Fiction - Women

A feminist fairytale retelling becomes a real-life nightmare. From USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller comes a haunting psychological thriller about two women trapped by a storm, tormented by the past, and desperate to survive the present. A stay in a remote cabin...

In this wildly creative, horror-soaked reimagining of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, nothing is as it seems in Dorothy's dystopian nightmare. Most of all Dorothy herself. Fans of Tender is the Flesh and Maeve Fly will want to follow her twisted...

In this "thrilling, heartbreaking" (Annie Lyons, author of The Air Raid Club) debut novel set during the Great Depression in 1930s New York, a daring dancer must take her twin brother's place as a riveter high atop the in-progress Empire State Building to save...

“Cake Upon The Waters” by Zoë Akins is a compelling novel set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties. Akins masterfully portrays the lives and struggles of women navigating a rapidly changing society. Through vivid characters and sharp social commentary, the novel explores themes...

From the bestselling author of The Keeper of Stories and The Secrets of Flowers comes a gorgeous, heartwarming story about secrets, second chances, and finding friendship in the most unlikely places.Her new chapter starts now ...Jo Sorsby knows she's hiding from her past when...

A remarkable trio whose lives have been cracked wide open by their husbands' crimes unite to catch a serial killer in this dazzlingly captivating novel. Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched...

In this electrifying historical novel about coming of age in tumultuous 1960s San Francisco, a pregnant teenager reckons with womanhood and agency after being sent to a home for unwed mothers. It's 1968, and the future is bright for seventeen-year-old Elizabeth "Baker" Phillips: She's...

One look and I knew the new girl in town would be mine. Carsynn was the last thing I expected after coming home from being out of town for work. While I was gone, Gramps talked non stop about the new pretty waitress. It's...

From award-winning author Corinne Demas comes a moving story about the sometimes volatile but ultimately unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.When Meredith flies home to New England, daughter Eloise in tow, she leaves her husband and a life back in LA. A heartbreaking loss...

College freshman Tess is ready to start over three thousand miles away from a life not worth remembering. She's keeping her head down and definitely not going to frat parties. Well, except for the one where the hottest guy on campus spills his beer...

An act of vandalism at a Florida high school connects three individuals in unforeseen ways. Nina, a retired art teacher with no family, moves into Shadow Oaks Senior Home amid fears she has lost a purpose for living. Unexpectedly, she receives a letter that...

Every family has its secrets. Josephina "Joey" Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their own after a lawsuit tarnishes their name. When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned lighthouse on a North Carolina island,...

Beautiful but fragile Taylor Hartwell has been afraid of disappointing her manipulative mother, Claire, for as long as she can remember. To the outside world, Claire Hartwell is caring and attentive, but beneath her carefully curated exterior lurks an ever-deepening darkness-and Taylor is desperate...

The BRAND NEW gorgeous getaway novel from Emma Burstall Now her children have moved out, Edie has begun to feel lonely in the home she shares with her husband. She hopes returning to Crete, where she and Ralph spent their honeymoon, will help heal...

Welcome to The Sylvan, a small Seattle luxury hotel where polished mahogany walls keep secrets, rock stars slip by in low-lit spaces, and the switchboard crackles with drama. Joann's working at reception, but not planning to stay long; she's "just paying bills" while figuring...

Author: Colleen OakleyISBN-10: 0593200802ISBN-13: 9780593200803Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2023Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.36w x 1.20dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 96Publishers Weekly 01/09/2023Booklist 02/15/2023 pg. 21Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2023Shelf Awareness 03/24/2023

Just before Christmas, Jane Sperling is headed from Montana to Texas, to the hometown she once abandoned, in a car she doesn't fully trust, for a job that's a leap of faith and the only line she has on a better life for herself...

Some stars guide us. Others blind us.Alice Ann Lark remembers everything, most especially the husband and daughter she abandoned for a life on the sea. Almost four years later, having failed to achieve her adventurous dreams, she would never ask for a forgive-and-forget return...

An Alpha Man, Curvy Woman MC RomanceSaintThey call me Saint. But I'm not one.I've always lived life by my rules and my own moral code.What I did may have put me behind bars, but I don't regret it.At least not until I met her....

She was always the one who got away. Rosaleigh caught my eyes from the beginning, but I didn't make my move.She was too young.Unfortunately, my best friend didn't have the same morals.It killed me, watching from a distance as he disrespected the woman who...

When reality presses, it leads to a nightmare phase. Everything goes wrong, culminating in the explosion of reality when post-birth emotions finally crumble. For many women, a Cesarean Section was a must to survive. However, according to scientific reports, many survivors of the Caesarian...

This heartfelt novel covers three generations. It tells the mother-daughter story of Eileen and Peggy. After her little sister Lilly is killed by a passing car, Eileen blames herself. Trying to shield herself from imagined hatred, she finds comfort in numbers. Her parents can't...

Captive of the dystopian Ministry is Maryja, a Servile bound to the oppressive Schopenhauer household since childhood. Her life of banal servitude is forever changed one night when she discovers a sinuous creature emerging from the floorboards of her room, supposedly eradicated from the...

In this imaginative cozy mystery, the search for a missing maid leads Miss Caroline Bingley from Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice into murder and mayhem in the gritty underbelly of Regency London.Two years after her brother Charles Bingley weds Miss Jane Bennett, Miss...

Esmerelda lost her boyfriend and her job in the same 24-hour period. She thought things couldn't get much worse until her sister sprang a new plan on her: opening a fortunetelling shop together. Petal has already paid for the lease in full and knows...

