The book of longings —Kidd, Sue Monk, author.

"In her fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebell...

The Alice Network —Quinn, Kate, author.

"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who ...

Monkey Beach —Robinson, Eden, author.

Once in a blue moon —Sala, Sharon, author.

"Cathy Terry is tired of running. Full of fear and hope, she backpacked across the country to Blessings, Georgia, not knowing if or when her abusive ex-husband would catch up to her. In Blessings she glimpses a safe have...

The friendship list —Mallery, Susan, author.

In 'The Friendship List', childhood friends Ellen Fox and Unity Leandre create a list of challenges to push themselves out of their comfort zones. The list begins as a way to make others believe they're doing just fine, ...

The prayer box —Wingate, Lisa.

When Hatteras Island old-timer Iola Anne Poole passes away at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage finds herself charged with cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, d...

Milk fed : a novel —Broder, Melissa, author.

Transitioning from her Jewish faith to dieting to maintain an illusion of existential control, Rachel bonds with an Orthodox woman at a frozen yogurt shop before embarking on a journey of food, desire and spiritual fulfi...

Dear Emmie Blue —Louis, Lia, author.

"A novel about teenager Emmie Blue, who releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it; now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has b...

Autopsy of a boring wife —Lavoie, Marie-Renée, 1974- author.

"Marie-Renée Lavoie's Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband leaves her and is having an affair because, he says, she bore...

Bombshell

The provocative true story of three whip-smart, ambitious, strong women who anchored one of America's most powerful news networks - becoming headlines themselves when they risked everything to stand up to the man who mad...

The mermaid chair —Kidd, Sue Monk.

The matchmaker : a novel —Hilderbrand, Elin, author.

Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of twenty-seven years prior returns to the island.

The friends we keep —Mallery, Susan, author.

Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel —See, Lisa.

An old women in nineteenth-century China reminisces about a life-long friendship and how it was maintained using letters composed in nu shu, a secret "women's writing" but threatened by a misunderstanding.

How the penguins saved Veronica —Prior, Hazel, author.

A heartwarming story about a curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins that proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be and that family is what you make it.

Night bird calling —Gohlke, Cathy, author.

"When Lilliana Swope's beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North Carolina. Though Hyacinth ...

And now she's gone —Hall, Rachel Howzell, author.

"Isabel Lincoln is gone. But is she missing? It's up to Grayson Sykes to find her, although Gray is reluctant to track down a woman who may not want to be found, Gray's search for Isabel Lincoln becomes more complicated ...

Clouds of Sils Maria

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked...

Where the crawdads sing —Owens, Delia, author.

"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two m...

White oleander : a novel —Fitch, Janet, 1955-

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual...