Category: Contemporary Women

By Lionel Shriver

ISBN-10: 0061187844

ISBN-13: 9780061187841

ISBN-10: 0061187895

ISBN-13: 9780061187896

ISBN-10: 0061366854

ISBN-13: 9780061366857

American kid's booklet illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a safe, settled lifestyles in London together with her shrewdpermanent, dependable, disciplined companion, Lawrence—until the evening she unearths herself inexplicably interested in kissing one other guy, a passionate, extravagant, top-ranked snooker participant. competing exchange futures hinge in this unmarried kiss, as Irina's decision—to quit to temptation or to maintain her probably secure partnership with Lawrence—will have momentous outcomes for her occupation, her friendships and familial relationships, and the feel of her everyday life.

By Kimberla Lawson Roby

ISBN-10: 0060780770

ISBN-13: 9780060780777

Meet Whitney, Taylor, and Charisse, 3 ladies who've been most sensible buddies on account that highschool. even if, this dedicated troika is ready to find a wave of unforeseen troubles.Whitney is a plus-size lady who simply cannot flip down a field of Krispy Kremes or discover a guy who will remain put.Taylor is in a long term courting with a boyfriend who is allergic to commitment.Charisse is married, with cute kids, yet by some means does not have what she particularly wants—or needs.Then by surprise Charisse spins uncontrolled. Her doormat husband manages to face as much as her or even threatens to head public with a really shady mystery Charisse had was hoping to maintain hidden, particularly from her interfering mom. determined, she comes to a decision that just a very dicy scheme will retailer her.One consistent for those girls has been the aid they have provided each other. yet this time, how a ways can friendship go?In this witty, rollicking, deeply poignant tale, Kimberla Lawson Roby demonstrates the storytelling magic that has received her legions of adoring fanatics and made her novels bestsellers.

By Ellyn Bache

ISBN-10: 0062033689

ISBN-13: 9780062033680

ISBN-10: 0062033697

ISBN-13: 9780062033697

She used to be the thread that wove their tapestry jointly. With a gaggle of girls as assorted because the women from Brightwood hint, chances are you'll now not imagine them to be shut. there is Julianne, a nurse with an unsettling psychic skill that permits her to actually consider what her sufferers think, Andrea, a robust castle sheltering a faltering center, Ginger, a mom torn among being a stay-at-home mother or following her profession aspirations, and Iona, the oldest, whose feisty, no-nonsense angle disarms even hardest of the harsh. no longer precisely the materials for the main cohesive cocktail . . . until eventually you upload Paisely, the liveliest and friendliest of the extended family, who breathed existence into all of them. but if their sparkling chief falls in poor health with melanoma, it is as much as those ladies to do what Paisely has performed for them because the starting: carry her up. Overcoming and accepting the inevitability of loss, the ladies draw nearer than ever; discovering jointly the energy to embody and cherish their lives with popularity, gratitude and most significantly, love. eventually dwelling with the power that Paisely has proven them from the beginning, they can see their lives in a brand new mild, whereas studying to assert so long to the brightest big name they have ever identified. Over the process simply 3 months, those 4 girls will suffer a powerful transformation that leaves no one unchanged.

By Alisa Kwitney

ISBN-10: 0060512377

ISBN-13: 9780060512378

Ardour. the type of tear-your-clothes off, scream-your-lungs-out, crash-into-the-furniture ardour that adjustments lives. it really is what Delilah desires. it really is what she craves. it is what she fantasizes approximately every time her disinterested husband's now not round. ok, so it sometimes makes her past due for the varsity run and distracts her from the actual fact there is no nutrients within the refrigerator, yet an complex fable lifestyles is a uncomplicated requirement for a fledgling cleaning soap opera author. in recent times, even though, the oddest issues were occurring in Delilah's actual existence. First, she discovers a number of skeletons damn round in her husband's closet. Then, she learns that the insolently horny plumber who is been solving her pipes and starring in her daydreams is absolutely an undercover FBI agent. And now all of the clues appear to aspect to the realization that she's the one individual in big apple urban no longer sporting on a torrid affair. Which she intends to focus on. Or does she? simply because there is not anything extra risky than performing on your mystery hope.

