Fiction - Women

When the going gets tough... In the Irish town of Carrickwell, with its lush, endlessly rolling hills and authentic country tranquility, three women's lives are anything but calm. There's Mel, a compulsively ambitious mother/publicity manager at a high-powered PR firm -- living proof that...

New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon and rising stars Jaid Black and Kresley Cole unlock the pleasures and perils of embracing the boldest and most powerful of lovers -- 100% alpha males -- in three sensually erotic tales. Discover the physical rapture of...

2017 Christy Award winner! (Short Form category)From the best-selling author of War Room. . .Every day, Paige Redwine is haunted by a choice she made when she was only seventeen. Now, just past forty, still single, she lives a tidy, controlled life as a...

Author: Liane MoriartyISBN-10: 1410472035ISBN-13: 9781410472038Publisher: Thorndike PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2014Pages: 679Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.40dLarge Print

A beautifully told story of family secrets and conflicting cultural expectations. --Booklist (starred review)A brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative . . . Cesaire's Notebook meets Duras' Lover. Unprecedented --Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go A moving, mesmerizing, and astoundingly original debut novel...

A USA Today Bestseller!"Hollick does a remarkable job of bringing to life a little known but powerful queen... an absorbing plot that never lags over the course of a fat, satisfying book."--Publishers WeeklySometimes, a desperate kingdom is in need of one great woman Saxon...

Life hasn't been a bed of roses for Londoner Molly Taylor lately. Newly divorced and struggling to find a new home and a way to support her three boys, she's stunned when her beloved Aunt Helena dies and leaves her Harrington Hall, a three-hundred-year-old...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes comes the story of Greenie Duquette, who lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her young son--until she makes an impulsive decision that will change the course...

The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark's most celebrated...

"Secrets From a Happy Marriage is a beautiful, emotional, tender story with a gorgeous setting and characters I adored. Maisey Yates always writes stories that stay in your heart long after you read the last page."--RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times Bestselling Author New York...

Venus Johnston returns with another misadventure in the joys and pains of love, motherhood and marriage in Trisha R. Thomas's Nappily Faithful, third in the series that began with Nappily Ever After--now a Netflix Original movie starring Sanaa Lathan. Hoping to get away from...

Trisha R. Thomas's Nappily Married is the sequel to Nappily Ever After, which is now a NETFLIX ORIGINAL movie starring Sanaa Lathan. Venus Johnston debuted with brazen personality and spirited humor in Nappily Ever After as she searched for the holy grail of marriage....

One of The New Yorker's Books We Loved in 2017, a BOMB Magazine Looking Back on 2017: Literature Selection, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. From Katherine Faw--the author of the critically-acclaimed Young God, longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel...

"Michelle Gable has moved in on [Elin] Hilderbrand's home turf with a humorous and smartly written story of two generations of love and vacations." --Wall Street Journal From New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment comes a novel about summer in Nantucket...

One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2016A Best 35 Over 35 PickBlogcritics Best Fiction of the YearA novel so startlingly original and so unafraid to approach complicated, bald emotion and anger. --The Brooklyn RailA very cunning variation on the revenge fable. --The New...

From the author of The Good Neighbor and The Glass Wives comes an enchanting story of returning home and discovering what truly matters after loss. No one knows why Teddi Lerner left her hometown, but everyone knows why she's back. Twelve-year-old Shayna-- talented, persistent,...

Named a Best Book of Summer by People Magazine * USA Today * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * New York Post * PopSugar * Entertainment Tonight "Hugely entertaining." --Time Hilarious and poignant, How Hard Can It Be? is for...

The Silent Country is a vast and beautiful wilderness, a place which holds secrets and stories that are rarely spoken. TV producer Veronica Anderson travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that had set out 50 years earlier to...

Serena has the job she's always dreamed of and Chase, the man her heart never dared to. As a new editor at Vogue, she bags the biggest interview of the year with Yvette Renault, the infamous former editor of French Vogue, in The Carlton-InterContinental...

The Woman Trapped in the Dark is the propulsive third novel in J.D. Mason's contemporary trilogy about unforgettable love, scorching desire, and dangerous secrets.Marriage can be deadly. People disparaged their relationship. Enemies tried to tear them apart. But even so, Abby Rhodes and Jordan...

What does a marriage really look like behind closed doors? What secrets lie beneath the surface? How far will each spouse go to keep love alive? Saving Grace is a riveting, true-to-life novel about one woman's journey to save her family--and herself--from New York...

Lisa Scottoline has delivered taut thrillers with a powerful emotional wallop in her New York Times bestsellers Save Me, Think Twice, and Look Again. Now, with her new novel, Come Home, she ratchets up the suspense with the riveting story of a mother who...

In Nora Zelevansky's hilarious debut, Semi-Charmed Life, an Upper West Side na f, Beatrice Bernstein, gets swept up in the seemingly magical life of famous-for-nothing twenty-something, Veruca Pfeffernoose, while ghost writing her blog. Veruca's glitteringly opulent world soon seduces Beatrice away from her own...

From the author of Fly with Me comes the second romance in the Wild Aces series. Eric Jansen--call sign Thor--loves nothing more than pushing his F-16 to the limit. Returning home to South Carolina after a tragic loss, he hopes to fix the mistake...

Constant spinning, round and round and round, temperatures rise and fall from stifling heat to chilling cold, emotions run high in anticipation of what will happen next... there's a fine line between surviving a tornado and falling in love.A close encounter with a tornado,...

