Fiction - Women

Author: Cynthia D'Aprix SweeneyISBN-10: 006322481XISBN-13: 9780063224810Publisher: HarperAudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2022Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d

All it takes is one lie for the best-laid plans to go awry.After decades of pushing away traumatic memories from childhood, Colette De Luca is ready to start a family of her own. It'll be healthy, a wish come true, with a man she...

GUYANA 1979-1980. Fleeing the capital from the groping hands of her parish priest, Guyanese Sister Barbara Lovell seeks refuge at their convent in Santa Cruz. Cocooned among the indigenous peoples within the remote northwest rainforest region of Guyana, she discovers that the Forest Spirits...

He's never forgotten. She wishes she could.After nearly a decade paying her dues, radio host Avery Lind is on the cusp of making her dreams come true. When the 'on-air' sign lights up, her award-winning radio show will be broadcast across the nation and...

Murder breaks through the racial divide that separates two teenage girls, forging an unlikely friendship in this Southern debut that's perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don't Rise.Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace,...

What would you do if the love of your life forgot you... and met someone else?I waved my husband goodbye at the airport, and he vanished without a trace. I sat awake, night after night, looking at photos of our family. I knew he...

This is a fast moving read with well documented history. The year is 1805. Napoleon Bonaparte is rampaging Europe for domination, threatening the eastern regions of Germany. Annaelise Theiss is the daughter of a German winemaker, Count Karl Theiss, and of a former Parisian...

Sparks fly when a daring diva clashes with an ice-cold war hero in the newest thrilling romance in USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's Palace of Rogues series. She arrives in the dead of night, a mob out for blood at her heels:...

'A very funny and brilliant book. Feigel does a thorough and virtuosic job of describing the dilemmas of contemporary middle-class women' Rachel Cusk The five of them - Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena and Polly - met at university, their lives full of lazy afternoons...

The Flatiron Five Tattoo Boxed Set includes all four emotional contemporary romances in the Flatiron Five Tattoo series.Three friends on a girls' weekend in New York City attend Chynna's gala opening of her Flatiron Five Tattoo shop - where Liv wins a free tattoo...

Miriam Feldman's got a murder to solve, a mouthy golem to corral, and her name to clear. Quite frankly, she's swamped.Her new gig as a fixer for the magic community is a lot like being a full-time mom to someone else's kids... they get...

A gripping saga of courage and resilience from the bestselling author of The Guardian Angel Violet Daniels is flawed. She's made mistakes in her life, but the deep love she has for her five-year-old twins is beyond dispute.When their feckless and often violent father...

Tibbie Dyer, an impulsive, forty-three-year-old journalist, fears there is more to the story when Sandy, her gay, older sister, drowns in a boating accident off Cape Cod. As Tibbie hunts down the four survivors, she must confront her own strained relationship with Sandy as...

Every guest who comes to stay at O'Mara's Guesthouse in Dublin has a story to tell. The little red fox who visits the bins in the courtyard has a tale of his own as do the long serving staff, and the O'Mara family themselves...

In this new historical novel by the author of Daughter of the Reich, Londoners Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have wealth, status, and a happy marriage--but the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they're harboring a terrible, shameful secret. How far are they willing to...

A Paperback OriginalBestselling author Gill Paul returns with a brilliant novel about Lady Evelyn Herbert, the woman who took the very first step into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and who lived in the real Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, and the long after-effects of...

Fourteen years ago Stella did something she has regretted ever since. But she did it for her daughter. Now, that mistake could mean she loses her precious girl forever...Stella follows her handsome husband Rob to the beautifully laid-out table in the restaurant he's chosen...

Award-winning Lily King's first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short storiesWith Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country and established her as one of our most brilliant (New York Times), wildly talented (Chicago Tribune),...

I read Eight Perfect Hours in one sitting, in four perfect hours, because I couldn't bear to put it down without knowing the ending. Lia Louis has become a must-buy author for me. --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author In this romantic...

They say the fall is only as great as the ability to rise, and The Belters know plenty about going both ways. Growing up in the best schools and moving in the continent's aristocratic circles, the road to carving out their ideal life is...

Jill Conroy is tricked by her sister into becoming the housekeeper and cook for the summer at Seashell Cottage where Greg Campbell and his nephew, Brody, have been hired to do maintenance projects on the house. Annoyed at first, Jill soon realizes how wonderful...

Spring brings a series of fresh starts ... and a glimpse of a future more complex than Melinda expected. No one is exempt from the winds of change, and that includes the residents of little Prosper. Between debate about the fate of a vacant...

In post-World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in this powerful and poignant novel about family secrets, passion and loss, perseverance and ambition.In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in...

For fans of Lidia Yuknavitch and Ling Ma, Trashlands is a gripping and wildly imaginative literary speculative novel about a woman searching for her son, and for meaning through the impossible task of creating art in a world that doesn't value it, in a...

Author: Helen FisherISBN-10: 1432887904ISBN-13: 9781432887902Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2021Pages: 457Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90dLarge Print

Four sisters face new beginnings in this heartfelt modern take on Little Women by New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra. Amy March is more like her older sister Jo than she'd like to admit. An up-and-coming designer in New York's competitive fashion industry,...

