Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three children. Then an unexpected call from a well-known estate lawyer in New York offers a glimmer of hope. It is the beginning of a complex legal journey that could mean the difference between a life of abject poverty and unthinkable wealth...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive. It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional...
4) Big time
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Returning home with her young son, Blue Shea, settling back into the community, is drawn time and time again to Enzo Castellari, her forbidden first love, and together they fight to find out the truth behind the destructive clash between their families to put the past behind them.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
Author
Series
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rancher and single mother, Lily Parkman, finally revealing the true identity of her daughter's father, finds her friendship with foreman Jonas Buchanan turning into something more as they discover when there's more to love, there's more at stake, especially when someone from the past arrives in Last Ride.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her husband Adam's death, Sarah, with a daughter and a baby on the way-and left with no money-moves in with Adam's mother, whom he always said was dead, but soon discovers why Adam lied as she becomes trapped in a house with a madwoman.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she has made a horrible mistake. Neve is hiding secrets, though. Detective Jess Lambert can tell. Recently back after her own personal tragedy, Jess knows what it?s like to live with skeletons in your closet,...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Leaving Seattle and her cheating husband behind, single mother Karissa moves to Puget Sound where she meets her new neighbors, who are also dealing with their own crises, and together they start a book club as a distraction until it becomes a way to build a better life together.
Author
Series
Hearts of Montana volume 02
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1867, after her son goes missing, Joanna Watson enlists Isaac Bowen-a man with limited experience in the rugged country-to help. As they face the elements, trust begins to form between them, but can it withstand the danger and coming confrontation in this unpredictable land?"--
12) Lilith: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a school shooting leaves her son with traumatic injuries, kindergarten teacher Elisabeth Ross commits her own act of shocking violence that captures the attention of the world.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When fate brings the man she once loved together with the son he never knew he had, Ruth McCoy knows it is only a matter of time before Judd Rankin learns the truth and wonders if the revelation will shatter the tender feelings between them, or be her family's greatest gift.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since Olivia Quinn lost her husband to a freak plane crash, she's been focused on one thing -- making a stable life for her teen stepdaughter, Taylor, of whom she's the sole guardian. But when she loses her job as a children's book editor because she refuses to relocate from Colorado to New York, all her hard-won stability is shattered. Then the opportunity arises to open Liv's dream bookshop in Haven Ridge, offering not only the solution to...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia University. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it is the birth of Vega's...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Sister Seven Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her cousin Mimi who is determined to keep her a "nice girl" -...
Author
Publisher
[James Cornell]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With three young children, Alice Jackson is alone, dealing with abusive boyfriends, the Welfare Department, and poverty. Pregnant as a teen, her mother dead, and father overwhelmed, she is determined to make it on her own. Unprepared, with no skills, education, resources, or support she drifts into serial relationships and soon comes to the attention of the Child Welfare system and is thrust into a maelstrom of misfortune and heartache. Alice struggles...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Horse trainer Mateo Pavlic wants to buy back his family's ranch. But Haley Jansson isn't interested in selling . . . or forgiving his twelve-year absence. Mateo has loved Haley since they were kids, and he feels a deep connection with her sweet son, Jonah. Soon, Mateo wants to be all in with Haley and her adorable baby. But can he convince her to risk her land, her child and her heart?"--
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With its historic charm and picture-perfect library, the Maple Sugar Inn is considered the winter destination. As the holidays approach, the inn is fully booked with guests looking for their dream vacation. But widowed far too young, and exhausted from juggling the hotel with being a dedicated single mom, Hattie Coleman dreams only of making it through the festive season. But when Erica, Claudia and Anna--lifelong friends who seem to have it all--check...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the police found the first body, left on a bonfire in the fields, they worried it had the hallmarks of a serial killer. Now, as they find the second, they know for sure. Panic about the "bonfire killer" quickly spreads through the sedate, suburban area of Southampton. Women are urged not to travel alone at night, and constant vigilance is encouraged among the local residents. But single mom Aisling Cooley has a lot to distract her: two beloved...