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The girl in the red coat : a novel / by Hamer, Kate.;
Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different--sensitive, distracted, with an heart-stopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, newly single, worries about her daughter's strangeness, especially as she is trying to build a new life for the two of them. When she takes Carmel to a local festival, her worst fear is realized: Carmel disappears into the crowd. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone forever, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own. But do the real clues to Carmel's disappearance lie in the otherworldly qualities her mother had only begun to guess at? --Publisher
Subjects: Missing children; Single mothers;
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Domestic secrets / by Noonan, Rosalind.;
Rachel Whalen and a Ariel Alexander have been friends for more than a decade. Despite their differences--down-to-earth Rachel owns a local hair salon; Ariel is a vivacious former TV star determined to hold onto her looks--they've helped each other navigate single motherhood, banding together against the soccer moms of Timbergrove, Oregon. Yet lately, Rachel wonders about Ariel's increasingly erratic parenting and her clandestine love life. And Rachel can't reveal to anyone, even Ariel, how much she worries about her sullen, distant, younger son. When an unthinkable tragedy separates the two families, Rachel desperately tries to understand what went wrong. But as her assumptions are ripped away one by one, she must confront shattering revelations about the people she trusted and the suburban world that once seemed so safe" -- Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Single mothers; Mother and child; Female friendship;
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Yankee doodle dixie / by Patton, Lisa.;
Returning to her home in the South, Leelee Satterfield opens another restaurant but finds returning to her former life challenged by memories of the Vermont man who stole her heart and the daiquiri-laced advice of her three best friends.
Subjects: Single mothers; Female friendship;
© 2012, ©2011., Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin,
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The liar / by Roberts, Nora.;
Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions. The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn't just dead. He never really existed. Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in her hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff Lott, a successful contractor. But her husband had secrets she has yet to discover. Even in this small town, surrounded by loved ones, danger is closer than she knows, and threatens Griff, as well. Attempted murder is only the beginning.
Subjects: Romantic suspense fiction.; Fraud; Single mothers; Homecoming; Attempted murder;
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Home again : [electronic resource] : A Novel. by Hannah, Kristin.;
Madelaine Hillyard is a world-famous heart surgeon at the top of her game. Her personal life is far less successful. A loving but overworked single mom, she is constantly at odds with her teenage daughter. At sixteen, Lina is confused, angry, and fast becoming a stranger to her mother--a rebel desperate to find the father who walked away before she was born. Complicating matters for Madelaine are the vastly different DeMarco brothers: While priest Francis DeMarco is always ready to lend a helping hand, his brother, Angel, long ago took on the role of bad boy. Years earlier Angel abandoned Madelaine--and fatherhood--to go in search of fame and fortune. His departure left Madelaine devastated, but now he reappears and seeks help from the very people he betrayed--as a patient in dire need. With Home Again, New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah has written a moving, powerful novel about the fragile threads that bind together our lives and the...Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Women physicians; Single mothers; Fiction.; Literature.; Romance.;
© 2005.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=75883 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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The liar / by Roberts, Nora.; LaVoy, January,narrator.;
Performed by January LaVoy.Director, Sarah Schaefer.Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions...The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn't just dead. He never really existed. Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in her hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff Lott, a successful contractor. But her husband had secrets she has yet to discover. Even in this small town, surrounded by loved ones, danger is closer than she knows--and threatens Griff, as well. And an attempted murder is only the beginning.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Romantic suspense fiction.; Single mothers; Attempted murder; Man-woman relationships;
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One perfect lie / by Scottoline, Lisa,.; Newbern, George,1964-narrator.;
Read by George Newbern.Title from container.An emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep listeners guessing until the end. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being lured down a darker path by one of his teammates, a secretly disturbed young man from an affluent family, whose excellent grades and fun-loving manner conceal his violent criminal plans. Add a handsome stranger who comes to town and infiltrates the high school, posing as a teacher but with a hidden agenda all his own.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Suspense fiction.; Single mothers; Mothers and sons; High schools; Undercover operations;
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Smart women / by Blume, Judy.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Love stories.; Women; Female friendship; Divorced women; Single mothers;
© 2005, c1983., Berkley Books,
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The garden of small beginnings / by Waxman, Abbi.;
"Young widow Lilian Girvan can't see the garden for the weeds... It's been three years since her husband was killed in a car accident and Lilian is still getting used to being sane--after that one early breakdown. She's happy just being able to get her two girls to school every morning, keep her illustrating job, and catch up on her favorite TV shows with her sister. She's not exactly in a rut; she's just letting the grass grow under her feet. But then Lilian's boss asks her to illustrate a vegetable encyclopedia and signs her up for a vegetable-gardening class. Lilian reluctantly agrees and recruits her kids and sister to join her for some drama-free Saturday mornings, because what could be more relaxing than gardening? Nothing...except that this class is filled with people who like to dig a little deeper than the surface, and an instructor who makes Lillian want to bloom for the first time in years. With her fellow newbie gardeners, Lilian learns what it takes to nurture plants--and friendships. Digging in the dirt, with worms and all, teaches Lilian that sometimes you have to let nature take its course, be it in gardening, in life, or in love.."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Love stories.; Romance fiction.; Widows; Women illustrators; Single mothers; Gardeners;
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One plus one / by Moyes, Jojo,1969-;
"Single mother and eternal optimist Jess Thomas has always tried to Do the Right Thing, but life doesn't make it easy--especially after her math-whiz daughter gets a life-changing opportunity they can't afford. Ed Nicholls is a brilliant tech millionaire whose life is falling apart when he happens upon Jess and her family stranded on the side of the road. In perhaps his first unselfish act ever, Ed agrees to drive them, plus their pungent dog, Norman, to the Maths Olympiad--and to a prize that could change their lives forever--in this hilarious, heart-warming story of family dysfunction, devotion, and love found in the unlikeliest of places,"--page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Single mothers; Man-woman relationships; Families; Dysfunctional families;
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