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Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in Wheeler, New Mexico, thinks Joanna leads the perfect life: the quiet, contented housewife of a dashing deputy sheriff, raising a beautiful young daughter, Laurel. But Joannas reality is nothing like her facade. Behind closed doors, she lives in constant fear of her husband. She's been trapped for so long, escape seems impossible--until a stranger offers her the help she needs to flee"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. Now her husband is gone, her daughter is estranged after a shattering argument, and her son has moved to his wife's native...
143) Karate clash
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Levi is at home in the dojo where he practices karate, although the contentious relationship with his new stepsister, Sofia, is disturbing his concentration--but when she suddenly decides to join his dojo he realizes that Sofia's prickly attitude is a cover for her unhappiness.
144) Expensive people
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
2006 Modern Library paperback edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Isabelle Berendon dove into blue water to save her son. She was too late. Again and again in her dreams she dives in, hoping this time it will be different. He will breathe and live. But again and again he dies. In the empty days following his death, abandoned by her husband, drowning in her grief, she falls in love with the one person who keeps reaching out to save her -- her sister-in-law."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Cassandra Soelberg, pregnant at seventeen, was cast out by Mormon patriarchs of her community. Returning to her rural Utah hometown after forty years to care for her senile mother, she meets a young man with an uncanny resemblance to the father of her never-known child. Drawn back into traumatic scenes of young adulthood, she must reconcile with her past in the fiercely beautiful landscapes that shaped her. What Falls Away is a powerful and compassionate...
147) Spells & stitches
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First Berkeley trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the latest novel from the USA Today bestselling author, raising a baby is hard, but raising one with magical powers is even harder... Sugar Maple, Vermont, knitting store owner Chloe Hobbs couldn't be happier about her pregnancy. But with the arrival of the town's newest resident, things are about to get a lot more magical. Baby Laria is six pounds, eleven ounces of perfect, and Chloe and Luke are over the moon. But when they learn that Laria...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Colorful illustrations and text written in both English and Spanish tell a story about the struggles and experiences in life through a conversation between a mother saguaro and her daughter; and provides information on some of the plants and animals found in the desert.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Her whole world hinged on the moment one man jumped. On a perfect summer's day in Paris, tourists on a river trip watch in horror as drama unfolds. A small boy has fallen overboard and disappeared below the surface of the water. As his mother stands frozen to the spot, another passenger jumps. This is the story of how a single act of courage transforms the lives of all those involved: the hero James and his wife Alexa; Holly, the young mother of the...
150) Please, baby, please
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A toddler's antics keep his mother busy as she tries to feed him, watch him on the playground, give him a bath, and put him to bed.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"All children have imaginary friends, Georgina tells herself. It's perfectly normal, and they all grow out of it in the end. But when her seven-year-old son, Cody, tells her about New Granny, the new friend he's met in the park, Georgina is instantly suspicious. Something-call it maternal instinct-tells her he isn't making it up. But maybe Georgina is losing her mind. It wouldn't be the first time, after all. And with her own mother's recent death...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Ainsley Earhardt reflects on her experiences as a mother and viewing wonders of the world through a child s eyes in this stunning follow up to Take Heart, My Child. So often as we race through life, we need the wisdom and perspective of a child to remind us what is important and what should be celebrated and remembered: the everyday joys and miracles and simple pleasures of life. Our children teach us and awaken our own inner child.
154) Orfeia
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When you can find me an acre of land, Every sage grows merry in time, Between the ocean and the sand Then will you be united again.(Inspired by The Child Ballads 2 & 19) ... So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost daughter, through the realms of the real, of dream, and even into the underworld itself. But determination alone is not enough. For to save something precious, she must give up something...
155) The perfect family
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Gemma Ballantine is getting ready for work one morning when her eldest child comes running down the stairs, saying the words every mother dreads. The front door is open and her six-year-old daughter has disappeared. Frantic with fear, Gemma starts a nail-biting search for her little girl. After what feels like forever, her mother-in-law Diane finds Katie wandering lost a few streets away. Relieved to have her youngest child back in her arms, breathing...
Author
Series
Books4pocket narrativa volume 251
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1. edición en books4pocket.
Language
Español
Description
Tres mujeres casadas se conocen en una clase para futuras madres: Becky, chef de un bistro de moda, acosada por una suegra infernal; Aynde, esposa de una estrella de la NBA; y Kelly, una organizadora de eventos obsesionada con planear su vida al milímitro. A ellas se unirá Lia, una actriz que llega a la ciudad dejando atrás su carrera, su marido y una tragedia.
A chef, an event planner, and a basketball player's wife find their marriages and...
159) The secret
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mary has been nursing a secret. Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear. Beth is searching for answers. She has never known the truth about her parentage, but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs. When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She must...
160) The other mother
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English
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"From Matthew Dicks, the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, comes The Other Mother, a novel about a teenage boy coping with the rupture of his family by viewing his mother in an unusual light. The one he loves most, is the one he knows least. Thirteen-year-old Michael Parsons is dealing with a lot. His father's sudden death; his mother's new husband, Glen, who he loathes; his two younger siblings, who he looks after more and more now...
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