Women's Fiction

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love....

A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one best-selling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice and the power of place....

My dear Miss Bridgerton, We have been corresponding now for quite some time, and although we have never formally met, I feel as if I know you. I am writing to invite you to visit me here at Romney Hall....

When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive - and deeply intimidating....

Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender, heartbreaking, and moving story of four sisters over three decades....

Where do you see yourself in five years? Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan has been in possession of her meticulously crafted answer since she understood the question.... 

Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan....

Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress....

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition....

Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare....

Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you and stay with you forever....

In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it....

Spencer Brooke grew up knowing that one day she would own and run Brooke's, one of New York's most respected department stores, established by her late grandfather. But the path to success hasn't been easy....

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen....

In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation....

Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America....

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....

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild....

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way....

I was upgraded to first class on a flight from London to New York. The food, champagne, and service were impeccable. The blue-eyed man sitting next to me, even better. He was suave and intelligent....

Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods and the woman who was killed....

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....

Can you find yourself after you have lost that special someone? A disillusioned and heartbroken Anusha finds herself in the small world of WeD. Struggling to cope with her feelings and the job of raising money for charity, she reluctantly searches for a worthwhile cause to support....

You are cordially invited to the wedding of the decade, when Christian Grey will make Anastasia Steele his wife. But is he really husband material? His dad is unsure, his brother wants to organize one helluva bachelor party, and his fiancée won’t vow to obey.... 

Ogni punto di partenza ha bisogno di un ritorno. Per riconciliarsi con il mondo, dopo una storia d'amore finita, Adelaide torna nel paese in cui è nata, un pugno di case in pietra tra le montagne aspre della Val Germanasca: una terra resistente dove si parla una lingua antica e poetica. È lì per rifugiarsi nel respiro lungo della sua infanzia, negli odori familiari di bosco e legna che arde, dipanare le matasse dei giorni e ricucirsi alla sua terra: ‘fare la muta al cuore', come scrive nelle lettere al figlio.

Snehild viene al mondo nel bel mezzo di una sanguinosa guerra. La madre fugge attraverso i boschi e raggiunge la città di Himlinge, dove Snehild cresce. Quando, però, la potente sacerdotessa della città, Ragnfrid, sospetta che Snehild abbia capacità superiori alle sue, decide che è necessario sbarazzarsi di lei. Ispirata alla mitologia nordica, la serie "La veggente di Midgard" è ambientata nella Danimarca dell’età del ferro. Una storia avvincente di donne forti, vendetta, destino e favore degli dèi, in un’epoca in cui la passione e l’onore dominano il campo di battaglia.

Eine Bluttat, geschehen im Verborgenen, ungehört und ungesehen. Werden die Hintergründe je ans Licht kommen? Die 47-jährige Marie wird von ihrem herrischen Chef zerrieben und die 25-jährige Lena bringt nicht nur ihren Freund zur Verzweiflung, während ein alternder Schauspieler seinen Verfall nicht realisiert. Als der junge Wirtschaftsprüfer Christian Gottlieb im Leben dieser Menschen aufkreuzt, drängen tief verborgene Geheimnisse ans Licht und seelische Abgründe sowie Verletzungen werden genauso sichtbar wie selbstlose Liebe.

Ihr gehört ein bekannter Nachtclub in Berlin. Ihm die halbe Stadt. Nur etwas ganz Bestimmtes fehlt ihm noch... Der neue Zweiteiler von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Caren Benedikt. Berlin, 1976: Der skrupellose Immobilienpatriarch Hanns Borchardt befindet sich auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Karriere – er ist der Mann, mit dem jeder Geschäfte machen will. Seiner Frau Maria und seinen beiden Kindern Holger und Hanna bietet er ein luxuriöses Leben.

Le idee di Clelia Farris hanno la consistenza degli aculei dei ricci di mare e un sapore, tra l'aspro e l'agrodolce, che si conficca nella mente. Nelle sue storie i personaggi possiedono identità liquide e sfuggenti come Kieser, che vorrebbe diventare se stesso mediante operazioni di “Chirurgia creativa”, oppure Yuliano, l'uomo senza gusto estetico di “Nemico segreto”, e ancora Gabola, impegnato in una lotta contro l’esproprio della collina di Piccolo Tuvu.

