Fiction - Women

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...

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...

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...

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...

Only Chrissy, a cute little Shih Tzu, can unlock this mystery Autumn Clarke survived the car crash that killed her parents. To help her cope with PTSD, she adopts Chrissy, a Shih Tzu with a remarkable secret. Chrissy is also the only witness to...

'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude' When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and...

Celebrate Christmas in East Perry with Ann Hazelwood's Quilt The Town Christmas Kate Meyr has settled into a pleasant life in Borna, Missouri and is adjusting to the challenges of becoming an innkeeper. Thankfully, the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays bring both friends and relatives...

Now in paperback, this Osaragi Jiro Award-winning novel demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her. Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-fifties, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her...

A Situationist International roman à clef, written by Guy Debord's first wife, a founder of the movement and one of its influential thinkers.Author: Michele BernsteinISBN-10: 1584350652ISBN-13: 9781584350651Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2008Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.94h x 6.12w x 0.43d

An Iranian woman forges her own path through life in this "stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature" (Publishers Weekly). After her father's death, fourteen-year-old Touba takes her family's financial security into her own hands by proposing to a fifty-two-year-old relative. But, intimidated by...

Even for a top-gun banker, temptation this hot is quite a gamble, in a sexy Wall Street romp from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne.An alpha among the wolves of Wall Street, Kennedy Dawson rose to the top of the pack by striking...

Racism, class, and betrayal collide in this poignant debut novel about restoring the broken bonds of family and friendship.Every morning, seventeen-year-old Maria An s Rosario takes the subway an hour from her boisterous and close-knit family in Queens to her private high school on...

Libby Miller has always been an unwavering optimist--but when her husband drops a bomb on their marriage the same day a doctor delivers devastating news, she realizes her rose-colored glasses have actually been blinding her.With nothing left to lose, she abandons her life in...

A #1 Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown brings together two wounded hearts in a Texas romance of second chances and twice-in-a-lifetime true love.Inheriting the Magnolia Inn, a Victorian home nestled in the East Texas pines, is a...