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41) Sticky fingers
Author
Series
Roxy abruzzo volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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...
43) Worst date ever
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
109 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This funny short novel follows a single mom on a number of first dates."--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Widowed and penniless, with two small children, Clara Vespers returns to her uncle's ranch in Montana, the only place she has ever been happy. As she tries to find that feeling again, she encounters a suitor from her past and is soon followed by her brother-in-law, who will stop at nothing to bring her back to the family business.
45) Somebody's home
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she's starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the first step toward a new life. Even if it does come with the unexpected. The previous owners, a pastor and his wife, have left something - or rather someone - behind... Tom Dean has a bitter hatred for the father who considers him a lost cause, and for the woman who's moved into their family's house. The only home...
Author
Series
Harlequin romance volume 4216
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
186, [6] p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
47) The house guests
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her step-daughter steals money belonging to Amber, a woman who has since been evicted along with her teenage son, Cassie invites them to move in with her and as they each form friendships, Cassie discovers that Amber is trying to outrun her dark past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
499 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a young single mother in a gossip-fueled Georgia town, Dori Grant has weathered the storm of disapproval. But after losing everything, she must turn to her neighbors. They say the Pine boys are no good, but Johnny Pine proved them wrong. And his heart goes out to the mother and child abandoned by the good people of Blessings.
Author
Series
Scottish bookshop volume 2
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night. Hari's dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually broke DJ, is no help at all. But his sister Surinder comes to Zoe's aid, hooking her up with a job as far away from the urban crush as possible: a bookshop on...
50) Blue Moon haven
Author
Series
New Americana volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kelly Jenkins heads to bucolic Blue Moon, Alabama, believing a new life will heal the two orphaned children in her care. Signing on to revive the drive-in theater seems like a worthy venture, until she discovers the property is in deep disrepair. Still, Kelly takes on the renovation, beginning with an ancient tree that needs to come down. Seth Morgan reluctantly steps in to help Kelly, even offering her and her kids shelter in his home. Soon everyone...
51) The suite spot
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Trish Doller's The Suite Spot is a charming romance novel about taking a chance on a new life and a new love. Rachel Beck has hit a brick wall. She's a single mom, still living at home and trying to keep a dying relationship alive. Aside from her daughter, the one bright light in Rachel's life is her job as the night reservations manager at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach-until the night she is fired for something she didn't do. On impulse, Rachel...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Against All Odds is the wise, moving new novel from Danielle Steel, whose many #1 New York Times bestselling tales have made her one of America's favorite authors"--
"The story of a long-widowed proprietor of a top flight haute couture resale shop and her four adult children, who, in their search to find the right partners for themselves, encounter and struggle with some very difficult and modern problems facing young people today"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This "touching, insightful, and gripping story" (Sophie Kinsella, #1 New York Times bestselling author) from the instant New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone follows a young woman searching for answers about her unknown past and the mysterious fire that irrevocably changed her life. When she was a child, Melody Browne's house burned down, destroying all her family's possessions and her memories. Ever since this tragic event, Melody...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
[Larger print edition].
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young widow Lainie Hollings will do anything to protect her daughters--even if it means accepting help from Shaw McKinney. Though she blames Shaw for her husband's death, he's the only one she can turn to when a robbery forces her to take shelter in his home. Soon she's surprised by the handsome contractor. He's kind, charming and determined to protect her and her girls.
55) Country born
Author
Series
Painted Pony Creek volume 3
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rancher and military veteran J.P. McCall loves simple pleasures. The satisfaction of working his family's land. The freedom to come and go as he pleases. But ever since his two closest friends have married and started families of their own, J.P. realizes what he's been missing. He's known plenty of women, but now he craves finding The One. And then Sara Worth comes crashing back into his life. She's his buddy's sister, the woman who was always out...
56) The next always
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although he is busy turning the town's historic hotel into a bed and breakfast, Beckett is also developing an interest in the single mother who runs the bookstore across the street.
57) Jessie
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jessie Wheeler has raised her children and run the local general store by herself since her husband Seth left, and when Seth returns, claiming to be a changed man and asking for another chance, it is hard for Jessie to trust him.
Author
Series
Rose Bend volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sydney Collins left the small Berkshires town of Rose Bend eight years ago, grieving her sister's death and heartbroken over her parents' rejection. But now the rebel is back, newly divorced and pregnant, ready to face her fears and make a home for her child in the caring community she once knew...Widower and Rose Bend mayor Coltrane Dennison hasn't smiled in ages. Until a chance run-in with Sydney Collins, who's all grown-up and making him want...
Author
Series
A Swift River Valley novel volume 5
Publisher
Mira
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widowed single mother Clare Morgan moves to a small Massachusetts town, where she settles into her new job as the town's librarian and helps Boston ER doctor Logan Farrell decorate his grandmother's house for Christmas one last time before he sells it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
No longer famous, journalist Cannie Shapiro writes science fiction under a pen name while raising her teenage daughter, and considers her husband Peter's request to have Cannie's flamboyant sister provide surrogate services so that they can have a second child.