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June 17, 2026

WISHES

By N. Christine Samuelson
Women's
Rating:
3.8 / 5.0

N. Christine Samuelson’s WISHES captures how, with enough determination and support, healing is not a destination but the practice of small, courageous choices.

April 6, 2026

CHASING NIRVANA: A Seeker’s Story of Love, Loss, and Liberation

By Priya Hutner
Women's
Rating:
3.7 / 5.0

In CHASING NIRVANA: A Seeker's Story of Love, Loss, and Liberation, Priya Hutner delivers an unflinching and deeply atmospheric account of life inside a high‑control...

IR Approved
March 24, 2026

MADAME PRESIDENT

By Tara Sue Me
Women's
Rating:
4.3 / 5.0

With its strong heroine, quick pacing, and high-stakes emotional drama, Tara Sue Me’s MADAME PRESIDENT succeeds as an engaging political romance that delivers both tension...

IR Approved
March 23, 2026

SEEN AT LAST

By J.T. Tierney
Women's
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

J.T. Tierney's SEEN AT LAST has volumes to say about the human condition, particularly from the female perspective.

IR Approved
December 15, 2025

THE RIGHT TIME: Back to the 80s (A Time Slip Novel Book 2)

By Lena Gibson
Fiction, Women's
Rating:
4.6 / 5.0

A sweet, slow burn romance and love letter to '80s cinema, Lena Gibson’s THE RIGHT TIME combines time travel with the everyday details of building...

November 19, 2025

ARCANUM: Whispers In The Forest

By Kelly O'Hearn
Fiction, Romantasy, Women's
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0

Kelly O'Hearn's ARCANUM: Whispers in the Forest is essentially two stories in one, with the historical tale being much more engaging (and complete) while the...

IR Approved
November 7, 2025

HIS LAST CHRISTMAS GIFT

By Debra Borchert
Women's
Rating:
4.6 / 5.0

Rich in sensory detail and psychological insight, Debra Borchert’s affecting novel HIS LAST CHRISTMAS GIFT suggests that healing often begins where certainty ends.

IR Approved
November 5, 2025

ARCANUM: In the Temple Shadows

By Kelly O'Hearn
Fiction, Romantasy, Women's
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

A deliciously sensual wish-fulfillment romance story, Kelly O'Hearn's ARCANUM: In The Temple Shadows will appeal particularly to readers who love predestined soul mates, star-crossed lovers,...

October 10, 2025

LUNCH TALES: Teagan

By Lucille Guarino
Women's
Rating:
3.2 / 5.0

Readers drawn to character-driven women’s fiction with a bit of family drama will find LUNCH TALES: Teagan, the second book in Lucille Guarino's Lunch Tales...

September 29, 2025

SEVEN BLACKBIRDS

By Helen Winslow Black
Women's
Rating:
3.8 / 5.0

Helen Winslow Black paints a compellingly grim picture of divorce and the importance of caution when choosing a spouse in SEVEN BLACKBIRDS.

IR Approved
September 17, 2025

THE END OF PRIM

By Michelle Tocher
Fiction, Women's
Rating:
4.8 / 5.0

Michelle Tocher's touching account of an older woman's existential crisis is alternately heartbreaking, funny, tender, and life-affirming. Its straightforward, simple style makes it all the...

IR Approved
September 5, 2025

BICENTENNIAL SUMMER

By Mary Berelson
Women's
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

An alternately heartwarming, heartbreaking, and laugh-out-loud funny novel, Mary Berelson's BICENTENNIAL SUMMER captures the fears, doubts, joys, and regrets of adolescence—along with the troubling realization...

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