Fiction - Women

Grand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe. But even as unrest simmers in the capital, Olga is content to live within the confines of the sheltered life her parents have built for her and...

A collection of twenty-five thought-provoking, table-turning, contemporary short stories about women and their sometime boyfriends, men who are almost boyfriends, disgraced boyfriends, never-going-to-happen boyfriends, dishonest, obsessive, and self-centred boyfriends. Their history is brief because they didn't make the grade or, unfortunately for them, they...

Valentine George was an ordinary man, born in extraordinary times. He experienced love, loss and joy -just as we all do- but his life was still worth recording. In this novel we follow his story where it began; in the slums of London during...

Brimming with romance and adventure, the second Victorian-era romance in New York Times bestselling author Betina Krahn's thrilling new Reluctant Heroes series reveals the hero in every man, as a gentleman swept up by police in a morality raid feels honor-bound to rescue a...

Leila stepped off the plane in Colombia, recognizing the familiar air. She couldn't believe she'd been deported. It had to be a mistake. She had to find a way back before it was too late, before the people she fled from years ago were...

Beth Harbison, New York Times bestselling author of The Cookbook Club, has written her strongest novel yet: a story filled with humor, heart and a little bit of snark. This unforgettable story about two very different sisters who must come together and face their...

Brand new from the top 10 bestselling author of The Cornish Midwife. Perfect for fans of Call The MidwifeA secret love...As winter descends on the coastal town of Port Agnes, midwife Toni Samuels' mood is as dark as the winter clouds that roll in....

"Maeve Binchy fans will adore it--she just gets better and better."--Patricia Scanlan On Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula, summer means glorious weather and a life-changing choice for local librarian Hanna Casey in this delightful installment in the USA Today bestselling series, a captivating tale filled with...

From the author of the highly acclaimed Four by Four and Among the Hedges comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority...

Finalist, 2022 Foreword INDIE Awards ? Science Fiction"It is a dreadful thing to be possessed, to be invaded by a spirit woman who commands your body and soul and looks out at the world through your eyes. It happened to me. Pray it will...

Will star-bound Casey Singer trade "finally famous" for "love at last"?Casey Singer is a self-proclaimed brat who trusts no one. This B-list actress and model uses her body and brains to obtain superstar-status. Casey is far from an overnight success and has become skilled...

A heartwarming, hilarious Christmas story with a Southern twist from the USA Today bestselling Sally Kilpatrick! Like most things in Ellery, Tennessee, this year's Drive Thru Nativity is a little unconventional. The Dollar General parking lot doubles as a Bethlehem stable, and widowed writer...

Who are the people you'll never forget? For Mary Murphy, there are five, eulogized here in an utterly unforgettable voice. Mary tells the story of her own life--her childhood spent trading one home and father figure for another, her efforts to track down her...

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true.What would you do if......you were happily married...with two gorgeous children...and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to you...And it wasn't a joke....Could you resist?Joe West, accountant,...

An office worker who has no one to eat lunch with enrolls in a course that builds confidence about eating alone. A man with a pathological fear of bedbugs offers up his body to save his building from infestation. A time capsule in Seoul...

Y. Vonne Beck realizes rather quickly that their teenaged passion had dissolved years before. Even so, Ken's chance return gives Vonne peace of mind. Jonathan's biological father steps up to the plate and he graciously accepts the daunting task of co-parenting his son. With...

Elizabeth Devereux is a prolific painting prot g e whose true inspiration comes when she is drug-free. The trouble is, going off her medication for bipolar disorder can also bring on the black cells. When she finally leaves the halfway house will she be...

When tall, blond, and beautiful Ellen Baxter enters the Paris Ritz the day before Princess Diana dies, she's mistaken for Diana by the paparazzi. The next morning, as Ellen's older, Nobel-laureate husband attends a physics conference, she goes to the site of the fatal...

Set in late eighteenth-century England, Philippa Stockley's American debut gives us a wickedly delightful but deadly serious battle of the wills and the sexes. It begins with the arrival in London of the mysterious Mrs. Fox--on the run from a scandalous French past--who takes...

USA Today bestselling author Lenora Bell returns to the Wallflowers vs. Rogues series with a brilliant new novel about a scandalous duke and a wallflower with a secret. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a wicked duke who has gambled away his fortune...

"Captivating...Mah channels Kennedy and brings postwar Paris to life with exquisite detail and insight." -- PeopleFrom the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love...

"Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlink's] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world."--Booklist"A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory."--Evening...

In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett--an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion."With wit and dry...

"Blade-sharp, whip-smart, and genuinely original -- a thriller to refresh your faith in the genre, your belief that a story can still outpace and outsmart you."-- A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in The Window"Clever and surprising...The superb...

For anyone who ever loved All Creatures Great and Small, Annie England Noblin's newest novel--about a big city vet transplanted to a small Wisconsin town--is pure delight as we meet aging alpacas, stump-tailed cats, goats in tutus, a vagabond border collie named Kevin, and...

"Darkly delicious . . . Nice Girls is about the girlhood we never really leave behind, and what happens when we dare to confront our past demons. A pulsating mystery with a narrator you won't soon forget." -- Laura Dave, #1 New York Times...

