Women’s Fiction

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Every family member shares some of the same personality traits, as is with the four generations of Whitakers.

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"The book is a smorgasbord of rich delights."

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Inheritance from Mother is a novel for the connoisseur by an author regarded as one of the most important writers in Japan today.

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Eliza and Adam Stanley are parents to two precocious twin sons, Max and Luke.

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Reading Saints for All Occasions is like walking into the kitchen of the big Irish family at the center of this new novel by bestselling author J.

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“In a world of insanity, a world of nightmare, it is often impossible to distinguish love from hate.”

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Love, in the world of Paula Priamos’ new novel Inside V, is powerful, primal, obsessive, and deadly. Former L.A.

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Many writers have written about the immigrant experience, but most focus on the tension between generations: how the older generations of immigrants—those fresh off the boat, so to speak—want to re

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a very funny, poignant novel about a strong-willed girl and the even stronger, decidedly colorful mother who loves her.”

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Marlena by Julie Buntin is a haunting debut that journeys back to a time of a tumultuous friendship between two teenage girls, Cat and Marlena, in the 90s.

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The Bloom girls lost their father when their parents divorced, yet when they learn of his passing from an aneurysm, it's like losing him again.

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“I don’t need to jump off cliffs into oceans to die, because every day there is a little death waiting for me. All I have to do is wake up and walk out the front door.”

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The Mother’s Promise is a chick-lit tearjerker that nevertheless conveys with sympathy and some depth the stories of four Northern California women who face difficult health and family pro

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Readers’ favorite ditz is back in Helen Fielding’s latest, Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries.

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Julia Padden, a salesclerk in the men's department at Seattle's Macy's, is upbeat and vivacious.

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It is 1969 and 16-year-old Lucy Gold has never been a motivated student.

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“Dinah Jefferies uses the secrets held by a husband and wife to expose the prejudice and unfairness of the British colonial era. . . . an enjoyable read.”

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"A very profound and intense tale, Marrow offers enlightening with food for thought for everyone."

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When the seemingly inevitable monster weather event occurs, how prepared will we be? We Are Unprepared is the unequivocal answer from debut author Meg Little Reilly.

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“Would it surprise you to learn that one of the top fantasies for women is a prolonged hospital stay?”

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Newly divorced and facing the inevitable friend loss that often accompanies separation, Ava Tucker is feeling unmoored: “She was surprised by how much she longed for company.

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“This is about survival! You think I want to do this?”

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The new novel The Unseen World starts out like the 2014 bestseller We Are Not Ourselves, as the haunting story of a brilliant scientist who develops early-onset Alzheimer’s diseas

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Age of Consent is a strong novel about a troubling subject.”

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“a well-written story by an inventive writer.”

“She thought about secrets and the damage they did.”

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