Fiction - Women

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Running in Heels comes "a compassionate, poignant, often humorous story of the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter" (Mariah Stewart, New York Times bestselling author) as they attempt to rediscover the past...

One of Summer's Most Anticipated Reads, according to Goodreads, SheReads, and Bookish"I think Beatriz Williams is writing the best historical fiction out there. It's lush with period detail but feels immediate."--Elin HilderbrandThe beloved author returns with a remarkable novel of both raw suspense and...

From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes a HOT mafia, standalone romance. I was innocent before him, and he wanted nothing more than to ruin me. And if I'm honest, I wanted him too, even knowing I shouldn't. I knew he was a...

Two time periods. Two coasts. Lives intertwined and impacted forever . . .Greed, societal forces, religion, eugenics, and racial prejudice came together in a shameful and shocking way on a small, wooded island off the coast of Maine in the early 1900s. The atrocious...

How can mere women resist the misogyny of men?1352. In Meonbridge, a resentful peasant rages against Eleanor Titherige's efforts to build up her flock of sheep. Susanna Miller's husband, grown melancholy and ill-tempered, succumbs to idle gossip that his wife's a scold. Agnes Sawyer's...

"A graceful, attentive, and beautiful debut." -- George Saunders For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany--where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier--to confront her past at her...

After her best friend dies, Hannah Russell becomes the guardian of five-year-old Noah. Realizing they need time to get to know each other, Hannah rents a country house in rural Colorado. The home's handsome owner, Owen Abrams, promises to stay out of their way,...

ABDUCTIONHe steals her away to a deserted island, to the one place she's dreamed of being-the one place she can't go. He's used to buying whatever he wants, but he can't buy her. SEDUCTIONHow can she resist the magnetism of his body, the longing...

Fall in Southern Maryland's Amish country is a time of fiery falling leaves, a bountiful harvest, and bracing, frost-touched days. It's the perfect season for one irrepressible maidel to try an unexpected match . . . Good-hearted and impulsive, twenty-year-old Lizzie Fisher has many...

From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love between women, each a delicate piece in a mosaic transcending the boundaries of literary romance.Amora dares explore the way women love each other--the atrophy and healing of the female...

Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. Moving Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation...

2016 Reprint of 1928 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Carrying the longish title of "Ladies Almanack: showing their signs and their tides; their moons and their changes the seasons as it is with them; their eclipses...

"I never thought a book about anxious Swedish intellectuals engaged in a philosophical back and forth would grip me like an airport read, but here we are. Jenni recommended this book as 'perfect, just read it' and she was right. From the very first...

An award-winning and haunting meditation on aging and self-determination. A CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English Translation Deep in a Northern Ontario forest live Tom and Charlie, two octogenarians determined to live out the rest...

Winner, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction (Publishing Triangle); Finalist, Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize In T饌 Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of...

In this international bestselling romance by Megan Maxwell, love is the ultimate forbidden pleasure.Getting stuck in an elevator with a flirtatious and charismatic stranger leaves Jude Flores flustered enough--even before she realizes that he's Eric Zimmerman, the powerful billionaire CEO...and her powerfully sexy new...

Join the millions who have fallen in love with New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown in her landmark hundredth novel.At the end of her rope, single mom Lily Anderson is determined to move her rebellious children in the right direction. That means taking...

In this award-winning historical saga, passionate young lovers in a Jewish ghetto rise to become the foremost financial dynasty in the world.It is the turn of the eighteenth century in Frankfurt, Germany, and young Gutle and Meir Amschel Rothschild struggle to establish themselves in...

"A special book that will make you laugh through your tears with its heartfelt take on happiness and friendship." --Amy E. Reichert, author of The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go and The Coincidence of Coconut Cake Annie is stuck. In her boring job, with...

A Los Angeles Review Best Book of 2017 From a compelling new voice in LGBTQ and Southern fiction, a gripping tale of crime and desire amid small-town America's meth epidemic. This was Drear's Bluff. Nothing bad happened here. People didn't disappear. College was supposed...

An important classic "must-read" and a still widely popular short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health....

After seven years of misery and abuse, it's all over--Hannah O'Malley is officially divorced. Hallelujah. It's like every Christmas in her life all rolled up into one glorious day. Not only does Hannah get to keep her grandmother's spacious old house, but she has...

A Daphne du Maurier Award Winner. In the Barrens, a vast wilderness in northern Canada bordering the Arctic Circle, night consumes every hour of the winter. Humans are scarce; ferocious predators roam freely. Locals say spirits do, too.Rookie cop Tana Larsson doesn't mind the...

In a smart and funny novel by the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed "big-hearted, charming" (The Washington Post) Small Admissions, a family's move to New York City brings surprises and humor. Allison Brinkley--wife, mother, and former unflappable optimist--discovers that her decision to pack...

From Mariah Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of The Chesapeake Diaries series, comes the next book in her popular Hudson Sisters series, which follows a trio of reluctant sisters who set out to fulfill their father's dying wish and discover themselves in the...

A tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills... When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce stranger. Discovering the...

Winner of the 2018 PNWA Nancy Pearl Award New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nan Rossiter brings together characters from her acclaimed novel Nantucket in a powerful, heartwarming love story that bridges past and present. When Liam Tate was seven years old,...

"Pearson delivers a poignant debut that explores the faith of one African American family. . . . The writing is strong, and the story is engaging, and readers will be pleased to discover a new voice in Southern inspirational fiction." --BooklistChristy Award winner!To hear...

From the International bestselling author of The Underside of Joy comes an atmospheric novel about a man who returns to his Alaskan hometown after twenty yearsAlaska doesn't forgive mistakes. That's what Kachemak Winkel's mother used to tell him. A lot of mistakes were made...

Kate Meader's blazing Hot in Chicago firefighter series has "everything you want in a romance" (RT Book Reviews, Top Pick)! The flames of desire burn out of control in this sexy third novel when ex-lovers unexpectedly reunite for a sizzling affair that will have...

From popular romance author Kate Meader comes the second novel in Hot in Chicago, a sizzling series that follows a group of firefighting foster siblings and their blazing hot love interests As the only female firefighter at Engine Co. 6, Alexandra Dempsey gets it...

Take "a breezy romp through the corridors of power town" (USA TODAY) with co-host of The View and former White House Communications director Nicolle Wallace in her electrifying insider novel of three powerful women on a day that will change the country forever. Charlotte...

You should sleep with a stranger, her best friend whispered in her ear--and so begins the intense, erotic journey of Kasie Fitzgerald in Book One of the Just One Night series, a blockbuster bestseller and "an uplifting story in which sex is presented both...

Laney McLeod's chance encounter in a Manhattan elevator leads to a one-night stand with a wealthy playboy -- but a few months later he's back with shocking news, as irresistible as ever.Laney's life changes the minute she gets stuck in an elevator in Manhattan...

From the bestselling author of The Secret of Ella and Micha comes a mesmerizing novel of fate, friendship, and the healing power of love . . . The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden For Kayden, suffering in silence was the only way to survive....

Jackie Collins's Hollywood Wives told the stories of the powerful women who rule over Hollywood--now, Hollywood Husbands tells the other side of the story. Jack Python is the hottest Hollywood Husband of all. He rules nighttime T.V. and his controversial talk show burns up...

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what happens when a young woman's past--a past she didn't even know she had--catches up to her just...

From the bestselling author of Eighteen Acres comes a novel that reveals the intrigue and drama that go on behind the closed doors of the White House and opens up a world few have access to, the world of Washington's political elite. Charlotte Kramer,...

What should have been a fun-filled, carefree day takes a tragic turn for the worse for one mother when her best friend's child goes missing in this suspenseful, compulsively readable, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. It all started at the school fair... Charlotte was...

When Kayu Saitoh wakes up, she is in an unfamiliar place. Taken to a snowy mountainside, she was left there by her family and her village according to the tradition of sacrificing the lives of the elderly for the benefit of the young. Kayu...

Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of...

A charming and engrossing novel for fans of Southern fiction and the recent hit memoir Hillbilly Elegy about a lush and storied coal-mining town--and the good people who live there--in danger of being destroyed for the sake of profit. Will the truth about the...

Before diving into Cecelia Ahern's new sequel, Postscript, discover how Holly's journey began in this New York Times bestseller. Everyone needs a guardian angel Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could...

Mark Lamprell's One Summer Day in Rome, narrated by the city itself, is an enchanting novel about three couples drawn irresistibly to Rome. Brimming with wit and charm (and gelato), it is the most delicious summer read.Author: Mark LamprellISBN-10: 1250105544ISBN-13: 9781250105547Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage:...

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The Ashford Affair, a page-turning novel about two women in different eras, and on different continents, who are connected by one deeply buried secret. A New York Times best seller As a lawyer in a...

A playboy rockstar gets some personal attention from his sexy female bodyguard in this Blacktop Cowboys(R) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hang Tough. She's protecting his body and guarding her heart... Country music star Devin McClain never imagined he'd attract...

The first blush of spring finds Melinda filled with great expectations and high-flying goals. The charming farm and its critters are finally hers forever, and new life is popping up in unexpected places. But as the songbirds return and the garden's soil is turned,...

Sydney Riley is busier than ever organizing parties, weddings, and even a float for Provincetown's Carnival Parade. When her boyfriend's sister, Karen--who happens to be Boston's Police Commissioner--arrives for an unexpected visit, things don't add up. It's totally out of character for Karen to...

Don't miss this heartwarming sequel to "Growing Season." The muggy days of August find Melinda Foster's garden bursting at its borders. And two months into an unexpected sabbatical from her bustling life in Minneapolis, Melinda's efforts at her rented farmhouse are starting to pay...

The acclaimed collection that restored to the literary canon "a long-overlooked artist of live-wire incisiveness, shredding wit, and improbable beauty." Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage restores to the literary canon an extraordinarily gifted writer, who was recognized as a major talent, with Guggenheim and...