Fiction - Women

Mrs. Dalloway is Virginia Woolf's best known novel. This landmark novel is a masterpiece. While the book seems to take place in a single day in the life of the eponymous Mrs. Dalloway it is much more. Mrs. Dalloway is preparing for a dinner...

A licensed psychologist who stars on the cable breakout show I Need a Push, Reagan Bishop helps participants become their best selves by urging them to overcome obstacles and change behaviors. An overachiever, Reagan is used to delivering results. Despite her overwhelming professional success,...

She had to lose everything to gain the only thing worth having... Abby's marriage wasn't perfect. But she didn't learn just how flawed it was until her husband died in a tragic car accident. As it turned out, while denying her the children she...

From bestselling author Mia Heintzelman comes a serious (-ly) fake holiday office romance readers are calling "A fun and sexy festive story!" Riley Mills sells love. Or, rather dangles it like mistletoe at Lovestruck, the world's most popular social dating app. She's got her...

After three years of marriage, Hope becomes an instant mother to twin boys. But the kids are not of her womb; they are spawns of her husband Maqhawe's adulterous affairs. Despite the heartache brought about by Maqhawe's philandering, Hope mends her tattered marriage and...

When dreams and reality clash.Piper Goodson is looking forward to all the firsts of being a mother. The first cry, the first glance, the first time holding the tiny life created by her and Evan's love. But after an emergency c-section, sick from fear,...

Annie Colville can see dead people and for some reason they are all wearing chocolate brown.They come to her to tell of the lost key behind the sofa, the Crown Derby coffee sets, the clematis that needs a good prune.Since she was a child...

"This scrumptious tale has all the magical ingredients: best friend banter, small-town drama, and the mysterious arrival of the perfect man!" --Amy E. Reichert, author of Once Upon a DecemberIn the Southern town of Mystic Water, magic is always in the wind--and in the...

Playful and SensualTrinity Peters has three great loves in her life; books, cake, and mostly cats - her CAT CAFÉ in Nottingham allows her to indulge in all three. Amiable, attractive and ambitious, she knows what she wants in life and sets about making...

When an art expert goes missing, three women fighting to regain control of their lives realise their future is about to become as dangerous as their past in this brutally compelling thriller 'Subtle, chilling to the bone and very contemporary' PETER JAMESWhen danger lies...

My parents never prepared me for life without them. I haven't been taught all the things I need to know to survive alone.When Sara Johnson's parents are killed in a car accident her oppressive world is suddenly shattered wide open. She's now faced with...

Longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 The outcast in a family of former competitive swimmers must prepare for the end of her mother's life in this sharp, sparkling debut from a bold New...

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the...

From popular author and columnist Amy Sohn comes a smart, sexy, satirical peek into the bedrooms and hearts of New York City's Prospect Park West.Brooklyn's famed neighborhood of Park Slope has it all: the sprawling, majestic Prospect Park, acclaimed public schools; historic brownstones, and...

From the author of Happiness for Humans, a romantic comedy for the technology age: a young woman unlucky in love gets a little help from the most unlikely of places to find her perfect match. Wouldn't it be great if everyone had a team...

"Amy Gustine's You Should Pity Us Instead is a devastating, funny, and astonishingly frank collection of stories. Gustine can be brutally honest about the murky calculations, secret dreams and suppressed malice to which most of us never admit, not even to ourselves."--Karen Russell"You Should...

SONGS OF MY SELFIE: An Anthology of Millennial Stories celebrates the millennial through the works of up-and-coming fiction writers, all under the age of twenty-six. This collection features seventeen short stories by millennial writers about actual millennial issues, exposing this generation's true ambitions and...

At age twelve, Ateesh is forced into an arranged marriage with an abusive man. When she objects, she is told that she "needs a man's name on her, to protect her." While in one era that would have been the end of her story,...

An engrossing meditation on the meaning of faith, Sarah/Sara is the story of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who undertakes a solo kayaking journey across the Arctic Ocean after her parents are killed and she is disfigured by a terrorist bomb in a Jerusalem...

Paige Flemming is on the run. From the police, from her history, and from love itself. After sixteen years looking over her shoulder, she realizes it's time to run again. But when she pauses in her headlong flight to catch her breath with old...

A phenomenon in Turkey with more than 120,000 copies sold, Women who Blow on Knots chronicles a voyage reaching from Tunisia to Lebanon, taken by three young women and septuagenarian Madam Lilla. Although the three young women embark on the road for different reasons...

In these five luxuriant short stories, the acclaimed author of Come and Go, Molly Snow searches out the complex truth of critical moments in the lives of five women.The central figures in these stories range in age from a young single ESL teacher in...

Farewell Damascus, set in the city during the early 1960s, is both a paean to a beloved homeland and an ode to human dignity. Armed with her customary humor, pathos, and knack for suspense, Ghada Samman fearlessly tackles issues that roil societies across the...

The life of a young nun in New England in the 1960s provides the backdrop for the provocative and highly relevant new novel Fifty Shades of Black and White: Confessions of a Naughty Nun. Eighteen-year-old Catherine Connor first enters the convent in September 1959....

