Fiction - Women

For fans of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Assembly, an intimate and darkly propulsive story told over the course of a dinner party, from its careful preparation through its explosive, irrevocable finish, about the tensions of love and autonomy, grief and female rage, and the...

Two feuding co-stars in a Jane Austen film adaptation accidentally travel back in time to the Regency Era in this delightfully clever and riotously funny debut Tess Bright just scored her dream role starring in an adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. It's not...

I thought my first husband was dead. But when I get a letter with his name on it just days before my wedding, it will tear my perfect new life apart... As we drive up to the gorgeous house by the lake with its...

A BRAND NEW emotional book club pick from international bestseller Jo Bartlett Two sisters, one heartbreaking promise... To everyone who knows them, Louisa and Tom are the perfect couple. They have two beautiful kids, Stan and Flo, and are about to celebrate ten years...

A literary love story told through ten years in the life of one woman as she tries to build a longed-for family without also losing herself -- an entertaining portrayal of the true, grown-up meaning of "happily ever after." When she first meets Adam,...

A woman desperate for a fresh start. A chance discovery. And a journey that could change everything.When Jenna buys an old cottage on Magnolia Key, she's hoping to leave her troubled past behind. But as she peels away layers of wallpaper, she uncovers more...

In the shadow of China's tumultuous mid-20th century, an ambitious civil engineer is determined to protect her baby girls.Despite a childhood marked by tragedies, Jun carves out a stable life for herself while shrewdly and skillfully navigating a male-dominated and politically charged society. As...

A sunshine American bookstore whisperer clashes with the grumpy British owner of the shop she's trying to save in this winning opposites-attract romance for book lovers. He has a struggling bookshop. She has a knack for bringing bookstores back to life. As soon as...

In spring 1095, Christian and Emelye make love for the first time. When it is announced Christian must fulfill his obligation to marry Lady Arianna the lovers know their dream of bring together is over. Months later Emelye realizes she is with child but...

A sharp, poignant story of a woman trying to rise from family pressure and grief to make it as a Broadway star, from a striking new voice. After her sister Nena's sudden death, Xiomara, an Afro-Latina singer and actress born and raised in Washington...

New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel's deeply moving novel is the story of a woman whose life is turned upside down while living temporarily in the French countryside.Oona Kelly Webster has much to be grateful for. A striking woman with red hair and...

Piper Mishner has spent the last year trying to get over her ex, which is hard to do after he decides to move into the apartment next to hers with his new fianc?. As if she needs the reminder of how painful the breakup...

"Evocative and suspenseful, Bright Little Girls will keep you turning the pages and guessing until the very end." -Patti Callahan Henry, NYT Bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora LeaA wannabe author. A narcissistic musician. A serial killer. An average girl. Someone tells...

Bestselling author Nicola Cornick's brand-new heart-breaking historical tale of unforgettable courage, hidden secrets and lasting love, perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine, Philippa Gregory and Christina Courtenay. 1715: With the country on the brink of rebellion, Dorothy Forster's life at Bamburgh Hall is ruled...

On a May night in 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland, with 1500 passengers, sets out from Quebec, bound for England via the St. Lawrence River, its captain unaware that a coal freighter is steaming toward them. As a dense fog rolls in;...

Medical journalist Alice Simmons has one last chance to stay alive in this story of courage, humility, determination, compassion, and hope during the last year of World War One.Medical journalist Alice Simmons's quest to become a war correspondent careens headlong into a wall of...

1944, the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Felling trees is backbreaking, but at least they know they're doing vital work. Trixie has a new boyfriend, Eddie. He's...

"To Smithereens is an extraordinarily good book, but then so is everything Rosalyn Drexler ever wrote." --The New York TimesA zany romance set amid the Manhattan experimental art scene and the female wrestling world of the 1970s, from an overlooked star of the Pop...

"A unique, delightful, hilarious, unputdownable romance... I'm wonderstruck by The Blonde Identity!" -- Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love HypothesisThe New York Times bestselling YA author of the beloved Gallagher Girls series bursts onto the adult scene with a fast-paced,...

On the day their daughters start kindergarten, Hannah Lively meets Maggie Whitefield, recently moved to the small mountain town of Coal Valley. Hannah has longed to leave Coal Valley her whole life, even though her grandmother - Granny Zee - is as much a...

By the award-winning author of Sunflowers Under Fire, a psycholgical fiction inspired by the author's experience as a family therapist on a psychiatric ward. When Dr. Joanna Bereza, a passionate intern, challenges Dr. Myron Eisenstadt, her supervising psychiatrist, on his aggressive use of shock...

"Full of drama, scandal . . . readers will be hooked." --RT Book Reviews Book 3 in The Crystal Series Now that she's happily married-for-security, there's nothing Mercedes Crystal won't do to hold on to what she's got. She didn't sweat it when her...

Whitney only needs two things to survive -- a steaming cup of coffee and the opportunity to create art with makeup. But until her big break comes along, she's stuck selling makeup at the mall. While out at a nightclub dancing her cares away,...

Justus Jacobi loves three things: her seven--year--old son, landscape design, and the man she sees only once a year. For the past twelve years, they've spent a surreal week together, but Justus has never considered their relationship anything but a dream--especially since they've never...

