The Women's Fiction category has 6,562 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 56,767 ratings. The most-rated is Where the Crawdads Sing.
Coming Home for Christmas
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“[Thayne] engages the reader’s heart and emotions, inspiring hope and the belief that miracles are possible.” (Debbie Macomber) New York Times best-selling author RaeAnne Thayne returns to Haven Point to bring listeners another heartwarming and inspiring story of Christmas romance - this time for Luke and Elizabeth Hamilton, a couple greatly in need of holiday healing and the magic of Christmas! Hearts are lighter and wishes burn a little brighter at Christmas.... Elizabeth Hamilton has been lost. Trapped in a tangle of postpartum depression and grief after the death of her beloved parents, she couldn’t quite see the way back to her husband and their two beautiful kids...until a car accident stole away her memories and changed her life. And when she finally remembered the sound of little Cassie’s laugh, the baby powder smell of Bridger, and the feel of her husband’s hand in hers, Elizabeth worried that they’d moved on without her. That she’d missed too much. That perhaps she wasn’t the right mother for her kids or wife for Luke, no matter how much she loved them. But now, seven years later, Luke finds her in a nearby town and brings Elizabeth back home to the family she loves, just in time for Christmas. And being reunited with Luke and her children is better than anything Elizabeth could have imagined. As they all trim the tree and bake cookies, making new holiday memories, Elizabeth and Luke are drawn ever closer. Can the hurt of the past seven years be healed over the course of one Christmas season and bring the Hamiltons the gift of a new beginning? Don't miss Thayne's next release, The Path to Sunshine Cove: three love stories in one with the emotional pull of Debbie Macomber, Barbara Delinsky, and Susan Wiggs! Don’t miss the rest of the Haven Point series! Snow Angel Cove Redemption Bay Evergreen Springs Riverbend Road Snowfall on Haven Point Serenity Harbor Sugar Pine Trail The Cottages on Silver Beach Season of Wonder Coming Home for Christmas
©2019 RaeAnne Thayne (P)2019 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
Eleanor Oliphant sta benissimo
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L'unica cosa che conta è rimanere fedeli a ciò che si è veramente. Mi chiamo Eleanor Oliphant e sto bene, anzi: sto benissimo. Non bado agli altri. So che spesso mi fissano, sussurrano, girano la testa quando passo. Forse è perché io dico sempre quello che penso. Ma io sorrido. Ho quasi trent'anni e da nove lavoro nello stesso ufficio. In pausa pranzo faccio le parole crociate. Poi torno a casa e mi prendo cura di Polly, la mia piantina: lei ha bisogno di me, e io non ho bisogno di nient'altro. Perché da sola sto bene. Solo il mercoledì mi inquieta, perché è il giorno in cui arriva la telefonata di mia madre. Mi chiama dalla prigione. Dopo averla sentita, mi accorgo di sfiorare la cicatrice che ho sul volto e ogni cosa mi sembra diversa. Ma non dura molto, perché io non lo permetto. E se me lo chiedete, infatti, io sto bene. Anzi, benissimo. O così credevo, fino a oggi. Perché oggi è successa una cosa nuova. Qualcuno mi ha rivolto un gesto gentile. Il primo della mia vita. E all'improvviso, ho scoperto che il mondo segue delle regole che non conosco. Che gli altri non hanno le mie paure, non cercano a ogni istante di dimenticare il passato. Forse il "tutto" che credevo di avere è precisamente tutto ciò che mi manca. E forse è ora di imparare davvero a stare bene. Anzi: benissimo. Gail Honeyman ha scritto un capolavoro. Un romanzo che secondo la stampa internazionale più autorevole rimarrà negli annali della letteratura. Un romanzo che per i librai è unico e raro come solo le grandi opere possono essere. In corso di pubblicazione in 35 paesi, è il romanzo d'esordio più venduto di sempre in Inghilterra, dove è da più di un anno in vetta alle classifiche. Ha vinto il Costa First Novel Award e presto diventerà un film. Una protagonista in cui tutti possono riconoscersi. Una storia di resilienza, di forza, di dolore, di speranza. Un grande romanzo con una grande anima.
