Fiction - Women

The battle of the sexes rages on in this smart, witty, and extremely timely comedy from the phenomenally popular Jane HellerAt first, Manhattan financial planner Melanie Banks adores Dan Swain, her pro football player husband who's got a sexy Oklahoma drawl to go with...

'Beguiling and astute' Sarah Winman 'Astoundingly good' Deborah Moggach 'Wonderfully redemptive' Sarah Haywood 'I was delighted and surprised by this textured, fascinating and most moving book' Chris Ware A life-affirming novel about broken but loving families, people making mistakes but doing their best, grief...

Three women arrive in Girona, in northeast Spain, to attend a New Age workshop based on the mysteries of that ancient city. They have never met before. What do they have in common? They discover that they are all grandmothers who know little about...

With the fate of East Asia hanging in the balance, one Mongolian woman manipulates her lovers, sons and grandsons through war and upheaval to create an empire that lasted for 250 years. The Green Phoenix tells the story of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, born...

Violence corroded her.Obedience defiled her.Fear kept her chained.Freedom is hard to embrace when she's never learned to trust. Yet in the span of a second, she grabs a single opportunity and runs toward it. Straight into the sanctuary of a pub at the end...

Murder can't always be planned.The antique key on the dead man's body was too beautiful to leave behind. Alex removed it from the key ring on a whim, but now she's obsessed with finding the lock where it fits. Visiting the dead man's house,...

Sara Nicoletta, a level-headed biologist, is about to become the aunt of a Neanderthal baby. Or so her sister Liz says. A company named Barlas Labs claims that it can recreate the long-extinct species from its DNA sequence. Liz, a yoga-loving socialite, has signed...

When twenty-something artist Erica Mason moves from laid-back Mexico to Manhattan in the mid-1970s, she finds a hard-edged, decadent, and evolving art scene. Her life there leads her to a self-destructive string of affairs with men, alcohol, and drugs, but also, ultimately, to the...

Fifteen-year-old Anna Glanz has stopped speaking in the wake of her brother's death, and it's up to psychiatrist Gus Thaler to find out why. Thaler's attempts to cure Anna take him deep in the past to a mystical rabbi-healer who once treated Anna's grandmother....

A is for ache. C is for choice. H is for his. E is for Everly. I have always gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to my personal life. Drug-addicted mother, obsessive stepfather, shitty upbringing, and one soul shattering, heart-wrenching...

Jess Lawson, a forty-five-year-old healthcare consultant, wife, and mother of two, has spent most of her adulthood fostering the illusion of having a perfect life. Her impending empty-nest syndrome as her youngest child prepares to start college is troubling enough, but when her doctor...

In her previous works, including "The Best of Us," "rising star" ("Library Journal") Sarah Pekkanen captivated readers by penning "refreshingly introspective, sharply realistic, and tenderly humorous" novels (Booklist). Now, in "Catching Air," Pekkanen turns an unflinching eye on the tangled relationships of two pairs...

Several years have passed, but Sylvia McMillan still can't run and hide from the truth that continues to tear at her soul. Her love for Jonathan Taylor, her ex-friend's husband, remains. Jonathan has moved on, though. In less than six months, he plans to...

Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of PleasureBy John ClelandAuthor: John ClelandISBN-10: 1613824580ISBN-13: 9781613824580Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2013Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.42d

For decades, the Holloways have operated a convenience store in the working-class neighborhood of Rabbittown in St. John's, and every customer has a story. In a vibrant, contemporary family saga, filled with idiosyncratic characters, Trudy Morgan-Cole tells the tale of three generations of Holloway...

A missing girl, a grieving family and a destiny so powerful it will not be denied. Five years ago, Emily McGovern decided to walk home from a party - and disappeared into thin air. While Emily became one of New Zealand's 350+ official missing...

Emma Lapp is marrying Adam Keim. Excitement prevails as Emma and her step-mother, Hallie, discuss details for the wedding. Soon Emma's excitement turns to dread. Nothing is going right. She planned on the former teacher to substitute teach for a month. She didn't plan...

Nurse Hal invites her parents to visit the Lapp farm near Wickenburg, Iowa to get acquainted with their two little granddaughters. She's in total turmoil when she hears she's going to get more company than she bargained for. Jim and Nora Lindstrom are bringing...

Welcome to the Lapp farm near Wickenburg in southern Iowa. Come to visit and bring your sense of humor. Dependable Emma Lapp dreams about the same fate that happens to all teenage Amish girls. Eventually, she will fall in love, marry and have a...

Sometimes your nearest and dearest are a real pain in the backside... Career-woman-extraordinaire, Alex, has her heart set on a partnership in the firm she's been slogging her guts out for. That's until her sister rings with some shocking news. Distraught, Alex returns home...

Through the richly intertwined narratives of two women from different generations, Ashley Hay, known for her "elegant prose, which draws warm and textured portraits as it celebrates the web of human stories" (New York Times Book Review) weaves an intricate, bighearted tale of the...

