Fiction - Women

"Jessen's writing is graceful, unhurried, convincing." --Kirkus Reviews Ida Jessen follows the inner lives of several women on the brink, or the sidelines, of catastrophe in this prize-winning collection of stories Written with the same narrative generosity, the same belief in the dignity and...

In this smart, swoony, rom-com debut from Jenny L. Howe The Make-Up Test, two college exes find themselves battling against each other--and their unresolved feelings--for a spot in a prestigious literature Ph.D. program. Allison Avery loves to win. After acing every academic challenge she's...

Mel Ellis knows that her eating disorder is ruining her life. Everyone tells her rehab is her best option, but she can't bring herself to go. Broken and empty in more ways than one, Mel makes one last-ditch effort to make hers a story...

Most people think "The Fox" is just a folk tale, designed to lure tourists to their quiet little town on the Appalachian Trail. But kindergarten teacher Lillian Smith is hoping the stories of the white-earred, white-pawed vixen -- who brings luck and love to...

A new heartfelt novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim. Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is...

The Gift of Age is purely a story of fiction that will inspire the awareness of truth that surrounds each of our individual end stages of life. It will connect your current feelings about your world to the future and to the past. It...

In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later.New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his...

USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains delivers a tender trade paperback romance that will appeal to readers with its warmth and bestselling themes! Lucy Hannigan has inherited her mother's bulldog, Bella, and her childhood home, the only pink house on Gingerbread Lane. With the...

A timely, tender, and compassionate tale of perseverance, love, and the bonds of family in the face of tremendous and sometimes painful upheaval in this latest novel in the New York Times bestselling Beach House series. The coming of spring usually means renewal, but...

Tina Perry often wonders how she got to this place in life. The only child of dysfunctional Holocaust concentration camp survivors, Tina learned early to have low expectations. Feeling unworthy of love or acceptance, and although she excels at almost everything, she thinks she...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes a bittersweet romance about the power of love in the face of heartbreak and loss.Brooke Turner has always had a complicated relationship with her father. But when his health takes a turn...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door "Lapena is a master of manipulation. With her latest page-turning thriller... she is once again at the top of her game."...

A young female grifter in 1880s New York cons her way into America's first nursing school, but a spate of unexplained murders follows in her wake... "A spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. This is historical fiction...

After a decade of silence, Dee and Ben reunite for a road trip they once promised to take. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Dee Matthews is the cohost of the smash-hit podcast Did I Forget To Tell You?, where she interviews family,...

Ava Ingerson knows what she wants: the beautiful California beach house she just inherited, a career in teaching supplemented with income from her vacation guests, and a life full of friends, fun and family-right here in Seahaven, California. She's never moving again, no matter...

"Swathed in small-town gossip and values, the fantastical novel - combines murder mystery, magic, and mayhem for an exciting tour of a family's history and trauma." - 5 stars, Clarion reviewAs children Mother twisted our magic as part of her games.My talent for reading...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2022! The New York Times Bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick! "I LOVED this book! ...Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy."--Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who,...

"I LOVED THIS BOOK! ...smart, sensitive and incredibly satisfying." --Elin Hilderbrand "Jane L. Rosen has a forever fan in me."--Emily HenryA young woman has one month and a closetful of shoes to discover the future she thought she'd lost in this captivating new novel...

ONE WAR. TWO WOMEN. WILL THEY BE ABLE TO SAVE THE ONES THEY LOVE? A sweeping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author In 1943, Contessa Sofia de' Corsi's peaceful Tuscan villa among the olive groves is upturned by the sudden arrival of...

A Sarah Selects Book Club Pick!"As sophisticated and delicious as lobster bisque." --Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author A shimmering summer read set in Maine about family secrets, marriage, motherhood, and privilege, from the bestselling author of Two Truths and a Lie...

Roberts works her easy, breezy brand of romance magic in the latest sun-dappled, ocean-splashed, and superbly satisfying addition to the endlessly charming Moonlight Harbor series. --Booklist on Beachside Beginnings USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts will have readers laughing and swooning in turn as...

Even the closest families have secrets hidden away.Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge, and she loves having her...

Absolutely riveting. A stay-up-all night read about two very different women who discover just how strong they can be--and just how much they'll dare--during the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. This story of endurance and sisterhood will have you...

Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series...Shelby McIntyre has big plans--plans that include finding Mr. Right. Her dream man will have a clean-shaven jaw, creases in his pants and hopefully an advanced degree. What she gets is...

'Heartbreakingly moving and yet beautifully uplifting, I cried for all the right reasons!' Jo Bartlett'Achingly poignant, yet full of hope - You will fall in love with this beautiful Christmas story' Sandy BarkerWelcome to The Starfish Café - where you will find stunning views,...

2023 Sarton Award Winner for Contemporary Fiction2023 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in Contemporary Fiction2023 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction2023 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Silver Medalist in Fiction (Drama) KATE WHITTIER has it all: a loving, even-keeled husband, two great kids,...

