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"Finola, a popular LA morning show host, is famously upbeat until she's blindsided on live TV by news that her husband is sleeping with a young pop sensation who has set their affair to music. While avoiding the tabloids and pretending she's just fine, she's crumbling inside, desperate for him to come to his senses and for life to go back to normal. Zennie's breakup is no big loss. Although the world insists she pair up, she'd rather be surfing. So...
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she's becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn't know--what she can't know--is how this one decision, this one case, will wreak complete...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
Author
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
"More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
538 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Childless Kendra and husband Isaac accept an offer from Kendra's younger sister- single mom Jamie- to conceive and carry a child for them. But when a medical crisis threatens Jamie's health she learns that the most difficult choice in her life is yet to come
6) Deadly deals
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Series
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English
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After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. But soon the birth mother reappears, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this profound and lyrical novel, acclaimed author Amanda Eyre Ward explores the deeper meanings of motherhood--from the first blissful hello to the heart-wrenching prospect of saying goodbye. Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of fifteen years, admits his yearning for a child. From the beginning they'd decided that having children was not an option, as Suzette feared passing along the genes that landed...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When their surrogate, Cally, has a change of heart, engineering a harrowing escape from the hospital with the newborn, Ruth and Hal, as a whole series of doubts and secrets are revealed, it's no longer clear what's "right" and what's "wrong."
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English
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"When Kelly MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren't working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue. It didn't take long for Pockets to realize there were two Joe Sues: the Joe Sue the public saw with her perfect life and her Hollywood husband, and the private...
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Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"...his eyes met hers in the mirror. They were dark and smoldering, like the purest of blue flame. And in her own eyes was the glassy sheen of desire." Arden Gentry went to the lush island of Maui for the specific purpose of ingratiating herself into Drew McCasslin's world. The dashing widower, who had bitterly grieved the death of his wife, is ready to tackle life again and believes that his meeting with Arden is fortunate happenstance. He and his...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Libby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing career. Now for the first time in years, things are looking up. She's just sold her first novel, and she and Ethan are going on a much-needed vacation. Everything seems to be going their way, so why can't she stop looking over her shoulder or panicking every time Ethan wanders out of view? Is it because...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Recently separated Amelia Buxton, a dedicated journalist, never expected that uncovering the biggest story of her career would become deeply personal. But when she discovers that a cluster of embryos belonging to her childhood friend Parker and his late wife Greer have been deemed 'abandoned,' she's put in the unenviable position of telling Parker--and dredging up old wounds in the process. Parker has been unable to move forward since the loss of...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you're paid big money to stay here--more than you've ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds; your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. Jane, an immigrant...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the perfect client. At home, Nora grapples with the bleaker reality of enormous debt, a tiny apartment, and ever-dwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will have a family of their own. When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Nora's life, the women spark an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Fall in love all over again with USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen's classic tale of a single mother who needs the help of a Texas lawman to keep them both safe...
In the past twenty-four hours Sabrina Carr has been shot at, kidnapped and held hostage. As if being eight months pregnant isn't stressful enough!
Now, after narrowly escaping the clutches of masked gunmen, Sabrina and her baby need a protector. That's when hot Texas cop...
16) Dear thing
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"After years of watching her best friends Ben and Claire try for a baby, Romily has offered to give them the one thing that they want most. Romily expects it will be easy to be a surrogate. She's already a single mother, and she has no desire for any more children. But Romily isn't prepared for the overwhelming feelings that have taken hold of her and which threaten to ruin her friendship with Ben and Claire-and even destroy their marriage. Now there...
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hannah and Kate became friends in the fifth grade, when Hannah hit a boy for looking up Kate's skirt with a mirror. While they've been close as sisters ever since, Hannah can't help but feel envious of the little family Kate and her husband, David, have created--complete with two perfect little girls. She and Ben have been trying for years to have a baby, so when they receive the news that she will likely never get pregnant, Hannah's heartbreak...
18) The midwife
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 383 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Since the day Rhoda Mummau was baptized into the Old Order Mennonite Church and became the head midwife of Hopen Haus, she's been torn between the needs of the unwed mothers under her care and her desire to conceal the secrets of her past. Contact with the outside world could provide medical advantages, but remaining secluded in the community gives her the anonymity she craves. Graduate student Beth Winslow is on a path she never would have chosen....
19) The Jewel
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Series
Language
English
Description
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years for training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
20) The black key
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Violet's sister Hazel has been taken by the Duchess of the Lake, and she must save both Hazel and the future of the Lone City.