"Phoebe and Suze used to be closer than sisters. Growing up in a quiet and wildly beautiful coastal town in Oregon, they shared everything. Until the secrets they couldn't share threatened their bond and complicated their lives. Now, decades later, Suze, a famous actress desperate for safe haven following a brutal attack, is back in town. Phoebe, a successful illustrator and fabric designer, has discovered keeping a secret means she can't let anyone...

Big city blues: A free-wheeling chorus girl hooks up with the ultimate hick. Hell's highway: A cool convict works the road crew for a corrupt warden. The cabin in the cotton: Sharecroppers are taken advantage of by the planter who keeps them as virtual slaves. When ladies meet: A female novelist whose latest work extols the virtues of extramarital amour has a fling with her married publisher. I sell anything: A Second Avenue auctioneer gets played...

Prisoners of war in 1942, Australian nurse Nesta James and Norah Chambers—held in the notorious Camp Palembang, deep in the jungle of Sumatra—battle disease, starvation and unimaginable brutality meted out by Japanese soldiers, but find, in themselves and in each other, the courage and resourcefulness to survive.

Margo Everson sees the call out for the cookbook club and knows she?s found her people. Recently dumped by her self-absorbed husband, who frankly isn?t much of a loss, she has little to show for her marriage but his ?parting gift??a dilapidated old farm house?and a collection of well-loved cookbooks Aja Alexander just hopes her new-found friends won?t notice that that every time she looks at food, she gets queasy. It?s hard hiding a pregnancy, especially...

American divorcée Armaiti has six months to live and her last wish is to see her three best friends again--Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta, all in Bombay. But Nishta's husband, Iqbal, a fellow university idealist turned fundamentalist, will be the biggest obstacle to fulfilling Armaiti's final desire.

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couples Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians-prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda-invites Sasha and Jesse to their country...

Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It's said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline's world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams,...

The most beautiful, sought-after woman in Belle Époque Paris, Émilienne sees her youth and beauty fade. As clouds of war begin darkening Europe, Émilienne's young friend, Coco Chanel, has other ideas of how to survive in a man's world. Strong ideas. Now, as Émilienne fights to survive, Coco's star rises.

A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.

Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor mentor and writer but in her own home she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe--the nations only female ice road trucker. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous beautiful and exhilarating--an adventurous ride through the Alaskan...