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Author
Series
Star mother volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Sun God chooses the village of Endwever to provide a mortal womb. The birthing of a star is always fatal for the mother, and Ceris Wenden, who considers herself an outsider, sacrifices herself to secure her family's honor and take control of her legacy. But after her star child is born, Ceris does what no other star mother has: she survives. When Ceris returns to Endwever, however, it's not nine months later--it's seven hundred years later. Inexplicably...
62) The child
Author
Publisher
Open Letter Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young mother speaks to her second born child. Since the drama of childbirth, all feels calm. The world is new and full of surprises, even though dangers lurk behind every corner; a car out of control, disease ever-present in the air, the unforgiving speed of time.
63) Spring: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sami is no revolutionary. When the Arab Spring breaks out in 2011, he's busy finishing school in Cairo and hiding his relationship with an American woman from his conservative mother, Suad. It's a task that's becoming impossible as events take a catastrophic turn. But Suad won't be fooled--her son has been distant and she knows it's not about politics. Far away in the Nile Delta, she spends her days tending obsessively to her lemon grove, which is...
Author
Series
Where are the children? volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
65) Melville
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Searching for the perfect place, Melville the sea creature embarks on a grand adventure and, unable to find his dream spot, returns home to his mama and learns it was right there all along.
66) The chisellers
Author
Series
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"The Browne brood is about to be relocated to the wilds of suburban Finglas when their tenement is demolished as part of an 'Inner City Renewal Plan.' With the help of her ambitious eldest boy and her persistent French suitor, Agnes copes with the ups and downs of 'rural' life, one unscrupulous gangster, and the son who is well on his way to breaking his mother's heart."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her three young children--until they see fires in the distance, columns of smoke distorting the sweeping view. Overnight, all communication with the outside world is lost. Knowing something terrible has happened, Marlene suspects that the isolation of the remote campsite is all that's protecting her family. But the arrival of a lost...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton was extended a miraculous olive branch in the form of the state's protected witness program. But for this second chance at life, Leah would have to leave behind her Midwestern roots to the northernmost tip of Maine. Alone and isolated along the banks of the Allagash River, she is determined to focus on the present, on her reclaimed future, but the demons of her past are relentlessly...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sara Grayson is a thirty-two-year-old greeting card writer about to land the toughest assignment of her life. Three weeks after the death of her mother--a world-famous suspense novelist--Sara learns that her mother's dying wish is for her to write the final book in her bestselling series. Sara has lived alone with her dog, Gatsby, ever since her husband walked out with their Pro Double Waffle Maker and her last shred of confidence. She can't fathom...
70) The second bell
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated mountain community, sometimes a child is born with two hearts. This child is called a striga and is considered a demon who must be abandoned on the edge of the forest. The child's mother must then decide to leave with her infant, or stay and try to forget. Miriat made the choice to leave nineteen years ago with Salka, her striga, and live a life of deprivation and squalor in an isolated village. The striga tribe share the human belief...
71) The seduction
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Beth lives in the tree-shrouded no-man's land by Camden Lock with her partner Sol and their daughter Fern. Life is peaceful, but Beth is troubled by increasing unease. It could be the uncertainty over her mother, who disappeared when Beth was a child. Or it could be her sense that Fern is keeping secrets from her. So she goes to therapy. Dr Tamara Bywater is there to help her patients. But what if the very person who is meant to be the solution becomes...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"'If I stay, he will kill me. If I leave, he'll destroy Addie and Drew.' Jillian Kane appears to have it all--a successful career, a gorgeous home, a loving husband, and two wonderful children. The reality behind closed doors is something else entirely. For nine years, she has hidden the bruises and the truth of her abusive marriage in order to protect Addie and Drew, knowing, if she left, Gordon would destroy her--destroy them. When, in an act of...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Olivia Rose and her mother fled their home, back when she was just a child, Olivia's lived with her mother's secrets and mantras. Don't stand out. Don't make friends. And most important of all: Don't ask questions. Olivia is now a twenty-nine-year-old law student. She lives in Boston in a beautiful home with the perfect husband. It's a good life. But she's always longed to know more about her family history, and now her beloved mother...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As night falls in Delhi, a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Now grown up, her child is a puzzle with a million pieces, whom she hopes, through her words and her love, to somehow make whole again. Meanwhile, a young man rides the last train from Rajiv Chowk Station and dreams of murder. In another corner of the city, a newborn wrapped in a blood-red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away. There...
75) Mujeres de sal
Author
Publisher
Novum
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Jeanette vive en Miami y lucha contra la adicción. Hija de una inmigrante cubana, está decidida a aprender más sobre su historia familiar; una historia que su madre, Carmen, no le quiere contar. Por eso toma la decisión repentina de acoger a la hija de su vecino detenido por el Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas. Carmen, por su parte, todavía lucha con el trauma de haber dejado Cuba atrás, a la vez que procesa la complicada relación...
76) The last queen
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"'I am Rani Jindan, Mother of the Khalsa. That is my identity. That is my fate.' Daughter of the royal kennel keeper, the beautiful Jindan Kaur went on to become Maharaja Ranjit Singh's youngest and last queen; his favourite. She became regent when her son Dalip, barely six years old, unexpectedly inherited the throne. Sharp-eyed, stubborn, passionate, and dedicated to protecting her son's heritage, Jindan distrusted the British and fought hard to...
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this richly emotional novel, Kristina McMorris evokes the depth of a mother's bond with her child, and the power of personal histories to echo through generations.
In this richly emotional novel, Kristina McMorris evokes the depth of a mother's bond with her child, and the power of personal histories to echo through generations... Two years have done little to ease veterinarian Audra Hughes's grief over her husband's untimely death. Eager for...
78) Inheritance
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her husband, Annie Devereaux flees to England, site of the nostalgic fantasies her father spun for her before he deserted the family. A chance encounter in London leads Annie to cancel her return to New York and move in with Julian, the disaffected, moody son of Helena Denby, a famous British geneticist. As their relationship progresses, Annie meets Julian's sisters Isabel and Sasha, each of them fragile in her own way, and...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after their impulsive marriage, Maggie and Bill Barrett are happily settled into the quiet comfort of their dream home with their three beautiful children. Then, the day after Christmas 2004, their world is shattered apart. Feeling isolated, Bill leaves to try to discover peace on his own. Maggie shuts down, incapable of connecting with her children or even sleeping most nights. Getting by in a daze, she has no idea how to begin picking...
80) Four minutes
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria, Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman. She confronts her trauma by trying to volunteer at the orphanage, and to adopt a young girl--a choice that is frustrated over and over by bureaucracy and the pervasive stigma against gay women. In addition to Leah's narrative, the novel...
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