"Difficult to put down. . . . The novel is itself like a sandy beach, equal parts beautiful and uncomfortable. . . . Lines blur and expectations aren't met, keeping readers on their toes. . . . makes for a surprisingly fast-paced Palm Beach."...

Sassy crime-lite and the glitterati of a society column combine to spice up the Philadelphia Main Line in KILLER PUNCHAntiques dealer Kristin Clark is ready for summer: Her friends--Holly, Sophie, and Bootsie--have been busy party-planning for the annual Tomato Show at the country club,...

An award-winning, internationally bestselling author makes her American debut with this taut, riveting domestic drama with the compulsive intensity of The Good Girl, The Pocket Wife, and The Stranger, about a long-lost brother convicted of a horrifying crime and a sister's fight to clear...

Full of wit and mouth-watering cuisines, Jessica Tom's debut novel offers a clever insider take on the rarefied world of New York City's dining scene in the tradition of The Devil Wears Prada meets Kitchen Confidential. Food whore (n.) A person who will do...

From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a "perceptive and . . . piercing writer," comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and...

Fans of Alice Sebold and John Green will be transfixed by this sophisticated, edgy debut novel packing dark humor, biting wit, and a lot of Jack Daniels.Who put the word fun in funeral? I can't think of anything fun about Rachel's funeral, except for...

The co-host of ESPN's Mike and Mike follows up his New York Times bestseller All You Could Ask For with this poignant story of one man's search to understand himself, his marriage, and his father.Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed with money, a fulfilling career,...

A masterful depiction of a life driven off the rails by tragedy and sin--a man now summoned by the legacy of a beloved, lost brother to embark on a journey in search toward understanding, happiness, and redemption.Haunted by the disappearance of his older brother...

An obsessive quest to solve the mystery of her older sister's disappearance puts a young woman in mortal jeopardy in this taut, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense from the author of the "truly riveting" (New York Times) The Book of You. An intoxicating cocktail...

Maya's Notebook is a startling novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende. This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother...

Widows of Braxton County by Jess McConkey is a haunting and suspenseful novel about family secrets and how well we really know the people we love. Kate is looking forward to starting a new life with her new husband, Joseph Krause. She leaves the...

"Oates is just a fearless writer...with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers."--Los Angeles Times " An] extraordinarily intense, racking, and resonant novel."--Booklist (starred review)One of the most acclaimed writers in the world today, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates follows...

"Her writing is both vividly descriptive and surprisingly insightful."--Boston Globe"It's the three-dimensional men, women, and children who populate her fiction that I'll remember for a very long time."--Nancy Pearl's PicksFollowing the phenomenal success of her novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me, New...

Answering a call that summons her to a stranger's deathbed, a reluctant Sophie Shepard is too late to hear what he was so anxious to tell her. What was so important that a dying man would think of her in his final moments? With...

"Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books."--Carolyn Hart Another deft and daffy Bed-and-Breakfast mystery from the indomitable Mary Daheim--"The reigning Queen of the Cozies" (Portland Oregonian)--Loco Motive races full speed ahead with mystery and hilarity, as B&B hostess...

Meet three women who aren't about to run and hide just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation.KatHer life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position--with...

Tucked away in a cozy cul-de-sac on Heraldsgate Hill, Judith McMonigle Flynn hopes for smooth sailing in her longtime role as an innkeeper. But Judith's skill in dealing with guests is matched only by her knack for coming across corpses.Mystery lovers who enjoy madcap...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Twelve Times Blessed comes a novel of the breakdown of a family and of healing after a loss Giving advice is what Julianne Ambrose Gillis does for a living--every...

In the glittering world of Regency London, where gossip is exchanged--and reputations ruined--with the tilt of a fan, M lanie Fraser is the perfect wife. Devoted to her husband, Charles, the grandson of a duke, she is acknowledged as society's most charming hostess. But...

Today is Monday. The calls do not come as before. Weeks elapse between them, and when I answer the phone there is no overlap of voices, only my mother's. She spends much of the conversation avoiding mention of the pink elephant trumpeting in the...

For ten long years, Oscar Campbell has done everything from picking up his boss's drycleaning to FedExing her tropical fish. His job as personal assistant to a legendary -- and temperamental -- publisher in New York City has given him more headaches than leg-ups....

Henry's got it good. He's a semi-successful, if not yet famous novelist. He's got a good job and good buds. Best of all, he's got Layla, his long-time, live-in lover, a fast-track associate at a New Jersey law firm. Henry loves Layla and she...

Maura Moynihan's first novel, Covergirl, blends reality and fiction in a brilliant and exciting roman à clef that draws richly from the author's own adventures as a Warhol Girl and from her many years of working with Tibetan refugees in Asia. Meet Veronica Ferris,...

A unique voice, Melissa Jacobs delivers a second fun-filled, food-filled novel. Mimi's life is an open book, or rather, an open menu. A restaurant consultant, she's helped launch some of the best restaurants in Philly and around the world. And she even managed to...