Fiction - Women

From New York Times bestseller Susan Elizabeth Phillips comes a glorious, heart-stopping love story as a woman called Hot Shot discovers a passion so rich, so tender, that she will be utterly and forever transformed. She jumped on the back of a bad boy's...

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with a delightful Christmas-themed installment in her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series--a captivating, heartwarming tale sure to become a holiday favorite.Just weeks before Christmas, severe wintry weather damages the church hall hosting the Christmas Boutique--an annual...

A captivatingly funny and deeply emotional new standalone romance by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster. When the Dark Knights at Bayside and the cast of Bayside Summers collide, sparks fly, and trouble-or maybe love-is not far behind.Set on the sandy shores of...

From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women. Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and short-listed for...

Autumn's reds and golds make tiny Prosper picture-perfect, but under the surface lies a startling truth: Not everything is what it seems. Melinda throws herself into plans for the rural community's first-ever fall festival, and all the seasonal tasks around her small farm. But...

A Best Book of 2020: Open Letters Review Andrews's writing is transportingly voluptuous, conjuring tastes and smells and sounds like her literary godmother, Edna O'Brien . . . What makes her novel sing is its universal themes: how a young woman tries to make...

Sometimes you just have to walk away. Maggie Harrison is a devoted wife and mother, until one day, without planning to, she drives away leaving behind her indifferent husband and two sulking teenagers. Maggie goes off on a quest of self-exploration, enjoying adventures, meeting...

"A timely and beautiful story of female friendship and strength." --Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Queen's Fortune "Martin deftly and exquisitely captures this historical moment." --Jillian Cantor, USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time In the glitz and glamor...

Left standing on the side while their contemporaries marry into society, four young ladies forge a bond to guard each other from a similar fate . . . Finishing school failed to make a proper lady of Penelope Arrington. But as a Wallflower of...

In the picturesque tourist town of Fredericksburg, Texas, Tally Holt has opened a new candy store with a vintage twist . . .but there's no sugar-coating a nasty case of murder . . . Tally Holt has poured her heart, soul, and bank account...

Her desperate decision during World War II changed everything. Now, 70 years later, her secret is unraveling.At ninety years old, Audrey Thorpe still lives in a historic mansion on palm-tree-lined Victory Drive, determined to retain her independence. But when her health begins to fade,...

Married at sixteen and the mother of two by nineteen, Dolores's quest to find the aloha spirit within herself-and to escape the abuse of her alcoholic husband-leads her to flee Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor for California, where she seeks to make...

From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters and B. B. Hamel comes a darker emotionally-gripping, standalone, romantic suspense. I should have known that one day I'd be at the mercy of a monster. And all I am is the daughter of his enemy. I...

A reserved debutante and a former soldier make an unlikely but fated match as they hasten for the Isle of Skye. Orphaned heiress Olivia de Vere should have the world--or at least the men of the ton--at her feet. But when she's thrown out...

From bestselling author Willow Winters comes an emotionally gripping, standalone, romantic suspense. Now a USA Today bestseller It was only a little lie. That's how stories like these get started. But every lie I told, he saw through it. I think in his heart...

Caterina Albert i Parad s predates Federico Garc a Lorca and D. H. Lawrence in her portrayal of women's sexual passions. She was an unsung pioneer of modernist literature at the beginning of the twentieth century, writing in the ancient Catalan language of Spain....

The last sizzling novel in Kristen Proby's Romancing Manhattan series finds a widower falling deeply in love again with a woman who has scars of her own.When Carter Shaw's wife died five years ago, he was left to pick up the pieces not only...

From New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes a friends-to-frenemies-to-lovers story... Add in a few secrets. Shake. Stir. Then read on a lazy summer day at the beach... Brynn Turner desperately wishes she had it together, but her personal life is like a...

Moving to the country has given Melinda a new set of skills, but does she have what it takes to fix matters of the heart? It's hard enough to let the past go, and let a new love in. But when a mysterious box...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary McNear brings you home to Butternut Lake and a novel filled with irresistible characters whom you will want to call your friends...For the lovely Billy Harper, Butternut Lake is the place she feels most at...

Feel-good chick-lit from international bestseller Jill Mansell, with a chaotic cast who must let go of their grudges and secrets to build the lives they've dreamed of.Thanks to little white lie, Lainey and Kit arrive at their new jobs in blissful, summery Cornwall only...

From the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners comes a novel about love, loss, and the beautiful mess of family.Marnie MacGraw and Patrick Delaney have been in love for a few years now, enough to realize that they are imperfectly perfect together. Still, there...

For fans of the high-stakes tension of the New York Times bestsellers Luckiest Girl Alive and The Lying Game, comes "a brilliantly paced thriller that gets under your skin in the best possible way" (Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister) about female ambition...

It's a summer of new beginnings and maybe even love.Mallory Vaughn is at a crossroads in her life. A year after learning that Big Mac McCarthy is her father, she's spending more and more time on Gansett Island, surrounded by the large and boisterous...

