Contemporary Women

Laws of Migration

by Suzanne Frank

How a search for an exotic bird became a quest for love, forgiveness, and a new life.

Birds, especially the ibis, have always fascinated Elize--that's why she became an ornithologist. But when her boss at the...

The Bostonians

by Henry James

"The Bostonians" is a bittersweet tragicomedy centered on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and...

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

"The Portrait of a Lady" is one of Henry James's most popular long novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. "The Portrait of a Lady" is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer,...

Shirley

by Charlotte Bronte

Shirley Keeldar is an orphaned heiress to a fortune, a headstrong, independent and determined young woman. The novel is set in Yorkshire during the industrial depression. The major themes are the explicit historical...

Villette

by Charlotte Bronte

After an unspecified family disaster, Lucy Snowe travels to the city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. Lucy Snowe is a twenty-three...

The Love Dog

by Elsa Watson

Fired from her job as a paralegal, Samantha Novak is in trouble. When Telltale, a Hollywood tabloid, asks her to write an expose on the reality television dating show, The Love Dog, Samantha is thrilled. She’s...

The apartment

by Batsceba Hardy

Maria manages her bar in Berlin. Here she meets Sebastian, a real estate agent, and Emma, a foreign girl who arrived in Berlin almost by chance. Maria firstly is a spectator, then advisor and finally a participant...

The Puppy Trap

by Elsa Watson

Josie, Aiden, and their yellow Labrador siblings Sasha and Zipper were a happy family—until the couple broke up and separated the dogs. One day at the Madrona dog park, Sasha and Zipper switch places, and...

Venus Envy

by Shannon McKelden

Rachel Greer is fed up with love. For years she was sure her Prince Charming was right around the corner. Ha. Was she ever wrong (and she's got the exes to prove it). Witnessing her parent's perfect marriage,...

Dog Days

by Elsa Watson

In Elsa Watson's Dog Days, struggling café owner Jessica Sheldon volunteered to be the chairperson of Woofinstock, Madrona’s annual dog festival, to overcome her reputation as “number one dog hater” in...

Full of It

by Wendy French

Lauren Peterson has a brand new life, but no idea what to do with it.

After calling off her engagement, she's single for the first time in years and ready to take on the world. Instead, she discovers that starting...

After the Rice

by Wendy French

Megan Ismore's bungalow isn't big enough to house her problems---or her relatives.

Married just ten months, Megan's life with Matt would be grand if it weren't for a fast-growing secret she can't bear to share....

The Hard Way

by Julie Luongo

Lucy Venier changes careers and boyfriends as often as she changes her socks. Although gifted with wit and creativity, the one thing Lucy lacks is focus. While being someone she’s not, be it crime reporter...

Venus Guy Trap

by Shannon McKelden

Haydee Miller is on the brink of panic. When she was sixteen, she swore that she’d be married by her thirty-third birthday. It’s part of Haydee’s grand Plan, which saved her sanity when her mother died...

Fashionably Late

by Nadine Dajani

Convinced you're having a quarter-life crisis? Think maybe a soul-searching trip might help? Aline Hallaby, a nice, obedient Arab girl, has it all---a budding career at one of Montreal's most prestigious accounting...

Blame It on Paris

by Laura Florand

Laura has spent most of her adult life avoiding serious relationships, flitting around the world, and keeping her romantic expectations comfortably low. As far as she’s concerned, chocolate is just as satisfying...

Cutting Loose

by Nadine Dajani

Meet three women who are as different as could be—at least that’s what they think—and the men who’ve turned their lives upside down as their paths collide in sizzling, sexy Miami. . . .

Ranya is a modern-day...

sMothering

by Wendy French

First there was Bridget Jones. Then came the Nannies. Now meet Claire McLeod, a twenty-something American girl living in Portland, Oregon. Claire's got big problems: her mother's a tyrant, her sister's a lesbian,...

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A classic American novel on female sexuality. The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot...

Moving Water

by Joan Skogan

The story of Rose Bachmann, a woman at mid-tide in a life awash in the debris of a mysterious marriage in the magical coastline of the North Pacific.