Contemporary Women

Love Water Memory

by Jennie Shortridge

A bittersweet masterpiece filled with longing and hope, Jennie Shortridge’s emotional novel explores the raw, tender complexities of relationships and personal identity.

Who is Lucie Walker? Even Lucie herself...

The Mermaid of Brooklyn: A Novel

by Amy Shearn

SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IN LIFE IS A FABULOUS PAIR OF SHOES—AND A LITTLE HELP FROM A MERMAID.

 Formerly an up-and-coming magazine editor, Jenny Lipkin is now your average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom,...

The Smart One

by Jennifer Close

With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An “irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel” —Marie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life...

Marriage Matters

by Cynthia Ellingsen

She barely has time to attend a wedding, let alone plan one, but Chloe has just caught the bouquet. So has her married mother… and her widowed grandmother. With three generations set to walk down the aisle,...

While We Were Watching Downton Abbey

by Wendy Wax

FROM THE AUTHOR OF TEN BEACH ROAD AND OCEAN BEACH, A NEW NOVEL OF FOUR FRIENDS—AND A SHARED PASSION THAT COULD CHANGE THEIR LIVES.

When the concierge of The Alexander, a historic Atlanta apartment building,...

Nowhere but Home

by Liza Palmer

The strategy on the gridiron of Friday Night Lights is nothing compared to the savagery of coming home . . .

Queenie Wake has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup...

Just Pretending

by Bird-Wilson Lisa

A debut short story collection which explores, through fiction, the

Something About Sophie

by Mary Kay McComas

Clearfield, Virginia, is a sleepy, idyllic hamlet where residents welcome its comfortable, familiar routines. But when a newcomer arrives in town, long-buried secrets threaten to surface and destroy their haven...

Market Street

by Anita Hughes

From Anita Hughes, author of Monarch Beach, comes Market Street, a delicious story of a department store heiress, her messy marriage, and her passion for food

Cassie Blake seems to lead a charmed life as the...

Half as Happy: stories

by Gregory Spatz

Eight stories—each as expansive as a novel—reveal the ways we hurt and heal one another. From the author of Inukshuk.

Maxine

by Claire Wilkshire

Maxine Carter finds herself searching for a fresh start: a way around her own gnawing fear. What she discovers is her neighbour's nine-year-old son, Kyle. Smart, funny, and poignant, Claire Wilkshire's impressive...

Heart Like Mine: A Novel

by Amy Hatvany

Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. But when she meets Victor Hansen, a handsome, charismatic divorced restaurateur who is father to Max and Ava, Grace decides that, for the right...

Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

by Lisa Verge Higgins

TOP THREE REASONS TO VISIT EUROPE:

1. Explore foreign cultures

2. Sample outstanding food

3. Desperately flee impending personal crisis

Lenny left his wife, Monique, a bucket list of things they'd dreamed of doing...

Family Pictures

by Jane Green

New York Times bestseller Jane Green delivers a riveting novel about two women whose lives intersect when a shocking secret is revealed  From the author of Another Piece of My Heart comes Family Pictures,...

Cha-Ching!

by Ali Liebegott

A tender, unforgettable story about being young and broke in America, and the conjoined hearts of love and addiction.

Best Man

by Matt Dunn

He's your best friend. She's the love of his life. You've got six weeks to convince him otherwise.

Adam Bailey is appalled when his best friend Nick announces that he's about to marry his new girlfriend, Sandra....

Fame Game

by Louise Fennell

The glamorous new novel from the author of Dead Rich.

Britain's most famous family, The Spenders, need to get out of town in a hurry. They have been hounded from their London mews house by a riot of photographers...

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

by Edward Kelsey Moore

Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean in the New York Times best-selling novel . . .

Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. ...

The One Good Thing: A Novel

by Kevin Alan Milne

For as long as Halley Steen has known her husband Nathan, he has carried a handful of stones in his pocket. Each day he uses those stones to remind him to follow the Golden Rule, moving a stone from one pocket...

Traps

by Mackenzie Bezos

In this tautly woven tour de force, the paths of four very different women intersect, briefly but significantly, in ways that will change each of them forever. MacKenzie Bezos’s Traps is a propulsive exploration...