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101) In bloom
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Amazing Grace - After years spent traveling the world as a flight attendant, Gracie Walden is ready to stay a little closer to her roots, starting with two weeks at home in Amarillo, Texas. But there's unexpected turbulence between her mother, Ella, and her older sister, Hope - and it will lead to a revelation that changes Gracie's life in amazing ways...
Meant to be - When Cory Creed was just a little girl, she knew she'd grow up to marry Austin...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending...
103) El instinto
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Blythe no longer knows what is true and what is a lie: is she living the happy life she always wanted, with a perfect husband and an angelic daughter? Or is she repeating the sordid story of her mother and grandmother, marked by detachment and abuse? Is Fox, her husband, the ideal partner and father, or does she have a parallel life that takes her further away from home every day? Is her daughter Violet a bright and complicated girl, who only wants...
104) Dual citizens
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood despite these differences. As they grow up, Lark excels...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Two women. Two eggs. One life-changing switch. Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her entire life striving for perfection-obsessing over her spotless home, maintaining her pristine reputation, building her perfect family-and her hard work has finally paid off. After seven difficult years of trying (and failing) to conceive, Katherine gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child, and at last has the one thing she's wanted most of all. But one...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"If everyday life crushes you like a steamroller, here you will find an ally. There are highly motivated people who want to do great feats, such as raising an eight thousand or getting a university degree after forty. Paz no. Paz has three children, A standard husband, an asshole boss and the closest thing to having time for her is getting to go shopping alone at Carrefour. But she does have a mission: she has decided to get laid, no, A FUCK, with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned her family....
108) El libro de Gothel
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Haelewise siempre ha vivido bajo la sombra de su madre, Hedda, una mujer que hará cualquier cosa para mantener protegida a su hija. Porque con sus extraños ojos negros y desmayos aún más extraños, Haelewise es rechazada por su aldea, y su único consuelo reside en las historias que le cuenta su madre sobre brujas que roban niños, sobre príncipes con pieles de lobo, sobre una antigua torre envuelta en niebla. , donde las mujeres encontrarán...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own, and a future for her family. When she moves to Edenton, North Carolina from the plantation where she was born, she is free, newly married, and ready to follow her dreams. As the demands of life pull Josephine's attention-deepening her marriage, mothering her daughters, supporting her grandmother-she struggles to balance her real estate aspirations with the realities of keeping life going...
110) Looking for Jane
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world. But menace skulks beneath the surface of this exclusive enclave, making its residents prone to outrage. When the Wilde family moves in, they trigger their neighbors' worst fears. Dad Arlo's a gruff has-been rock star with track marks. Mom Gertie's got a thick Brooklyn...
112) Delicate condition
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens - while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says. Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make...
113) You were always mine
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible--a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local community college, and a cozy house in a quaint little beach town. It may not look like much, but it's more than she ever dreamed of or what her difficult childhood promised. Her life's mantra is to be good, quiet, grateful. Until something shifts and Cinnamon is suddenly haunted by a terrifying question:...
114) Mika en la vida real
Author
Publisher
Umbriel, Ediciones Urano, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Con treinta y cinco años, la vida de Mika Suzuki es un desastre. Su última relación terminó muy mal. Su compañera de habitación y mejor amiga podría ser una acumuladora compulsiva. Ella es una continua decepción para sus padres, japoneses tradicionales. Y, hace muy poco, la despidieron de su último trabajo. Mika está en su peor momento cuando recibe una llamada de Penny, la hija que dio en adopción hace dieciséis años. Penny está decidida...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved books editor at Glamour magazine comes a heartfelt and painfully funny debut about what happens when a wife and mother of three leaps at the chance to fulfill her professional destiny--only to learn every opportunity comes at a price. In A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Una emotiva novela sobre la maternidad, sobre una mujer que nunca pensó que quería ser madre, y cómo decide o no seguir adelante y tener un hijo.
An emotional novel about motherhood -- about a woman who has never thought she wanted to become a mother, and how she does or does not decide to go ahead and have a child.
118) 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...
119) Normal women
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New mother Dani has a lot going on. She's worried that her seemingly healthy husband, Clark, might drop dead, leaving her and her baby, Lotte, destitute. She's worried that she hasn't lived up to her birthright as the daughter of the legendary Garbage King, DJ Silver, whose waste management company employed the town of Metcalf for decades. And she's really worried that, try as she might, she's not a gym-going, manicure-sporting, perfectly coiffed...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rose O'Connell is barely surviving. Her relationship with her husband is on the rocks and their son isn't fitting in at his new school, the prestigious Woolf Academy. Their tiny flat in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood--the very place Rose grew up as the daughter of an infamous local con artist--can barely contain her family. Rose can't catch a professional break either, trapped in the same junior bank teller role for years. Life as the only mom...
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