Contemporary Women category: 26023 books

Not That Kind of Girl Roxie Bloom is through with love. Fresh on the heels of a bad break-up, she's decided to devote all her time to her man-slamming website--and her man-hating dog, Lilith. But this pit-bull-Boxer is so good at unleashing her fury (and her owner's) that the male victims keep...

For San Diego's elite FBI agents, risking their lives is standard procedure when it comes to capturing the city's most dangerous criminals-but falling in love is the greatest risk of all. Catching bad guys in San Diego's underworld isn't just FBI Special Agent Ben Alfren's job, it's his life....

• There are 39 million baby boomer women in the US between 45 and 65 years old. Their estimated spending power equals $1 trillion. (MetLife) Many of these women are moms who are about to face their next act. • Only 26 percent of people say they will feel like newlyweds when their kids are gone...

Awarded the Prix Femina in 2014, a prestigious annual French literary prize chosen by an all-female jury of 22 writers from the magazine Femina (they don't just pick women authors to win). A rare example of a work of Haitian literature published in the US, this is a PERFECT starting point for...

Elena Ferrante’s fiction covers the psychic landscape of women who come of age in post-WWII Italy, who struggle to escape poverty and juggle the demands of career and family. Her narrator’s voice is at once ferocious, intimate, and uncensored. Most remarkable for our media-obsessed age is that...

An engrossing novel that examines the intricacies of marriage, friendship, and the power of unexpected connections… Annabel Ford has everything under control, devoting her time to her twin boys and keeping her household running smoothly. But when her husband of a decade announces that he’s...

A first collection of short stories from C. C. Brower In addition to her longer novellas and novels, Brower started out with short stories. Contemporary, Fantasy, Science Fiction - 13 wonderful worlds from a different view of life. New ways to look at the world you live in, and ask yourself...

Small town romantic women’s fiction with love, hope, second chances, and a happy ending! Note from Mary: I love secondary characters: writing them, reading about them, even watching them on the big screen. Secondary characters support the “stars”; make them more vibrant and compelling....

Miracles happen where you least expect them. No one captures the tides of a woman’s heart quite like Jean Stone. Set on New England’s celebrated Martha’s Vineyard, this novel brings together three courageous women whose struggles reveal startling truths and ultimately change their lives. The...

Welcome to Exotica... a lush, sensual retreat where women can experience their most taboo fantasies. Step inside—and leave your inhibitions at the door... When her old friend Caroline invites her to Exotica for a week of pampering and pleasure, Lilli DeForrest has no idea what to expect....

Three women unite—and fight back—after their husbands do them wrong, in this tale of “wickedly funny female bonding” by a New York Times–bestselling author (People).   Angela, half-Jewish, half-Italian, and all New Yorker, is a lawyer married to Reid, a handsome old-money WASP. Michelle...

• Awareness of and efforts to prevent FGM have increased greatly in recent years, with organizations like Unicef and Equality Now leading the charge; in February 2015, the UN designated a “worldwide day of zero tolerance on FGM,” and called for concrete action to be taken against the cutting...

Dark Deception is an emotionally engaging and thought-provoking work that centers around a closely-knit trio of women who come to depend on one another as they attempt to live meaningful lives in a authoritarian, faith-based community. The forces their families, friendship, and others in the community...

Of Jane Austen’s life there is little to tell, and that little has been told more than once by writers whose relationship to her made them competent to do so. It is impossible to make even microscopic additions to the sum-total of the facts already known of that simple biography, and if by chance...