Fiction - Women

After spending two years caring for her younger siblings, Maggie Fisher is forced to leave her Amish community in Tomah, Wisconsin to move to Pennsylvania. Has her Datt secretly made plans for her to live with her spinster aunts in hopes they'll use their...

Being with him would be too reckless. But maybe just this once... Having spent his college years and early twenties faithful to his sweetheart who ultimately dumped him for his brother, Jesse Kirby will never again be anyone's fool. He's been making up for...

Aileen was dead. At least she was supposed to be.When Aileen wakes up in the hospital after her plane crashes during a storm, everyone says it's a miracle. All Aileen cares about is seeing her husband and children again. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long...

Escaping her failing marriage in the United States, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she receives an unexpected inheritance--a house on the beaches of Madras--and discovers an older sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who has spent...

Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller"Compulsively readable...a gothic thriller laced with arsenic." --EW One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN - Newsweek - Vulture - PopSugar - Parade - BuzzFeed - E Online - TimeOut - Woman's Day - Goodreads...

An emotional and unforgettable historical novel, perfect for fans of Natasha Lester and Lisa Wingate.We stand in the back of the hall as the children troop in. Big ones, little ones. Straggly hair, cropped hair, curls... the adults surge forward to choose and soon...

As seen in the New York Times Book Review. Set in the passionate, intense, and crumbling neighborhood known as the Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a tale of two students searching for love and belonging in the city they so desperately want to call...

"I want to live my life as unapologetically as a man..."Entertainment columnist Yves Santiago leads a delightfully filthy life. Her day job keeps her flush with men and by night, she details her exploits on her anonymous blog, The Lust Diaries.Well, it was anonymous...

Love and friendship sustain two women who continue to run their upscale, beachside hotel in Florida as life continues to bring unexpected challenges...The Beach House Hotel, the seaside mansion Ann Rutherford and Rhonda DelMonte converted to an upscale, boutique hotel, continues to be a...

First appearing in 1899 The Awakening is regarded as work presaging both feminist fiction and literary modernism. The author's clear vision of a woman's internal and external conflicts continue to demand engagement and response from readers. The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier as she recognizes...

Lady Charlotte Whitaker is devoted to her family, particularly her sister's son, Freddie. Her late father, the Marquess of Lockhead, died without a male heir. But on his deathbed, her father requested that Freddie inherit the title. Consequently, Lottie's family has petitioned the Crown...

"May I ask your daughter's age?" "Nan is thirty-three." "A dangerous age." Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stages in life. The book opens with...

If you love Susan Mallery, you won't want to miss this novel of three high school friends who find themselves emotionally fractured when tragedy strikes, so they go on a road trip they'll never forget and rediscover what made them "best friends forever." It...

Named by BuzzFeed as one of Winter 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Books and Top 10 New Books To Add To Your Reading List It's hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office.The Walters are a good, churchgoing family who stand...

When all else fails, you just have to leave it to Fate . . . Just as twenty-nine-year-old Ella loses her dream job after an unfortunate incident (it was just a bit of hot sauce, for goodness' sake - he totally overreacted ), her...

"A beautiful debut, funny, tender, and animated by a willingness to confront life's obstacles and find a way to survive. . . . It celebrates friendship, finds meaning in difficulty and lets the reader explore dark places while always allowing for the possibility of...

Breaking news: Hollywood's biggest heartthrob, Ryan Prince, was caught vacationing in his hometown, but who's the mystery girl?No, I hadn't heard that Ryan Prince was staying at the very resort I had just started working at.If I had, maybe I would have called in...

'Thoroughly entertaining. The characters are warm and well drawn. I thoroughly recommend this book if you are looking for a light-hearted read. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐' SUE ROBERTS 'I loved spending time on Shetland with this story!' CHRISTINA COURTENAY If you love Lucy...

My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding meets Virgin River.Two rival families. Two competing wedding venues. One wedding of the season.Nick Katsalos has a foolproof plan to save his parents' floundering wedding venue. The last thing he expects is for Erin Patterson, the captivating daughter of...

Madison Price's plans have fallen to ashes. Instead of working in an Oregon library, she's back in Walker Beach, California-a town full of painful memories-running her late aunt's hardware store and falling for the gorgeous bad boy from high school. Again. Yes, the same...

Hope, healing, and happiness live here A grieving widow tries to find a new path forward. A young woman goes missing and a surprise visitor has nowhere to turn. Is a walk along the moonlit beach offering happiness or more loss? Lily is still...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Helena Hunting comes an evocative small-town romance about family loyalty, finding oneself, and falling in love.When Dillion Stitch left her hometown, she had no intention of going back. But when her brother gets into trouble,...

"A novel about vineyard life and family, Linda Rosen's delightful and poignant Sisters of the Vine is for wine-lovers." -Laura Dave, author of Eight Hundred GrapesHousewife and mother with a loving husband to take care of her - that's all Liz, a Fifties gal,...

The Decorating Club shares the story of what happens when a group of women come together to help each other redesign their homes. In the process, they support each other through some of the challenges encountered by women today. While the primary focus is...

A story of inspiration and transformation for the really desperate housewife--now a TV series from the creator of Sex and the City, starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff She's old enough to be his mother. Alice has always looked young for her age, even...

raft (noun): when two or more otters rest together, holding hands, so they don't drift apart Hollie Porter has put her old gig as a 911 operator and sad single girl in an attic-bound box, right where it belongs. She's rebounded nicely from her...

