Women’s Fiction

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“‘And the wall became a scream of birth, this birth for it was the birth of the Universe . . .’”

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“a sad story efficiently ­told by the author but one that may have been better had it been more vividly shown.”

“an important book by an important author who understands only too well that heavy topics are most accessible when delivered with a spoonful of sugar.”

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Isabel Dalhousie is a rarity in modern fiction in that she’s a philosopher. Not just a philosophically minded character, as is found across genres, but an actual working philosopher.

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Twelve years after the suicide of 16-year-old Alice, her family gathers for the wedding of her brother Benji and her best friend Morgan.

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It’s hard to publish a sequel to a powerful or popular novel, and even more so in a case like this, where author Joyce Maynard has said that she never intended to return to the complicated family s

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“How far would you go for a friend in need if it meant your life and liberty might come crashing down upon you?”

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“pungent insights into people’s motivations, emotions, and relationships”

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Crow Talk is a many-layered story of grief and healing. Of lessons learned from solitude and nature.”

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As the earth seasons in cycles, so do women, as shown in this humorous and touching novel.

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Alison Weir’s fans can only hope that there is more to come with stories about Edward and Elizabeth.

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Not long before Ellery and Luke Wainwright were to embark upon a dream 20th wedding anniversary trip to Broken Point, an exorbitantly expensive and extremely remote luxury resort in Big Sur, Califo

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Jess, somewhat of a wanderer, lives with her girlfriend, Sarah, 11 years her senior.

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“A very different, very deceptive but very entertaining Gothic tale.”

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World War I France is the setting for Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade, a work of historical fiction written by Janet Skeslien Charles.

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In a way, Xochitl González’s Anita de Monte Laughs Last is almost two novels in one, both great.

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"an enthralling and believable story."

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“a page-turning exploration of love, motherhood, and secrecy.”

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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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