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21) 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.
23) Little mercies
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening to shatter everything she holds dear, and trapping her between the gears of the system she works for. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Jenny Briard suddenly finds herself on her own, forced to survive with nothing but...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
381 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellie Avery and her husband Mitch are having a reunion with his southern family when she receives a call informing her of the murder of her husband's squadron commander. His wife is Ellie's best friend, and the prime suspect. Believing her friend innocent, Ellie sets out to discover the real killer.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Five Spot
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
410 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eliot Gordon would do anything for her family. A 38-year-old working mother, she lives an ordinary but fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta with her partner, Grant Delaney, and their three daughters. The two older girls are actually Eliot's stepdaughters, a distinction she is reluctant to make as she valiantly attempts to maintain a safe, happy household . . .Then Finn Montgomery, Eliot's long-lost first love, appears, triggering a shocking chain of...
27) The good sister
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own, and a future for her family. When she moves to Edenton, North Carolina from the plantation where she was born, she is free, newly married, and ready to follow her dreams. As the demands of life pull Josephine's attention-deepening her marriage, mothering her daughters, supporting her grandmother-she struggles to balance her real estate aspirations with the realities of keeping life going...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Haelewise has always lived under the shadow of her mother, Hedda--a woman who will do anything to keep her daughter protected. For with her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells, Haelewise is shunned by her village, and her only solace lies in the stories her mother tells of child-stealing witches, of princes in wolf-skins, of an ancient tower cloaked in mist, where women will find shelter if they are brave enough to seek it. Then,...
30) 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
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
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.
33) Feast Your Eyes
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Bee Season - a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood, a balancing act familiar to women of every generation. Feast Your Eyes, framed as the catalog notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: "America's Worst Mother,...
34) 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...
35) Elsewhere
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Getting to know Penny, the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago, thirty -five-year-old Mika Suzuki finds unexpected love with Penny's widowed father and finally has a chance to have the life and family she's always wanted until her deceptions catch up with her.
At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki's life is a mess. Her last relationship ended in flames. Her roommate-slash-best friend might be a hoarder. She's a perpetual disappointment to her...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First paperback edition, Quirk Books.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.
One...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two women. Two eggs. One life-changing switch. Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her entire life striving for perfection--obsessing over her spotless home, maintaining her pristine reputation, building her perfect family--and her hard work has finally paid off. After seven difficult years of trying (and failing) to conceive, Katherine gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child, and at last has the one thing she's wanted most of all. But one...
Author
Series
Coyote Canyon volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2024.
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.