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2020.
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CSL - AAPI Books
CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Woman Authors
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In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and...
842) The inheritance
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's job. But after his death, she is a grieving single mother in debt with her three children. Then a call from an estate lawyer in New York offers a glimmer of hope. It is the beginning of a legal journey that could mean the difference between a life of poverty and wealth thanks to her father, a deceased billionaire.
843) Texas nights PB
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Welcome to Promise, a small town in the heart of Texas where the neighbors are friendly and you might just find love. Caroline's Child Everyone in town is curious, but no one's ever asked who the father of Caroline Daniels's child is--and they never will. The people of this tight community are protective of her and little five-year-old Maggie. They care. Especially rancher Grady Weston, who's beginning to realize he cares even more than most... Dr....
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Pub. Date
2016.
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For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
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Tell me: The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, beautiful Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter, Amity, and wounding her two other children. The prosecution argued that Blondell wanted to be rid of them to be with her lover. But Blondell's son has now recanted his crucial testimony... Reporter Nikki Gillette is determined to get the truth, and this time it's personal. Amity...
846) Summer love
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When a widowed suburban mom, who's recently gone back to school, takes an internship and enters the fast-paced tech world of millionaire app-trepreneurs, she discovers that although life seems to be a lot more digital, love needs to be a lot more real.
Series
Chesapeake Shores volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]-
Description
Abby O'Brien Winters returns to Chesapeake Shores when she receives a panicked phone call from her younger sister Jess, who has renovated the charming Inn at Eagle Point. The Maryland town her father built has many sad memories and Abby, thanks to her demanding career, divorce and young twin daughters, has not had time to spare. Saving the inn from foreclosure means dealing not only with her fractured family but also with Trace Riley, the man she...
848) The Christmas secret
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Christine Eisley is a single mom of two struggling to keep her family afloat during Christmas time in the small town of Wilsonville. Having recently moved into town, Christine becomes acquainted with the townspeople, and as the holidays progress, she comes to find her struggles are replaced by surprise and good fortune, as a long time family secret is finally brought to light.
Series
Hallmark channel original movies volume collection 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Winter's dream: After Anna, a 16-year old downhill racer asks for her help, former ski champion Kat re-enters the competitive world of skiing, leading her to reawaken an old passion and find a new love. The perfect catch: When her high school boyfriend, superstar baseball player Chase, returns to town, single parent Jessica finds the inspiration to reinvent her struggling diner. One winter weekend: After magazine writer Cara gets dumped, she vows...
Pub. Date
[2017-
Description
Abby O'Brien left her quaint hometown of Chesapeake Shores, and high school sweetheart Trace Riley, years ago for life in the big city. Now a high-powered career woman, divorcee and mother to twin daughters, Abby returns home and comes face to face with her past. As she reconnects with her uncompromising father Mick and her esteemed grandmother Nell, Abby realizes the toll her career has taken on her ability to be a hands on mother to her daughters,...
851) Copperhead (#2)
Author
Series
Copperhead volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"What starts out as just another Friday night in Copperhead quickly escalates into a rip-roaring adventure featuring a botched date, a band of outlaws, and a desperate chase across the desert" --
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her...
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Series
(Melanie Bennett).Creekville Kisses volume 4
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Twenty-six-year-old Paige Redmond, single mom and go-getter, can't wait to give her daughter, Evie, the Christmas of her dreams. Nothing can get in Paige's way, not even her newly purchased fixer-upper cottage needing way more fixing than she planned. Paige tackles the holiday with Clark Griswold spirit, amusing the entire town -- except for her humbug next door neighbor, the grumpy but deliciously handsome Professor Henry Hill. With the help of...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"In 1850 in Massachusetts, Whittaker House stood as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It’s where two freedom seekers, Little Annie and Clementine, hid and perished. Whittaker House still stands, and Little Annie and Clementine still linger, their dreams of freedom unfulfilled. Now a fashionably distressed vacation rental in the Berkshires, Whittaker House draws seekers of another kind: Black women who only appear to be free. Among them are Dominique,...
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Pub. Date
[2020].
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"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...
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