Fiction - Women

Sometimes life forces us to make impossible choices.Lizzie saved Rachel's life when they were young girls and that one moment cemented a lifelong friendship. But twenty-five years later life has dealt them some rough blows.Lizzie is recently divorced, has a son in college who...

A heartrending novel of courage and resilience inspired by the true story of a female Civil War spy September 1862. When war ignites, Hattie Logan escapes her privileged family and prim finishing school to join Allen Pinkerton's spy agency, burning to make a difference...

A dramatic and undeniably addictive psychological thriller about a young woman whose life changes in an instant, and nothing is ever the same. Before . . .Life is idyllic for Julie Porter and her husband Owen. They've bought their dream house in the Berkshires;...

Not-Quite-Supermodel follows Alex Emmerson's quest for stardom. Alex is painfully awkward, exquisitely unfashionable, and she's never fit in anywhere. When a smooth-talking model scout discovers her slicing fish at a Canadian Safeway, she offers Alex the chance at a career she never knew she...

When precocious Lilly, an eleven-year-old, undergoes an inexplicable and startling growth spurt, her father and doctors decide to take drastic action to curb what they see as a dangerous development. Faced with condescending treatment and cruelty, Lilly escapes and embarks on a journey to...

Author: Heather B. MooreISBN-10: 1639930507ISBN-13: 9781639930500Publisher: Shadow MountainLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.26w x 1.30dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/08/2022Booklist 09/01/2022 pg. 40

Chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best books of fiction of 2021One of the many well-educated Ivy League graduates with literary ambitions who flock to New York City every year, 25-year-old Melissa Fleischer has the great fortune to being hired as the...

Welcome to Wishing Tree, where the magic of Christmas in July will bring you home in this heartwarming story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery. Some heartbreaks hit harder than others. For Shaye Harper, the last one was so bad she...

Wyatt didn't realize it at the time, but the decision to drive his truck down the narrow dirt road behind the lake that quiet afternoon would set his life in a direction he never anticipated. It brought him to her; the rest he would...

Stephanie Plum has a way of attracting danger, lunatics, oddballs, bad luck - and mystery men. And no one is more mysterious than the unmentionable Diesel. He's back and hot on the trail of a little man in green pants who's lost a giant...

A gripping novel about friendship, secrets, misjudgments, and redemption among women by the USA Today bestselling author of The Weight of a Piano.Martha Hale is an affable wife and mother who lives in an affluent neighborhood of well-tended lawns and high expectations. If only...

Profoundly emotional, conceptually acute, yet grounded in the grit and bravery of daily life, these 22 carefully crafted tales probe life's crisis moments and its ordinary hours. Among the stories: an encounter on a mountain trail wakens a veteran's numbed emotions; two French Resistance...

Being a tugboater is sometimes a dangerous job. Like...... Going out to buy pizza for the crew? That's not one of them, or is it? When Captain Ashley Walters and her husband, Adam, leave their tugboat in Indiana Harbor to pick up some Chicago-style...

Franny Steinberg knows there's powerful magic in laughter. She's witnessed it. With the men of Chicago off fighting WWII on distant shores, Franny has watched the women of the city taking charge of the war effort. But amidst the war bond sales and factory...

A compassionate and insightful novel about family, broken dreams, and holding on to everything in life that matters.Five cousins must band together to decide the future of their shared inheritance--the family's sprawling property in Stowe, Vermont--but with each at a different place in life,...

A breathtaking novel of courage and determination, inspired by the true story of the woman who built the world's greatest champagne house--Veuve Clicquot. For grieving Nicole Clicquot, saving the vineyards her husband left behind is her one chance to keep a roof over her...

A woman challenges the constraints of life in Prohibition-era Appalachia in this sweeping and richly rewarding novel about endurance, survival, and redemption.The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee,...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERCalled One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR"Dynamic women with complicated lives take center stage in this twisty mystery about a rideshare mix-up which results in murder. Lalli is a fresh voice in the thriller genre and a writer to...

"A group of deeply complex and beautifully written women . . . Aubray marries history, suspense and womanhood in a story perfect for devouring."--NewsweekFor readers of Naomi Krupitsky's The Family! An irresistible, suspenseful novel about four women who marry into an elegant, prosperous Italian...

It's time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you're getting married (and gay) than on your family WhatsApp group?Amar can't wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he's found The One, and he's getting married. But it turns out announcing...

Life can change in a flash. Marriage and a baby wasn't Amy Forsythe's college plan. After a shotgun marriage glued together by her son, she's convinced that love isn't meant for her. Now nearing forty and single for the first time since her senior...

Examining the lives and relationships of four high school friends, Gridley Girls is a timeless story about loss, betrayal, and the bonds of friendship.Author: Meredith FirstISBN-10: 1940716977ISBN-13: 9781940716978Publisher: SparkpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2016Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Samantha--the fashionable wife of a successful businessman and doting mother of one--struggles to negotiate the spheres of intimacy between her husband and her family of origin. Samantha loves her husband, Richard, and she loves her sister, Elizabeth. But the two of them can barely...

Lili is the intimate story of a passionate woman poised against twentieth-century Paris. Coming of age prior to the First World War, Lili loses her first love and her brother in that conflagration. She finds herself reawakened by a former soldier. Their uneasy relationship,...

America 2272 - Women are dominated by the government Office of Reproductive Oversight.In North's stinging dystopia, women must give birth to their babies and then surrender them to "The Auction". The wealthy bid on the healthiest babies and the poor take out predatory government...

