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"Single mother Roz has reached the breaking point. After the dissolution of her marriage, Roz's business has gone under, debts are racking up, the rent is late again, and she's struggling to provide for her nine-year-old son, who is starting to misbehave in school. When she returns home from work one day to find an eviction notice, she has two weeks to come up with a solution before they're kicked out. Roz is in trouble, real trouble, and she doesn't...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A desperate hairdresser. A handsome hired man. And one dusty, old farmhouse." -- page 4 of cover.
When Maggie Devereux returns home from errands to find an unexpected eviction notice, everything falls apart. Her husband is nowhere to be found and his things are missing too. Confused and panicked, the forty-something hairdresser packs her valuable and drags her children to a motel. Then, while digging through a box of long-forgotten financial...
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Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Eleven year old Willow's marrow burns with the friction of having to navigate the two homes of her newly divorced parents, when all she truly wants is to be with her mother Rosie. As Willow struggles to make sense of her world of extreme love and extreme loneliness, she learns how sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save someone, no matter how hard one wishes for it--how the human heart can bend and break, but how it can also heal...
67) Booked 4 murder
Author
Series
Sophie Kimball mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington mass market edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sophie 'Phee' Kimball is not a cop. She's a divorced, middle-aged mom who works as an account clerk for the police department in a small city in Minnesota. But her retired mother, Harriet Plunkett, is convinced Phee is the only one who can solve the mystery of a cursed book. According to Harriet, four members of her book club have already succumbed to the deadly curse. Harriet insists Phee catch the next plane to her retirement community in Sun City...
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Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Jenny Harris always expected that she'd fall in love, get married, and have a baby--in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn't mind that she and her live-in fiance, Dean, started their family earlier than planned. But then one night Dean runs out for cigarettes and just doesn't come back, and the very next day, Jenny goes into labor. She never anticipated single motherhood--but at least there's not much time to dwell...
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Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
405 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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Rebecca Martin is a single mother with an apartment to rent and a sense that she has used up her illusions. I had the romantic thing with my first husband, thank you very much, she tells a hapless suitor. I'm thirty-eight years old, and I've got a daughter learning to read and a job I don't quite like. I don't need the violin music. But when the new tenant in her in-law apartment turns out to be Michael Christopher, on the lam after twenty years in...
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Publisher
Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded--and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake from her youth. Desperate to keep the secret, Bindu quickly spends it on something unexpected: a condo in a posh retirement community in Florida. The impulsive decision blindsides Bindu's daughter-in-law, Aly. At forty-seven, Aly still shares a home with Bindu even after her divorce from Bindu's son....
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Series
Publisher
Forever/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 347 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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"Mia Gibbs spent her marriage putting her husband's needs before her own. And now, after a painful divorce, she's building a new life for herself and her two daughters back home at Firefly Lake. The last thing she needs is a man to complicate things. But former bad boy turned friend Nick McGuire-and the one kiss they've shared-has turned everything upside down . . . Attorney Nick McGuire wasn't meant to be a family man. His career has always been...
72) Hide your fear
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 550 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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Moving to the coastal town of Echo, Washington, divorcee and single mother Caitlin Stoller begins receiving unsettling messages hinting at her new home's dark past, messages that escalate into terrifying events orchestrated by a killer who is about to plunge her family into a nightmare from which there is no escape.
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Chloe Parker, a thirty-nine-year-old divorced mother and lifelong member of the Jane Austen Society, auditions for a Jane Austen-inspired reality dating show set in 1812 and competes with eight women to snare Mr. Wrightman, the heir to a gorgeous estate, along with a $100,000 prize.
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English
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"Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, "U R my MILF!" Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life--serving as Executive Director of...
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
278 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Aimée Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody--all but stalking her. Harassed and fed up, Aimée has stopped taking his calls. That's why she doesn't know as she's leaving a client's office late one night that Melac is waiting for her by the Bassin de la Villette--where an assailant attacks him just in time for Aimee to...
77) Ditched 4 murder
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington mass market edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
While helping her seventy-four-year-old Aunt Ina prepare for her wedding, Sophie Kimball gets drawn into a murder case that is linked to Ina's fiancé and works to catch a killer before her aunt walks down the aisle.
78) Power play
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Ninth-grade hockey player Kyla Woodson is hoping to win a spot on the varsity team mid-season--but she has at least one serious rival for the coveted position, and her supressed anger over her parents recent divorce seems to keep getting in the way.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Candida Wilton-a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters-moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her...
80) Smart women
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Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xii, 354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
B.B. and Margo, two forty-year-old divorcees, are unprepared for the frustrations, pain, and passion which arise when B.B.'s ex-husband hits town, in a story about a complex romantic triangle.