Ex-cowgirl and quilter Bennie moves to California to start over after the sudden death of her husband. Working as the curator of a folk-art museum, Benni uncovers clues to a small-town murder. Now it's up to this crackerjack sleuth...
Women
- Author:Fowler, EarleneSummary:
- Author:Tihanyi, EvaSummary:
In the thirteen stories that comprise Truth and Other Fictions, by Eva Tihanyi, women take centre stage as they experience the slippery relationship between art and truth, not merely as an aesthetic concept but a reality in...
- Author:Popova, ElenaSummary:
The American dream has been part of world mythology for generations now. As the land of opportunity, America still entices people from around the world to taste it for themselves. Marrying an American has been one of the most popular...
- Author:Schoeman, AmySummary:
In This Is Not a Flowerpot, author Amy Schoeman, with keen observation and an enduring sense of irony, chronicles Lizelle's journey from being a woman with no clear idea of what she wants to one who chooses personal freedom and control...
- Author:Merkin, DaphneSummary:
A rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime.
- Author:Merkin, DaphneSummary:
A rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime.
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
Quilters have flocked to Elm Creek Manor to learn from Master Quilter Sylvia Compson and her expert colleagues. There's Sarah, Sylvia's onetime apprentice who's paired her quilting accomplishments with a mind for running...
- Author:Freedman, RussellSummary:
In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights.
- Author:Higdon, ChristineSummary:
Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers
On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic...
- Author:Farnsworth, VanessaSummary:
The stories in Farnsworth’s The Things She’ll Be Leaving Behind explore what it means to be a woman in the modern world, struggling against circumstances that are often unfair, inexplicable, and destructive. The women in this book don’t...
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
A television talk show host returns to her childhood summer home to rebuild her life after she's fired for falling ratings. The return is bittersweet as the house has been neglected for years. She's flooded with memories of the...
- Author:GASKIN, CatherineSummary:
Impoverished in Wicklow, Charlotte finds herself dispossessed and moved to Spain. There she becomes by marriage "Dona Carlota", a protege of the "Spanish woman" and an influential person in her own right. She does...
- Author:Salem, Jon.Summary:
Three women's lives intersect in a thrilling tale of desire, betrayal, and murder set in Sin City. At first glance, therapist Jennifer Payne, novelist Kristin Fox, and showgirl Billie Shelton have nothing in common. But they do...
- Author:Yalfani, MehriSummary:
Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges...
- Author:Bunn, T. DavisSummary:
The Solitary Envoy begins the glorious Heirs of Acadia series of historical novels set in the early days of the American Republic. Erica Langston's comfortable life in Georgetown is threatened when the British invade. Soon she must...
- Author:Misto, JohnSummary:
In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments. Now, after being separated for half a century...
- Author:Pinker, SusanSummary:
After four decades of eradicating gender barriers at work and in public life, why do men still dominate business, politics and the most highly paid jobs' Why do high-achieving women opt out of successful careers' Psychologist Susan...
- Author:Billingsley, ReShonda TateSummary:
Magazine executive Lance Kingston is overjoyed at his recent marriage to beautiful attorney Tia Jiles--then he discovers her dark secret. Tia is bipolar, and her illness creates violent impulses she can't control. Now Tia is...
- Author:Hearon, ShelbySummary:
Ellen Marshall is in her second marriage, now the mother of a 12-year-old son with her first husband Franklin and a four-year-old daughter with her current husband John. Ellen is growing tired of John's constant need for everyone...
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.