Women’s Fiction

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“In Mania, Shriver is not enlightening us with sharp satire; she is hitting us over the head with a baseball bat.”

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“an intensely lyrical, philosophical novella by a gifted writer, easily capable of these sophisticated leaps and drops.”

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Honey is a bittersweet concoction of loveliness, regret, hope, growing old, second chances, mortality, loneliness, inescapable familial bonds, long-nurtured grudges, and final rec

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“I liked my husband well enough . . . but I like him even better dead,” says Duchess Valencia Dedham.

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Based on the saga of the Jews emerging from the Holocaust and their determination to inhabit a land to call their own, The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner is an epic retelling of

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“Well-written with glorious descriptions, The Tree Doctor is a highly recommended tour de force.”

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“offers readers the complicated, rich dimensions of life in and outside of Iran and the wide diversity of people daring to fight for freedom . . .”

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“portrays a woman of great intellect, beauty, and ability to read others, whose desire for power forms not for her own glory but to challenge a system that threatens her son’s life.”

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Based on a true story, The Woman with No Name follows the trajectory of the woman who is recruited as Britain's first female sabotage agent during the German occupation of France in World

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“Frances Perkins was an important role model and social welfare advocate who deserves to be better known.”

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Meagan Church begins her historical novel about the Baby Scoop of the sixties in the summer of ’64 with a drowning.

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“As a debut novel, Piglet is ambitious, sitting somewhere in the middle of the Venn diagram where comic women’s fiction, literary fiction, and absurdism meet.”

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“If you want plot, read James Patterson. If you want to think, this is the book for you.”

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Jenny Quinn and her husband Bernard have settled into retirement in the peaceful small English village of Kittlesham, where Jenny immerses herself in her love of baking and the comfort of old famil

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If the reader is looking for a cozy murder with a single plot throughout, Debbie Macomber’s 44 Cranberry Point is not the answer.

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For the history lesson alone, Cold Victory is memorable.”

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“weaves all these stories and characters into a tapestry of believability that is well-crafted, suspenseful, and satisfying.”

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It is a cold February night in 1942. Dancers are swaying to the music at London’s Feldman’s Swing Club.

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A new Jesmyn Ward novel is a literary event. Ward has won the National Book Award twice with works that encapsulate the U.S.’s horrific history of racism and inequality.

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“Quite simply it is dazzling.”

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“Louise Kennedy’s brass tack writing takes center stage in each of her haunting short stories.

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Jillian Cantor’s novel The Fiction Writer starts out with this premise: Olivia Fitzgerald is a writer—a once successful writer, but her most recent story, Becky, is a takeoff on D

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“above all, The Vulnerables, like many of Sigrid Nunez’s other exceptional writings, is about what it means to be human.”

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this compelling novel explores important themes such as colonialism, friendship, religion, and the meaning of ‘doing good.’”

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“In a business in which feminine beauty is what they’re selling, both Arden and Rubenstein eschewed those qualities society deemed feminine.”

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