Fiction - Women

Two divides perfectly into four, not five. Zara Keller is a survivor turned piano phenomenon living for a big dream. When she's invited to spend the weekend with four long-time friends outside of London, she has little use for luxurious Fullerhill Manor--but Lady Jillian...

A woman who is suffering from a tragic loss is placed on a jury with her estranged ex-husband.Author: Cai EmmonsISBN-10: 1636280757ISBN-13: 9781636280752Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Lucy can't hold the secret any longer. Twenty-six years ago, her sister did the unthinkable.Portland, Oregon, 1989: Lucy Mustin, living somewhat happily, pumping out wedding cakes for starry-eyed heterosexuals while she, a lesbian, can't legally marry, is called upon to travel to Santa Cruz...

Hailed as "One of the best technical painters of our time" by an L.A. Times critic, 27-year-old Aubrey Johnson is finally gaining traction with her work. But as she weaves through what should be a celebration of her art, a single nagging echo of...

Live for Today, Laugh for Tomorrow. Love Forever. Busy running an upscale spa and beauty salon, Alyson Ruth Barr is floating into old age supported by her big, quirky, southern family. Three times widowed, at 55, she's looking forward to a quiet life in...

At thirty-two, Samantha has hit her stride. Most days, she splits her time between keeping up her hole-in-the-wall waterfront bar and managing the Humboldt County Bigfoot Hunters. Throw in her rambunctious twin daughters, Victoria and Dharma, and her gentle giant husband, Bubba, and you...

8-year-old twins are kidnapped.The ransom is a ship called The Seeker.She's not a real pirate, but her life depends on her playing the part.It was supposed to be a family adventure to find a hidden treasure trove. But when her siblings are taken, Stevie...

Secure and successful as a teacher in a posh private school, Anna wonders how she grew up an outsider, lost her childhood storyteller, chose a profession she didn't want, and married charming but abusive Max. Life changes when Anna seeks out a job teaching...

Piper is a wife and mother to a young autistic child. Her life and career has revolved around her family situation and work schedule since his birth. As time passed, consumed by the hectic schedule, she decides to spend 2017 her way. While rediscovering...

The poignant and humorous story of a fearful rookie reporter at a small-town newspaper in 1978 who uncovers a big-time scandal.Author: Ellen ShermanISBN-10: 1631529935ISBN-13: 9781631529931Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2015Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

What if you met the love of your life days after you, maybe, got pregnant by someone else? Lonely but renowned artist Ariadne Franklin ushers in a new year with the vow of a 'new me.' Venturing beyond the usual confines of her beachside...

2016 Finalist for Romance, Foreword INDIEAngelica Domenico is born in a blossoming lemon grove, a prophetic fusion of sweet bloom and bitter fruit on an island governed by volcanoes and earthquakes.In the continuation of Nina Romano's epic Wayfarer Trilogy, an early childhood accident propels...

Dandy Day is a thirty-five year old free-spirited, commitment-phobic, Venice Boardwalk roller skating waitress. When Dandy is suddenly dumped by her therapist, right when they were on the brink of figuring out why her relationships last only a whopping three months, Dandy decides to...

Twenty-four-year-old Paige Russell, still grieving the death of her single mother, defines herself as an orphan. Her obsession to find the father she never knew takes her to Tucson, Arizona, where she settles in as the newest ballroom instructor at Desert DanceSport. But Paige's...

Winner of the Big Moose Prize. In CHILDREN AND LUNATICS, the 21st century is new and fragile, the center barely holding. Wars, terrorists, and hurricanes are on TV. A silent street person and a suburban mother share intimate spheres of love and grief and...

By turns terrifying and humorous, clear-eyed and deep-hearted, TWISTER (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) brings us into the center of a storm as a small Midwestern town mourns the death of a young soldier. The novel opens with Rose, the soldier's fiercely independent mother, whose...

Never underestimate the power of a woman Saving Elmhurst is based on a true story that has always captivated the author. "It was my great-grandmother who saved Elmhurst by making the orange candy pecans." Thus begins the novel set in 1929 rural Arkansas. As...

Molly Dolan, an insecure twenty-something woman, spends most days ricocheting between hope and despair.SHORTLISTED: 2017 Faulkner-Wisdom Competition"This book is not to be missed. But before you start, it might be a good idea to put on your Jim Croce album--the chapter titles are his...

Paige Scott spent her childhood shuffled between relatives who ignored her, and her adult life hiding in her crumbling marriage to wealthy David Davenport. When David suddenly thrusts her into a remote, impoverished world, Paige is forced to face the betrayals of her past...

They say that behind every great man is a woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann--her governess turned literary secretary, and her mothering, nuturing friend. When at the age of forty-five Edith falls passionately in love with a dashing, younger journalist, Morton Fullerton,...

Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr....

The Song of the Lark is a novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. The title comes from a painting of the same name by Jules Adolphe Aim Louis Breton. The book's cover art]Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place...

Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Sheri Reynolds returns with a "nontraditional devotional"--at once a hilarious and inspirational novel packed with profound advice from the journey of the unforgettable Myrtle Cribb. Myrtle T. Cribb, a special-needs teacher from Virginia's Eastern Shore, is captive...

Nestled along the shores of the beautiful Great Lakes, Meyers Orchard is where Shelby Meyers found unexpected love and strength--and now must forge a new life on her own terms... Marriage marks both a happy ending and a new chapter for Shelby Meyers. She...