©2018 Garzanti (P)2018 Adriano Salani Editore
The Irish Princess
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Elizabeth "Gera" Fitz Gerald had a privileged life in her youth in Ireland, daughter of the FitzGerald Dynasty. Her privileged world is overturned when her father, the ninth earl of Kildare, is imprisoned in the Tower of London by King Henry VIII and her family is destroyed by corruption charges and scandal. Torn from her island home and the rest of her family spread out across Europe, Elizabeth has no choice but to accept a place in England's glittering court. Now a member of King Henry VIII's royal court and a companion to his infant daughter, Elizabeth, Gera has to navigate the ever changing politics and alliances - all while nursing her own desire for revenge. From the lush green fields of Ireland's County Kildare to England's treacherous and opulent royal court, New York Times best seller Karen Harper delves into the life of a real, daring woman who cannot be tamed...or satisfied until her family's good name is restored.
©2011 Karen Harper (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
Never Kiss a Stranger
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It was an innocent mistake...All workaholic real estate broker Addison Andrews wanted was one night of pleasure, and picking the right guy was no different than shopping from a catalog, thanks to the dating app on her phone. His name was Wilder, and his profile was blank - just a sexy picture of a man who promised every wicked intention of a one-night stand. The agreement was simple. One night. No last names. But the second their bodies melded together in the sheets of their posh Manhattan hotel room, there was no denying they fit together like two pieces of a broken puzzle. There's just one problem...Addison unknowingly swiped right on the one man she wasn't supposed to be with - her new stepbrother. All it takes is one bite of forbidden fruit to become addicted, but being with him has major consequences for their entire family. And if anyone found out about them, the career she worked so hard to build would crumble to the ground. But Wilder Van Cleef doesn't care about the possibility of a scandal. He wants her, and he's willing to do whatever it takes. Please note: This is a standalone, full-length romance novel with no cliffhanger.
©2015 Winter Renshaw (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Knights Rising
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Some things are best left alone. I know this. I should stand by it. That would be the safest option. But, well, I just can’t do that - because the thing I should leave alone...is everything. It’s the reason I breathe. It’s the reason I keep putting one foot in front of the other. I need help. I know it, but nobody wants to step up. The case is too hard. There’s nothing they can do. And then I meet them - bikers, the Knight Brothers. They can give me the help I need. They have the resources. But there’s a problem: Lincoln Knight. I can’t stand him. I loathe him. I despise him. And yet, he’s determined to help me. He won’t take no for an answer. And if I’m being honest...I need him. But working with him, spending time with him, it’s the last thing I want to do...but I have no choice. And I know it. This most definitely won’t end well.
©2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Etiquette for Runaways
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A sweeping Jazz Age tale of regret, ambition, and redemption inspired by true events, including the Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935 and Josephine Baker’s 1925 Paris debut in Le Revue Nègre 1924. May Marshall is determined to spend the dog days of summer in self-imposed exile at her father’s farm in Keswick, Virginia. Following a naive dalliance that led to heartbreak and her expulsion from Mary Baldwin College, May returns home with a shameful secret only to find her father’s orchard is now the site of a lucrative moonshining enterprise. Despite warnings from the one man she trusts - her childhood friend Byrd - she joins her father’s illegal business. When authorities close in and her father, Henry, is arrested, May goes on the run. May arrives in New York City, determined to reinvent herself as May Valentine and succeed on her own terms, following her mother’s footsteps as a costume designer. The Jazz Age city glitters with both opportunity and the darker temptations of cocaine and nightlife. From a start mending sheets at the famed Biltmore Hotel, May falls into a position designing costumes for a newly formed troupe of African-American entertainers bound for Paris. Reveling in her good fortune, May will do anything for the chance to go abroad, and the lines between right and wrong begin to blur. When Byrd shows up in New York, intent upon taking May back home, she pushes him, and her past, away. In Paris, May’s run of luck comes to a screeching halt, spiraling her into darkness as she unravels a painful secret about her past. May must make a choice: surrender to failure and addiction, or face the truth and make amends to those she has wronged. But first, she must find self-forgiveness before she can try to reclaim what her heart craves most. Parade Magazine Pick - Frolic Pick
©2020 Liza Nash Taylor (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
Mauve Desert
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First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard’s classic novel returns in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-listen for audiences and writers alike. This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert, 15-year-old Mélanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover, Lorna, in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maudes Laures reads Mauve Desert, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book - Mauve, the Horizon - is Laures's eventual translation of Mauve Desert. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original. Nicole Brossard's writing is agile and inventive; from moment to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic. Her language drifts and swells like sand dunes in a desert, cresting and accumulating into a landscape that shifts like wind and words; she translates the practice of translation, the pulse of desire. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.
