Fiction - Women

USA Today Bestseller From USA Today bestselling author Sophie Jordan comes a scandalously sensual romance in her beloved Rogue Files series."Deliciously sexy "--Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author An urgent dilemma... To save her impoverished family, Marian Langley will become a mistress. But...

Dear Lady Truelove . . .My twin brother and I need a new mother, though Papa insists he'll never marry again. Must be nice, brainy, and fond of cats . . .Lady Truelove may be London's most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair,...

"If I could only read one writer from now until the end of my life, it would be Dorothea Benton Frank." --Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Identicals The Lowcountry of South Carolina is where By Invitation Only begins at a...

"The perfect winter heart-warmer."--Cathy Kelly, bestselling author of Between Sisters and Secrets of a Happy MarriageFrom beloved author Felicity Hayes-McCoy, an enchanting, cozy novel perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Nina George, and Nancy Thayer. It's Christmas in Ireland, and when Cassie Fitzgerald arrives...

Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices--an unforgettable, beautiful...

A Publishers Weekly Best of the Year Pick In an unforgettable debut, Lisa Berne introduces you to the Penhallow Dynasty--men destined to marry, but hesitant to love.Wealthy and arrogant, Gabriel Penhallow knows it's time to fulfill his dynastic duty. All he must do is...

Raymond Chandler meets Nick Hornby in this clever noir romp through hipster Brooklyn as a mysterious mix tape puts a young amateur sleuth on the hunt for a killer--and for the truths hidden within her own heart.To listen to someone else's mix tapes is...

The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon's death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for...

"[Evanovich] is funny and ceaselessly inventive."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Hero at Large is a delightful mix of laughter and romance--a newly revised classic from #1 New York Times bestseller Janet Evanovich, author of Metro Girl, The Grand Finale, and the sensational Stephanie Plum...

"One of the most entrancing (and effective) detectives in modern cozy mysteries."--BooklistA celebration for cat lovers and mystery aficionados alike, Cat Coming Home--the 16th appearance of feline detective Joe Gray--is a holiday gift from acclaimed author Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Join tomcat Joe and his...

Bestselling author Pearl Cleage returns to the site of her Oprah pick novel, What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day, to affirm life's precious wonder once again.Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she's kept herself mercifully busy by running The Sewing...

After years as a sweet, good-natured pushover, Annie Markham has had to face up to three hard truths: You've got to be tough to succeed in business and romance. Sometimes your meddling loved ones areright about your worthless, no-good boyfriend being worthless and no...

Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with "rebound beau," vigorous vegan math professor...

Allegra Hudson was murdered.An anonymous "source" drops the note into recently widowed Madeleine Barton's lap exactly when she needs it most. As a new single mother, she is struggling to make ends meet as a freelance reporter, and covering the mysterious death of local...

From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press...It's January 1972 but...

The boundary between battlefield and home front blurs. Are there wounds love can heal?Marleigh Mulcahy grew up in a boxing gym, the daughter of hard-drinking parents who didn't keep a stable roof overhead. In the cinder-block Box-n-Go, amidst the sweat and funk, she meets...

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble pens a heartwarming story of a mother-daughter road trip to the beach and to self-discovery.When reporter Phoebe Adams loses her job and her fiancé on the same day, it never occurs to her that she'll also have...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL A tragedy brings a young boy into the home of a "perfect" family--one whose dark secrets begin closing in, until a horrifying moment changes everything. Tommie Ware's life is turned upside...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING AMY ADAMS - In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. - "A must-read for anyone who can't get enough of the ever-blurring line...

When a phoenix faces death, its multi-coloured wings are transformed into a pyre and consumed by fire. From the flames, it rises, is reborn, and rejuvenated. In the same way, when we allow ourselves to be carved by the fire of difficult seasons we...

This stunning debut thriller, set in a girls' boarding school, will leave you breathless until the final page is turned.Sometimes girls are the meanest of them all...Female friendship is intense and that intensity can erupt into dangerous passions when teenage girls are cooped up...

One week, two friends, secrets revealed, and a wedding gone wrong. With the drama of Colleen Hoover, the romantic tension of Lori Foster, and the page-turning power of Jill Shalvis, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan returns in this deliciously unforgettable novel.Sometimes weddings...

'Cute, witty and fun!... Relatable and heart-warming. Loved it!' NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Meet Jen. Flight attendant. Mum to a grown-up daughter. Permanently single. Age: Fifty (gulp)Number of children: OneNumber of husbands: Zero (it's complicated)Number of failed first dates in the last month: Too depressing to...

Sensual and surprising stories that play a tantalising game of hide-and-seek with lies and truth. Chameleon-like characters slip in and out of shadows as they construct elaborate ruses and clutch at worlds that remain just out of reach. Their appetite for life is by...

She can't hit the snooze on her biological clock forever... Love, career, kids-Brooklyn Monroe wants it all. Her beauty company? A triumph. Her love life? Total fail. At 42, that makes motherhood her top priority. With no man in her life, she's prepared to...

The story of two young women whose friendship offered--and demanded--more than either should share. For fans of Sally Rooney and Claire North.Sometimes I wondered if I imagined it, said Nina. But deep down I knew I didn't.Jess said, We did too much damage for...

Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she's compelled to protect through the German blitz of Belfast during WWll speaks to not only the tragedy of the times, but also to the ongoing sectarian...

While Fiona and Pete are honeymooning, young Ben Palsson's discovery on Washington Island brings new controversy among the locals. Stoic, hard-working Nancy has a boyfriend, the Men's Book Club is reading Paradise Lost, the chip on Stella's shoulder is as sharp as ever, and...

The first book of Jenny Colgan's delightful new four-part series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea.Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely salt air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea...

In the wake of her father's death, Katherine decides to volunteer at a nursing home. There she meets Hanna, a charming elderly woman with painful secrets, stored in an old hat box. Little by little, as their friendship progresses, Hanna's story unfolds, reaching back...

In GHOSTS OF AMERICA, on one unforgettable night, a sexist male novelist undergoes a peculiar transformation after being haunted by the ghosts of the women he has miswritten, Jackie Kennedy and Valerie Solanas.Fiction. Women's Studies.Author: Caroline HagoodISBN-10: 1934909718ISBN-13: 9781934909713Publisher: Hanging Loose PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2021Pages:...

2023 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Gold Medal, Fiction: Historical "The book reads as if it really is Davies' autobiography . . . . a timely reminder of what women would have been up against in Hollywood."--Historical Novel Society "The Blue Butterfly is a vibrant...

Mammy O'Mara would cordially like to invite you to the wedding of...well now that would be telling.The date's set for the wedding of the year, Valentine's Day no less but with less than eight weeks to pull off her dream day will this anxious...

A daydream. A dance. A dangerous rendezvous. After graduating college and arriving home to Painter Place in the summer of 1960, a young bachelor named Wyeth Painter dreams of living a quiet life. But his father sends him to London to teach an art...

From one of America's most beloved storytellers comes the gripping novel of a mother who must help her son after he is convicted of a devastating crime. Perfect for book clubs and fans of Mary Beth Keane and Jodi Picoult--this novel asks the question,...

From Kirsty Manning, author of The Song of the Jade Lily, comes a gripping World War II-set historical novel about murder, secrets, and survival. A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel the past....Fresne Prison, 1940: A former maid at a luxury villa on the...

Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern TokyoMizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking...

Sun, sea and a sizzling romance... the perfect holiday, right? Wrong.After a work party gone disastrously wrong, Samantha suddenly finds herself jobless and jilted. So when her sister invites Sam to stay at her little whitewashed farmhouse on a Greek island, Sam leaps at...

Twenty-five-year-old Polly Brady was supposed to fly off on a dating holiday to meet others, like her, who identify as asexual, but when the nature reserve she works at goes into lockdown after a terrorist attack, she finds herself stuck with Harry Weller, her...

A young woman trying to regain her identity and power within a world of loss and pain joins the police department. There, she finds much more than her own strength-she discovers love, passion, and desire too. When she begins working the murder of a...

The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex, eleven at the time, found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. After their mother's suicide, the girls' father shut down emotionally, leaving Alex responsible for caring for Colleen, then...

This Greek god is about to meet his goddess...When Eglantine "Harry" Knight sets off to Greece at the last minute to step in as manager of a friend's touring band, the last thing she expects is to meet a billionaire Greek playboy. Iakovos Papaioannou...

After their mother dies, two sisters return to the cottage where they spent their summers growing up. Nantucket Point is exactly the same: charming, warm, and filled with memories both good and bad.Janey and Tessa are cut from two completely different cloths, but they've...

This is the first English translation of Chasing the Dream, Liane de Pougy's first novel, published in 1898 when she was 29. It is the story of a courtesan in search of true love which repeatedly proves ungraspable - insaisissable. Josiane de Valneige is...

My darling girl, I watch you playing outside in the grass. Your long blonde hair sweeps back and your blue eyes are bright with joy. You are utterly perfect, I never imagined something could be so wrong and I'd be powerless to protect you...Ava's...

Tia Wang's Wedding Planning To-Do List: 1. Find a dress her perfectionist, future mother-in-law approves of 2. Keep her cool over fortune cookies 3. Divorce her not-so-ex husband, Andrew Parker RWhen she fell in love and married her childhood best friend on a whim...

From the bestselling author of Dumped, Actually comes a hilarious, heartfelt story about marriage, divorce and what the hell happens next.Amy and Joel's honeymoon in the Maldives was the perfect week of love, sun, sex and a free minibar...but unfortunately, it was also the...

Twelve-year-old Norman Foreman and his best friend, Jax, are a legendary comedic duo in waiting, with a plan to take their act all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe. But when Jax dies, Norman decides the only fitting tribute is to perform at the...

Spring has sprung in the charming tourist town of Fredericksburg, Texas, and one of the tastiest attractions is a trip to Tally's Old Tyme Sweets--until a bizarre burglary leaves a bitter aftertaste . . . Tally Holt is thrilled to see her new replicas...

As the women of the Clifford Charity School for Wayward Girls fearlessly bring corrupt aristocrats to justice, they put their lives--and their hearts--on the line . . . Going undercover as a governess is a first for Cecilia Gilchrist. But once she's installed in...