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901) Ballast
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the cold winter light of the Mississippi Delta, three lonely people stumble under the weight of a shared tragedy. Lawrence is paralyzed with grief after the suicide of his twin brother. Twelve-year-old James drifts into the perilous orbit of local teenagers while his single mother, Marlee, is too exhausted from her menial job to interpret the clues. Sudden violence forces mother and son to flee their home and they alight on Lawrence's property....
902) Reba: Season five
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A Southern housewife manages to keep her family together despite the struggles of a divorce and her daughter's unplanned pregnancy.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Daisy's worried one of her employees at Daisy's Tea Garden may be in a spot of trouble. Lately Karina's been loading up on soup and second-day baked goods at the end of her shift-and while the shop's scrumptious treats may be hard to resist, Daisy suspects there's more going on, especially since Karina has been seen hanging out in a rundown part of Willow Creek. Planning her own daughter's wedding is enough to keep her busy, but Daisy can't help...
904) Jericho
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Raine stars as Annie Quaintain, a widowed mother of two who is forced to start a new life in the remote town of Jericho in rugged 1870s Yorkshire. To make ends meet, she takes in lodgers who work on the local railroad. When handsome worker Johnny Jackson shows up at her door, he brings with him a load of trouble that could threaten Annie's new life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron's marriage and the untold story of her complex life as a single mother and progressive force. Far from a victim or an obstacle to Lord Byron's work, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of her class, founding the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England. A poet and a talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognized...
906) Changeling
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
907) Heels of steel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bridget Steele's father taught her two things: how to build and how to fight. With those skills, she created her own company and began building for New York City's elite. Often the only woman in the room, she's faced sexism, corruption and harassment, but armed with her designer hard hat and steel-toed stilettos, she's up for any challenge. Bridget figured out quickly she had to be ten times better just to be considered equal. Even with a stellar...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson, syndicated advice columnist and weekly National Public Radio celeb, shares her remarkable story--a tale of Amy and her daughter and the people who helped raise them after Amy found herself a reluctant single parent.
909) Meet the Browns
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Second-disc special edition.
Language
English
Description
Brenda grew up with some incredible hardships. She had a prostitute for a mother and a pimp for a 'father.' Now, Brenda is a single mom struggling to raise her family in Chicago. When she receives a letter inviting her to attend her father's funeral in Georgia, she's not sure how to feel. Growing up, Brenda never knew the man and hadn't interacted with that part of her family. But when she loses her job, she decides that now's the time to shake things...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life— perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
As new owner of the falling-apart family homestead in West Texas, Dee Bennett is wrangling ways to earn a living, mend fences with farm and family, and manifest her dreams as a writer--all while nurturing the budding relationship with her beau, outdoorsy photographer Max Miller. But when a drop-dead-gorgeous, high-powered handler for a candidate in a key statewide election blows into Claxton, rivalries bigger than politics and football develop.
Author
Series
Amica geniale volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s, they are still...
913) The penmaker's wife
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian England, a mother is on the run from her past-and the truth about what she did. Birmingham, 1880. Angelica Chastain has fled from London with her young son, William. She promises him a better life, far away from the terrors they left behind. Securing a job as a governess, Angelica captures the attention of wealthy widower Stanley Hampton. Soon they marry and the successful future Angelica envisaged for William starts to fall into place....
914) The Calamity Janes
Author
Series
Calamity Janes volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
What would Emma Rogers have done without her oldest friends, the Calamity Janes? As teenagers in Winding River, Wyoming, they'd supported her ambitious dreams. A decade later, when Emma went home, struggling with single motherhood and career pressures as a top Denver attorney, Cassie, Karen, Gina and Lauren rallied around her. But why were the Calamity Janes urging her to look with favor on her sexy nemesis, Ford Hamilton? Wasn't it bad enough that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Kick-Ass is back. Ready to wipe out New Mexico's worst criminals, Kick-Ass is hitting the streets. But there's a new face beneath the old mask, a new figure under that famous green and yellow wetsuit. A soldier who returns from the horrors of war, only to find a new battle raging on her city's streets. A hero who buses tables by day and fights crime by night. A new Kick-Ass, with a family to feed and a hometown neighborhood that needs cleaned up....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Amanda Gleason's infant son Justin suffers from a rare immune deficiency. His best chance for survival died with his father, Paul, who was murdered before Justin was born. But when a recent photo surfaces of a man who looks like a very-much-alive Paul, Amanda hires Forensic Instincts to investigate.
917) Erin Brockovich
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A young mother in desperate need of a job begins to work as a paralegal and stumbles across a toxic situation in groundwater which develops into a monumental lawsuit against a giant corporation; a famous film star falls in love with an ordinary guy when she visits his book shop to buy a book; two former spies, now corporate operatives for different companies, plan a double-cross of their employers to get rich; after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A Christmas kiss: Wendy is an aspiring designer and assistant to her callous boss Priscilla. Unfortunately, Wendy's dreams of impressing her boss get complicated when she realizes that the mysterious man she kissed in a falling elevator is Priscilla's boyfriend, Adam. As Adam and Wendy's friendship grows, Priscilla is forced to take drastic measures to make sure her engagement goes forward as planned. Will Wendy and Adam connect before it's too...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
Márcia, who lives in a Brazilian favela and works in a hospital, cares deeply about her partients and her family, so when her troubled adult daughter, Jacqueline, is arrested, she turns Jacqeline's gangster boyfriend in, in order to protect her daughter.
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