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41) Exclusive
Author
Series
Godmothers volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Toots Loudenberry relocated to Los Angeles from South Carolina to be near her daughter, Abby, she expected to bump into the occasional celebrity. She just never expected them to be dead. Meanwhile, Toots, Sophie, and Mavis are concerned that the prestigious Dr. Sameer's budding romance with Ida may have something to do with his ailing bank balance. And Abby's attempted makeover of the celebrity magazine The Informer into the most talked-about...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When her teenage daughter ends up in the hospital after starving herself, chef Dana Sue must embrace the power of forgiveness when her cheating husband, whom she kicked out, returns home to help her deal with their self-destructive child.
43) Dirty thirty
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from their young daughters, her family, and the world. But Nicolas,...
45) Almost home
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
46) Jewel: a novel
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both...
47) Major mama drama
Author
Series
Katharine the almost great volume 2
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Third grader Katharine Carmichael knows her mom's super-duper secret and thinks it's a super-duper dud! Mrs. Carmichael is the new cook at Liberty Corner School--Katharine's school! When her mom blows her kisses, bans fries from the menu, and delivers sour milk to her classroom, Katharine's stomach does a flip-flop belly drop. After she's teased about her mom's In the Spotlight display, Katharine takes matters into her own hands! Can Katharine survive...
49) Flying changes
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer's daysthe fear that her relationship with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that equestrian daughter Eva's dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her mother . . . and into harm's way. For five months, Annemarie has struggled to make peace with her past. But if she cannot let go, the personal battles she has won and the heights she has achieved will have all been for naught.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eileen Jackson was happy to set aside her own dreams to raise a family with her husband, Paul. Together they built an ordinary life in a Connecticut town, the perfect place for their kids to grow up. But when Eileen discovers that Paul's late nights in the city are hiding an affair with a younger woman, she begins to question all those years of sacrifice and compromise. On the brink of forty and wondering what she's going to do with the rest of her...
52) Knit two
Author
Series
Friday night knitting club volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Knit Two returns to the Manhattan knitting store Walker & Daughter five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia's daughter Dakota runs the knitting store part-time with the help of the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Drawn together by their love for Dakota and the sense of family the club provides, each knitter is struggling with new challenges.
53) Between sisters
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
With her wedding day approaching, Claire Cavenaugh prepares to confront her estranged older sister and self-absorbed mother after more than twenty years apart and find out how to transform themselves in to a family.
54) The big big sea
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her mother take a nighttime walk to the sea, creating beautiful memories of a special experience.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this rhyming adaptation for children of Gregory E. Lang's Why a daughter needs a mom, relates the ways mothers help their daughters learn and grow and demonstrates the power of the special bond shared between them.
57) Sweet love
Author
Publisher
New Amer Library
Pub. Date
2009
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
Tearoom mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Elaine Cooke and Jan Blake are delighted to attend a mother-daughter retreat at a beautiful old hotel in nearby Penzance. It's a reunion of sorts for Elaine's mom, Virginia, and members of a longtime service guild that she joined in high school. The retreat becomes a family affair when Elaine's daughter, Sasha, also attends. But as is often the case with the intrepid cousins, mystery follows! When Virginia returns to her room, following dinner, she...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
For beloved superstar Marie Osmond, one gift that her mother gave her stands above the rest: the gift to trust and follow her heart. Even when the path seemed bleak, it was this unwavering faith that allowed her to follow her dreams, both professional and personal, and survive the hardest times in her life. In an age when most women work outside the home-and nearly a third of women raise their children alone-being a mother is no easy task. No one...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Relocating to an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Gretchen offers to help clear out the home of a reclusive neighbor's recently deceased mother and discovers that the neighbor, Melissa, has two siblings and an identity that she never suspected.
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