©2020 Nicole Brossard (P)2020 ECW Press
Christmas Wishes
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A sparkling Christmas listen from the Sunday Times best seller - perfect to snuggle up with this winter! Hannah and Nico are meant to be together. But fate is keeping them apart. As soon as Hannah bumps into her brother Rob’s best friend, Nico, in Stockholm, the two rekindle a fast friendship. But Hannah has a boyfriend - and Nico has two children to look after. When Hannah loses her beloved shop in Stockholm, though, she is forced to move back to the little village of Middledip - only to find Nico has just moved in, too. Under the same snowy sky, can the childhood friends make a romance work - or are there too many obstacles standing in their way? A heartwarming story of love, friendship and Christmas magic, perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley and Jill Mansell.
©2020 Sue Moorcroft (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Another Us
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What if Emma isn’t the person she thought she was? Her younger son has just been diagnosed with autism. She’s accidentally quit her job. The marriage she was dedicated to suddenly seems like a sham. She’s pretty sure that she is going to have an affair with a hot new dad at the school. The only thing that stays the same is everyone else. Emma realises it’s not them - it’s her. But if she’s not who she thought she was, can her old life fit in with the new Emma?
©2020 Kirsten Hesketh (P)2021 Isis Publishing Ltd
She Effin' Hates Me
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Molly has arrived home from Vassar to reveal that she has an important announcement to make. Her mother, Suzanne, is convinced that Molly’s news is history repeating herself and that she’s about to become a 36-year-old grandmother. Suzanne’s mother, Ava, develops a case of impending great-grandmother fever - that is, when she’s not spying on the new next-door neighbor, Buddy McKinley, who turns out to be a blast from her past. Decades earlier, Buddy was the business partner of Ava’s late husband, as well as his best friend during the Vietnam War. Ava feels she has good reasons for hating Buddy she blames him for the fall of their business, an Irish pub that was a staple of the community. The loss not only destroyed her husband but also pushed her headfirst into the vodka bottle. Suzanne eventually finds out that Buddy and Ava’s past goes back much further than either has admitted. She begins to wonder whether Ava truly hates Buddy, or whether her feelings are much more complicated, as are her own when Molly announces that she’s not pregnant, but gay. Based on the award-winning play, She Effin' Hates Me is about three women relearning to love one another for who they are and, more importantly, for who they’re not.
©2014 Scarlett Savage (P)2013 Audible Inc.
Raya
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From the palaces of pre-revolutionary Iran to Swiss boarding schools and the world's glamor capitals, Princess Soraya Esfandiary Bahktiari lived a life seemingly straight out of a fairy tale. The only daughter of a prominent Iranian family, at 16 she is selected from among the most beautiful and eligible women of her country to wed the Shah of Iran. Too young to recognize prominent members of Iranian society made the match - and that her job is to help unite a country being driven apart - one truth is inescapable: Soraya loves the Shah deeply. Sadly, her affections are not equally returned, and her life is shattered overnight. The red carpet is pulled from under her feet as her royal status is torn away. Years later, a chance encounter with a distant relative leads Soraya back on a journey through the tender and tumultuous times of her life as another young woman struggles to come to terms with love and betrayal. Together, they share their stories of defeat and victories of love, hoping to make sense of the ever-fragile human heart.
