From Adriana Trigiani, "a master of visual and palpable detail" (The Washington Post Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is...
Women
- Author:Trigiani, AdrianaSummary:
- Author:Whitson, AudreySummary:
At the heart of every story in Audrey Whitson’s collection is a character seeking personal purpose amongst the deep mysteries of self, and a wholeness amid the fractious nature of life. Whitson’s evocative narration guides us...
- Author:Burdick, SerenaSummary:
Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes...
- Author:Siddons, Anne RiversSummary:
Every August, four women would gather to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. But when one of the girls dies tragically, their vacations are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they...
- Author:Daré, Abi.Summary:
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! "Brave, fresh ... unforgettable." - The New York Times Book Review "A celebration of girls who dare to dream."-Imbolo Mbue,...
- Author:Henry, ChristinaSummary:
From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood" ... about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems. It's not safe for anyone alone in...
- Author:Leith, LindaSummary:
Vivid stories from a Canadian literary icon, who shares a life spread across continents and immersed in books. It’s the life that many dream of: education in some of Europe’s most beautiful cities before becoming a novelist, essayist,...
- Author:Friddle, MindySummary:
Cutter is determind to sabotage the sale of her family's dilapidated ancestral home. Her sister Ginny (in the midst of an affair with a professor) doesn't seem to care either way. When the professor's reclusive wife gathers up the...
- Author:Leroux, CatherineSummary:
A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was...
- Author:Nunn, KayteSummary:
A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novels by Kate Morton and Elizabeth Gilbert. 1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is...
- Author:Barclay, ByrnaSummary:
On midsummer's eve, 1941, Lena, keeper of the forest horses of Gotland, is kidnapped by a Russian poacher along with her herd, and taken to Leningrad just in time to endure the two-year German siege of that city during World War II. Her...
- Author:Ramos, JoanneSummary:
A riveting debut novel about four very different women whose lives intersect at a high-end facility where surrogate mothers for the uber wealthy live for the duration of their pregnancies. Welcome to Golden Oaks, the next big thing in...
- Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:
On August 27, 1927, five women gathered at a house on Edmonton's Southside to sign a letter that would change the course of Canadian history. Those women were Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, and...
- Author:Kline, Christina BakerSummary:
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded...
- Author:Fowler, MarianSummary:
In this widely acclaimed study, Marian Fowler explores how the experience of wilderness and frontier create a psychic tension between the gentility of old-world "embroidery" and the rugged masculinity of "tent"-dwelling in the...
- Author:Herriot, TrevorSummary:
A debut novel about the heartbreak of habitat loss and family trauma by one of Canada's most beloved writer-naturalists. This debut novel by Trevor Herriot is the richly observed story of Nell Rowan, who has inherited her family's...
- Author:Hoffman, AliceSummary:
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a suicidal son and a defiant granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family and the grounds of their waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And...
- Author:Fritz, JeanSummary:
Pocahontas was the special favorite of her father, the great chief Pawhatan. And when the English settlers came to Virginia, she became a "sister" to Captain John Smith, who was "adopted" into her tribe. She was...
- Author:Coleman, JaQuavisSummary:
Hazel has nothing and no one in her life; the only thing she "owns" is an insatiable addiction to heroin. Her addiction brings her to the slums, where she quickly learns the tricks of surviving--of hustling and getting her street smarts...
- Author:LAURENCE, MargaretSummary:
In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and depth, Morag recognizes that she needs...