In this sweeping Rita Award-nominated Western romance, a young actress struggling to make it in Hollywood meets her match in a fiery, handsome screenwriter. The strength of a legend. The transforming power of love. On a movie set, a pair of shattering love stories...

In the second book in this Western romance series by Rita Award nominee Tory Cates, a woman struggles to keep the ranch she's worked so hard for--against a man who melts her heart. Malou Sanders has always felt most comfortable in the world of...

A poignant novel about going home again--and how the most complex relationships can yield the most rewarding surprises. Ten years ago, Nicole Hunter left her troubled home behind her, unable to cope with the demands of a life with her disabled sister, Jenny. Though...

"A complex and captivating tale" (The Boston Globe) which takes an engrossing look at the darker side of a marriage--and at how an ordinary family responds to an extraordinary crisis, forcing a couple to decide when a marriage is too broken to fix. Maddy,...

Grace Mullen, Midwestern wife, mother and successful healthcare executive, is the nurturing person everyone can count on. On the surface, she seems to have it all. However, her constant dedication to everyone in her life, including her inattentive husband, has left a void in...

A deadly accident puts a cowboy on the wrong side of the law in this romantic suspense novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of the Calder Saga.She can't forget him. The born rancher who stole her heart, her ex-husband, the tough, tender father...

In every person's story, there is something to hide...The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is...

Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival --until they are betrayed...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is tempted to put the brakes on a business venture before it even gets rolling.Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni attends a course hosted by the local chamber of...

Welcome to Weldon, Kentucky, where the only things the locals love more than fried pies are gossip and match-making. Librarian Emma Baker, a young and childless widow, believes her dream to build a family is over. It's been two years since a student accidentally...

Fans of Bridgerton will love this "exuberant novel of manners for our own gilded age" (Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra) as we follow the Wilcox family's journey through riches and ruin. Among New York City's Gilded Age elite, one family will defy convention. Helen...

International Bestseller and #1 LibraryReads Pick Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in this World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl's coming-of-age during the darkest of times. "A powerful reminder that to live is not...

Beloved storyteller Fern Michaels, #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sisterhood, Godmothers, and Men of the Sisterhood Series, as well as dozens of other novels, revisits one of the Sisterhood's early escapades in friendship, adventure, and vigilante justice... The...

ONE OF BOOKBUB'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF THE FALLFrom the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny, whose international covert operation is put...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody comes "an unputdownable mystery about the nightmares that abound in the pursuit of Hollywood dreams" (Caroline Kepnes, author of the You series). "Stylish, riveting, hugely atmospheric--I couldn't put it...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold On A Monday--over a million copies sold!--comes a sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path.As a little girl raised amid the hardships...

A group of diverse women--brought together by their connection with the same dishonest man--bond under the most unlikely of circumstances and find romance along the way in this action-packed celebration of friendship and love from New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. When Samantha...

A darkly compelling coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of Donna Tartt's The Secret History or Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies. It is the fall of 1995 at Rocky Barrens University, hidden amidst the pine trees and starry skies of Northern Ontario. Aurelle Taylor, daughter...

There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings. In the fourth of the Bridgerton prequel series, following The Other Miss Bridgerton, we go back to where it all began. . . from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia QuinnShe was given two...

There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings. In the third of the Bridgerton Prequel series, we go back to where it all began. . . from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia QuinnShe was in the wrong place...Fiercely independent and adventurous,...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents the second novel of the delightful Bridgerton Prequel series in a stunning new package. There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings, and in this novel, we go back to where it all began....

#1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents the first novel of the delightful Bridgerton Prequel series in a stunning new package. There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings, and in this novel, we go back to where it all began....

A Buzzfeed Pick of The Best Main Characters We've Gotten To Know in 2022A Scary Mommy Pick of New Books We Can't Wait to Cozy Up with This Fall A Chatelaine Pick Of New Romances To Fall Into A New SeasonCallie Dressler thought she'd...

From perennial bestseller Jenny Colgan comes this sugar-fueled Christmas treat of a novel, bursting with recipes and holiday cheer.Life is sweet for Issy Randall, owner of the Cupcake Cafe. Taught how to bake by her beloved late grandfather, she is proudly carrying on the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A finely paced, shrewdly observed, multi-tiered story . . . A thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller." -Wall Street Journal "Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against time." -- Megan...

When an elderly woman goes missing, the women of her neighborhood dig into the secrets and lies of her husband's past to save her.Author: Ellen MeeropolISBN-10: 1636280498ISBN-13: 9781636280493Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2022Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Library Journal...

From the beloved bestselling author of Season of Wonder and The Cliff House comes a poignant and uplifting novel about forgiveness, family and all the complications--and joy--that come with itAs the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the...

#1 New York Times bestseller Susan Elizabeth Phillips returns to her beloved Chicago Stars series with a romance between a Chicago Stars quarterback and one of the world's greatest opera singers--and a major diva. "Re-entering the world of the Chicago Stars is like a...

A summer of healing, friendship, love...and a secret that could change everything. After the death of her US senator father, Marlow Madsen travels to the small island off the coast of Florida where she spent summers growing up to help her mother settle the...