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61) Out of Nowhere
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Brought together by a mass shooting at a Texas county fair, children's book author and single mother Elle Portman and high-rolling corporate consultant Calder Hudson, both fueled by revenge, search for a killer while wondering if the attraction growing between them is too painful and complicated to sustain.
62) Sweet love
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Julie Mueller, once a brilliant local television reporter, has been fired for the sin of being forty. Broke, divorced, unemployed, and struggling to raise a teenage daughter alone, she had given up on happiness until she receives for Mother's Day four dessert classes that spark not only a new burst of culinary creativity but a burning passion for one of her fellow students, Michael Slayton, a true love she let slip away.--From publisher descriptin....
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddard finally resolves to leave her abusive husband. While she is reluctant to involve her estranged daughter, she can't resist a chance to see Harmony and baby Lottie in Asheville, North Carolina, before she disappears forever. Harmony's friend Taylor Martin realizes how much the reunited mother and daughter yearn to stay together, and she sees in Jan a chance to continue her own mother's legacy...
64) Simply lies
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two women--a former detective and a dangerous con artist--go head-to-head in a twisting game of cat and mouse.
Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson,...
65) Certain girls
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"After the fictionalized version of her life became an overnight bestseller, the smart-tongued, bighearted Cannie Shapiro dropped out of the public eye and settled into a wonderfully predictable life--knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend, Samantha. She's happily married to the charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky, and as preparations...
66) Hawaiian sunrise
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Maddy Morton is used to being on the run. . . .
Years ago, she ran away from home with a man her parents warned would be the ruin of her. Now she's on the run again, with her ten-year-old son, Nicholas, to escape that man, her abusive ex-husband, Gabe. Destitute, angry, and determined never to trust a man again, Maddy returns to the only place she's always felt safe—home. That means facing Jesse, her depressed father, who told her never
...Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"They call themselves the May Mothers--a group of new moms whose babies were born in the same month. Twice a week, they get together in Brooklyn's Prospect Park for some much-needed adult time. When the women go out for drinks at the hip neighborhood bar, they are looking for a fun break from their daily routine. But on this hot Fourth of July night, something goes terrifyingly wrong: one of the babies is taken from his crib. Winnie, a single mom,...
68) THE BLESSING
Author
Publisher
Pocket Star
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
When wealthy, hard-driving corporate genius Jason Wilding reluctantly takes a break from his business and his husband-hunting girlfriends for a Christmas visit to his hometown in Abernathy, Kentucky, he has no idea what his physician brother, David, has in store for him. It seems that Amy Thompkins, a whimsical young widow with definite artistic talent, has captured David's heart, but courting her with a demanding baby in tow has been difficult. In...
69) Stealing home
Author
Series
Sweet magnolias volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
While dealing with a wealth of family issues, Serenity, South Carolina, resident Maddie Townsend, jobless and newly single, finds herself the talk of the town when her son's baseball coach declares his love.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A mother and her adopted daughter embark on a journey of self-discovery to Guatemala after a posthumous letter from her step-father reveals that fifteen-year-old Sophia was not a legally adopted child from Mexico"--
Sofia, a fifteen-year-old soccer star living in New England, believes she was born in Mexico and legally adopted by Kate Malloy. But a posthumous letter from her stepfather tells Sofia a story of civil unrest and bloodshed, death-defying...
71) The silent gift
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From the creator and director of the "Love Comes Softly" films comes a bittersweet yet heartwarming story of a mother and her son--and of the boy's unusual gift.
72) Look again
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, her heart stops--the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. She investigates the story behind the flyer, uncovering clues no one was meant to discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life--and that of the son she loves.
73) Kidnap
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. Karla will stop at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
74) The midwife
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Old Order Mennonite head midwife Rhoda Mummau embraces the secrets that remaining in Hopen Haus lets her keep, but with revolutionary medicine waiting on the outside, Rhoda's choices are getting far more difficult. Meanwhile, a graduate student who once gave her baby up for adoption seeks shelter at Hopen Haus when, while carrying another baby as a surrogate, the girl flees the parents who just decided to terminate the pregnancy.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A powerfully moving novel of love, loss, hope, and family from bestselling author James Patterson.
Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker - everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read.
This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby...
Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker - everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read.
This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby...
76) Shelter Mountain
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2013?], c2007
Language
English
Description
When Paige Lassiter, scared and covered with bruises, comes into his bar with her three-year-old son, Marine John "Preacher" Middleton, immediately drawn to this courageous woman, offers her a safe haven in his arms.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret. Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel's sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain in search of her. Joining forces with an unlikely ally thrusts Isabel into her sister's dangerous world of espionage, but it is an...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Returning home, along with her autistic son Henry, to care for her ailing father, Callie Wyeth must face Linden FInch, the man she left behind, and is delighted when a relationship develops between Henry and Linden's menagerie of rescued farm animals, which brings about hope and a second chance at love.
79) The scoop
Author
Series
Godmothers volume 1
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this first book of a new series, Michaels introduces The Godmothers, four unforgettable women who are about to get a whole new lease on life. Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry has crammed a great deal of living, not to mention eight much-loved husbands, into her varied and rewarding life. Newly single, Toots is ready to taste life again, and fate has just handed her the perfect opportunity. When the gossip newspaper where her daughter works is...