By Clare Mackintosh

“[A] well-told suspense story...refreshingly realistic.”—The big apple occasions publication Review
 
“Danger feels actual within the wonderful I See You…Mackintosh turns out destined to do very important paintings for a few years to come.”—The Washington Post
 
“Mackintosh allots her characters the precise volume of again tale, letting them hold their very own weight through the research. She additionally casts adequate extras to maintain readers guessing who can be in the back of those attacks…readers could locate themselves desirous to reread this one.”—Associated Press

The writer of the New York Times bestseller I allow you to Go propels readers right into a darkish and claustrophobic mystery, within which a regular, daily lady turns into trapped within the confines of her basic, daily world...
 
each morning and night, Zoe Walker takes an identical path to the educate station, waits at a undeniable position at the platform, unearths her favourite spot within the motor vehicle, by no means suspecting that somebody is gazing her...
 
all of it starts off with a categorised advert. in the course of her trip domestic one evening, whereas glancing via her neighborhood paper, Zoe sees her personal face staring again at her; a grainy picture besides a mobile quantity and a list for an internet site referred to as FindTheOne.com.
 
different ladies start showing within the similar advert, a special one on a daily basis, and Zoe realizes they’ve develop into the sufferers of more and more violent crimes—including homicide. With the aid of a decided cop, she uncovers the ad’s twisted purpose...A discovery that turns her paranoia into full-blown panic. Zoe is certain that somebody just about her has set her up because the subsequent aim.
 
And now that guy at the train—the one smiling at Zoe from around the car—could be greater than only a pleasant stranger. He should be an individual who has intentionally selected her and is able to make his subsequent movement…

By Elizabeth Young

By Carolyn G. Hart

ISBN-10: 0060004770

ISBN-13: 9780060004774

ISBN-10: 006129084X

ISBN-13: 9780061290848

Britt Barlow is bound her media multi-millionaire brother-in-law Jeremiah Addison's deadly tumble a 12 months in the past was once no coincidence -- specially due to the fact that she herself came upon, and disposed of, the journey cord an individual had strung around the stairs. Now she's bringing all who have been in attendance that weekend again to Golden Silk -- Addison's sumptuous secluded island property -- and alluring additional site visitors, Annie and Max Darling, to aid discover a killer. Annie Darling would not omit this occasion for the realm! And there definitely isn't any loss of suspects one of the site visitors, each one of whom had a considerable cause for doing within the unbearable rich person. however the occasion turns lethal whilst a houseman mysteriously vanishes, besides the boats that are the one break out off Addison's island -- leaving the Darlings stranded on a floating rock in the course of nowhere, too on the subject of an answer for convenience, and stalked through a artful assassin.

By Tamar Myers

ISBN-10: 0060846607

ISBN-13: 9780060846602

ISBN-10: 0061878421

ISBN-13: 9780061878428

ISBN-10: 0061878448

ISBN-13: 9780061878442

ISBN-10: 0061878456

ISBN-13: 9780061878459

By Katie Crouch

ISBN-10: 0316031976

ISBN-13: 9780316031974

Sarah Walters, the narrator of ladies IN vans, is a reluctant Camellia Society debutante. She has consistently felt ill-fitted to the rococo methods of Southern womanhood and kinfolk, and is worried to shake the bonds of her adolescence. nonetheless, she follows the conventional direction laid out for her. this is often Charleston, and during this appealing, darkish, segregated city, confirmed principles and manners suggest every little thing.

But as Sarah grows older, she unearths that her Camellia classes fail her, really as she is going to varsity, strikes North, and navigates love and lifestyles in ny. There, Sarah and her staff of displaced deb sisters attempt to outline themselves in the realities of recent lifestyles. Heartbreak, habit, disappointing jobs and dying fail to reside as much as the hazy, satisfied destiny promised to them via their Camellia moms and sisters.

When a few unforeseen bumps within the road--an unplanned delivery, a kin death--lead Sarah again domestic, she's compelled to take one other lengthy examine the fading empire of her early life. It takes a wierd flip of occasions to ultimately flooring Sarah sufficient to make a few critical offerings. And simply then does she notice that up to she attempted to disclaim it, the place she comes from will constantly impact the place she finally ends up. The motto of her girlhood cotillion society, "Once a Camellia, continually a Camellia," might end up to have extra knowledge and pull to it than she ever can have guessed.

By Rosalind Noonan

ISBN-10: 0758209290

ISBN-13: 9780758209290

The instant Abby Fitzgerald sees squaddies procedure her entrance door, she is aware her husband is lifeless. John Stanton, who gave up his occupation as a celebrity NFL working again to serve after Sep 11, has been killed in Iraq. without warning Abby's kitchen is overflowing with casseroles introduced by means of the military better halves' membership to which she hasn't ever particularly belonged. And her in-laws manage a lavish funeral at Arlington nationwide Cemetery, inspite of Abby's misgivings. John had grown to hate the warfare although he enjoyed his kingdom, and Abby cannot reconcile the complicated guy she knew with the model being portrayed by means of self-serving politicians, army, and the media.Shell-shocked, Abby strives to deal with her personal heartache whereas comforting John's family, together with his mom Sharice, his staunchly anti-war sister Madison, and his sour more youthful brother Noah. yet amidst her loss is a growing to be conviction that the reality approximately John's loss of life is way from over. Gripping, considerate, and emotionally strong, "One September Morning" is a narrative of loyalty and betrayal, of a shattered family's trip towards therapeutic, and of the braveness it takes to confront the reality not only approximately our enemies, yet approximately these we like most sensible.