Fiction - Women

An enchanting, feel-good journey about a woman's search to rebuild her lost life, with only her trusty dog, a very special set of hammers, and sudden mysteries happening all around her. "I'd drive a stick-shift box spring mattress down the highway if I could,"...

Iphigenia's true story lies beneath the songs of the bards and the whispers of MusesAs Greek warriors prepare for the Trojan War, Mycenaean princess Iphigenia is forced to endure the demands of angry gods and desperate kings. Separated from her mother and sister and...

Author: Helena P. SchraderISBN-13: 9798987177044Publisher: Cross Seas PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 514Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.03d

A dazzling literary romance about a young socialite and a smooth-talking pilot who take a chance on each other against the extreme odds orchestrated by their peers and mother nature. In 1950s New England, being a marriageable young lady means following a certain set...

Every Path Tells a Story...From whispered promises under starlit skies to struggles for survival against unimaginable odds, Amber Rainey crafts an unforgettable collection of tales exploring love, resilience, and self-discovery. Through richly imagined settings and deeply human moments, each story threads together vivid characters...

A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan, by one of Italy's most significant women writers.Fausta Cialente (1898-1994) was a novelist, journalist, political activist, and one of the first self-declared feminist Italian writers. Though the fascists censored her early work, she...

Confined to her apartment, a professor falls into an unlikely romance--with a pangolin.Ana, a literature professor, plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover, Alice, has died of Covid. In her place are a series of animals that demand...

New York, 2022. Jessa Gidney is trying to have it all--a high-powered legal career, a meaningful marriage, and hopefully, one day, a child. But when her professional ambitions come up short and Jessa finds herself at a turning point, she leans into her family's...

San Francisco, Spring of 1900: Charmian Kittredge is an ambitious woman of twenty-nine, single, and unafraid to challenge the conventions of polite society. Her life will be forever changed when she accompanies her literary editor aunt to a luncheon to meet a young writer,...

Set in the 1930s, Mob Queen follows one woman's rapid rise through the Mafia as she searches for the truth about what happened to her friend and navigates a perilous relationship with the infamous Bugsy Siegel.All Virginia Hill wanted was a better life.She escaped...

Here is some advice: Don't have a one night stand with your enemy, especially if he's your Grumpy Billionaire Navy SEAL next door. But I did and I am stuck with him.I didn't expect to fall for his protective charms.Watching the silverfox hold my...

Graciela Harper thought that getting rid of Anne Bonny's ghost would be the first step toward putting all of the problems of her past behind her. Maybe things would work out with Beauregard Drayton, Heron Creek's charming mayor. Maybe she and her cousin Amelia,...

Life has settled back into some semblance of normal for Graciela Harper and her friends in Heron Creek. Of course for Gracie, that means a new ghost knocking on her door asking for favors.When she sees the spirit of a teenage girl who has...

Life in Heron Creek has never been what Graciela Harper would call normal. Or relaxing or settled or hell, even expected, but lately things have started to unravel at an alarming rate. These days her priority is the custody case between her cousin Amelia...

For the living, the dead, and the people stuck somewhere in between, Heron Creek has become a battleground. Graciela Harper might be new seeing ghosts, fighting curses, and just living with her old friends again, but there's no doubt she's on the front lines-and...

A broken engagement sends Graciela Harper crawling back to Heron Creek with her tail between her legs, but finds the sleepy little town too changed to set her life right. Not even her budding drinking problem can obscure her Gramps's failing health, or erase...

Two Sisters is a heartwarming tale of love, friendship, and the unbreakable bonds we share with our pets. When two women, drawn together by circumstance rather than blood, find themselves navigating the highs and lows of life, they discover that family isn't just defined...

In despair and amidst life's turbulent storms, "believe in angels" intricately weaves a narrative rich with themes of hope, faith, and redemption. At its core is flavia, a young woman balancing on the precipice of doubt and belief, her heart heavy with the burden...

A dream job. The trip of a lifetime. And...a celebrity love triangle sneak attack?Josie's off to England and diving headfirst into the biography game with a high-profile client she absolutely, positively cannot reveal. Problem? Josie sucks at keeping secrets. Unfortunately, the same can't be...

The wedding of the century. A drool-worthy movie star. One catastrophic disaster.Josie McMaster, a.k.a. 'McMaster the Disaster', thought her days of public humiliation were as dearly departed as her high school bangs. But thanks to Mom's meddling, Josie's been unwittingly entered into a contest...

Menopause can be hell. With Bodies Full of Burning, Nicole M. Wolverton has selected 16 stories which show how deadly the change of life can be. From state-sanctioned surgeries to transformative encounters with mythical creatures; strained relationships to fiery vengeance, these tales offer thoughtful...

#1 bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, to deliver a dishy, page-turning novel following an intertwined cast of characters over the course of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school. It's move-in day at Tiffin Academy and...

BLOOD WASHES OFF, BUT GUILT STAINS...In this provocative mystery from beloved crime writer Denise Mina, new evidence in an old murder case forces one woman to make an impossible choice. A year ago, a father and his fianc?e were brutally murdered in their opulent...

Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star. 1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard seven-year studio contract when she...

With the Consortium, no one is safe from their favorite hunting grounds. The trouble is that it includes the entire globe; no one can hide when they select their next target. Will that be you or one of your loved ones? However, it didn't...

