Showing results for "That Girl" in Women's Fiction

Sie wusste nie, wer sie war. Das war ihr Geheimnis. Avocadotoast zum Frühstück, Co-Working im Lieblingscafé, abends zum Pilates in Hannovers Szenestadtteil Linden: Tess Raabe ist ein That Girl, schön, erfolgreich, glücklich, und all das hält sie in ihren Vlogs fest, die sie auf ihrem erfolgreichen Social-Media-Account teilt. In ihrem Buch "Date Me" schreibt sie über Tinderdates, sie tritt für die richtigen Werte ein, predigt Selbstliebe – und alle kaufen es ihr ab, schließlich ist Tess authentisch und nahbar. Doch der Schein trügt, und das fällt Tess besonders dann auf, als sie Leo kennenlernt.

Desire Jones is a young, hot-to-trot teen who lives life on the edge. Abandoned by her mother, she yearns for love and attention. Her uncle shelters her, but life is impossible to bear with his abusive wife. To make things worse, she gets involved with Malik, who shatters her hope and trust by leaving her pregnant and infected with HIV. Hurt and hardened, she decides to do the unspeakable - purposely infect people with her disease. Of course, no one knows of her intent, not even her best friend Jennifer, who unwittingly helps Desire find her victims.

From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie’s beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom. Stop That Girl chronicles Ann’s colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along the way, she discovers the absurdities that lurk around every corner of a young woman’s life, by way of oafish neighbors, overzealous boyfriends, prurient vegetable salesmen, sour landlords, and an iconoclast grandmother, known even to her family as Dr. Frost.

A 2025 CALIBA Golden Poppy Awards Finalist A PANTS POD BOOK CLUB PICK One of ELLE's Best Queer Books of 2025 "Jam-packed with queer angst and queer joy . . . and a truly incredible amount of heart. I devoured this novel." —Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Stop Me If...

Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit—the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate...

Before that night, Addison Milan would never have thought the man she'd been fighting hard not to fall for - her only friend in her new shadow of a life - would be in a position to rip her family apart. Before that night, Caine Spencer would never have believed any woman could make him fall head over heels, let alone make him feel so damn compelled to look the other way when it came to his job. Then that one perfect night changed everything.