Fiction - Women

"Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she's too traditional (she's...

A provocative, immersive medieval novel starring one of literature's most unforgettable characters in her own words--Chaucer's bold and libidinous Wife of Bath.So damned readable and fun...This is the story of a woman fighting for her rights; it breaches the walls of history.--The AustralianIn the...

Katharine Tynan is not a name immediately associated with the supernatural. However, like many other writers of the early twentieth century, she made numerous forays into literature of the ghostly and macabre, and throughout her career produced verse and prose that conveys a remarkable...

The bestselling Irish author B. M. Croker enjoyed a highly successful literary career from 1880 until her death forty years later. Her novels were witty and fast moving, set mostly in India and her native Ireland. Titles such as Proper Pride (1882) and Diana...

In the late-nineteenth century Rosa Mulholland (1841-1921) achieved great popularity and acclaim for her many novels, written for both an adult audience and younger readers. Several of these novels chronicled the lives of the poor, often incorporating rural Irish settings and folklore. Earlier in...

"Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page." --Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in LondonFor fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz--from the New York...

Thirtysomething Cara Foster is, one might say, eco-anxious-perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters (not because she wants to but because it's the right thing to do), does laundry as seldom as possible, takes navy showers every couple of days, and is reevaluating...

In 1917, Alma Pihl, a master craftsman in The House of FabergZ, was charged to protect one of the greatest secrets in Russian history--an unknown FabergZ Egg that Peter Karl FabergZ secretly created to honor his divided allegiance to both the people of Russia...

From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and...

Now a feature film streaming on Netflix This is a stunning novel about tradition and change, about whanau and its struggle to survive, about the place of women in a shifting world.Makareta is the chosen one--carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer--the one...

Take one sea-view villa, add two dates with a Greek God, a few glasses of wine, a dash of accidental nudity, and a heavy dose of sunshine. Recipe for a perfect getaway... or an absolute disaster? Small, shy, safe. That's how Becky lives ever...

Anna Wilks went straight from her parents' house to her husband's. After thirteen years of trying to give him a son, she's told she's sterile. Her marriage crumbles and her husband leaves her for a younger woman who's pregnant with his child. Anna finds...

A Simple Love, as the title suggests, is a love story. American student Marielle goes to study at the University of Florence in the 1980s. She meets two bisexual Italian students, who both fall in love with her. She loves them both in return....

The winner of The Eludia Award, the stories in this collection range widely in setting and era, including France during World War II, Maine in the early eighteenth century, and Tennessee in the twenty-first century. What the stories all have in common, however, are...

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.--AJ Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in The WindowClever and surprising...The superb character-driven plot...

THE WICKED AFTERMATH is an emotionally gripping story of love, loss, and hope, with a rich and entrancing happily ever after. All Wicked novels may be enjoyed as stand-alone romances.When the person you blame for your grief is the only one who can save...

High on the clifftops, Lettie takes a deep breath of salty air and opens the letter. There is no signature, and the old-fashioned handwriting is faint against the yellowed paper. The message, and the tiny gold key inside, will turn her life upside down...Lettie...

From Carrie Fisher, the international movie star actress and the author of six bestselling books, most recently The Princess Diarist, comes her novel Surrender the Pink.In a humorous, bittersweet story, soap opera writer Dinah Kaufman attempts to force herself back into the life of...

This reissue of Donna Hill's In My Bedroom, about three unforgettable women and their explosive relationships, is specially priced at $9.99! Rayne Holland seems to have it all: a handsome, successful husband, a beautiful five-year-old daughter, and a rapidly rising film career. What everyone...

Between taking night classes for her MBA and her demanding day job at a cruise line, marketing manager Henley Evans barely has time for herself, let alone family, friends, or dating. But when she's shortlisted for the promotion of her dreams, all her sacrifices...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Atomic City Girls, a provocative new novel about multiple generations of women in one East Tennessee family haunted by violence and redeemed by their rich inheritance of folk music.Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for...

From the USA Today best-selling author of The Summer CottageThe forecast is calling for a reluctant homecoming and regrettable decisions with a strong chance of romance....When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and 72-degree days, is replaced by a virtual...

A FAIRY-TALE BEGINNING. All her life, Bailey Browne dreamed of a storybook rescue: a knight in shining armor swooping in to bring her and her mother to a better life. Then, suddenly, there he is: handsome, wonderful Logan Abbott. Despite their ten-year difference age,...

Don't miss Philippa East's gripping and suspenseful new novel, A GUILTY SECRET, available to pre-order now!'Tense' Araminta Hall'Compelling' Debbie Howells'Engrossing, twisty tale' Nell PattisonBut after three months go by without Sarah paying her rent, property manager Jenn enters the small London apartment to find...

Raw, surprising and ultimately uplifting, Allison Larkin's The People We Keep will break your heart a million different ways before putting it back together again. --Julia Claiborne Johnson, author of Be Frank with Me and Better Luck Next Time The People We Keep is...

The story of one young woman's exceptional courage in the darkest of times, set in the stunningly atmospheric mountains of Czechoslovakia during the Second World War.1938: Magda has led a sheltered life in her small village until the day she is forced from her...

Inspired by the true World War II history of the few bookshops to survive the Blitz, The Last Bookshop in London is a timeless story of wartime loss, love and the enduring power of literature.August 1939: London is dismal under the weight of impending...

In her second novel, Valerie Taylor--award-winning author of What's Not Said--gives readers another romantic comedy interwoven with forbidden love, infidelity, and family. With the court date set for her divorce and the future she'd planned with a younger man presumably kaput, Kassie O'Callaghan shifts...

In this novel, A young woman must find her way in the world again after years of nursing her ailing mother.I, Gracie, survived...When Mama announced to our family that she had dementia, my brother and sisters insisted they couldn't help. They had their own...

The second in the "magical" (RT Book Reviews) Coldwater Cove series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Honeymoon Harbor series is a poignant and evocative love story of grace, redemption, and hope. After her seemingly perfect marriage turns out to be...

Deep in the Adirondack Mountains lies a speck of a town called Rangeley. There isn't much to this tiny town, but it is at the crossroads of serene fishing streams off the Mink River, pristine hunting grounds in the surrounding mountains, and vast estates...

False crawl? Nesting season? Turtle monitors?Jewel Mantelle is just getting used to the humidity in her new Southern home on Sophia Island when turtle season opens way too early. At least it's too early according to her friends who volunteer with the Turtle Trackers....

A small-town judge meets her match in a rodeo star troublemaker, but soon they may both end up targets of the town's matchmakers in this delightful and heartwarming tale of romance. Darcy Jones Harper is thrilled to have finally shed her reputation as the...

USA Today BestsellerNew York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis does it once again with a heartfelt story of family, forgiveness, and secrets that have the power to change the course of more than one life.When Maze returns to Wildstone for the wedding of her...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA WALL STREET JOURNAL AND VOGUE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020A triumph of tone and intelligence. Percy Q's perspective is skewed and searching at once, and through her eyes, we see afresh not only New York's post-9/11...

From the New York Times bestselling author of California Girls comes an all new original Blackberry Island novel told with Susan Mallery's trademark humor and charm. Sisters by Choice is a heartfelt tale of love, family and the friendships that see us through.Cousins by...

Luna Burke and Ned Harrelson are on the run. Licensed to care for injured and orphaned wildlife, Luna is determined to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband's private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both...

From New York Times bestseller Lexi Ryan comes a sexy friends-to-lovers romance. A family wedding with a fake boyfriend, meddling parents, and an obsessive ex . . . What could go wrong? The only thing worse than being single at my sister's wedding is...

Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion. She returned to save her family's dying legacy--but found the ghosts of her past alive and well. Susan Napier's family once lived on the success of the high-end restaurants founded by her late grandfather. But bad luck and worse...

A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret... 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police...

Sometimes it takes losing something to see where you truly belong. For the past twenty-nine years, Kay Bright's days have had a familiar rhythm: she works in her husband's stationery shop hoping to finally sell the legendary gold pen, cooks for her family, tries...

A bittersweet reunion becomes a time for looking back and starting over in a heartwarming new novel from New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.Miss Janie is at the end of a long and full life, but she has no intention of crossing that...

A page-turner about a woman's struggle in an unapologetic patriarchy, Bride of the Buddha offers the reader a penetrating perspective on the milieu of the Buddha, with a fanciful twist.Author: Barbara McHughISBN-10: 1948626233ISBN-13: 9781948626231Publisher: Monkfish Book PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2021Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.90h x...

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION A story of desire, love, language, and the meaning of home--told through conversations between a Chinese graduate student and an Australian man, falling in love against the backdrop of Brexit London. "I don't believe in love...

It's never too late to start over. The Summer House weaves Lauren K. Denton's inviting Southern charm around a woman's journey to find herself in a small beach town--with a little help from the local retirement community.Lily Bishop wakes up one morning to find...

A revolutionary story of empowerment and redemption, Like a Bird is the highly anticipated debut novel from Fariha R is n, author of the poetry collection How to Cure A Ghost One of Vogue and Refinery29's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall Taylia Chatterjee...

From the author of The Song of the Jade Lily comes a thrilling story of a family secret that leads to a legendary treasure.Why would someone bury a bucket of precious jewels and gemstones and never return? Present Day. When respected American jewelry historian,...

Introduction by the editors: The news in the past few years has been full of women - nasty women, angry women, persistent women, women in pink knitted hats. There's been pushback, but there's also been overwhelming support. With this anthology we wanted to add...

All his training never prepared him for this kind of shock and ahhhhh...Series favorite Tiffany Sturgil steals the spotlight in Longing for Love as her new boutique Naughty & Nice opens in downtown Gansett, right in time for the annual spring Race Week festivities....

2018 Reprint of 1922 Edition. The Enchanted April, written in 1922, is Elizabeth von Armin's most charming novel in every sense: it casts a spell. In narrative terms, it's slight: a sun-washed fairytale, delicious in its contrivance. But it's also a paean to the...