"Grove is a story of an existence stilled by loss, but the promise of life, and with it renewal and hope, pulses gently but steadily at its heart."--Lucy Scholes, Financial TimesAn unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to a small village southeast of Rome. It...

2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Semifinalist 2018 International Book Awards Winner in Fiction: General 2017 IAN Book of the Year Award for Outstanding Women's Fiction 2017 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal for New Adult Fiction 2017 NYC Big Book Awards Winner for Women's Fiction 2017...

Life has a way of changing your plans. Sometimes for the better...Paul Martinez has been run ragged by the demands of managing the family's landscaping business and his mother's battle with dementia. It's been so long since he had sex, he can't remember 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 Love in Bloom series.In TRULY, MADLY, WHISKEY... Eight months is a long damn time to have the hots for a woman...

New Novel from the Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book AwardIntroduction by Porochista Khakpour."One of the most raved-about works of translated fiction this year"--Jonathan Sturgeon, FlavorwireFrontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her...

"Positively sinful, and outrageously sexy Emotions run high and readers will be left gasping." - New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones "Smart, dark, deeply sensual read with characters I fell in love with from the minute they walked onto the page "...

A pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the perfect woman: "Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Despentes probes the dynamics of fame, beauty, and female competition, putting her finger on the pulse of what it's like to wear the daily drag of femininity--and...

Women's prose writing has exploded on the literary scene in Ukraine just prior to and following Ukrainian independence in 1991. Over the past two decades scores of fascinating new women authors have emerged. These authors write in a wide variety of styles and genres...

'OMG What a heartbreaking story... this is my absolute favourite book ever ' NetGalley Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Breathing the warmth of you, watching your tiny chest rise and fall, my heart was full with pride. How could we have made something so perfect? 'Your mummy loves...

'Gripped me and didn't let go until the wickedly twisted ending.' Jenny Blackhurst, author of How I Lost You. A heartbreaking and unputdownable psychological thriller perfect for fans of Linda Green, K.L. Slater and Teresa Driscoll. You lost your daughter. You will never forgive...

From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated -- and perhaps, in some quarters, feared -- books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and...

Lily Girl's Christmas Quilt is the second novel in Ann Hazelwood's Wine Country Quilts Series. Christmas is Lily Rosenthal's favorite time of year, and she is eager to experience the Christmas traditions of the Wine Country, but she cherishes each Christmas with her family....

A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley and Coenraad's affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international...

This Washington Post "Best Book of the Year" grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace, and a sister, a wife, and a mother to daughters in today's America. When a...

Jen Watson can't believe this trip might be her last at the family beach house in Newport. She finally has a summer all to herself with her kids grown and gone and she's been waiting for this for decades--she's earned it after raising two...

After a freakish death, a young Argentinian woman is left to observe the world outside of the "cage" of her body; through jarring vignettes and ruminations, acclaimed author García Lao creates a complex, intelligent, and subversive theater of the absurd.Author: Fernanda García LaoISBN-10: 1646050452ISBN-13:...

'A seductive blend of Samuel Beckett, Pauline R饌ge and pure madness.' Stewart HomeFrom mid-century working-class experimentalist Ann Quin, author of Berg, comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically charged mystery.Author: Ann QuinISBN-10: 1911508938ISBN-13: 9781911508939Publisher: And Other StoriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2021Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w...

"Gaynor's story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us." --Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursThe New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her...

True love comes once in a lifetime. Will she grab her second chance? When Kathryn Abbott moves back to her hometown following her divorce, she doesn't expect to run into Brett Falcone, the Italian Stallion. If possible, he's even more appealing than he was...

A New York Times Notable Book - NPR Best Book of the Year - People magazine Top Ten Books of the Year - BookPage Best Book of the Year - Good Housekeeping Best Book of the Year"A sensual and perceptive novel. . . ....

At long last, the legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with a heartfelt novel of womanhood, a wild heart, and the healing power of love.Run, run, as fast as you can When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow...

Two sisters in love with the same man -- one engaged to him and the other about to sabotage the wedding -- struggle to reconcile in this delicious novel from the bestselling author of The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café.The Harrington sisters have never...

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an...

"A laugh riot all the way through!"They Say Three's a Charm. But Charming isn't Val's Style.Val Fremden is a lot of things. Quirky. Jaded. Disaster prone - to name a few.But more than anything, she's afraid of commitment.So it's no wonder that when boyfriend...

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 TRILLIUM AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE 2021 EVERGREEN AWARD - AN INDIGO BEST BOOK OF 2020 - A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST INDEPENDENT READ FOR FALL 2020 - AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF 2020 - A CBC BOOKS BEST...

The best laid plans become happy surprises for two rugged Texas ranchers! Unexpected MommySingle father Chance Adams will do anything to get back his share of the family ranch--even if it means charming his uncle's ornery stepdaughter, schoolteacher Jenny Adams. But he isn't prepared...