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3) Beachcombers
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English
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Abbie Fox hasn't seen her father or two younger sisters in almost two years, during which she's jetted around the world and experienced life, if not love. Now Lily, the baby of the family, is sending urgent e-mails begging Abbie to return to Nantucket. Middle sister Emma has taken to bed after losing her job and her fiancé, and the woman renting their guest house may have set her sights on their widowed father. Over the course of the summer, the...
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Language
English
Description
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action--life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Featured in multiple "must-read" lists, No One Tells You This is "sharp, intimate...A funny, frank, and fearless memoir...and a refreshing view of the possibilities—and pitfalls—personal freedom can offer modern women" (Kirkus Reviews).
If the story doesn't end with marriage or a child, what then? This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her fortieth birthday....
If the story doesn't end with marriage or a child, what then? This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her fortieth birthday....
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Language
English
Description
"In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis, the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious items as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley's survival. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language--including Rose's wish...
7) Adultos
Author
Publisher
N�ordica Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Ida es arquitecta, no tiene hijos y est�a en su mejor momento, pero �ultimamente las se�nales de advertencia se han vuelto cada vez m�as diferentes para ignorarlas. Para estar segura, ha explorado las posibilidades de congelar sus �ovulos para su uso posterior, en caso de que conozca al hombre adecuado. Ahora est�a aqu�i el verano, e Ida va en un autob�us rumbo al sur hacia la id�ilica caba�na familiar junto al mar, donde su madre...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A humorous and heart-wrenching story of a transgender woman’s re-entry into life on the outside after twenty years in incarceration told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. When Carlotta Mercedes was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she’d grown up with. But not long after her conviction, she began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Unable to relate to people or hold a job after suffering a head injury in early childhood, talented artist Lucy is forced out of her protective Jewish home and into a New York City studio apartment with her college-age brother, where she struggles to adapt to life without a safety net.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After her mother has a heart attack and her husband's lawyer delivers some shocking news, Laurie James finds herself sandwiched between caring for her parents, managing caregivers, raising four daughters, and trying to understand her husband's choices--to keep herself afloat, she seeks therapy, practices yoga, rediscovers nature, and begins to write. Will it be enough to keep her family together?
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Series
Lorraine Fisher novels volume 1
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Hiring Zoe to help her around the house as she prepares for her baby's arrival, Claudia Morgan-Brown discovers that there is something off about Zoe and, after learning about a series of vicious attacks on pregnant women in the area, worries that her own life is in danger.
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Helping Her Get Free with the title To Be an Anchor in the Storm. The survivor of an abusive relationship herself, and a licensed counselor of abused women for more than a decade, Susan Brewster teaches readers how to recognize the signs of abuse, handle negative feelings, become an effective advocate, deal with the abuser, and more. With a new introduction and updated resource section, this straightforward and compassionate book offers the information...
15) Forced to be family: a guide for living with sinister sisters, drama mamas, and infuriating in-laws
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
16) Baby doll
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, BABY DOLL is the most tense thriller you will read this year. Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown from a teenager to an adult in a small basement prison. Her daughter Sky has been a captive her whole life. But one day their captor leaves the deadbolt unlocked. This is what happens next ... to her twin sister, to her mother, to her daughter ... and to her captor."--
"You've been held captive in...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
American women fare worse than men on virtually every major dimension of social status, financial well-being, and physical safety. Sexual violence remains common, and reproductive rights are by no means secure. Women assume disproportionate burdens in the home and pay a heavy price in the workplace. Despite a quarter century's effort at reforming rape law, America's rate of reported rape is the second highest in the developed world. Yet these issues...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of the much-beloved The Saving Graces is back with a warm, winning new novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free. How much change can one summer bring? If you're Caddie Winger -- thirty-two years old, still living with her grandmother, and giving piano lessons to neighborhood children -- one summer can make the whole world look different. Caddie's mother died when she was nine, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up, Christine Clark had a loving relationship with her mother, to whom this book is dedicated. But there were times, due to life pressures, when Clark's mother welcomed the respite of having her daughter spend some time with family and friends. "I turned to other women," Clark said. "My godmother, a cherished neighbor, two teachers and a navy wife-who, in turn and in different ways, offered me support and guidance when I needed it."Clark's...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1980. Ronald Reagan has been elected president, John Lennon has been shot, and a little girl in New Jersey has been hauled off to English classes. Her teachers and parents and tias are expecting her to become white--like the Italians. This is the opening to A cup of water under my bed, the memoir of one Colombian-Cuban daughter's rebellions and negotiations with the women who raised her and the world that wanted to fit her into a cubbyhole....
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