Discover beautiful South Africa in this sweet, heart-warming Cinderella story about a blogger, a billionaire, and one chance meeting.When it comes to men, if physiotherapist Caitlin Sutherland didn't have bad luck, she'd have no luck at all. To help cope, Caitlin blogs about the...

September, 1939. The moon shines silver on the looming yew trees. Thinking of her fiancé, fighting for his life and country in the war, breaks Eleanor's heart, but also gives her courage. She takes a deep breath, picks up her camera, and follows the...

"It is a tale full of intrigue, lies, and murder. It's the perfect novel for readers who have experienced familial drama." -Jeffrey James Higgins, author of FuriousBetrayed by Stella, the sister she adored, Grace Burnette struggles to put her previously well-ordered life back together.News...

This two-in-one romance starts a new series that Mallery's many fans will devour like a Christmas cookie.--BooklistSusan Mallery, author of the Fool's Gold romances, cheerfully invites you to Wishing Tree, where Christmas comes to life...The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they've lost faith...

The day Mia Jensen died, she finally got to live. We've all played the "what if" game. For forty-year-old Mia Jensen, "what if" is a fact of life. Dissatisfied with her choices, she often dreams about what could have been. Now she has the...

Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing, and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the Bradens.In USA Today Bestseller WILD, CRAZY HEARTS...Brindle Montgomery and Trace Jericho have been close friends forever and on-again off-again lovers for...

Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction PrizeThe characters in these stories operate in a world in which their voices are not heard, and are navigating prickly paths, doing what they can to survive. An attorney, mother of twin babies, is destabilized when her husband...

*Founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and founder and director of WTAW Press *Author's stories and poems have appeared in Permafrost, the Los Angeles Review, Forklift Ohio, Joyland Magazine, 100 Word Story, and many other journals *Work has...

From the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize "Bae Suah offers the chance to unknow--to see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know--which is no small offering."--Sophie Hughes, Music & LiteratureNear the...

"SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection." --Bookforum"Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia." --The BelieverWhen Danielle Dutton's SPRAWL first broke upon the world...

The international bestselling story collection. "Truth and beauty are here brought together with all the visual beauty and power of a major literary work" (Lire Magazine, France). A cast of extravagant and affecting characters lovingly portrayed by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt animates these eight contemporary fables...

Winner of the 2016 August Prize'Do you have to stare like that?' I asked.'Think about the actors in porn. They've got no problem showing themselves off.''Think about when I broke your nose, ' I replied.Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a...

A perfect divorce. A new flame. And a deadly obsession. Nadine and Jake Saunders were married in their teens. Tied to one another by a night of passion that resulted in a pregnancy neither could turn away from. Now, years later, their children have...

Thirty years of family secrets. Three generations of women. One family heirloom that could change everything. When she ran away from her childhood home in Guyana, Rika swore that she would never return. Cut off from her family, she has fought hard to make...

Like a glass of wine in the French afternoon sunshine - The French for Love is the perfect summer escape. Fans of Katie Fforde, Carole Matthews, Kate Forster or Erica James - and everyone who enjoyed Nick Alexander's The French House - will love...

'A beautifully written story of loss and love, Her Mother's Secret is Rosanna Ley at her best' My WeeklyEscape to the heart of enchanting Brittany with the bestselling author of The Villa and The Little Theatre by the Sea. The perfect treat for fans...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize A sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope set in modern-day Tokyo--an "unflinching . . . powerful" showcase of the best in contemporary Japanese literature (Shelf Awareness) Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in...

Linked by an unlikely accident, four strangers characters grapple with loneliness, memory, and the mysteries of art. Ray Eccles is a man who dislikes unpredictability and the messiness of social interaction, to such extent that his co-workers' habit of gathering around the Xerox machine...

Can love for a secret child heal old wounds?St. Paul, MN, 1946: St. Paul, Minnesota, 1946: When Shannon was a child, her father read aloud stories of a motherless princess who ventured far from the kingdom, connected to home by only the ethereal magic...

Thorn From the first time I played army as a kid, the military has been my life. As an Airborne Major, I'd led my men through two tours in Afghanistan. But when my father was elected president, I became an even greater target for...

Miriam Engel is a forty-something-year-old single woman who has been desperately searching for love and purpose her whole life. Her story begins some thirty years prior on a high school study-abroad program in Israel. Miri experiences a series of ambitious exploits, a tumultuous journey...

""At first, Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the the incredibly complicated dance of family life works."" --The New Yorker Those who know Mary Robison's...

An historically rich novel that brings to life the fascinating story of America's first female state senator, Martha Hughes Cannon, who was also a doctor, suffragist, and champion of public health in the frontier territory of Utah in the late 19th century. As a...

A 2018 NAACP Image Award nominee and an NPR Best Book of 2017, a moving African-American family drama of love, devotion, and Alzheimer's disease. Diane Tate never expected to slowly lose her talented husband to the debilitating effects of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. As a...