Two wedding planners. One indecisive bride. And a paparazzi problem that's about to explode.Josie's back, and she's teetering on the brink of wedding mayhem. Torn between her best friend Mattie and her overbearing mom, Josie has a choice to make: quirky, modern, and talk...

The rock star's wife is back and better than ever in Rock Star Mom. When she decided to pursue a relationship with Nat, Cassie knew what she was getting herself into. His responsibilities as the frontman for Dramatic Sneezer keep him on the road...

Author: Diana Elizabeth ClarkeISBN-13: 9798218647490Publisher: Elizabeth PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2025Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.43d

Ghosts trail after us. They are our fears and the shape of our hates. We bring them into our lives and into our homes.Poltergeists and the spirits of drowned girls; malicious presences and portents; cat vampires and roaming bushrangers. These ghosts haunt Canberra -...

Author: Christine LiISBN-10: 394468091XISBN-13: 9783944680910Publisher: Inanna MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2025Pages: 394Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.88d

A CBC BEST BOOK OF 2019 A crackling debut, 26 Knots starts with a fire and never stops smouldering. Grand in scope, spare in execution, and lush in language, 26 Knots is a fable-like tale of love, obsession, and everything in between. Araceli loves...

Secrets age like wine... and this one is ready to be uncorked.Elko, Nevada, 1955Seventy-six-year-old Meg Bruno has spent decades in quiet exile, keeping the past buried where it belongs. Once known as the infamous Bootlegging Queen, she smuggled sacramental wine during Prohibition-until the law...

In A Broken Window, Anne Leigh Parrish gives us Sam Clark, a poet haunted by the shadows of her past. Sam channels her emotions into verse, hoping to find peace and strength, but when she falls into a new relationship with Steven-a professor, seemingly...

"Girls appear and disappear, but so do women. We know this because blood talks to blood."The town of Larissa, Texas, has secrets. Native girls are going missing, decades-old conflicts are hiding just below the surface, and Emily Howard is speaking to her ancestors. At...

Single, unfulfilled and well into middle age, long-troubled Charlotte Lansing desperately reaches for love and acceptance. When she announces her engagement to an unemployed morphine addict, her family falls into a tailspin. Her mother is determined to prevent disaster, her father seeks to mend...

Her heart broken, her future stolen-the Oregon Trail offers Nora Cole not just a path west, but a journey to her true self.Independence, Missouri, 1850: When Jimmy Rayburn-the boy Nora has loved since childhood-proposes to her best friend instead, her carefully planned future shatters...

Author: WillisISBN-10: 1947686364ISBN-13: 9781947686366Publisher: Becki WillisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2025Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.74d

Monument Bingo: five guys... five kisses... one winner. The rules are simple... but the game is bound to change when each of these women meets the man of her dreams.She lives her life by ones and zeroes...Eleanor's life makes sense when she's sitting behind...

Magical Objects is a weirdo collection of flash and short fiction drawing from fabulism and the magical power of metaphor. It's genre-bendy, queer, dark, whimsical, and ridiculous. It is a fairy tale of the fairy tale of growing up with books and fairytales. It...

In this collection of twelve unforgettable short stories, Lara Stapleton writes from the same precarious emotional plane where her characters live. She writes about people living in a world that forces them to recreate daily their small corner of hope. These are people who...

The BRAND NEW hilarious, feel-good read from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson Is it ever too late to bloom? Meet Celia. Life hasn't worked out quite how she'd planned. Since her son left for university, Celia has felt stuck at home - battling with...

The BRAND NEW hilarious, feel-good read from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson Is it ever too late to bloom? Meet Celia. Life hasn't worked out quite how she'd planned. Since her son left for university, Celia has felt stuck at home - battling with...

AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICEFrance, 1944. In an opulent hotel room above the streets of Paris, a mother sobs and clutches her twin daughters tight. A German officer says, 'Give me the emerald, and I will only take one of your children. The choice is yours.'AN...

Author: Joanna CockerlineISBN-10: 1774221705ISBN-13: 9781774221709Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2025Format: Paperback

An electric examination of women and men, sex and love, self-loathing and twenty-first century loneliness.Between Daily Self Care, the weekly column she writes for the website The Hype Report, and managing her mood stabilizers, Gloria navigates her quasi-relationship with Florian and commiserates with Isabel,...

For reasons they can't quite explain, the lost always find themselves on Shinbone Lane... San Francisco, 1974. Sixteen-year-old runaway Maddy is escaping the blame for a crime she didn't commit. Miles from home, she is taken under the wing of the elderly Clara and...

Rule Number One: Never fall in love with a patient. When a darkly handsome man walks into her office for massage therapy, Iz Amato knows she's in trouble. Not only does her body want to cross every line of the therapist/patient relationship, but her...

Author: Danielle SteelISBN-10: 1705073514ISBN-13: 9781705073513Publisher: Recorded BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Format: CD

"Morgan's writing is clean and crisp, catching her readers unprepared for the emotional roller coaster of finding love again, only to ponder the risk of heartbreak." -Barbara Conrey, USA Today's best-selling author of Nowhere Near GoodbyeIf Lora Hamilton was ever going to live a...

An epic love story unfolds in a heart-stirring prequel to the Red Mountain Chronicles by Boo Walker, the bestselling author of An Unfinished Story and An Echo in Time.In Washington State's Red Mountain wine country, Otis and Rebecca's bond was one for the ages....