Oh dear. Here we are three days before Mother’s Day, and Kindle Nation’s spotlight all day has been on books by guys.* (This doesn’t mean that they are **for** guys only, of course; in fact Steve Anderson’s The Losing Role has scored some rave reviews from women. But still….)

This will not stand.

Fortunately, we’ve got some great women novelists to bail us out here at Kindle Nation. Here are 10 terrific reads by women, for everyone (including, most definitely, women.)

So if you have a Mom or know a Mom and you’ve still got some shopping to do, click on all ten of these titles and over on the right of the Kindle page you will see a “Give as Gift” link like this:

All you need is Mom’s email address, and for less than $10 you will be able to send her a whole summer’s worth of great reading!

Or, if you are a Mom … well … let’s just say that I’m guessing you already know what to do without any help from me!

And — oh, yeah — Happy Mother’s Day, and Happy Reading!

Decades

by Ruth Harris
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Price: 99 cents
Reviews & Ratings: Highly recommended, especially for those who miss the juicy, soapy, multi-generational novels of the 1980s.
Spanning three tumultuous decades from the post-war Forties to the rebellious “Make Love, Not War” generation of the Sixties, Decades is the emotional story of a marriage, a family and a world in crisis. If you like quality fiction in which moving things happen to believable people, you will love Decades.

Out of Time: A Paranormal Romance
By Monique Martin

Genre: Time Travel/Paranormal Romance
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.4 Stars from 88 Reviewers
Time travel romance (1929 New York City) with a paranormal twist.

Bootscootin’ Blahniks

by D.D. Scott
Romantic Comedy
Price: $.99
Reviews and Ratings: 5 stars from 8 reviewers
Romantic Comedy with a chick-lit, gone-country twist. Think Sex and The City meets Urban Cowboy.

Dead to Writes

By Cathy Wiley

Genre: Mystery
Price: .99
Reviews and Ratings: 4.5 stars from 20 reviewers
Sometimes writing mysteries can be murder…

The Sex Club

by L.J. Sellers
Mystery/Suspense
$.99 (Kindle)
4 stars, 64 reviews
A dead girl, a ticking bomb, a Bible study that’s not what it appears to be, and a detective who won’t give up.

Class Collision: Fall From Grace
by Annette Mackey
Historical FIction
$.99
Reviews and Ratings: 13 reviews averaging 4.85 stars. (eleven 5 star, two 4 star)
A story that explores the heart of human emotion. You’ll hate the boy, but fall in love with the man.

AFTER THE FIRE

by Kathryn Shay
Contemporary Romance
$.99
4 stars from 7 reviews
Follow the firefighters of Hidden Cove, a remarkable team of heroes like you’ve never seen before.

We Interrupt This Date

by L.C. Evans
Genre: Chick lit/women’s fiction
Price: 99 cents
Reviews and Ratings: 4.1 stars from 42 reviews.
When a divorcee tries to remake her life and start a new romance, her needy family decides she’s crisis central.

Take the Monkeys and Run

by Karen Cantwell
Genre: Humorous Mystery
Price: 99 cents
Reviews and Ratings: 4.2 stars from 84 reviewers
A soccer mom and movie lover sticks her nose into some monkey business and finds herself in the middle of her own cinematic action adventure – only these bullets are real.

The View from Here

by Rachel Howzell

Suspense; Contemporary Fiction

Price: $.99

Reviews and Ratings: 4.8 Stars from 12 Reviewers

Nicole Baxter’s life changes with an afternoon phone call from the harbor. During a scuba dive, her husband disappears. Neither his diving instructor nor the Coast Guard can find him. Is he still alive? Or is grief making her believethe impossible? Rachel Howzell’s The View from Here – Now just 99 cents on Kindle!