©2018 Mahsa Rahmani Noble (P)2021 Tantor
One Two Three
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From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times best-selling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again. In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does.... Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed - tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab’s job is hardest of all: Get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne. For a few weeks 17 years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother’s endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone’s seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they’ve been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you. Three unforgettable narrators join together here to tell a spellbinding story with wit, wonder, and deep affection. As she did in This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel has written a laugh-out-loud-grab-a-tissue novel, as only she can, about how expanding our notions of normal makes the world a better place for everyone and how when days are darkest, it’s our daughters who will save us all. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
©2021 Laurie Frankel (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
The Old House on the Corner
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Victoria Macara is 27 and lives alone in the old house on the corner that was once home to the family removal business. When the land is sold, she finds herself surrounded by a small estate of new properties called Victoria Square. The newcomers who move in around her bring with them their own dramas. The mismatched Kathleen and Steve are lovers with broken marriages behind them; Rachel is attempting to escape from a terrible tragedy; upper-class Sarah arrives with her children after running away from an abusive husband; while Anna and Ernie are just after a quiet life. For Marie Jordan, Victoria Square is a refuge from the men who murdered her husband; for Judy Moon, it means a fresh start after 40 years of marriage to a man she'd thought she'd love forever. But it is to Gareth, trapped in a hopeless marriage, that Victoria is particularly drawn. When Rachel decides to hold a barbecue, the scene is set for confrontation, truth-telling, and the revelation of long-held secrets that will touch the lives of all these characters.
©2004 Maureen Lee (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Emma's Place
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Thirty-something jeweller Emma Hamilton returns to her childhood home town of Tingara, a charming historic village in the foothills of the Victorian Alps. Builder Malcolm Webster commutes to Tingara from nearby Bendigo each weekend to work on restoring a beautiful old Victorian homestead. When Emma and Mal meet, attraction flares; but he is younger, and, wary after her failed marriage, Emma is not in the market for romance. Will Mal's humour and charm break down her barriers?
©2016 Noelene Jenkinson (P)2019 Aurora Audio Books
Secrets and Lies
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She just witnessed her uncle's murder, she's running for her life, and now Dr. Katelyn Lyda is face-to-face with a breathtaking man who could be her salvation. Tall, sexy, his eyes full of mysterious promises, he seems to have the answer she needs. It's too bad Sebastian Caine is one of the bad guys.... A "recovery specialist" skilled at separating prized possessions from their owners, Sebastian is after an ancient relic. But he reconsiders the job when he finds himself staring at the wrong end of a gun. The beautiful lady with her finger on the trigger seems to have everything he needs - and not just the artifact. Sebastian's conscience has never bothered him before - but then he has never wanted any woman more. With her life in jeopardy, Kat wonders how far she can trust Sebastian Caine...how long she can resist him...and dare she fall in love?
©2007 Stacey Abrams (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
Sunshine Over Bluebell Cliff
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A place to make your dreams come true.... Clara King is left in sole charge of a fabulous new clifftop hotel for the summer. The owner has barely left the country when Clara realises that someone is hell bent on putting the Bluebell Cliff out of business. It becomes a race against time to hunt down the sneaky saboteur before they succeed in bringing the hotel to its knees. Meanwhile Clara’s family is in crisis following her grandfather’s affair. With her dream job under threat and her personal life in chaos, Clara discovers when what you love the most is in danger it can bring out the very best in you.
