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Life change events Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Mothers and sons Fiction Mères de famille monoparentale Romans, nouvelles, etc Pediatric surgeons Fiction Secrecy Fiction Single mothers Single mothers Fiction Stay-at-home mothers Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) FictionSilber, Joan
Summary: "One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILWaxman, Abbi
Summary: "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;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAXCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WAXHiggins, Kristan
Summary: Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGMallery, Susan
Summary: Ellen and Unity make the Friendship List, an agenda of daring activities, to convince their families they're doing just fine. But they soon realize that their guidebook might actually be making them just fine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MALKubica, Mary
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she's a fierce, brilliant vigilante. After an unspeakable crime shatters her life, she changes her identity and moves to a small town in Illinois, hoping to spare her children from further trauma...or worse. But crime follows her everywhere. When the former mayor winds up dead, Rachel can't help but get involved. Where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PINLodato, Victor
Summary: "Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear: not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LODCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lodato 2017Giffin, Emily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIFGiffin, Emily.
Summary: When plastic surgeon Nick Russo takes the case of a six-year-old burn victim, he becomes attracted to the boy's mother, Valerie. As his relationship with Valerie grows, Nick's marriage to Tessa, a well-educated professor turned housewife, starts to fall apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD FIC GiffinHamer, Kate.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hamer 2016Porter, Jane
Summary: "Love was given to all, except herself. Kit Brennan has always been the most grounded of her sisters. A Catholic school English teacher for seventeen years and a constant giver, her decisions have been sound--just not very satisfying. Her fortieth birthday is right around the corner, causing Kit to consider some wilder notions, like skipping right past the love and marriage to raising a child...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORWilson, Susan
Summary: A worried mom takes her daughter to a new town to get a fresh start by opening a bed & breakfast, where the daughter bonds with a rescued pit bull who helps mother, daughter and his owner recover from trust issues to build a family together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Nick Russo, pediatric plastic surgeon and husband of Tessa, a stay-at-home mom, is called in to treat a six-year-old burn victim; but as he becomes involved in the case, he also finds himself attracted to the child's mother, Valerie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIFHenderson, Julietta
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Norman Foreman and his best friend, Jax, are a legendary comedic duo in waiting, with a plan to take their act all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe. But when Jax dies, Norman decides the only fitting tribute is to perform at the festival himself. The problem is, Norman's not the funny one. Jax was. There's also another, far more colossal objective on Norman's new plan that his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENMoyes, Jojo.
Summary: A moving tale of heartbreak, friendship, and the healing power of love set on the English coast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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Summary: In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls "razor sharp," a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when she draws a disturbing picture--but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything. Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. He has no desire to settle down. But before his grandmother passes away, she drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew and where he might be found. Curious, Tanner heads for North Carolina. There lives Kaitlyn, a single mother. And nearby lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC SPACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPAWoods, Sherryl
Summary: "When nasty divorce proceedings leave single mom Lynn Morrow with precarious finances, she's determined to do everything she can to make ends meet. Especially when her soon-to-be ex-husband fails to provide any support for her and her children. But Lynn has been through tough times before, and she knows she can get through anything with the support of the Serenity community, especially the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOWilliams, Ian
Summary: "Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILGreathead, Kate
Summary: "A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Greathead 2018Chan, Jessamine
Summary: "Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChanCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF CHABrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Widowed Sarah Turner has her hands full, raising three young children, tending the lock on the canal, baking bread, and washing clothes for boatmen. Although she's not looking for love, she's vowed not to lose her heart to a boatman. Yet she didn't count on meeting Captain Elias Brooks. Will she follow her heart where it leads or accept the proposal of a handsome land-loving blacksmith?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCrais, Robert
Summary: "It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CRAPham, Andrew X.
Summary: In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024