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Her Harvard-student son just eloped with the First Daughter. CNN is parked on the road to her apple orchards. Secret Service agents have commandeered her country kitchen. The irate First Parents are threatening to have her taxes audited. The President's handsome, tough, ex-military nephew is setting up camp in her guest room. Hush McGillan's quiet Appalachian world of heirloom apples, country festivals, and carefully guarded family secrets has just...
62) Sweet love
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Forty-something single mother Julie Mueller signs up for a dessert cooking class unaware that her mother is trying to reunite her with an old flame who is also in the class and finds herself falling for him all over again.
63) A perfect life
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2014
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English
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A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic facade to the outside world, in an uplifting tale.
"[A] heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges, cope with celebrity, and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of . . . A PERFECT LIFE. The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy...
64) Guilty
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Philadelphia prosecutor and single mother Kate White faces her past when she has to prosecute a man who was part of a robbery in which she was involved sixteen years earlier, and the criminal threatens to expose her if he is found guilty.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. She dreams of working as a chef after...
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Thirty-eight-year-old single mother Rebecca Martin, having shed her romantic illusions along with her ex-husband, discovers she may have given up on love too soon when Michael Christopher, a man who has just left the monastery after twenty years, moves into her downstairs apartment.
68) Changeling
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
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In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls "razor sharp," a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when she draws a disturbing picture--but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything. Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It's not that Jason is a bad father,...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Ten years after finding fame with a novel based on her own life, Cannie Shapiro has faded from the spotlight, content to write science fiction under a pen name and raise her daughter, Joy, but as Joy prepares for her bat mitzvah and begins to ask questions about Cannie's past, Cannie realizes she cannot hide forever if she wants to be truly happy.
72) Just like you
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English
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Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more...
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"Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and baddest girl on the planet, has not lived her life in a straight line. There have been several detours - career snafus, bad romantic choices, a loved but unplanned child - not to mention her ill-advised lifelong obsession with boxer Mike Tyson. Evie is not plucky, but when life's changes smash over her like the rough surf of the local shoreline, she muddles through-until that moment of loss...
74) Shiver
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Samantha Jones finds a nearly dead man in the trunk of a car that she had been hired to reposes. The man who she saved then takes her as a hostage and forces her to help protect him from the ruthless killers.
75) This time love
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English
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Young, innocent Joy Anderson, having succumbed to passion with aspiring journalist Gabe Venture, is left with a broken heart, and a baby on the way after he goes off to pursue fame and fortune, and when he returns seven years later to find her independent and worldly, it is she who must decide whether to grant him another chance at love.
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"What would you do if your ex-con father suddenly came to visit...indefinitely? Family drama ensues when Nicki's dad unexpectedly moves in with her, her son, and her boyfriend in this comedic novel from successful TV writer Tracy McMillan. Nicki Daniels owns a home appraisal business, but real estate is her true passion: she lives for open houses and really knows her way around a floor plan. And especially at this juncture of her life, real estate...
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"Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. She may be the owner of Brooke's, but she's also...
78) The confusion
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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold. In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless...
79) Home again
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Recently separated from her husband, Alice decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in her guest house temporarily, but the arrangement ends up unfolding in unexpected ways. Alice's unlikely new family and new romance comes to a crashing...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her...
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