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[2019]
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English
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Ensconced within a Hudson Valley retreat where expectant birth mothers are given luxurious accommodations and lucrative rewards to produce perfect babies, a Filipino immigrant is forced to choose between a life-changing payment and the outside world.
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"Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano's adult debut Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a witty, fast-paced mystery series, following struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction treads dangerously close to the truth as she becomes tangled in real-life murder investigations"--
83) All moms
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Some moms are silly, some are sporty or crafty, but all moms are incredible
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English
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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 secondchild.
88) The hunter
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting atmospheric suspense debut that explores the dark side of a small town and asks: How can we uncover the truth when we are lying to ourselves?"--
90) The unsettled
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama-about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"--
92) Facing the dawn
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English
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"Mara Jacobs does her best to hold everything together, despite three detention-prone kids, an unrewarding job, never-ending chores, and a husband thousands of miles away. After a shocking loss, she must lean on those around her to find her way to healing and renewed faith"--
94) Return to sender
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At seventeen, Rosalind "Lin" Townsend finds herself pregnant and alone, rejected by Nick Pemberton, the baby's father. Nineteen years later, she again crosses paths with Nick, and sets out to disrupt his life, only to find that she must choose-- between the revenge she thought would free her, and the bright new future that's about to be delivered to her door
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear: not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past."--Amazon.com....
98) Dune road
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town, our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous--and famously reclusive--novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it--including some who fancy the writer for themselves
100) Some moms
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Explores how mothers can have different personalities and qualities, including fearlessness, gracefulness, and toughness.
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