Books like The waiting room by Lisa Loomer

A heartwarming story of a vulnerable woman, Deborah, who is saved by a medical consultant, Sir James Marlow, and the complications that ensue.

Eve Ensler’s collection of candid conversations with over two hundred women spans generations, cultures and professions, exploring themes of body image, sexuality and empowerment with humor and honesty.

An embittered widow with two daughters grapples with family drama and scientific ambition while caring for an invalid father in a ramshackle house.

A dramatic play based on interviews conducted after the murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

A Southern drama where three sisters confront a shocking crime when Babe shoots her husband, with humor and pathos as they rally an eager young lawyer to defend her and reconcile a painful family past.

With a New Afterword. As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women. Nine Parts of Desire is the story of Brooks' intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. Defying our stereotypes about the Muslim world, Brooks' acute analysis of the world's fastest growing religion deftly illustrates how Islam's holiest texts have been misused to justify repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of a once liberating faith. From the Trade Paperback edition.

In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees navigate everyday battles and quiet heartbreaks, revealing the comedy and humanity of small-town life.

In the spring of 1889, a burgeoning Brooklyn newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr. Mary Dixon Jones. The ensuing avalanche of public outrage gave rise to two trials - one for manslaughter and one for libel - that became a late nineteenth-century sensation. Vividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. Like many legal extravaganzas of our own time, the Mary Dixon Jones trials highlighted broader social issues in America, issues that were catalyzed by the transformation of cities - like Brooklyn - from ordered communities dominated by nineteenth-century bourgeois elites to sprawling, multi-ethnic urban landscapes. Moreover, the trials unmasked apprehension about not only the medical and social implications of radical gynecological surgery, but also the rapidly changing role of women in society. The courtroom provided a perfect forum for airing public doubts concerning the reputation of one "unruly" woman doctor whose life-threatening procedures offered an alternative to the chronic, debilitating pain of nineteenth-century women.

In Lynn Nottage’s debut, a 2008 factory‑worker community in Reading, Pennsylvania, faces the looming collapse of the global financial crisis, revealing how economic ruin can poison everyday lives.