Contemporary Women category: 26023 books

Ellen, as her best friend affirms,just got handed the dream of half of the wives in America.Her husband just told her to have an affair. With her CEO husband, her kids, and her house keeping her busy, passion was never Ellen’s first priority. But somehow her husband managed to make time in...

**“Beautifully crafted . . . the sentences in these stories are living and seamless, as if Lazarin had run her hand over them until they became smooth and gleaming with the evidence of her touch.” —Carmen Maria Machado, The New York Times Book Review From an award-winning writer, a stunning...

Three women, three countries, three stories—the destinies of a Thai in prison for murdering her husband, a Cambodian longing for a child, and a Laotian Hmong refugee are threaded together by the tears leftover from the Vietnam War. Each of the women have been marked in some way by the atrocities...

On a sunny beach on the Italian Riviera, two thirtysomething women, Yvonne and Huda, relax by the sparkling sea. But despite the setting, as their vacation unfolds, their complicated pasts seep through to the idyllic present. Both women spent their childhoods in Lebanon—Yvonne raised in a Christian...

When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women—their private lives and their conflicts with the traditions of their culture—she caused a sensation across the Arab world. Now in English, Alsanea’s tale of the personal struggles of four young upper-class women offers...

One night, she ran. For the bus to freedom and a new life. She had a plan, and a small box of cash.  With grit and determination, the young girl learned more than lessons at nursing college, the first part of her plan. Someday, she would become a top chef, but for now, she’d claw her way...

Funny, poignant, macabre — a delicious spread, showcasing bestselling author Bulbul Sharma’s mastery of the stories of small actors and the drama and richness of women’s everyday lives. ‘[Bulbul Sharma’s] stories make for entertaining reading, but, be warned, they will whet the appetite and...

Istanbul is the cornerstone of this culturally significant collection of short stories written exclusively by women. Ranging from ancient Constantinople to the modern capital of Turkey, these 27 short stories show the colorful traces of the people that have lived in that city throughout the ages....

It is 2008. Zhabed arrives as a student and unintentionally creates ripples in several women's lives. He faces a strange world in which women appear to have more freedom than back home. Choices dangle tantalisingly in front of his neighbours. Do the women dare to branch out? And what would the...

“You must come at once if you want to stop the suttee from happening again.” A phone call summons Kumud Kuthiyala back to Neela Nagar, the town of her youth that she had vowed never to return and the shackled life she thought she had left behind forever. As a nine-year-old, Kumud witnesses...

“If you loved My Brilliant Friend, The Godfather, and Montalbano you'll love this utterly gripping novel about women in organised crime in Sicily.” Most victims of the mafia are the Sicilians themselves. The role of women both as perpetrators and victims has been grossly overlooked. Until...

From New York Times bestselling author JoAnn Ross comes a beloved story about opposites attracting! If there is one thing magazine editor Jude Lancaster knows, it’s that cowboys sell. Wyoming rancher Lucky O’Neill is just the man she needs to model on the cover of the Hunk of the Month...

Five years ago, Asa was a happy child but now she teeters on the brink of self-destruction. At seventeen, she worries about her obsessive pebble collection and a hidden secret past. Asa gathers evidence, which points conclusively to one fact - Asa will become another one of a line of notorious and...

These days the news is full of reports about the graying of America, yet it’s rare that old people appear in contemporary fiction except as stock characters: the indulgent grandmother, the wicked witch. In her first novel in a dozen years, the acclaimed author of How She Died and Sweetsir gives...