Fiction - Women

They say love is hard, but where is the limit? How hard is too hard? For Jeffrey Hill and Pamela House, 'till death do us part' hit a little bit too close to home as their whirlwind romance turned sour. Jeffery Hill, do you...

Dorrie Rodgers left three men behind in New York when she moved to L.A. to dance the lead in a movie. Engagement to a powerful producer made her life complete. But an accident ended both her career and her impending marriage. After three years...

Mr. Stanley forbids his adult daughter, a biology student at Tredgold Women's College and the youngest of his five children, to attend a fancy dress ball in London, causing a crisis. Ann Veronica is planning to attend the dance with friends of a down-at-the-heels...

""In the quaint mountain town of Windamere, North Carolina, the three Sargent sisters are determined to make their hotel and winery, Chateau Jolie, a success. And one by one, they're finding that nothing pairs better with new beginnings than unexpected love... The downside of...

Even in a quirky small town like Charmed, Texas, there's always room for love to take you by surprise. . . Gabi Graham might have hit the proverbial rock in rock-bottom. Hitting the single scene after ten years is hard enough. Finding out that...

"A delightful Regency romance, full of passion, humor, and love." --Ella Quinn, USA Today bestselling author With the dowries of all the season's debutantes exposed in its scandalous pages, The Bachelor's Bible is a handy tool for an earl in need of an heiress...

Getting down to business... "Kiss the next man who falls into your lap." When Mia Diaz agrees to the dare, she doesn't expect it to happen so literally. But suddenly, there he is--stubble-dusted jaw, sexy half-smile, and lips that make her appreciate the benefits...

A chance to shine . . . The closest Avery Shields expects to get to the music industry is her janitor position at Charisma recording studio, and singing secretly in her local karaoke bar. Working two jobs and studying full-time, she's doing all she...

The breathtaking promise of the English countryside can lift even the heaviest spirits . . . Willow Armstrong, the once-famous "Queen of Weight Loss" and president of Pound Busters, succumbed to stress eating after her divorce. Now the scandal of getting caught on camera...

Who said mixing work and pleasure was a bad idea? For Kenley Carmichael, getting fired for sleeping with the boss's husband is almost funny--at 28, she's still a virgin. Not that her now ex-boss would believe it--Kenley's got the face and figure to attract...

"Sharp, funny, and sinfully sexy--Nicole Helm is my favorite new author!" --Maisey Yates, New York Times bestselling author Wrong guy. Wrong situation. Might be right. Free of her overbearing family and their dreams, not hers, Kayla Gallagher is living for herself instead of for...

After spending his entire life under the thumb of his egomaniacal, man-of-the-cloth father, Jensen Mackey has committed the ultimate sin. And for that reason, he's shipped off to Utah to spend his 19th summer with his estranged mother. But when Jensen arrives, he finds...

Divorced mom, Diedre Davenport, hides years of pain behind a happy fa ade until she hires John Robert Stone to investigate a leak in her business finances. The gruff, but gorgeous...and younger forensic accountant gets on DeeDee's last nerve but also ignites her passions...

Life hasn't always been easy for Jill Allen, whose parents died when she was a teen. These days, however, she enjoys her comfortable Southern California existence as a wife and mother of a college-age daughter. But then Aunt Molly, who raised Jill and her...

After a family member tragically falls ill, Una Golden was forced to move from Pennsylvania to New York in order to get a job to help support her family. Set in the early 1900s, going to the big city as a single woman was...

When a group of New England women move to the western frontier, they encounter a new set of problems testing their love, friendship and spirits. In The Crux, Gilman highlights women's need for economic independence and sexual autonomy. The strain of New England life...

Love and Life Behind the Purdah (1901) is a collection of short stories by Indian writer, lawyer, and social reformer Cornelia Sorabji. Raised by Christian missionaries, Sorabji trained as a lawyer at Oxford University before returning to India to work with women and orphans...

Aiden Jacobson is ready to take on the task of setting up Cole Enterprise's newest underground headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland. But when their most-wanted criminal, Robert de Fleur, goes into hiding, Aiden is placed undercover at a local coffee shop instead. His mission-gather intel...

On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias...

While dropping their children off at preschool, five women's lives converge, marking the start of a supportive bond and long-cherished friendships that will last a lifetime. Twenty-five years later on a beautiful spring day, Betts, Parker, Aimee, Ellie, and Jody meet for their seasonal...

They are worlds apart physically, he a tall well built blonde young man, she a short slightly puffy black woman twice his age. Will they ever see eye to eye? In a last ditch attempt to build bridges with her step son she takes...

Post 9/11, Caroline Fontenot has been happily married for five years to Chandler, a sweet country boy who stole her heart in college. At least that is what she thought until the past came back to haunt them. The country is at war and...

The second in a series of three novels, Indigo Eyes follows the delightful Emma Scott as she struggles to make her way in the acting biz while juggling romantic interests, coming to terms with her paranormal abilities, and navigating the enigmatic world of Los...

SynopsisWhat if you woke up one day only to find out that everything has changed forever?Elena knows what she wants from life. Her whole picture-perfect existence is planned out and allows for no deviation. She is engaged to be married and intends to be...