1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives with her Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family grocery store. Her older brother and sister both joined the Army, and Rose prays for their safety as World War II rages overseas. Her parents expect Rose to...

Patches tells the tale of one woman's life, Wilma, through a series of interwoven short stories. The stories begin in 1943 when we learn that Wilma's father, recently drafted into the army, is about to leave for boot camp. Wilma, an infant and the...

Author: Barbara Taylor BradfordISBN-10: 1250792673ISBN-13: 9781250792679Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2012Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.00d

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Two different worlds and two very different lives collide in Paris in this captivating novel by Danielle Steel. Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin, Javier....

In a moving, unforgettable Southern saga of lost and found, a woman who was stolen as a toddler from a poor but loving family must journey through a maze of heartbreak before she can reclaim her true identity. Now in trade paperback for the...

One life-changing summer on Nantucket brings about exhilarating revelations for a single mother and her two grown children in this sensational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. "Wholesome and hopelessly romantic."--Kirkus Reviews Lisa Hawley is perfectly satisfied living on her own....

"The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left...

"Plunges readers into a world of glamorous, charismatic young British debutantes and then turns that shiny world on its head...the most delicious storytelling." --Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie PostFrom New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict...

American Writing Awards, 2022 Finalist Women's Fiction, Finalist Mystery/SuspenseFirebird Award, 2022 Winner Romantic Suspense, Winner Women's Fiction, Winner SuspenseNovember 2015-Seasoned war photojournalist Annie Hawkins returns home after an assignment to find her life falling apart. She's under investigation for an incident that happened six...

Martha's Vineyard's Sisters of Edgartown face their forties -- a decade of change, of heartache, of divorce, of illness, and of second-chances and love. Just as they've done everything else, they'll do this together. Side-by-side, till the end.Twenty-three years ago, Jennifer Connelly's twin sister,...

A marriage story. How much is too much to want?"I've been waiting a long time for this book." ―Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers and Music for Wartime2020 IPPY Award Winner for Literary Fiction2020 NIEA Winner for General Fiction and Best Cover In...

"Sally Koslow channels Nora Ephron in this lively tale of obligation versus desire and the politics of family power. Deftly written with equal parts intelligence, pathos, and humor, The Real Mrs. Tobias is a pure pleasure to read."--Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times bestselling...

Late Winter, 1943The world is at war with no end in sightAddie Bledsoe and Kate Isaacs, best friends from Iowa, are embroiled in their own private battles. In England, Kate grieves the loss of her pilot husband even as she awaits the birth of...

Sometimes it's not the person you need to forget, but the person you need to forgive.Tassie Morris is everyone's favourite wedding photographer, famous for her photographs of offbeat ceremonies and alternative brides. Yet commitment is proving impossible for Tassie herself, who cannot forget her...

As the Irvings head into their second decade of marriage, they've mostly abandoned their dreams and are committed to just getting by. There are children to love, jobs to do, and secrets to keep. But on a warm night in October, a falling woman...

A hopeful single mom moves to the Houston suburbs to start anew, only to find a new adversary in the HOA.Amelia Marsh relocates with her two young kids to a northern suburb of Houston after a brutal divorce. All she wants is a bit...

Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Jodi Picoult, and Emma Cline, this vividly lyrical, evocative novel from the award-winning author transports readers to the gritty atmosphere of 1970s New York City as the precarious lines between girl and woman, art and obscenity, fetish...

Deep into her 40s with a lackluster career, Georgie wonders how she became so...underwhelming. If she's not battling her micromanaging boss and egotistical CEO, she's trying to quiet her inner voice, the one whispering that she hasn't lived up to the cool, funny and...

USA TODAY bestselling author Kimberly Belle returns with a deeply addictive thriller exploring the dark side of the digital world when a mommy-blogger's assistant goes missing. When Alex first began posting unscripted family moments and motivational messages online, she had no intention of becoming...

Half a world apart, soul mates Nettie and Andy struggle to survive-one in a hospital with ugly secrets and treacherous people, the other in the dangerous shadows of the Vietnamese jungle.Author: Pam WebberISBN-10: 1647420911ISBN-13: 9781647420918Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2022Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.40h...

In 1962, Jo Catterall, a young English woman, seeking freedom, visits Israel. On the boat out she meets Gilbert, a slightly older kibbutznik who has spent some unedifying time in England, and who is returning home with yearning, a little chastened. An uneasy relationship...

'Tremendous' Adam Kay'Heart-warming' Sarah Pascoe'So well-observed' Daisy Buchanan'Hilarious' James Acaster'I LOVED it' Aisling Bea'The perfect concoction of warmth and grit' i Newspaper'Wonderful' Stylist Jane is trying. She's been trying for a baby, with increasing desperation as her thirties sail by. Now, she's trying to...

Aidyn Kelley is talented, ambitious, and ready for a more serious assignment than the fluff pieces she's been getting as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. In her eagerness, she pushes too hard, earning herself the menial task of writing an obituary...

It's a 1920s version of Sex and the City, as Dorothy Parker--one of the wittiest women who ever wielded a pen--and her three friends navigate life, love, and careers in New York City. Perfect for fans of Fiona Davis, Beatriz Williams, and Ren馥 Rosen.NEW...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA and READ WITH MARIE CLAIRE BOOK CLUB PICK!Named a best book by Glamour, Marie Claire, TIME, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and more!From New York Times bestselling Emiko Jean, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood, and love--how...