Contemporary Women category: 26023 books

Born and raised in Los Angeles Cassandra has found herself responsible for renovating the family’s ranch that she just inherited in Montana. Short on cash and time she is forced to bargain with her gaming skills to recruit men to assist her on her ranch. She wasn’t expecting to meet the dark and handsome cowboy Andrew who seems to play games by a whole different set of rules.

**“Delightful and darkly magical. Julia Fine has written a beautiful modern myth, a coming-of-age story for a girl with a worrisome power over life and death. I loved it.” ** —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry Finalist for the Bram Stoker...

Trapped between Darkness and Light. **—**Heather Strand overcame every roadblock she ever faced to become both a sculptor and a rancher, until she met the Reid Hunter. ​—Handsome, Rugged and mysterious, Reid Hunter came to the aid of Heather's failing ranch, but the rules he grew...

Will love and passion destroy Lea Graham's vision for her life and her future? When architect Lea Graham fell on the mountainside of her perfect New Mexican paradise – the land she planned to turn into a model community – it was the handsome and fiery naturalist artist, Darren Laird who...

The Zeppelin Bend is a romance novel. Gabriella King a tall, lithe blonde is a talented painter and also a fantastic tennis player. Gabby is by most people’s standards beautiful. She is the only daughter of a wealthy prominent Texas rancher. Life throws Gabby a curve as she finds that the father...

Can true love survive acts of manipulation? Gabriella King, a tall, lithe blonde is a talented painter and a fantastic tennis player. Gabby is by most people’s standard beautiful. She is the only daughter of a wealthy, prominent Texas rancher and has finally found her true love, Brett Matthews,...

A fierce and clever feminist retelling of humanity’s past—a herstory of the universe—illustrated and written by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella. For centuries, history has been “written about a bunch of men by a bunch of men.” In The Big SHE-Bang, Marisa Acocella challenges...

Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overlooked. This graphic novel offers an engaging and accessible insight into the lives and minds of autistic women, using real-life case studies. The charming illustrations lead readers on a visual...

In this new novel, the first by a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye creates a luminous narrative triptych as harrowing as it is beautiful. This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged,...

A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture—from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low. For two decades, Zeba...

By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes’s trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course of an exceptional...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which...

What do women talk about when they know they don't have forever? They talk about what they have always talked about, only they go deeper and more honest: with outrageous humor they try to mitigate pain. Intimate and uncensored sharing, the kind of connection women prize, is at the heart of this deeply...

A delightfully funny novel packing a clever punch, from the author of the New York Times bestselling Julie and Romeo   A mom in her early fifties, Clover knows she no longer turns heads the way she used to, and she's only really missed when dinner isn't on the table on time. Then Clover wakes up...