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1) The liar
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Devastated after learning that her husband had married her using an alias, Shelby returns with her daughter to her Tennessee hometown, where she finds comfort and the promise of a new relationship, but her husband's past still poses a threat.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort zone, daring the other to take on a list of challenges,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, a forgotten voice brings new information about that terrible time, causing Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Can she finally lay down yesterday's pain and move on? In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying abroad for the semester. Alice's life is so good now, totally...
Author
Series
Hidden identity volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Danielle Harding's abusive husband dies, she begins to feel that she and her son are safe, until a man who had dealings with her dead husband begins to pursue her, and she must seek help from Adam Buchanan of Operation Refuge.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the deep friendship between two women at an early twentieth-century rehabilitation home for cast-out single mothers, and the reclusive librarian who discovers their story a century later.
6) The renewal
Author
Series
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced Leslie Ruskin moves into her new home with her five-year-old daughter, but the old place needs a lot of work, and her master carpenter battles past failures and a drinking problem.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Abandoned in a New England seaside motel and offered shelter in the home of the manager's friend, a young woman with an infant son is integrated into the lives of the locals and starts over amid revelations of loves and crimes from the past.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Her mother abandoned her, her father disowned her, and her husband left her. Can Brooklyn be convinced that it is possible to forgive the greatest of betrayals? Brooklyn Myers escaped her broken home and her embittered, unloving father by eloping to Reno at the age of 17. But when she was pregnant with their first child, her husband abandoned her as well. Not welcome back home in Thunder Creek, Brooklyn stayed in Reno and raised her daughter Alycia...
Author
Series
MacKade Brothers volume 2
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 18 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Two beloved stories about the bold and irresistible MacKade Brothers!
THE RETURN OF RAFE MACKADE
Ten years after disappearing from Antietam, Maryland, the bad boy has come home. Cleaned up, successful and still dangerously good-looking, Rafe MacKade plans to open a bed-and-breakfast with the help of antique shop owner Regan Bishop. Though Regan claims to not want to get involved with a rebel, Rafe is pretty sure that her reaction to their sizzling...
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
While trying to restore the old family ranch in Stillwater Springs with his estranged brothers, former rodeo star Tyler Creed finds his heart lassoed by Lily Kenyon, a sexy single mother who has loved him since childhood.
12) Someone like you
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2004, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.
13) Stars of Alabama
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her experiences as a pregnant teenager in a government-run facility for delinquent teenage girls, describing the bonds she formed with the other girls and how the experience changed how she sees the world.
15) Barefoot season
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Young army vet Michelle Sanderson returns to Blackberry Island Inn, the home she left long ago, to claim her inheritance and recover from war. But she finds Carly Williams, her former best friend, running the inn and the business on the verge of financial collapse. To save the inn, the two women must put aside their feelings and work together, but can they heal their past, too?
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
246 p.
Language
English
Description
Kim Heikkila's mother had a secret: in 1961, two years before her marriage, she became pregnant. After several months hidden in her parents' attic bedroom, she gave birth to a daughter at the Salvation Army's Booth Memorial Hospital, a home for unwed mothers in St. Paul, and surrendered her for adoption. More than 30 years later, Kim's older sister reunited with her birth family. Kim's mother had written about her experiences, but after she died,...
18) Shiver
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Repossessing cars to support her small son after being abandoned on the harsh streets of East St. Louis, young single mother Samantha Jones discovers a dying man in the trunk of a car who takes her hostage and forces her to help him reach his protectors.
Author
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
452 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to have her baby. Three years later her child was taken from her and sold to a family in America for adoption. She spent the next fifty years searching for him. Both mother and son had lives scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic.