Fiction, Contemporary Women
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Bait and Switch
by Frances Schepp Ruh
Isabelle Chilton Chandler, Chicago-based author of a successful women’s mystery series, has always known exactly what she wants and how to get it. But when she starts working on a new book, inspiration—for the first time ever is painfully out of...
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A Garden of Her Own
by Kate Phelps
Amy James is a good wife and a good gardener. Married to renowned architect Graham James and employed as a part-time garden columnist, Amy has almost enough to keep her happy. Engaged in researching a new book—a collection of essays about women...
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The Primitives
by Darlene Barry Quaife
In the early months of the Spanish Civil War, Canadian-American archaeologist Dr. Grace “Shale” Clifden and her inexperienced field crew of well-met Canadians—Dorothy Livesay, P. K. Page, and Sheila Doherty—are documenting a rare discovery of...
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DIY Home
by Lorraine McQueen
It’s Georgie’s fiftieth birthday, and she’s running headfirst into a whopping mid-life crisis. Daughter of a minister and a high school principal, Georgie is a perpetual do-gooder who has spent her entire life putting others first—right down to...
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Question Everything
by Frances Schepp Ruh
On a stormy spring afternoon, middle-aged Betsy Flemming is shocked by her husband’s announcement that he’s leaving her for her best friend—a betrayal that spins her into a crisis of confidence, struggling to maintain a relationship with their...
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The Deposits
by Corinne Tessier
Mavis Howard thought she was happy. She certainly wasn’t looking for epiphanies or personal transformation, but when her husband suddenly announces that he’s leaving her for another woman—one able to give him the child that she could not—she...
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Plain Jane Brown
by J. P. Dusel
Jane hasn’t left Canada since her honeymoon thirty-five years ago. Now she is fifty-six, her husband has left her for a younger woman, and she is on her way to Cuba to try to “get her groove back,” as her friend Mavis put it. That is, if she ever...
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Severance of the Sorcerer
by Kate Gateley
A spreading darkness, a final prophecy, and one last chance to live ... or die. In his desperate bid to find answers of his own, Cassius Longinus—the ancient Child of Rome—released the killing darkness upon the world. A betrayal by Julia and...
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No Safe House
by Jan Garnett
Kathleen (Kot) Cafferty is an optimist, a dedicated professional, and rather fond of control until she is suddenly swept into the RCMP’s Witness Protection Program, with only her dog, Medley, for company. When the safe house becomes anything but,...
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Redamancy
The Act of Loving in Return by Andrea Castillo
A charming and heartfelt novel about the power of food as the ultimate love language. Lana has had a passion for food and cooking for as long as she can remember. Through learning traditional recipes and techniques at her grandmother’s side...