Fiction - Women

"Homemaking" is about to take on a whole new meaning for Jane Jeffry, now that she's agreed to help the prosperouslydivorced Bitsy Burnside restore and redecorate a decrepit old neighborhood mansion. Bitsy's decision to employ an almost all-woman crew has prompted Jane's quick-witted best...

For Whom The Bell Pulls Tolls As owner of the Den of Antiquity, recently divorced(but never bitter!) Abigail Timberlake is accustomed to delving into the past, searching for losttreasures, and navigating the cutthroat world of rival dealers at flea marketsand auctions. Still, she never...

From the author of The Good Sister, the breakout New York Times bestseller and "stunningly clever thriller" (People), comes Sally Hepworth's next novel of domestic suspense about the tangled vines of family secrets. "Smart, suspenseful, brimming with secrets. This is Sally Hepworth at her...

"The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year."--Publishers Weekly From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis...

Set in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars, this vivid and romantic historical novel goes from the most elegant ballrooms of London to the city's most tawdry slums, as a spirited young woman helps unravel a plot by Napoleon to bleed England of all...

True friendship can survive anything. These friendships will be tested . . . and prove true. Hazel is finished with chemo. She wasn't sure this day would ever come, but she's endured the worst of it-she hopes. She's heading home with her support system:...

After her mother's death, young Louise is left caring for her melancholy father and a wayward younger brother.She works tirelessly in a baker's shop, but dreams of becoming a successful children's author, and her love life is in turmoil because of a lifelong attraction...

After her mother's death, young Louise is left caring for her melancholy father and a wayward younger brother.She works tirelessly in a baker's shop, but dreams of becoming a successful children's author, and her love life is in turmoil because of a lifelong attraction...

After her mother's death, young Louise is left caring for her melancholy father and a wayward younger brother.She works tirelessly in a baker's shop, but dreams of becoming a successful children's author, and her love life is in turmoil because of a lifelong attraction...

After her mother's death, young Louise is left caring for her melancholy father and a wayward younger brother.She works tirelessly in a baker's shop, but dreams of becoming a successful children's author, and her love life is in turmoil because of a lifelong attraction...

After her mother's death, young Louise is left caring for her melancholy father and a wayward younger brother.She works tirelessly in a baker's shop, but dreams of becoming a successful children's author, and her love life is in turmoil because of a lifelong attraction...

One chance. One life. One heartbeat away from eternity.A face from the past disturbs Hana's second chance at love, pitching her backwards as her old life bleeds into the new. She's forced to deal with buried hurts and learn that forgiveness is a two...

Super sleuth Kate Palmer is Cornwall's answer to Miss Marple, but when the semi-retired nurse finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time can she prove her innocence and solve her most puzzling case yet? Kate Palmer thought spending the day at...

Summer in Maine means breezy, sun-kissed beach days, golden evenings, and, in bestselling author Holly Chamberlin's irresistible novels, a time for self-discovery and surprising connections... Like Elin Hildebrand's Nantucket novels, Holly Chamberlin's Maine-set summer reads are perfect for the beach--heartwarming, engaging, and emotionally satisfying....

Miriam Feldman's life has become Running Man with a side of Squid Game when she'd much prefer The Great British Bake Off. When Miri partners up with her detective ex-husband on an off-the-books magical missing persons operation, she expects buddy cop adventures galore. Instead,...

It is 1887 in Amsterdam and Johanna Bonger wants to do something different with her life than teaching, translating languages, and managing the back office of her father's business. She fears she will spend the rest of her days growing old, lonely, and bitter....

Becca Mills has been on the run for five years, hiding from the husband who assaulted her and thinks she is dead. With her own life in shambles, and having discovered that her self-inflicted exile brought David no repercussions, she seeks revenge by reviving...

A razor-sharp debut novel of three best friends navigating love, sex, faith, and the one night that changes it all.It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to...

They wanted to get away from it all - but they brought it all with them...It should have been the perfect holiday: lazy days with friends in a rambling old house right on the beach. But when one family drops out and Kath invites...

It's a funny old house. They have this ceremony every summer . . . There's an old chapel, in the grounds of the house. It's half-derelict. The Hunters keep bees in there. Every year, on the same day, the family processes to the chapel....

"Eyes Turned Skyward is a powerful examination of the cost--emotional, familial, generational--when women are denied their right to soar... Alena Dillon's poetic prose and complex characters will linger long after the last page is turned!" -- Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling authorFrom the...

His songs were better when he had a broken heart.That sentence would change my life after my dream job was dished to me on a shiny, silver platter.All I had to do?Hurt Nash Pierce enough to get him writing good music again.The pop icon's...

Obsession, coercion, and blackmail!?Estelle Li is a young and aspiring, Chinese-American model who's equally vulnerable as she is strong and independent.She's willing to sacrifice everything and do whatever it takes to achieve her dream of becoming the next top model.This sort of mindset is...

Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a homeless shelter hidden among the hedge-rowed avenues of Newport, and through the revolving door of service jobs and quick-fix psychiatric care, always...