How do you survive when you've lost all that you live for?For the past eighteen months, Amanda Martin devoted her sole focus to bringing her ex, Josh Williams, to justice. With him vanished and David presumed dead, she desperately wants to forget everything. Until...

"In another life, she was my forever." An unexpected tragedy leaves Professor Nathaniel Hunt a widower alone with a newborn baby. He hires a nanny. She's young, but well-qualified, with a simple life, a crazy name obsession, and a boyfriend she met at the...

Three best friends met every Tuesday for twenty-six years. And then they stopped. From the author of the bestselling Sweeney Sisters Series comes a novel of friendship, family, and hope.When new next-door neighbors Georgia, Midge, and Lula first assembled on Georgia's porch in Charleston...

A nearly tragic accident leads to a discovery that rocks the Sweeney family's world.Some families never resolve conflicts. Not so with the Sweeneys. Their sense of family, their love for one another, and their willingness to forgive have always triumphed and brought them back...

I've ruined everything. I've broken the cardinal rule and fallen in love with my fake wife, and then I went and did the worst thing a husband can do. Winning her back will be nearly impossible, but I've never backed down from a challenge...

A finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards and awarded 2nd place in the Royal Palm Literary Awards, this suspenseful story has overlapping characters from South of Justice. North of the Killing Hand is a prequel to South of Justice.Author: Joni M. FisherISBN-10: 0997257520ISBN-13:...

Written by a Mohawk Institute Residential School survivor, this is a fierce and candid story that reveals the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic time in our history. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools confinements has affected Indigenous communities over...

In 2001, a woman's skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital's patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman's face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived, but...

"I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958." So begins literary legend Diana Athill in the preface to Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, a long-overdue collection of her short fiction, stories which were originally published in...

Professional ballerina, Ailsa MacIntyre, is at the peak of her career when her world is shattered by a shocking diagnosis. Life-saving surgery leaves her with a fractured memory, little recollection of her husband, Evan, and none of her career as a principal dancer.While recuperating...

From USA Today bestselling author W Winters comes an emotionally captivating and thrilling, romantic suspense. At first, his words were harsh and his touch cold.I knew he was a dangerous man and he could destroy me if only he wanted to. That's not what...

2016 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Bannon's book is a lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1959. It is the third in a series of pulp fiction novels that eventually came to be...

Even in a town as picturesque and rich in history as Oliver s Well there s something special about the Reynolds house on Honeysuckle Lane. Sturdy yet graceful, well-proportioned outside and within, it s where Andie, Emma, and Daniel Reynolds grew up."Author: Mary McDonoughISBN-10:...

It is the wrong time to get sick. Speeding down the highway on the way to work, her two little girls sleeping in the back seat, medical resident Claire Rawlings doesn't have time for the nausea overtaking her. But as the world tilts sideways,...

Susan Abbot is a good daughter. So it is not surprising that she takes a hiatus from her job as a Memphis real estate agent in January to come back to her college hometown and help her aging parents settle a real estate deal...

Unabridged English value reproduction of Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. This wonderfully complex drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate with readers in different ways reading after reading. The three stories are based on her being influenced by C zanne, Matisse,...

"McGraw is wise and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, with a seventh sense for the perfect turn of phrase . . . This quintessential collection of stories serves as an homage to the form while showcasing McGraw's stunning talent and deep empathy for the idiosyncrasies, small...

"[A] memorable portrait of a struggling young person who finds unexpected resilience and peace . . . Hilarious, heartbreaking, and poignant." --Booklist From the author of Women Talking--now an Academy Award-winning film starring Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand, and Jessie Buckley Miriam Toews...

"Robison's minimalism is more like a slap in the face: it's short, it stings, and you wonder who in tarnation did that to you." --The New York Times Enter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location scout for a movie production company and...

"Michelle Bailat-Jones has written a stark, haunting novel that explores the binds of family, of marriage, and of mothering and being mothered. In the wake of Ella's father's death, what appears to be an ending is in fact the beginning of unraveling a life's...

Rania, a Palestinian police detective with a young son, meets cheeky Jewish-American feminist Chloe at an Israeli checkpoint-and soon becomes embroiled in a murder case that implicates the highest echelons of the Israeli military.Author: Kate Jessica RaphaelISBN-10: 1631529609ISBN-13: 9781631529603Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2015Pages:...

"Poignant, funny, and smart, Brunch and Other Obligations is a must-have for contemporary women's fiction shelves. Readers will want to watch for what Nugent does next." --Booklist "A thoroughly upbeat and fully entertaining novel from cover to cover." --Midwest Book Review "Brunch and Other...

Who is it we love and why do we love these people? Toward the end of her life, Judith asks these questions, trying to understand why she chose Elliot Pine to love. Why, for sixty years, did she persist in loving someone who never...

During a summer in Greece, Greek-American professor Thair Mylopoulos-Wright begins writing about her mother and grandmother's early-life experiences-an exercise that starts her on a quest for wholeness, and ultimately inspires her to forge a path for herself that goes beyond the traditional.Author: Kimberly K....

When a startling confession rattles a group of tightly knit women to its core, the friends are left analyzing their own roads not taken and the vastly different choices they've made in life and love.Author: Nicole WaggonerISBN-10: 1631520342ISBN-13: 9781631520341Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2016Pages:...