As she prepares dinner for her husband andtheir extended family, Suzanne hears on the radiothat a jetliner has crashed and her lover is dead.Alex Elling was a renowned orchestra conductor.Suzanne is a concert violist, long unsatisfied withher marriage to a composer whose music turnsemotion...

The Betty Trask Award winner: A young female convict recounts her life to discover the good in it, and in herself, in this "moving, compassionate" novel (The Sunday Times). Twenty-one-year-old Beth has done plenty of good, grown-up sorts of things--including having a baby. But...

The Planeta Prize-winning novel from the author of the Petra Delicado series: "A highly literate noir, a powerful tale of lives spiraling out of control" (NB magazine). Irene's husband has left her for a younger woman and her family business is on the verge...

The stories in this volume are literary snapshots from Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gordon, Jamaica Kincaid, Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. All seventeen stories deal with a single, central, and vital theme: the relationship of mothers to daughters...

Ana and her son, Philippe, are grieving the loss of Philippe's father when Ana's hairstylist Kimi dies in an apparent suicide. Driven by a force she doesn't understand, Ana starts digging into Kimi's past in Guyana in 1978, which leads to nested tales of...

For decades, Ed Meehan was the most popular singer/songwriter on the planet. Every woman thought his songs were written for them alone. But it wasn't just women who were drawn to his music. His words reached everyone in one way or another. There was...

The Awakening is one of the earliest examples of feminism in literature, and the book's criticism of acceptable female social roles and emphasis on women's sexuality caused it to be received with a mixture of praise and criticism. Set in Louisiana, Edna Pontellier is...

Kyra Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Just One Night, returns with book one in the thrillingly sensual Pure Sin series featuring a beautiful young woman out for revenge--until she falls in love with the one man whose secrets are as dangerous...

To Save a Victim, Camille St. James May Have to Become One Herself. Seven years ago, tragedy ended the troubled marriage of Camille and Jack Vermillion. Now, as head of the Truth Project, her life safe and orderly, she focuses her lawyerly skills on...

A rough and tumble woman meets her match in a wild cowboy in this Blacktop Cowboys(R) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Wrapped and Strapped. Tanna Barker is a world champion barrel racer. But her personal life has been less successful....

Bruises. Broken bones. A life spinning out of control. Karen wonders how she got here. She'd had everything. Her family was wealthy, she was engaged to a wonderful man, and she was the life of the party. After an argument with her fiance, Karen...

When Juniper Kowalski, a mediocre artist and graduate of one of the best art schools in the country, gets pregnant by her married lover, she ends up back in Gobles, Michigan, living in her dead grandma's trailer. She fears that her new life as...

Stories ranging from surreal adventure to hilarious satire. "A bitter, funny reply to that national magazine that declares that feminism itself is 'dated.'"--Carolyn See, Los Angeles TimesAuthor: Carol EmshwillerISBN-10: 0918273579ISBN-13: 9780918273574Publisher: Coffee House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1989Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.55w x 0.43dReview...

Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her adventures in getting over take her from San Francisco to New York City,...

The Princess Diaries for adults! This clever and witty debut follows a fictitious princess whose royal advisor is a mechanic who takes his advice from Bruce Springsteen. Spunky, plucky Isabella Cordage has taken Bisbania's royal family by storm, having fallen in love with the...

In a captivating novel of second chances and healing hearts from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Toni Aleo, the newest member of the Nashville Assassins pulls a power play to make things right with the one that got away. Fallon Parker's...

The Red Diary, an erotic tale from rising romance star Toni Blake, takes readers on a sensual adventure in a story of seductive retribution.Lauren Ash keeps a private journal filled with her deepest, most intimate sexual fantasies... When house painter Nick Armstrong finds it,...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel delivers an exciting and moving historical novel about a courageous wife and mother hiding in occupied France. In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half French, half German,...

Author: Ashley ElstonISBN-10: 0593492935ISBN-13: 9780593492932Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2025Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.75d

Author: Patricia BragdonISBN-10: 1959621157ISBN-13: 9781959621157Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2024Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

A devoted mother outrunning a troubled childhood and adapting to an empty nest is tested in ways she never expected in this suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. On the occasion of her daughter Valerie's wedding and her upcoming...

Author: Lizbeth Meredith, L. a. MeredithISBN-13: 9798991537025Publisher: L.A.MeredithLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2024Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

In this fresh, twisty thriller, two women who've been keeping a deadly secret for ten years discover that the skeletons we hide always come back. "A sharp, propulsive thriller that sucks you in from page one. Packed with unforgettable characters and chilling twists."--Amy Tintera,...

Author: Jules MoulinISBN-10: 1101984244ISBN-13: 9781101984246Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2016Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Author: Doris May LessingISBN-10: 0060924179ISBN-13: 9780060924171Publisher: PerfectBoundLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/1993Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.12w x 0.58dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/17/1993

An English royal melts the heart of a lonesome ranch girl in this Americana romance set in the Roughrider State from the New York Times bestselling author. At twenty-one, Katherine "Kit" Bonner is the de facto manager of the Flying Eagle Ranch in the...