Women's Fiction

Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness... He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I’d never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me....

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella. The irresistible new stand-alone from Sophie Kinsella is a story of love, empowerment and an IOU that changes everything....

Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid. Bravery, courage, fear, and love in a time of war....

Teeming with life and crackling with energy, told through many distinctive voices, this novel follows the lives of 12 very different characters.... 

Erin Turner and Cristophe Donakis set the bed sheets alight during their scorching affair....

Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure, until one day...she makes a mistake....

In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state - and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long....

A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages....

Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection - a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands....

Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story....

Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dreamteller mother....

Yumi Parr is the new project coordinator of a Manhattan design agency. Set apart from her coworkers by their race, salaries, alma maters, perfect teeth, and waistbands, Yumi bears their grunt work. After one microaggression too many, she decides to implement a change. Either senior white employees with their mouthfuls of wokespeak will comply or Yumi will learn a difficult lesson about the realities of modern business culture.

Inequality. Influence. Fraud. Sabotage. These are the themes of great fiction and our modern economy. In this collection of short stories by some of today’s most scintillating writers, the rich get poorer and the poor get richer. Yeah, right! From the heartbreaking to the hilarious, here are eight instantly classic battles over currency, class, privilege - and social distance.

Drei Frauen, die aus den Trümmern einer Katastrophe eine neue Gemeinschaft errichten. Eine Krise führt Angelina zurück an den magischen Ort ihrer Kindheit in Kansas. Dort begegnet sie zwei Frauen, die wie sie an einem Wendepunkt stehen: Traci, eine junge Künstlerin, und Gayle, die durch einen Tornado alles verloren hat. Schnell werden die drei füreinander unentbehrlich und entwickeln eine Schaffenskraft, die sie zu etwas ganz Neuem führt.

Der zweite Band der Bestseller-Serie Die Wunderfrauen: Vier starke Frauen zwischen Wirtschaftswunder und Hippiezeit, zwischen Nylons und Emanzipation, zwischen Liebe und Freundschaft. Zu Beginn der 1960er Jahre stimmen die Errungenschaften der Frauenbewegung, die neuartige Pille und die vielen neuen Möglichkeiten Luise zuversichtlich, außerdem ist in ihrem kleinen Laden viel zu tun, er ist ihr ganzer Stolz. Voller Tatendrang plant sie einen Umbau - sie möchte mit der Zeit gehen und Selbstbedienung anbieten.

Life for Emma isn’t good. The world knows her as Princess Anya on Dark Castle, but then her character gets the axe - literally. The cherry on top is finding her boyfriend in bed with another woman. She needs a break, and sanctuary comes in the form of Rosemont, a gorgeous estate in California promising rest and relaxation. Then she meets the owner’s equally gorgeous grandson, ex-hockey player and current recluse Lucian Osmond, and she sees her own pain and yearning reflected in his eyes. 

Wie intensiv kann ein Leben sein? Tove Ditlevsen schreibt über ein Frauenleben, ihr eigenes, so bewegend und universell wie niemand sonst. In "Abhängigkeit" ist Tove gerade mal 20 Jahre alt und schon als Schriftstellerin berühmt, aber ahnungslos, was ihr an Höhen und Tiefen noch bevorsteht: Im Kopenhagen der 1940er Jahre erlebt sie Affären, den Rausch der Bekanntheit, die Angst, als Künstlerin zu versagen, Schwangerschaftsabbrüche, Mutterschaft, Sucht. Es wird immer deutlicher, wie sehr sie darum kämpfen muss, frei zu sein und frei zu bleiben.