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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law, delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters. From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom the world might just describe as truly odd. But the...
2) Come home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her---though it is stressful---and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jill's life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Language
English
Description
"A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--Violet...
4) The 3 Ms of Fearless Digital Parenting: Proven Tools to Help You Raise Smart and Savvy Online Kids
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
234 p.
Language
English
Description
How can we protect our kids online-and teach them to protect themselves?
In just a generation, childhoods have changed radically. More than half of children in the US now own a smartphone by the age of eleven; and the latest data shows teens spending an average of seven hours a day on screen media. As parents, we can feel overwhelmed by this rate of change, and concerned that we don't understand what our children are doing online.
The 3Ms of Fearless...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Having long since given up on their desire for children, dairy farmers Betsy and Ty Franklin take in Betsy's sister Jenna's two young daughters while Jenna pursues her photography at a retreat and wonders if she can make room for her art in her life.
6) Motherhood
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When I was younger, thinking about whether I wanted to have children, I always came back to this formula: If no one had told me anything about the world, I would have invented boyfriends. I would have invented sex, friendships, art. I would not have invented child-rearing. Motherhood treats the most universal and consequential decision of early adulthood--whether to have children--with the candour, originality and wit that have won Sheila Heti international...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after leaving high-power jobs to raise their children, four New York friends enter their forties while struggling with the differences between their past ideals and their present realities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright...Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University,...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
c2020.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
202 p.
Language
English
Description
"A heartfelt, subversively funny memoir and a bold personal manifesto that pushes back against the superficial expectations of motherhood -- and challenges the idea that there's a "right" way to raise kids. With hard-won knowledge gained from having four kids in four years, Kristen Howerton navigates the emotional and sometimes messy waters of motherhood, sharing valuable lessons from her journey through infertility, adoption, pregnancy, toddler tantrums,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 209 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The syndicated radio host draws on the principles developed during her career as a family therapist to challenge popular beliefs about the contributions of stay-at-home mothers, in a tribute that offers insight into why she strongly supports the practice.
12) Any other family
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new novel about three very different women facing an impossible question: What makes a family?"--
13) Night road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Maine, a gorgeous, compulsively-readable novel that tells the story of the complex relationship between two women, Elisabeth, a privileged new mother and writer attempting to find her footing after childbirth, and Sam, the idealistic, working-class college student she hires to nanny her young son"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Small, perfect towns often hold the deepest secrets. Such is the case for Essie and her family. When a new woman moves next door to Essie, she is an immediate object of curiosity in this neighbourhood. As the two women grow closer and Essie's friends disapprove, it starts to become clear that Isabelle's choice of neighbourhood was no accident. And that her presence might bring even more secrets to light.
17) Wildcat
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Morris's Wildcat is an uproariously funny, surprisingly touching story of one woman's journey through motherhood and female friendship, in a society that plays fast and loose with information. New mother, aspiring writer, and former shopgirl Leanne has lost her way. As she struggles with both her grief and the haze of motherhood, it also becomes clear that her best friend, the default queen of East Side Los Angeles, Regina Mark, might not...
Author
Series
Coyote Canyon volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shackled to her small town, vintage gift shop owner Jane Tanner longs to become a mother before her biological clock ticks out and drunkenly propositions the worst possible candidate, her sister's ex-boyfriend, who is on board until they're soon reminded just how messy life is.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year...
20) The other mother
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324, 16 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman on the run with her infant daughter from a controlling husband takes a job at a Catskills estate and navigates the difficult challenges of postpartum depression at the side of a charismatic new friend who proves to have a disturbing hidden nature.