Uninspired economist Hannah has just lost her job and is determined to change everything about her life when she heads to Vermont to be the sole caregiver for her sister's children for the summer-an experience that proves to be more transformative than she expected...

'Full of intrigue, fascinating historical detail and brilliant characterisation . . . A truly fabulous novel!' LOUISE FEIN, author of PEOPLE LIKE US 'Nikola Scott is the queen of dual narrative fiction. The Orchard Girls takes us on a beautifully twisty journey . ....

It is not a shiver, it is not a shimmy. It is a full body shaking. A woman dissociates after childhood abuse and goes on to live a glamorous life far removed from her small hometown in South Africa - and herself. She travels...

'Sea, sunshine, romance and fabulous characters; Maddie's light touch and sense of fun will lift your spirits!' Bestselling author Judy LeighSophia Gregory has lost her sparkle...Recently single and about to turn sixty, Sophia doesn't recognise the old woman staring back at her in the...

Winner 2023 Newfoundland Reads Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardLonglisted for the 2023 Leacock Medal AwardFinalist for the 2023 Dartmouth Book Award for FictionFinalist for the 2023 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own...

The anticipated paperback release of our lead title for Summer 2021, a chilling feminist novel set in a near-future dystopia about the sacrifices we make for the sake of protection. ANNA IS NOT HER NAME Anna is a possession. She is owned by the...

From the author of The Aftermath comes the story of a whirlwind friendship--and the dark secrets lurking beneath it.After a tumultuous marriage, Mary Wilson is happy in her uncomplicated life, focusing on her twelve-year-old son. She's always been content with her little family--but then...

Two strangers, one house, and a secret to be revealed.Artist Abigail Carey has always dreamed of a life in the country and, when Winfield Hall comes up at auction, she's desperate to make the place her home. The only trouble is that businessman, Edward...

A cinematic and terrifying new novel from the master of the psychological thriller and the bestselling author of Baby Teeth and Wonderland, about three friends who hike into the wilds of the Grand Canyon--only to find it's not so easy to leave the world...

A probing novel about a newly married couple, the surrogate they hire to carry their baby, and the unexpected consequences of their decisions. Ruth is a no-nonsense fortysomething journalist from the Midwest desperate for a child with her new husband, Hal. A divorced attorney...

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 have...

The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novel--set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s--about an up-and-coming young Australian reporter with a deadly secret.Breaking into the newspaper business in 1960s...

An intrepid heroine confronts the dark underworld of espionage and war in this daring historical romance by Violet Marsh, the award-winning author of The Aviatrix.It's spring 1919, and the Great War has ended. New life flourishes on the red cliffs of the Northern Isles...

Th駻鑚e Raquin (1867) is a novel by French author ﾉmile Zola. Initially serialized in L'Artiste, a popular French literary magazine, Th駻鑚e Raquin, Zola's third novel, earned the author widespread fame and critical condemnation for its scandalous content and unsparing vision of human sexuality and...

Things between me and Papa are so different to what me and Mum have. It's been that way since the first day. An invisible bond. Papa was the one who never stopped encouraging me to strive for my goals. 'Take every opportunity dis country...

Shunned by a society that puts attractiveness above all else, Lady Eliza Darby's wallflower status keeps her from getting the one thing she wants most, namely, to be a mother. But when her scorned older sister returns home to see all of her sisters...

A woman and her beloved granddaughter take a trip of discovery...After agreeing to enter the New Life Assisted-Living Community outside of Boston, Agatha "Aggie" Robard talks her devoted, serious granddaughter, Blythe, into driving her to Florida, stopping to see old college friends along the...

Where do you run when your world implodes?"Mom?" Ashley's shakes can be heard in that single, whispery word. "Mom, what happened?"I take a breath, unable to turn my head. Unable to move at all. "I don't know, Ash." But somehow I do know, beneath...

Paris 1870. Raised for a life of parties and servants, Camille and Mariele have much in common, but it takes the horrors of war to bring them together to fight for the city and people they love. The story of two women whose families...

"Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things--an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with things. Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human condition in the modern world....

"A perfect work of the American imagination."-D.H Lawrence "The Scarlet Letter is so terrible in its pictures of diseased human nature as to produce most questionable delights. The reader's interest never flags for a moment...Hawthorne, when you have studied him, will be very precious...

At thirty-eight years old, Ruthie finds herself newly unemployed, freshly single, sleeping on a friend's couch and downing a bottle of wine each night. Having overstayed her welcome and desperate for a job, Ruthie responds to David's ad: he's looking for someone to drive...

Quinn Davis prefers to live her life quietly. She's the stereotypical tomboy with two overprotective big brothers who have always been there to protect her, especially from devilishly handsome cowboys with silver tongues. That is, until Tate Montgomery comes riding into town. Their first...

Liv has lost everything. She now has no family, no college education, no direction, and no plan. Well, she does have a plan - to dull her pain with alcohol and pull herself together long enough to make a trip to Scotland to scatter...