Photographer Mary "Lou" Hunter has the life she's always dreamed of in Seattle-complete with a great job, doting boyfriend, and a fun-loving best friend. A free trip to Hawaii changes everything. Meeting Keoni changes everything. He makes her laugh. He makes her feel. He...

"Makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme." --Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fortune Hunter Before there was Catherine the Great, there was Catherine Alexeyevna: the first woman to rule Russia in her own right. Ellen Alpsten's rich, sweeping...

I fell in love with Mr. Darcy on a reality TV show. Cue the happily ever after. Can you believe it? Me, Emma Brady, the girl who managed to turn reality TV humiliation into a real-life fairy tale, has fallen head over heels for...

As the global COVID-19 pandemic reaches the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand, four women find themselves in novel circumstances as healthcare professionals, and in their personal lives. In these new fictional tales from the author of Admissions, we meet doctors, nurses and other workers...

While the Kettle Boils is a collection of 150 micro-fiction.Author: S. B. BorgersenISBN-10: 1950730743ISBN-13: 9781950730742Publisher: Unsolicited PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2021Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.57d

When past secrets hold the only key to hope for the future... Caroline Chapman is reeling from a broken engagement. Determined to start again, she moves cross-country for her dream job of planning events in the historical mansions of Newport, Rhode Island. Just as...

Gemma, Poppy, Violet, and Kulli meet and share a room at an elite boarding school in Sussex, England. All of them go on to attend Oxford, but not all of them remain friends. Gemma is ruined in a scandalous divorce and in a moment...

Born in a small Colorado town, Thea Kronborg's aspirations to be a famed musician makes it difficult for her to fit in. With the reputation of being different and strange, Thea has a challenging time getting along with her siblings and peers, though her...

The Coquette (1797) is a novel by American author Hannah Webster Foster. Published anonymously, The Coquette was one of eighteenth-century America's bestselling books. Based on the story of Elizabeth Whitman, a New England socialite whose death during the birth of her illegitimate child was...

First published in 1888, "The Romance of a Shop" is a novel by Amy Levy that tells the story of the Lorimer sisters who, following the death of their father, decide to open a photography business to avoid a life of poverty. An interesting...

A heart-warming tale set in Liverpool and London during the post-war years, from bestselling author Maureen Lee'Queen of saga writing' My Weekly Liverpool, 1945. Three women, firm friends, return home from the war and try to fit back into their old lives after they've...

Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine sequence, the novel is recognized as being the author's last fully-realized work, and features several characters who appear elsewhere throughout his legendary series. It has inspired...

After the death of her parents, Christie Devon declares her autonomy and desire to pioneer a new option for women--working. As a single woman, Christie wants to maintain her independence and work outside the home. She begins her journey discouraged to find that as...

Emily Fredrickson is left devastated after her husband, Matthew, is arrested for doing meth at their daughter's third birthday party. Her small town of Hibbing turns on her quickly as rumors circulate and the accusations and judgment get her fired from the job she...

From the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners comes a feel-good story about becoming who you were meant to be all along.Phronsie Linnelle was conceived at Woodstock in a serendipitous liaison between a free-spirited hippie and a farmer's son and was born with magical...

It's never too late in life to give love a second chance.When fate (and a stubborn niece) force fifty-something divorcee Liza Hall to take on a new catering client, the last face she expects to see is Benjamin Boyd.As in, the very handsome, very...

Led by a vision, Judie Kate Wilson lands on romantic Ocracoke Island for the Ocrafolk Music Festival. There she encounters Joe Clark, the man she has loved since she was a teenager. Now she must, in just four days, convince him that they were...

Good-hearted and impulsive, twenty-year-old Lizzie Fisher has many chores -- and secrets. She's caring for kittens abandoned by their mother and practicing her drawing talent away from disapproving eyes. So the last thing she needs is someone like handsome Stephen Zimmerman constantly "helping" her...

Leslie's life is unrecognizable. One year can change everything. Fallen from grace in all her familiar circles, she's lost the titles she once held. PTO hero, bake sale queen, and super mom have all been washed away by the truth. She is the woman...

Rachel Woods comes from a small town in Vermont, with a big lovable family, big dreams, and a big heart. But following an explosive revelation from her family on her wedding day, Rachel moves overseas to London with her new husband and hasn't seen...

There's a reason why I haven't been home for ten years.Scratch that.There are many reasons why I haven't been home-family drama, small-town gossip, and my career probably take up the top three spots.But when my career stalls and I get devastating family news, I'm...

A smart, modern novel about a woman trying to balance her career, her best friend, and falling in love without crashing and burning.Nicole Palmieri is married to her job. As a user experience designer at Virtuality, an artificial intelligence company in Los Angeles, Nicole...

Eve Bailey lost it all. Moving to a new country was her escape from painful memories. She felt broken, just waiting for death to end her pain.Till the day she saw Lachlan's face...mirror image of her dead husband. Something woke up inside her. He...

Jamie Sasso finds herself alone, with no family or home. Cast adrift by a distant cousin in another state, she finds she cannot tolerate her county's foster care program. But where can she live, how can she feed herself, and in what way can...