Contemporary Women category: 26023 books

  Twelve stories of women caught in the emotional turbulence of romance in Manhattan   For the twelve narrators of Susan Minot’s breathtaking collection—artists and lawyers, teenagers and thirty-somethings—love in New York doesn’t come easy. And as they struggle to reconcile...

Look out, Venice Beach--the Wolf women are all together again. But when 70-year-old Virginia arrives with her teacup Chihuahua and unshakeable confidence, she senses trouble. Erinn is keeping secrets--like being broke and out of work--and Suzanna is paying too much attention to the wrong man--a Latino...

Ms. Gómez is a poet, actor and playwright. Her poems and plays have been performed nationally, with seven of the poems in Shameless Woman included in the acclaimed Off-Broadway musical, Dancing in My Cockroach Killers, co-produced by Pregones and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.Ms. Gómez...

In the break room at work, do men ignore you or ask you to fetch their coffee like you were a cocker spaniel? Are you worried about becoming a doddering spinster, watching reruns of Bonanza and wondering why Adam left the Ponderosa? In her landmark book, Cigarette Glamour: Add A Hazy Veil To...

College friends Lucy and Katherine reunite as adults—and build a new friendship as changed women Katherine shows up at Lucy’s Manhattan doorstep having run away from the marriage altar. Lucy isn’t thrilled to see her former sorority sister—her own life as a children’s book illustrator...

A nineteenth century prophet claims seven young women for his own in this “engaging, serious and gleefully ironic novel” based on true events (The New York Times Book Review).   A New York Times Notable Book   In the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled his Christian Israelite church in Lancashire,...

Five women…five dreams…a lifetime of friendship…revisit the beloved stories of the Calamity Janes by #1 New York Times bestseller Sherryl Woods! WINDING RIVER REUNION Pregnant and unmarried, she left town...now, Cassie Collins has returned to reconnect with her oldest friends,...

Five women…five dreams…a lifetime of friendship…revisit the beloved stories of the Calamity Janes by #1 New York Times bestseller Sherryl Woods with Winding River Reunion, originally published as Do You Take This Rebel? in 2001 WINDING RIVER REUNION Pregnant and unmarried, she...

Five women…five dreams…a lifetime of friendship…revisit the beloved stories of the Calamity Janes by #1 New York Times bestseller Sherryl Woods with Home to Stay, originally published as To Catch a Thief in 2001! HOME TO STAY Gina Petrillo thought she was on the run from her troubles...but...

Lysandros Demetriou: shipping magnate and Athens' most-sought-after bachelor. Glamorous women compete for this brooding playboy's attention, but his focused ambitions ensure that they don't outstay their welcome! Until Petra Radnor whirls into his life. Her beauty is a lure Lysandros cannot...

Their chemistry is off the charts! But can these two dedicated doctors convince the women in their lives that they’re willing to spend a lifetime proving it? Find out in these two gorgeous romances from Betty Neels and Teresa Southwick. Britannia All at Sea It’s love at first sight...

A wonderfully provocative and appealing novel, from the much-loved author of Anywhere But Here and A Regular Guy, her first in ten years. It tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood. Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to LA...

Two Isobels. A lifetime of regret. A love that spans the years In 1938, as the world hurtled towards war, twenty-year-old Isobel MacDonald fell madly in love. But fate and her own actions conspired to deny her the happiness she yearned for. Many years later, plagued with regrets and with a...

I wrapped up my grandmother's tea cup collection and my mother's china, then grabbed a violin I'd hidden way back in my closet that made me cry, a gold necklace with a dolphin that my father gave me two weeks before he died of a heart attack when I was twelve and, at midnight, with that moon as bright...