Contemporary Women category: 26023 books

Susan had worked hard these past few years to recover her self-worth, for herself and her children. She is back in the community, working again as Percy's director for the beauty colleges, feeling more alive, and now able to afford a home for her and her children now that Missy is returning home.She...

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo,...

Readers and critics everywhere have applauded the Best Women's Erotica series, exclaiming that it shows "women's sexuality in all its wet, juicy, romantic, and lustful guises" (Libido) and "gets racier every year" (San Francisco Bay Guardian). With stories that have raised the...

HERLAND is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. The story is told from the perspective...

**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL • RITA finalist and bestselling author Ruthie Knox’s Camelot series heats up in this sizzling novel featuring two headstrong souls who bump heads—and bodies—as temptation and lust bring nothing but delicious trouble.   An accomplished...

The hardest part of love is moving on... It's been a year since Ellie Kendall's husband, Jamie, was killed in an accident, but she's still grieving. In fact, she finds herself talking to him regularly. At the urging of Jamie's successful actor father Tony, Ellie moves to London's glamorous...

National Bestseller “This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale.” --Margaret Atwood, on Twitter** "Scorching . . . Women Talking is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions...

Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers—six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative...

The bestselling author of the Heller Brothers series stirs up a tempting cocktail of fun and seduction as a sexy SEAL-turned-bartender treats a buttoned-up scientist to a wild weekend . . . and a change of heart. Former Navy SEAL Beck Whitcomb left a world of privilege to prove he could make...

Some people say it’s hard to tell between love or lust. But sometimes... it’s not hard to tell at all.... Twelve years is a lifetime when it comes to age and love. And if the man is your father’s best friend... Well, let’s just say unrequited feelings tend to be awkward. But Laney knows...

Spunky, sweet-natured Jessica Monroe is 34 years old and perfectly happy being single. A producer at a top-rated morning show with a coterie of fun friends and a busy nightlife, she isn't in any rush to meet a man. Her girlfriends, however, disapprove. And when they secretly place a personal ad on...

Fall in love at Bayside, where sandy beaches, good friends, and true love come together in the sweet small towns of Cape Cod. Bayside Summers is a series of standalone steamy romance novels featuring alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women. They're fun, flirty, flawed, deeply emotional, and easy...

It’s the middle of the twentieth century and Portland has fallen into the hands of gangsters. Newly orphaned Mae Rose wanders the rain-stained streets alone, on the lam from a knife wielding pimp, mustering her own worst impulses to survive. As Mae rises in Portland’s gritty sex industry, she’s...

A young Jesuit priest returns to Chile and a politically divided Catholic Church. As part of the newly established Vicariate of Solidarity, he is assigned the task of guiding and protecting the women of a church-sponsored workshop.At first reluctant to work with them, Father Alejandro Saavedra soon...