Iris nya liv ska äntligen ta sin början. Livet hon längtat efter. Snart åker flyttlasset till Fårö, till den lilla campingen där hon och Filip var så lyckliga i somras. Där tänker de rusta upp stället inför den kommande säsongen och göra deras nya hem lämpligt för en barnfamilj – för om bara några månader ska två bli tre. De hinner inte ens inleda sitt efterlängtade samboskap förrän Iris pappa Ove kommer med upprörande nyheter – hennes mamma vill skiljas.

Responsible for cleaning the homes of the rich, Mrs. Harris is a humble charlady with a knack for putting things in order wherever she goes. When, much to her surprise, she wins a trip for two beyond the Iron Curtain, she has no idea of the adventure that lies ahead of her. Ever the loyal servant, Mrs. Harris (accompanied by her friend Mrs. Butterfield) believes it only right that others benefit from her fortune as well. With a mink coat in mind for Mrs. Butterfield, she also hopes to use their 'oliday to reignite a lost romance between her employer and a Russian woman he had loved years ago.

Natalia Martín trabaja como asistente de Laura Vidal, administradora al 50 % de la compañía hotelera Vidal & Peralta. El otro 50 % pertenece a Álvaro, hermano de Laura, un hombre prepotente, con un carácter muy marcado y muy exigente con sus trabajadores. Un viaje a Estambul para diseñar la construcción de un hotel de lujo pondrá a prueba la paciencia y la valía de Natalia respecto a Álvaro.

Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth charlady, content with her lot, cleaning the homes of the rich. However, her knack of setting things straight often has the tendency to stray beyond keeping things neat and tidy. In Mrs Harris MP, the honest as-ever old char impresses her employer with her no-nonsense political views to such an extent that he—an MP, no less—encourages her to become a voice for the people of Battersea and stand for election herself.

Bestseller-Autorin Svenja Lassen entführt die Hörerinnen an die romantische Ostsee. Nora ist überglücklich! Die Zeit der Fernbeziehung mit ihrem Freund Markus ist endlich vorbei. Noras Kisten sind gepackt, der Umzugswagen steht schon vor der Tür als Markus plötzlich verkündet, er braucht eine Beziehungspause. Per Brief! Wer macht denn bitte so was? Nora beschließt, jetzt endlich mal etwas für sich zu tun: Das Meer wiedersehen und den schönen Gendarmenpfad an der Ostseeküste bewandern. Ihre unbequemen Wanderschuhe machen ihr allerdings schnell einen Strich durch die Rechnung.

Cosa significa essere femminista oggi? Per prima cosa reclamare la propria importanza, di individuo e di donna insieme; reclamare il diritto all'uguaglianza senza se e senza ma. E cosa significa essere una madre femminista? Non smettere di essere una donna, una professionista, una persona, e condividere alla pari la responsabilità con il proprio compagno. Mostrare a una figlia le trappole tese da chi la vuole ingabbiare per mezzo della violenza, fisica o psicologica, in un ruolo predefinito, e spiegarle che quel ruolo non ha nessun valore reale e che potrà scegliere di essere ciò che vorrà.

Rosewood, Pennsylvania. Spencer, Aria, Emily e Hanna sono favolose come sempre, ma stanno affrontando un momento complicato. La loro amicizia si sta indebolendo sempre più a causa del misterioso "A" e dei suoi messaggi che raccontano i loro segreti più intimi e più pericolosi. È come se Alison, la loro amica uccisa anni prima, fosse tornata dal regno delle ombre per punirle dei loro peccati e delle loro bugie. Ma una sera Hanna chiede alle sue amiche di incontrarsi perché sa chi si cela dietro la sigla "A".

A former foster kid, Jane has led a solitary life as a waitress in the suburbs, working hard to get by. After graduating, Jane accepts a job offer at a distinguished law firm in downtown Toronto. Everyone at the firm thinks she is destined for failure because her boss is the notoriously difficult Edward Rosen. But Jane has known far worse trials and refuses to back down. Edward has never been able to keep an assistant—he’s too loud, too messy, too ill-tempered. Yet there’s something about Jane that intrigues him. As their orbits overlap, their feelings begin to develop.

1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D'Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identity of the people who killed them, her skills are highly sought after by widows and investigators alike. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister's death, but to do so, she must embrace the unknown and overcome her own logic-driven bias against the occult. 

"The Garden Lodge" is a short story by Willa Cather, first published in 1905. It tells the story of a woman asked by her husband if she would agree to tear down their garden lodge and build a new summer house there instead. She grows nostalgic as she remembers spending fond times there with tenor Raymond d'Esquerre when he was visiting. Although a moderate and no-nonsense woman, the singer rekindled her passion for music during his stay.