An unforgettable journey through the lush landscape of India to the heart of what it means to be a mother and daughter.What if you discovered everything you knew about yourself as a lie?When pregnant Jaya loses her mother, then her baby son Arun in...

An unforgettable journey through the lush landscape of India to the heart of what it means to be a mother and daughter.What if you discovered everything you knew about yourself as a lie?When pregnant Jaya loses her mother, then her baby son Arun in...

Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean's reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States. Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale...

★ Praise for Maroons: "brown's sensational second contribution to AK Press's Black Dawn series.... Equally thrilling and thought-provoking, this will put readers in mind of speculative greats like Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delaney." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) A tale of survival, of moving...

A woman finds herself in a race not only for justice but for her life in this "riveting, hold-your-breath" new mystery from the bestselling author of The Life We Bury (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author). Lila Nash is on the verge of...

"Holly Bourne's unique voice immediately invites you in and you can't look away. Gritty, funny and poignant." --Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare In this darkly funny novel, two women reunite after a decade of estrangement, only to confront the forces that destroyed their...

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE WINNER OF THE PRIX ﾉTHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS DE LA FRANCOPHONIE Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's debut novel follows three generations torn apart by the genocide against the...

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...

Chronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna, a matriarch living out her final days in Paris; Abi,...

'Maddie Please's latest novel 'Sisters Behaving Badly' is a glorious romp that readers will adore. It's a story of quarrelsome siblings, second chances, a fabulous location and growing old disgracefully. Maddie's warmth and humour will put a smile on your face and leave you...

Named a Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2022 by Goodreads - Washington Post - New York Post - BuzzFeed - PopSugar - Business Insider - An October 2022 Indie Next List Pick - An October 2022 LibraryReads Pick "A hauntingly beautiful--and imagined--origin story to...

Sometimes dreams are just nightmares wrapped in appealing packaging. The Lodge, the beautiful Rosebud Lodge that Callie and her friends have dreamed and worked for so long, is finally open for business. But for some reason their guests keep cancelling-before they even show up....

A groundbreaking feminist masterpiece and one of the most exquisite horror stories in American literature.Diagnosed by her physician husband with a temporary nervous depression--a slight hysterical tendency after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an...

A charming and redemptive novel about unexpected second chances, following a publicist who, after the sudden implosion of her career, takes a job as a dorm mom at a Sonoma boarding school that happens to be her alma mater Gillian thought she had everything...

A moving novel of family and forgiveness and of hope and healing by Rochelle B. Weinstein, the USA Today bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends.When Avery Beckett is proposed to by Jude Masters, a widowed father and the man she loves,...

A moving novel of family and forgiveness and of hope and healing by Rochelle B. Weinstein, the USA Today bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends.When Avery Beckett is proposed to by Jude Masters, a widowed father and the man she loves,...

What if all you inherit from your mother are her secrets?Isla knows her family kept things from her. When she inherits the cliffside cottage where she spent her childhood, she must face dark shadows of her past--the mother who rejected her in favour of...

Set in rural, poverty-stricken North Carolina, this "beautiful, gritty, and piercing" novel follows two young women--best friends--as they "journey through the highs and lows of friendship, love, and addiction," perfect for readers of Julie Buntin's Marlena (Erika Carter, author of Lucky You). Irene, a...

It's happened. The Rosebud Girls have their dream lodge. But what happens after dreams become realities? The last thing Callie has room for in her life is a new relationship. Between the lodge remodel, being the glue that keeps her beloved Rosebud Girls together,...

After Sydney Grey returns to her quaint hometown of Stoney Creek and begins renovations on her childhood farm, she discovers a set of journals written by her mother.Presumed to have abandoned her family 20 years ago, a long-hidden secret about her mother is uncovered....

This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.Farmgirl Lynnette Humphry's life changes when she submits herself as a mail-order bride, and receives a proposal from handsome Wyoming rancher Jacob Hardy.On the train ride to...

Sometimes you have to go a long way from home to discover what was right in front of you. Charlotte's dead-end life lacked excitement so she impulsively booked a flight to Cambodia to visit her best friend. She never imagined that sitting on a...

Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as...

In a world ruled by money and power, Philippa "Pippa" Browning "sings" her own song where love has the power to change lives. Tucked away in the IT department of Monroe Enterprises for the past seven years, Pippa is unexpectedly thrust into the role...

In this episode of Side Piece Chronicles, Tyrone Price finds himself torn between Samantha, the mother of his unborn twins, and Tammy, the woman his heart desires. However, Samantha's husband, Anthony refuses to let his wife go so easily.Author: Joi MinerISBN-10: 0692645330ISBN-13: 9780692645338Publisher: Poetic...

Our relationship, mine and Cole's, isn't a simple one.It's complicated, frustrating and, at times, downright ugly. You see, I fell for a man who couldn't love me back.Hard as I tried to avoid the dimpled prince of Seattle, life threw us together.As much as...