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Annie Ferguson inherits her sister's three children when she dies in a plane crash. Annie does her best to raise them and manages to build a career for herself as a promising architect, even if it means putting much of the rest of her life on hold. Once the children are grown, Annie realizes that there are a slew of other problems facing them--abusive relationships, culture clashes, and the painful process of finding one's way in life--and as Annie...
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Pub. Date
2012
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Single mom Lynn Morrow is determined to put food on the table for her son and daughter. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband has failed to meet his obligations time and again-but it turns out that Ed is struggling with his own demons. Enter contractor Mitch Franklin, a widower with two grieving sons, Mitch once admired Lynn from afar. Now he sees in her not only the sweet girl who got away, but a woman desperately in need of support.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
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"Former Navy SEAL Peter "Grunge" Greene's lonely but comfortable life is upended when his longtime ex-girlfriend unexpectedly dies in a car crash, leaving him sole custody of their 15-year-old daughter, Maddie. They move to San Diego to start a new life together, but Maddie quickly falls in with the wrong crowd and soon goes completely AWOL. New to town with no one to turn to, Peter is frantic to track down his daughter and accepts help from his beautiful...
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
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The first thing you should know about me is that my name is not Carter Blake.When Caleb Wardell, the infamous 'Chicago Sniper', escapes from death row two weeks before his execution, the FBI calls on the services of Carter Blake, a man with certain specialized talents whose skills lie in finding those who don't want to be found. A man to whom Wardell is no stranger.Along with Elaine Banner, an ambitious special agent juggling life as a single mother...
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
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"At thirteen, Baby vacillates between childhood comforts and adult temptation: still young enough to drag her dolls around in a vinyl suitcase yet old enough to know more than she should about urban cruelties. Motherless, she lives with her father, Jules, who takes better care of his heroin habit than he does of his daughter. Baby's gift is a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. But her...
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After two back-to-back life-changing events, first grade teacher Katie McGrath left Albuquerque for a fresh start in Borden's Gap, Tennessee. She is finally back in the classroom where she belongs, but it will take a little while for her to heal and feel truly like herself. She'll need to dig deep to find the courage it takes to try again - in life and in love - but with some help from her neighbour Sam Youngblood and his adorable daughters who bring...
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"Lisa Hudson feels more alive than she has in a long time after hiring hunky carpenter Mack Whitney to renovate her old Nantucket home. There's no denying the spark growing between them--despite the fact that Mack is ten years her junior. But her twentysomething children, Juliet and Theo, on the island for the summer, worry that the new relationship will only lead to Lisa's heartbreak. Yet Juliet and Theo are in for tangled love stories all their...
29) Yours and mine
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Single mom Joanna Parsons insists that marriage is an experience she doesn't plan to repeat, no matter what her eleven-year-old daughter, Kristen, thinks. Tanner Lund feels the same way. Like Joanna, he got divorced after a short, disastrous marriage. And like her, he's raising his eleven-year-old daughter, Nicole, alone.
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Alice McKinley. Main series volume 3
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Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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Sydney Ragsdale is looking for a fresh start far away from her controlling ex-husband and the self-doubt that has plagued her since the divorce. Returning to her childhood home in Hopewell, North Carolina is just what her soul needs. Praying some Christmas magic will follow her she moves with her daughter to a farmhouse that once belonged to her grandparents. While there Sydney finds solace working at The Book Bea, her favorite bookstore. Single dad...
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 124
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
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While babysitting the two Brooke children, Stacy begins to think that their good-looking single father would be a good match for her single mother.
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Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
First edition.
Description
The summer before she enters the seventh grade becomes the summer of Alice's first boyfriend, and she discovers that love is about the most mixed-up thing that can possibly happen to you, especially since she has no mother to go to for advice.
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"Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like 'taking a break' from being a husband and father. Rory was already spread thin and now, without warning, she is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming to terms with her disintegrating marriage. And without Blake, her only hope is to accept a full-time position...
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Doubleday large print home library ed.
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Trixie Lynn Parks changed her name to Emma, shook the dust of Twilight, Texas, off her shoes and vowed to make it big in the city. But after twelve years of shattered dreams, she heads back to the ladies of the True Love Quilting Club ... and to her first love, Sam Cheek.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 79
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
Summary: Hoping to provide a male role model for a new charge whose parents' divorce has him missing his father, Mary Anne invites Logan to accompany her to her baby-sitting job and has a lot of explaining to do when Mrs. Kuhn does not understand.
38) Alice alone
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Alice McKinley. Main series volume 13
Description
Alice's first year in high school gets off to a difficult start when she and her boyfriend Patrick break up, but with the help of her father, older brother, and best friends, she gains a better sense of her own self-worth.
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Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Alice is in the eighth grade, and while she wants her life to be exciting and outrageous, she also wants to feel protected and safe.
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