Who was the Mysterious 355? Culper Ring members such as Robert Townsend and Hercules Mulligan are well known for the part they played in the Revolutionary War, but who was the mysterious 355 that could outwit them all? Inspired by many of the same...

News! How much newness does any news have? What news-value do the non-new things carry? There are things, incidents and people that do not make news. They do not possess enough newness for the news-hungry world. These things and beings are useless for the...

"I should've stayed, I should've stayed..." echoes in Janina's mind. Surrounded by the pulsating energy of a festival crowd, she stands frozen, receiving the news that changes her life forever.Just a few months earlier, Janina found herself amidst the chaos of Raman's room, snorting...

"The riveting characters in Woman of the Hour are full of desire, anger, regret, and darkness. Their fragmented lives are tough, but their grit inspires." Grant Faulkner, executive producer on America's Next Great AuthorA girl changes into a fox in self-defense. An idealist imagines...

Slide into the bittersweet, beautifully peculiar world of Patricia Q. Bidar's Pardon Me for Moonwalking, a collection of short stories that illuminate the offbeat, the tender, and the painfully human. Each story offers a glimpse into the extraordinary moments of ordinary lives, from fleeting...

The characters in THAT VERY PLACE find themselves in settings-whether mundane or bizarre-that they'd rather avoid. Each is chasing or fleeing from a bond too deep to sever: an unwanted child, an unloving parent. Long-ignored troubles erupt into chaos, forcing them to confront the...

Upon her death, Ashton's mother leaves a legacy that upends her world. Why did she leave Ashton the family's historic home and her three younger siblings virtually nothing? Does her mother expect Ashton to repair the damage she caused to the family? ����While coping...

Playing on the rich Latin American literary tradition of the Saint's Life, Cuban writer Mireya Robles creates a humorous, ultimately horrifying vision of the nuclear family in HAGIOGRAPHY OF NARCISA THE BEAUTIFUL -- a text innovative in its style and even more in its...

A heartbreaking American epic about three sisters who unearth lifetimes of family tensions as they are forced to rescue one of their own from peril, testing the limits of sacrifice, sisterhood, and forgiveness from the author of the "profound work of great wisdom" (Alice...

A surreal story of honeyed sweetness, predatory stings, and metamorphosis.In a coming-of-age story inspired by second-wave feminism, the intelligent and curious Habella confronts her passions and those of the men around her. From her first period, to unsettling sexual encounters, to her dissatisfying life...

A MOTHER'S WORST NIGHTMARE BECOMES REALITY.Lana Wexler is a dock worker on the Cliff Island Sea Farm. She's tough and independent, but she is afraid she doesn't have what it takes to be a single mom. Full of anxiety, she travels from her home...

Author: Penny HawISBN-10: 1728295483ISBN-13: 9781728295480Publisher: Sourcebooks LandmarkLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2026Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.50d

Cade Martin took one look across a crowded bar and knew the auburn-haired beauty staring back at him was his forever. Aubrey Williams didn't realize how a little alcohol on an empty stomach could hit her. She's not much of a drinker in the...

Crazy about cowboy movies, fourteen-year-old Bobbie Grey uses Gene Autry's code of honor as her moral guide. When her father is killed in an explosion at the paper mill, her mother takes a job at the mill and becomes enamored with co-worker Phoenix. Bobbie...

In this riveting story of family bonds and buried truths, a young woman's homecoming becomes a reckoning as four days together threaten to shatter the comfortable lies that have held her family together.In the summer of 1967, the Levitsky family convenes for a long...

With empathy, insight, and humor, I'll Come to You chronicles the intersecting lives of one unforgettable family over the course of a year--1995--anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child in this "intimate, wise and funny" novel that's "a true gem about life's...

Fascinated by a young woman's performance of "The Lost Child" in Guanajuato's central plaza, painfully shy expatriate Callie Quinn asks the woman for a trumpet lesson -- and ends up confronting her longing to know her own lost child. When Callie became pregnant in...

First published in 1889, "Grania" is a novel by Irish author Emily Lawless. Set on the second largest of the three Aran Islands, Inishmaan, it follows the life of the eponymous Grania from her childhood to early womanhood. A wonderful tale of innocent youth...

For fans of Elin Hilderbrand, USA Today bestseller Pamela Kelley invites readers into the Nantucket way of life--sandy shores, warm hearts, and new beginnings.A brilliant solution: remaking your rambling beach house into a bed & breakfast.Lisa Hodges loves her home and her Nantucket community,...

What happens after happily-ever-after fades? Can the answer be found one flight up? India, Abby, Esme, and Monique have all been friends since their days at Manhattan's Sibley School for Girls. From the outside, these four women--all grown up now--seem to be living ideal...

God let Rachel Westing down. For twenty-six years she's done everything by the book; she figures He should have her back. But then she learns her fiancé is cheating on her. Her parents are getting a divorce. And her Christian mentor has a pill...

From the author of Mercury and Shiner comes a novel about the bond between two female folk singers, the love stories that haunt them, and the music that brings them together to burn bright. Young folk singer Elle Harlow reaches the height of her...

"Possession" by Louis Bromfield explores the complex lives of women musicians in the early 20th century, delving into the intricacies of marriage and domestic life. This powerful work of psychological fiction offers a poignant social commentary on the era's expectations and limitations placed upon...

Edna Ferber's "Showboat" is a sweeping work of historical fiction that immerses readers in the world of show business along the Mississippi River. This meticulously prepared print edition revives a classic story centered on the lives and loves of women entertainers. Experience the vibrant...

Ruby's love life has gone to the dogs. Literally. Ruby always longed for adventure - hiking for months on end or living like a gypsy in an RV - but instead, she settled for a comfortable relationship with a man who worshipped her. That...