Livia is a nice little suburb in the upper Midwest--but behind the manicured lawns and pristine hedges seethes a ruthless desire to be the greatest green thumb of all. . .George and Nan Fremont have created a paradise in their backyard, complete with semi-hallucinogenic...

Amazon bestselling author Brenda Clemmons series has all the heartwarming stories, warmth, and uplifting laughs - come on down It promises to be a Christmas to remember.The Complete Series for adventure and excitement in this THREE-novels, series full of love, and the joys of...

The Justiss Alliance returns in Tina Wainscott's series of outlaws and daredevils, as the search for a missing woman forces two brave souls to tap into their wild side.When Mollie Reagan's sister, Diana, rides off into the sunset with a member of the Kings...

Meet the Justiss Alliance: Risk, Rath, Saxby, Knox, and Julian. Led by a mysterious employer with plenty to hide, these fallen stars of the D.O.D. are about to take advantage of their ruined reputations and start turning wrongs to rights-no matter the cost.Wild Hearts:...

"An intriguing look at how power can corrupt multiple generations and the lengths people will go to get what they want, Favorite Daughters delivers a page-turning read!" -Catherine McKenzie, USA Today bestselling author of HiddenElyse Gibbons is out of her depth when, as an...

Three women. A single, sweltering day that will leave no one unchanged.Author: Khristin WiermanISBN-10: 1684631653ISBN-13: 9781684631650Publisher: SparkpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2022Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d

After fleeing a disastrous teaching job (and a bad gambling habit) in Boston, Lindsey starts teaching English in Hime, a small fishing town in Japan. One morning, while trying to snap the perfect ocean sunrise photo for her mother, she slips off a rock...

A young archivist struggling to nail her new job discovers a corpse in the vault and is plunged into a world of murder, art theft, and century-old secrets.Author: Amy TectorISBN-10: 168442884XISBN-13: 9781684428847Publisher: Keylight BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10dReview...

Spanning centuries of human history, the daughters of the lowland hag, the Cailleach, must navigate a world filled with superstition, hatred, violence, pestilence, and death to find their purpose. With each passing generation, their powers wax, and the Cailleach awaits a homecoming that will...

For fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette or Camille Pagan's I'm Fine and Neither Are You, comes the perfect laugh-out-loud dramedy AND THEN THERE'S MARGARET about marriage, midlife and a controlling, manipulative and self-absorbed mother-in-law thrown into the mix. MULTI-AWARD-WINNING debut novel,...

2020 American Fiction Awards Finalist - Women's Fiction"This witty Roman-à-clef makes for can't put it down reading. Melhado's fully formed characters bring to mind a more modern contemporary version of 'The Women.'" -Jeffrey Banks, Author and Coty-Award Winning Fashion DesignerFrom her elegant atelier office,...

2020 Reprint of the 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s,...

Can you guess whose babies these animals are? Coloring will not only help with object and theme recognition, it is also an activity that will boost knowledge in colors, lines, shapes, forms and perspectives too. It is a fun exercise that kids of any...

In the Anniversary you will meet Grandville and Juliette Stubbs, as they attempt to come to terms with several losses that precipitate Grandville's mental health diagnosis. The trials and tribulations chronicled by the Stubbs family in this fictional account explore several topics, including communication,...

Dashing billionaire falls in love with average jobseeker and sweeps her off her feet with... babies? Tall, handsome, rich, and sexy, Jason Halloway is every woman's dream guy. And as billionaires go, he's not so bad himself; he seems to have everything in his...

Fifty-year-old Karen Anders, a high school English teacher and the adoptive mother of Tiffany, comes to terms with being a single-parent and a clumsy drunk in the multicultural melting pot of Houston, Texas, as she forges an unlikely friendship with Leona Supak, a WWII...

Evelyn-Eva-Lacroix is desperate for a fresh start after her life goes fubar, thanks to her drug-dealing boyfriend getting busted. She hadn't even known what he was up to, but no one will believe she's innocent when all signs point to her.Time for a location...

Welcome to more adventures in Wallington. Helen Crowder's life has not slowed down and in this final book, she has not yet decided if, or how, to change her relationship with Max Mayfield. Events distract her though as her family has surprises in store...

A Chatelaine Summer Reads pick. Named one of the most anticipated books of the fall by CBC Books and 49th Shelf.Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat's sharp, darkly comic, and poignant story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her...

She's going to write her own happy ending.English professor Athena Murphy is an authority on the novels of the Brontë sisters. But as they say in academia, publish or perish. To save her job, Athena decides to write a biography of C.L. Garland, the...

*NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING MILA KUNIS* Fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will thrill at this "perfect page-turner" (People)--that Reese Witherspoon describes as "one of those reads you just can't put down!" This "dark, twisty" (Entertainment Weekly), instant New...

This international mystery and crime thriller trails the extraordinary lives of alumni from a private boarding school. They are affectionately known as Old Roseans (Anciens Ros馥ns). Their intricate world, riddled with bonds and profoundly ingrained deception, carries dark secrets. One that could destroy them...

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...

New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne brings you back to Haven Point--a place made for second chances...McKenzie Shaw would do anything for her hometown of Haven Point. It may be small, but it's never let her down...unlike gorgeous, infuriating Ben Kilpatrick. He was...

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...