​"If anything bad happens to me, I want you to get him." Those were Sasha's words. Now that she's gone, can Eleanor Birch do what it takes to avenge her friend?Author: A. R. TaylorISBN-10: 164742223XISBN-13: 9781647422233Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2022Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize:...

Andrea Hoffman is an overeducated, underemployed, and unmotivated recent college graduate--until an unexpected robbery blasts her out of her funk and into a job in the finance world of early-1980s Chicago. At first, it seems like a bad fit. But the world of finance...

"Superb characterizations round out this captivating production."--Library Journal, Best Audiobooks of 2022On her 30th birthday, Yale-educated Zoe Greene was supposed to be married to her high-school sweetheart, pregnant with their first baby, and practicing law in Chicago. Instead, she's planning an abortion and filing...

When Casey gets into trouble hanging out with the wrong crowd in New Orleans, her parents decide to move back to their Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn-where, swayed by the community's Middle Eastern values and her parents' traditional wishes, Casey marries Michael at...

Take your stationery, art supplies, makeup, earbuds, and chargers on the go with this beautiful accessory pouch celebrating the literary genius of Jane Austen. Show your love of Jane Austen and literature: Celebrate your Jane Austen fandom with this accessory pouch. Take your stationery,...

Spruce up your office space with this set of binder clips decorated with a beautiful floral pattern inspired by the work of Jane Austen. Each set includes eight binder clips, so you can organize in style.Author: Insight EditionsISBN-10: 1647222303ISBN-13: 9781647222307Publisher: Insight Editions GiftLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Whether you're decorating your office space or hanging up letters from your own Mr. Darcy, this glass magnet set lets you celebrate your love of Jane Austen's wit and wisdom. This beautiful set includes six different magnets, featuring some of Jane Austen's most beloved...

John Tyler builds a beautiful house for his new bride in 1919, complete with a resplendent garden of morning glories, her favorite flower. The Tylers plan to raise a large family and spend their lives there. When circumstances change and the residence must be...

Winner: 2021 Firebird Book Award for Contemporary FictionWinner: 2021 Firebird Book Award for New FictionIsabella "Izzy" Roccine has never experienced a man's kiss, other than a tight-lipped stage kiss. She knows nothing about romance and little about life. After landing a job on Broadway,...

"I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well."-Mark TwainPersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte (1896) was Mark Twain's last completed novel, offering a portrait of Joan...

A brilliant, feminist twist on the Book of Genesis from Carmen Boullosa. What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one parts, Eve decides to tell...

Trash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Ju疵ez, Mexico. Aguilar Z駘eny's Trash shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager abandoned by her guardian at the dump,...

Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and her friends: wandering through the margins of different cities, especially Buenos Aires, they search for purpose in an increasingly uncertain world.An intricate, gutsy, and raw novel, Ischia is populated with outsiders who navigate the vicissitudes...

Fear says you can't. Love says you must. Elaine Kent hopes a new name, a new town, and a new job will help heal her wounded spirit. All she wants is a quiet life free from her traumatic past. When a battered female teen...

Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and...

From the author of crazy, beautiful, love stories, Jolie Moore, comes a story about the true meaning of home. Confident and quirky cartoonist, Zoe Andreis must put her life on hold and fly back to the States to care for her ailing father. Spending...

Wasted Salt is the fictionalized narrative of two marginalized immigrant women trying to find their way in America. Zahra is a Lebanese refugee sponsored by a Baptist church in Wichita, Kansas. Noor, an Egyptian American, is a webcam model who shares a musty basement...

Take a leap of FaithDolores searches for love and happiness against life's obstacles in "A Faithful Choice"When a lost lover returnes one woman must choose between her glamorous life and the potential for a family with the father of her child.In one night, Dolores'...

After her husband's affair, Alyce escapes to the beach to find a newly defined relationship with God and peace with her circumstances. Readers experience the highs and lows of her reconciliation with her husband's infidelity and her newfound self.Author: Tonda B. SolomonISBN-10: 1642795968ISBN-13: 9781642795967Publisher:...

Beth Taylor is a young girl growing up in Sydney with her parents and grandmother, and aspiring to become a doctor when she graduates. But in one tragic moment, Beth's life will be changed forever. She moves on with her life--now alone--and fate brings...

When the man she loved years ago returns to town, one young woman's complicated past rises again, threatening to expose her well-kept secrets. If Maxine could put her finger on the moment when her life went into a tailspin, she would point back twenty...

A master of the short form, Gina Berriault stands somewhere between Chekhov and Isaac Babel in style and psychological acuity. "Berriault writes real fiction . . . She deepens reality, complements it and affords us the bliss of knowing, for a moment, what we...

Entangled Objects is a contemporary pilgrim's progress, the story of three very different yet interconnected women. As the story advances, their overlapping lives reveal the mysterious entanglement of quantum behavior. Fan is a struggling adjunct professor. When she and her husband move to Korea...

Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at a private school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she's recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan.Author: Jane HealeyISBN-10: 1638083851ISBN-13: 9781638083856Publisher:...

What happens when the world's greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her bestselling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in the hands of her unstable, neurotic daughter, who swears she's not a real writer? Sara Grayson...

Gathered for the first time in one collection, these short stories from Lee Lynch represent a quarter century of passionate portrayals of lesbian women. Lynch chronicles the lives of old women who fall in love, a Black firefighter seeking her place in the feminist...