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Jenny Harris always expected that she'd fall in love, get married, and have a baby--in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn't mind that she and her live-in fiance, Dean, started their family earlier than planned. But then one night Dean runs out for cigarettes and just doesn't come back, and the very next day, Jenny goes into labor. She never anticipated single motherhood--but at least there's not much time to dwell...
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Rose, married for three years, decides she has made a mistake and leaves her husband, traveling from California to Kentucky to take up residence in a home for unwed mothers where she plans to have her baby and give it up for adoption, but she soon discovers life still holds some surprises.
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Single mom Ellen Fox couldn't be more content, until she overhears her son saying he can't go to his dream college because she needs him too much. If she wants him to live his best life, she must convince him she's living hers. So, Unity Leandre, her best friend since forever, creates a list of challenges to push Ellen out of her comfort zone. Unity will complete the list, too, but not because she needs to change. What's wrong with a thirtysomething...
4) Red Lily
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In the garden trilogy volume 3
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English
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In this conclusion to the In the Garden trilogy, Hayley, finally finding a place to settle down with her young daughter, revels in newfound friendships, one of which leads to romance, while investigating a centuries-old mystery.
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Hearts of the Lancaster Grand Hotel volume 2
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Amish single mother Carolyn Lapp longs for love and a traditional family, but she suspects that the widower her brother wants her to marry only wants her to help raise his daughter.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Six films made before the Production Code. In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free rein to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex.
The cheat: Tallulah Bankhead plays a...
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Headline Review
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2019.
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English
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Read her letter. Remember her story...Gripping. Mesmerising. Haunting. Heart-breaking. Once you've heard her story, you will never forget The Girl in the Letter.Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Rachel Hore and Kathryn Hughes, this page-turning, moving novel of separation and long-buried secrets will stay with you for ever.In the winter of 1956 pregnant young Ivy is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a home for unmarried mothers in the south of England,...
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Baxter family series. Standalone novels volume 10
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Ashley Baxter Blake, who made a life-altering mistake in Paris twenty-four years ago, is given a chance at redemption even though she never forgave herself.
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2021.
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English
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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things...
12) The silent boy
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
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2017.
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English
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"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In...
14) The choice
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Thomas Nelson
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[2012]
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English
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Even as a pregnant, unwed teen in 1974, Sandy Lincoln wanted to do the right thing. But when an ageless woman approached her in a convenience store with a mysterious prophecy and a warning, doing the right thing became even more unclear. She made the best choice she could....and has lived with the consequences.
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English
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An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events. “Home for Erring and Outcast Girls deftly reimagines the wounded women who came seeking a second chance and a sustaining hope.”Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours. In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption...
16) Stars of Alabama
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The author describes her experience hidden away by her wealthy Chicago parents in a dreary government facility for impoverished pregnant teens after she discovered she was accidentally expecting at age 17 in 1979. Reading-group guide available.
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Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"It's Christmas time, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot's family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time since the War ended. And Harry, it turns out, isn't dead....
20) Haunting Olivia
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Kensington Pub. Corporation
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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