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Author
Publisher
David Cook
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When a women receives an unexpected positive pregnancy test, abortion often seems like the best or only option for a fulfilling future. Unplanned Grace beautifully challenges that myth, equipping readers to support abortion-vulnerable women with love that values life in every way.
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Series
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English
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Scandal does not define the "fallen" ladies of Puddledon Manor's Benevolent Home. Instead, it's a recipe for an intoxicating new future as the women combine their talents--to operate their own brewery and alehouse . . .When Penelope Barnes arrived at the Home with her young daughter, she discovered a knack for horticulture--and for cultivating the hops needed to produce a superlative pint. She put her scandalous affair with Harry Graham firmly in...
Author
Series
Harlequin presents volume 4057
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Ready to experience life after a childhood defined by illness, Violet Summers has left Manhattan behind...to work aboard the world's most luxurious express train! The one thing she can't leave behind? Her memories of one particular gorgeous if brooding stranger... The night they shared is imprinted on Violet's body and soul. So the arrival of her new boss, Roman Fraser, almost has her dropping an armful of festive decorations. He's that man she couldn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
They pretended to be lovers. But there's nothing make-believe about the baby on the way. When Jonie Danielson recruits her best friend, Sweet Briar mayor Lex Devlin, to be her fake boyfriend for a wedding, it's a no-brainer. But their staged kisses lead to real passion - and heartbreak when Lex pulls away. Now Joni's in a bigger bind: she's pregnant. Can she and Lex once again fake it till they make it - to a real relationship?
6) The say so
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Over the Plain Houses, comes a major novel about two young women contending with unplanned pregnancies in different eras. Edie Carrigan didn't plan to "get herself" pregnant, much less end up in a home for unwed mothers. In 1950s North Carolina, illegitimate pregnancy is kept secret, wayward women require psychiatric cures, and adoption is always the best solution. Not even Edie's closest friend, Luce Waddell, understands...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From "a writer at the top of her game" (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband,...
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Series
Four corners ranch volume 2
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cowboy Wolf Garrett is delighted his brother is happily married. But time can never heal Wolf's own wounds, so being surrounded by such marital joy is a bit much. A trip to his extended family's ranch in Copper Ridge seems the ideal change of scenery. Until he meets local innkeeper Violet Donnelly and realizes he's exchanged one form of torture for another, trying, and spectacularly failing, to resist their instant, wildly hot chemistry.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Being naughty was nice, but now these friends-turned-lovers are in for an unforgettable Christmas ... Just when Kaitlyn Barnes vows to get over her longtime crush on Rafe Langdon, they share a sizzling evening that delivers an epic holiday surprise: Kaitlyn is pregnant. And if that weren't life-changing enough, everyone assumes they're engaged -- a charade they must keep alive through the holiday season. But Kaitlyn knows Rafe better than anyone,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mazey Eddings mixes passion and humor to create a luscious love story between two people stumbling through life and learning to open their hearts in Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake. Lizzie has made endless mistakes. Kitchen fires, pyramid schemes, bangs (of the hair and human variety), you name it, she's done it...and made a mess of it too. One mistake she's never made is letting anyone get closer to her than a single hook-up. But after losing yet another...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Psychologist Shantel Wilson surprises herself by attending a bachelor auction as a favor to her friend--and bidding on his older brother! The outcome of her steamy night with Roman Lockett, heir apparent to an Atlanta football dynasty? She's expecting. Now Roman wants to claim her-- and his child--yet Shantel needs more than a marriage of convenience from this man who put passion in her playbook."--Back cover.
12) Christmas grace
Author
Publisher
Amara/Entangled
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Second chances and the Christmas spirit abound in Mindy Steel's heartwarming novel, one of faith, love, and the power of community." --page [4] of cover
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather meddles in the billion-dollar development deal she's closing for the family company, Amara Devereaux-Rodriguez feels betrayed...and rebellious. A chance encounter with Lennox Carlisle is just the kind of trouble she's looking for. But their night together soon becomes a threat to Amara's aspirations because the mayoral contender has the power to quash the Devereaux deal. And now Amara's pregnant with his child. Can she quench...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
He gave her his heart. She gave him a daughter. Eighteen months ago, Colt McCloud experienced an unforgettable night of passion. Now his onetime lover is at his door, pleading for help to save the daughter they conceived. Lola Dayton knows Colt is her only hope to infiltrate the kidnapper's compound and save their baby. His military--and father--instincts kick in. And Colt secretly vows ... if they survive, he'll make this threesome a forever family....
15) Old flame
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Emily writes for women's catalogs for a living, but she'd rather be writing books. She has a handsome photographer boyfriend, but she actively wonders how and when they will eventually hurt each other. Her best work friend Megan is her lifeline, until Megan is abruptly laid off. When her world is further upended by an unplanned pregnancy, Emily is forced to make tough decisions that will change her life forever. What will she sacrifice from her old...
16) Reckless
Author
Series
Chestnut Springs romances volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"He's scorching-hot trouble wrapped up in a drool-worthy package. And he's looking at her like she might be his next meal. Theo Silva. Rowdy bull rider. Notorious ladies' man. Winter Hamilton knows exactly what it means when he eyes her like that. But she's almost free of her toxic marriage and has sworn off men entirely. So all she sees when she looks back at Theo is temptation served up with a heaping side of heartbreak. The man is hard to trust--but,...
17) The den
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A luminous, hypnotic story of youth, sex, and power that tells of two young women who find themselves ostracized from the same small New England community for the same reasons--though they are separated by 150 years."--
18) One night only
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Making beautiful music is what chamber violinist Megan Han lives for. But one night with a seductive stranger and a surprise pregnancy could jeopardize her hard work. Especially when that handsome stranger turns out to be Daniel Pak, CFO of her father's company. The only choice for these star-crossed lovers is to keep their fling -- and Megan's pregnancy -- a secret. But when passion reignites, will they risk one more sweet symphony?
19) Red at the bone
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
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