©2020 Della Galton (P)2020 Boldwood Books
Never Too Soon
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Book 2 in the Anaya's World series. Things are looking up for Anaya Goode after the deaths of her brother and mother. She is the youngest (and highest paid) executive in Alameda County. She is in an adoring relationship with the love of her life, her natural twists are on point, and she runs a six-minute mile. What else matters? When Anaya is tasked with leading negotiations for the most significant development agreement in County history, her world unravels. If the antics of inept officials and her micromanaging boss aren't enough to drive Anaya mad, she discovers that her ex-boyfriend Jeff is commissioned as a consultant on the development agreement. Anaya hasn't had contact with Jeff since their messy break-up six years ago. As negotiations for the development agreement intensify, an internal scandal threatens Anaya's reputation - and her job. Amid bureaucratic indecision and public outrage, Anaya leans on Jeff for support, and unresolved feelings resurface. As Anaya questions her steady relationship, her extended family's perception of her as Goode matriarch puts her in the middle of every aunt's and cousin's problem. She is tired of serving as supplemental income to her scripture-quoting, ever-pregnant sister, and would love to burn the imaginary pedestal her family has perched her on. Can she see her work and family commitments through and still maintain her love life - and more importantly, her sense of self? Ripe with witty dialogue and relatable characters, Never Too Soon offers a look into complicated relationships and haunting pasts, and shows the importance of the familial ties that bind.
©2019 Tamika Christy (P)2021 Tamika Christy
The Girl Without a Name
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A secret wartime love affair. A girl nobody can find. Is it ever too late to say you’re sorry? September 1940. As the bombs of the Blitz fall on London, Ruby and Stevie are falling in love. United by a shocking experience when they were evacuees, Ruby believes that she understands Stevie like nobody else can. But then Stevie is sent abroad into danger, and as Ruby waits desperately for letters with foreign stamps that never come, she begins to fear that he is lost forever. And when Stevie does return, he has changed, and Ruby faces a difficult choice. August 2004. Billie has rushed to her father Dick’s hospital bedside. A terrible stroke has robbed him of his speech, and he is a shell of the man he was before. But when Billie finds a crumpled black-and-white photo in his wallet of a smiling, dark-haired girl she doesn’t recognize, Dick frantically tries to talk. Billie knows that he is trying to tell her something important, and she must ask the questions her father cannot. All she has to go on is the name he is just able to mumble: Ruby. As Billie uncovers Ruby’s tragic story, she is determined to find out what happened to the girl who went away for a weekend with the man she loved and never came home. Why did nobody miss her? And how is she connected to Billie’s beloved father? Can Billie lay the ghosts of the past to rest, even if it means revealing the darkest secrets of her father’s life and breaking her own heart? A story of the bravery and courage of a young woman in wartime and another woman’s quest to put things right. Fans of The Letter and The Nightingale will be hooked on The Girl Without a Name. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 Suzanne Goldring (P)2020 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.
Second Chance Magic
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Secrets broke her heart...and have now come back from the grave to haunt her. A new series from NYT and USAT best-selling author, Michelle M. Pillow! Lorna Addams’ life is not turning out like she expected. After a very public embarrassment, she finds it difficult to trust her judgment when it comes to new friendships and dating. She might be willing to give love a second chance when she meets the attractive William Warrick, if only she could come to terms with what her husband did to her and leave it in the past. How is a humiliated empty nest widow supposed to move on with her life? It’s not like she can develop a sixth sense, séance her ex back, force him to tell her why and give her closure. Or can she?
©2020 The Raven Books LLC (P)2020 The Raven Books LLC
Who We Were
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My Papai always said wine made everything better. Countless times he uttered those familiar words to me: "The Merlot will melt your problems away, meu amor. With a good bottle of wine in your hand, you hold the magical key to anything you want." I believed my father wholeheartedly, until my world came crashing down on me at 24 years old. It wasn't going to take wine to help Brody and I find our way back to one another. It was going to take fighting...not only for our love - but for my life.
©2015 Kelly Elliot (P)2016 Audible, Inc.