, all children younger than her. After an attempted kidnapping, the others convince her to disguise herself as a boy. Initially reluctant, Abby soon realizes life on the...

When you pick up a story that somehow feels universal yet oddly specific, you know you have a real treat in your hands. A book that takes pages out of the diary you wish you wrote and makes it real and raw... it's a...

When you pick up a story that somehow feels universal yet oddly specific, you know you have a real treat in your hands. A book that takes pages out of the diary you wish you wrote and makes it real and raw... it's a...

Another brilliant example of Evan Connell's art, The Patriot deals with an American boy who grew to maturity with World War II. He had learned his father's patriotism, and then, through the impact of firsthand experience, formulated his own. Melvin Isaacs, aged seventeen, became...

It's July 4, 1861, and the featured speaker at this year's Independence Day celebration at Concord, MA, is high-spirited and fiercely patriotic Eloise Edwards. She rails against the South's attack on Fort Sumter and the injustice of slavery. A newspaper article recounting the speech...

If We Caught Fire brings two families together for a wedding in St. John's, an event that sets off a summer of fireworks in the lives of the people around them. Edie's calm and contained life is knocked awry when her mother decides to...

Jack Valentini isn't my type. Sexy, brooding cowboys are fine in the movies, but in real life, I prefer a suit and tie. Proper manners. A close shave. Jack might be gorgeous, but he's also scruffy, rugged, and rude. He wants nothing to do...

Moira Green is perfectly content with her life. She has a rewarding career and plenty of wonderful friends, including the members of her weekly book club. Then everything in her life goes topsy-turvy when the town council plans to demolish the site of her...

From boardroom to bedroom... Jamie Witmer recognizes a good thing when she sees it, whether it's the elegant buildings she helps design, or her effortless working relationship with her partner, Weston Archer. But being the second-place team at their Boston firm isn't enough to...

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them. The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are...

2023 Western Heritage Award for the Western Novel At age seventeen Tam Bowen left her Montana home in disgrace after giving birth to a son out of wedlock. After working her way through college, she settled in Portland, Oregon, where she began making a...

'The perfect festive read!' DEBBIE JOHNSON 'Full of festive spirit and intriguing family secrets!' HEIDI SWAIN Can three sisters stitch their family back together? Loretta loves running the little village sewing shop in Butterbury. Some of her most precious memories are sitting with her...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE WEEKIn her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of...

A heartwarming contemporary romance set in Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou from New York Times bestselling author Lexi BlakeSeraphina Guidry loves Butterfly Bayou. A young, single mom, she's trying to find a place for herself in the town she cherishes, but past mistakes have made her...

When tragedy strikes, Rachel Byrne thinks her chance for a happily ever after has ended. Picking up the shattered pieces and moving across the country, Rachel is determined to start over all while uncovering long kept secrets, finding a new faith, and hiding from...

"Otowa has woven a series of delightful vignettes of life in Japan, from a true historical story of feuding villages to a man who steals shoes at temples...and some highlighting the cultural differences between Japanese and American sensibilities, especially for women." -- Ginny Tapley-Takemori,...

Young Inga Henderson has grown up as the daughter of the manse on a northerly Shetland isle named Vaalafiel. She is without a father; he died in a mysterious tragedy on a boat trip to Europe, in which his best friend also died, and...

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them Mariel Prager needs a...

A Contemporary Classics hardcover omnibus of the complete fiction of one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance, including her most famous novel, Passing Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the Black middle class that...

WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD - A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted in a home that's on the brink of collapse? "Beautiful, gripping, and tender . . . a powerful and...

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...

FINALIST FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 "[A] powerful debut." --The Washington Post "An exceptional and stunningly original novel by a major new writer." --Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in...

How had things become so complicated?Charlotte Adamsley thought that booking a writing workshop at their charming Adirondack lodge was perfect for shoring up sagging finances. What's more, the creative vibes might remind her she could be more than bookkeeper, wife, and mother, inspiring her...

AN OPRAH DAILY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us glittering stories of love--friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts--in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime....

"So funny, smart, sophisticated, and captivating, you just want to spend your whole life with it."--Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians In this modern reimagining of Jane Austen's Emma, Delhi's polite society is often anything but polite. Beautiful, clever, and more than a...

Two women, bound together by opposite personalities, friendship, love and family-until motherhood rips them apart.From Jenni Ogden, author of best-selling novel A Drop in the Ocean (Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction) comes a powerful novel, set in Australia and spanning the 1960s to the...

The time-bending parallel tale to the national bestseller Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict In Laurie Viera Rigler's first novel, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, twenty-­first-century Austen fan Courtney Stone found herself in Regency England occupying the body of one Jane Mansfield, with...

Fans of Beautiful Disaster will devour Diana Peterfreund's Ivy League novels--Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break), and Tap & Gown. At an elite university, Amy Haskel has been initiated into the country's most notorious secret society. But in this power-hungry...

'"A woman's life is never a fairy tale ... neither is war. " So begins Giselle Berger's story. A charming fashion prodigy from Alsace, she dazzles Parisian high society in the late 1930's. Then Germany invades, occupies Paris, and upends her world. She must...

Author: Noue KirwanISBN-10: 8885783821ISBN-13: 9798885783828Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2022Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.26dLarge Print

It's Christmas time at the Weber Haus mountainside inn, where the official greeter, watcher, and matchmaker of the hotel's resident humans is an adorably mischievous bundle of feline fluff named Snowball. Snowball takes her job very seriously -even if it means being a little...

Author: Mary Jo Putney, Madeline Hunter, Sabrina JeffriesISBN-10: 8885783767ISBN-13: 9798885783767Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2022Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.51w x 1.10dLarge Print

"A "propulsive thriller about secret organizations, hidden agendas, and the lengths one woman will go to reclaim her life" (Laura Dave, author of Reese's Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me) from USA TODAY bestselling author Catherine McKenzie. At thirty-nine, Nicole Mueller's...