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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At first glance, Nell King's cozy home in Yorktide, Maine, seems a step down from the impeccably decorated Boston house she shared with her husband. But in the six years since he abruptly left to marry another woman, Nell and her almost-grown daughters have found real happiness and comfort here. Now, faced with what may be their last Christmas together before Molly and Felicity move away, Nell suddenly feels anxious. She gave up her own ambitions...
43) Divorce
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
44) Cape Refuge
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Not too far off the Georgia coast lies the small island of Cape Refuge. Wade and Thelma Owens run a halfway house there that caters to wayward souls just out of prison. So when Wade and Thelma turn up brutally murdered, the town goes into shock, concerned that one of the Hanover House residents is a murderer who could strike again. When police discover that the murder weapon belongs to the Owens's son-in-law Jonathan Cleary, he's arrested for murder....
45) Daddy and Dada
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A little girl explains how families, including hers, come in many shapes and sizes--some with a mom and a dad, some with two dads, some with two moms, and more" --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen...
47) Meet the Fockers
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Pam and Greg get their parents together, it turns into one disaster after another. The hippie Fockers are the direct opposite of the uptight Byrneses. With one pitfall after the next, the film takes awkward in-law experiences to new heights.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her last novel, Between Sisters, was chosen by CBS's The Early Show as one of the best books of the summer. Now she returns with The Things We Do for Love-a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love. The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always "the princess" of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold. High School....
49) A man's heart
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her. Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling potato farm, with a sister excluded from his will, and with a heart wounded by what she gave up on his behalf. Then cancer takes the life of her best friend, and Jules finds herself caring for two small children. How...
50) Map of flames
Author
Series
Forgotten five volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Five children who are the offspring of supernatural criminals and who have special abilities of their own leave their isolated tropical home and head to the city of Estero, where they hope to find their parents and the treasure they hid years ago.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Hailey Sharp has a one-track mind: Get By the Cup salad shop off the ground. Do literally everything possible to make it a success. Repeat. With a head full of entrepreneurial ideas and a bad ex in her rearview, her one and only focus is living life the way she wants to. No distractions. Wes Jansen never did understand the fuss about relationships. With a string of lackluster first dates and the pain from his parents' angry divorce following him...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"May you always feel at home. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decided to adopt via the foster care system. Knowing that the goal is reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question, evaluate, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their family--even if it most likely means giving them up. After years of starts and stops, a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
54) Mind games
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...
55) All adults here
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
57) She's not sorry
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan mistakenly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Nubeocho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition: april, 2022.
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A light-hearted, funny story for children and adults alike about the perils of overprotective parenting! From the time Bruno wakes up to the time he goes to bed, his very loving, but overprotective parents, are always there to see he never ever gets too hot or too cold, too dirty or too excited. Poor Bruno... will his parents ever learn to just let him play and have fun like the other children?"--Publisher's description.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after ... until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change ... and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like...
60) Redwood bend
Author
Language
English
Description
"Katie Malone and her twin boys' trip along the beautiful mountain roads to Virgin River is stopped short by a tire as flat as her failed romance. To make matters worse, the rain has set in, the boys are hungry and Katie is having trouble putting on a spare. As she stands at the side of the road pondering her next move, she hears a distinct rumble. The sight of the sexy, leather-clad bikers who pull up beside her puts her imagination into overdrive....