Everything's bigger in Texas, and that goes double at the Texas Rose Ranch, home to the Rose family through five generations of toil, sweat, and scandal. From the moment CanDee McCain is hired to write a history of the Roses' empire, she's bowled over...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this "deeply nuanced and compelling" (Vogue) novel, from the acclaimed author...

#1 bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, to deliver a dishy, page-turning novel following an intertwined cast of characters over the course of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school. It's move-in day at Tiffin Academy and...

From her office in Manhattan, Hadley is preparing for her twenty-second wedding anniversary. She surprises her husband, Bergen, with a gift to get their genomes sequenced to proactively counter any disease risks.In the East Village, twenty-seven-year-old Rachel reluctantly goes to therapy for her panic...

A BRAND NEW emotional read from Louise Guy I loved him... but I loved my daughters more. I knew what I had to do. I had to protect them. When June Marlow was arrested for the murder of her husband nearly thirty years ago,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "A dark and haunting debut that explores secret societies, the bonds of sisterhood, and the intricacies of privilege at an elite college . . . I couldn't put this twisty tale down."--Julia Bartz, author of The...

Escape to Littleburgh, Wisconsin, where an imaginative and creative kids entertainment executive's quest for redemption plays out in a picture perfect country escapade. Postcards from Littleburgh, WI: A Jaycee Grayson Novel Companion is a must-have for readers of Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls, the most...

Outlaw Sarah Montgomery has spent her life robbing banks and trains along the untamed frontier of the 1870s. Known for her daring exploits and wit, she secretly yearns for freedom from the ruthless grip of her mentor, Henry Fairbanks, and the life of crime...

At 68, Debbie Gordon has six months to get a life. Except for a brief, magical year in Manhattan when she was 21, the long-divorced, former legal secretary has always lived in her sleepy New England hometown, always the good girl, the funny girl,...

The BRAND NEW novel from Number 1 Bestselling author Beth Moran. A total joy of a book! One photo and a handful of letters can change everything. Emmie Brown has always known she was adopted. Nellie Brown sacrificed everything to make their life together...

The BRAND NEW novel and let bestseller Alexandra Walsh magic you into the Tudor Court. Perfect for all fans of Barbara Erskine, Rachel Burton and Philippa Gregory. 'The Brandon blood is dark with lies and treachery and as it flows through my heart, my...

Ursula K. Le Guin's most poetic novel unfolds in 13 interconnected stories about women and the lives of artists in a small coastal town in Oregon One of Ursula K. Le Guin's most realistic novels, Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand, which was first published in...

Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams--with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and...

Can darkness ultimately sing a melody of redemption?Cecilia's grip on her closely guarded secret threatens to scar her for life. Fueled by newfound independence yet frightened and uncertain about the future, she soldiers her way to college to pursue her dream of becoming a...

THREE bold women - One dares to expose a crime One battles to hide a tragedy One fights to protect a child TWO powerful causes divide them ...ONE shocking secret binds them.__________________It isn't all cookies and cream for teen author, Mercy Patterson. When she...

The No.1 bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont is back with a BRAND NEW story about love, heartbreak and finding forever. Suddenly Maddy is right there... in her own future. And it's all wrong, yet again. It happens to her every...

Chickie and Maddy are aging in their typical yin and yang styles when old friend Lena's husband, Edward, suddenly dies. Maddy, a retired social worker, is eager to offer support; Chickie, a chronically underemployed journalist, is peeved at the inconvenience. Friendship prevails and the...

Greer Livingston, an editor at a small publishing company, has one friend and an aloof cat named Gershwin. Greer used to be full of life, but that was decades ago, before her father died unexpectedly. He never made it to her seventh-birthday celebration, but...

Two women--separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom--reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives. "My favorite kind of page-turner--unputdownable!"--Martha Hall Kelly, author of The Golden Doves...

"Genius."--The New York Times Book Review - "A teeming gothic."--Vanity Fair - "Few novels of literary fiction are written as well as The Garden."--The LA Times An eerie, masterful novel about pregnancy as a haunted house and the ways the female body has always...

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia--"a gripping novel about standing up to impossible odds" (People, Best New Books) The rebel . . . the socialite ....

"An entertaining and poignant coming-of-age story about three young celebrity friends who go through the ups and downs of fame in the glaring eye of the spotlight." --Mindy KalingThree girls in Hollywood who thought they'd rule the world. Reality bites in a touching novel...

The rebellion rising in Rhethos just got more complicated: when Will unexpectedly takes control of a towne still loyal to The Bradford, he is forced to choose between slaughtering those who oppose him and somehow turning Lorington's rulers to his cause. The vicious Rhethosian...

Meeting her future in-laws draws a young woman into a dark labyrinth in a novel of mounting psychological suspense by the author of My Favorite Terrible Thing.Devon Ferrell and Richard Belmont are engaged, in love, and from two different worlds. Devon is as eager...

Embark on the gripping journey through a tumultuous life in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Daniel Defoe's timeless classic weaves the tale of a daring and resilient woman navigating the harsh realities of 17th-century England. The story delves into...

At the altar, Zarayah can't help but wonder if she's making a terrible mistake... Keeping her husband-to-be's secrets from her family wasn't the first gut-wrenching decision she had to make. Choosing to go through with the wedding after learning what Zaire has done leaves...