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A murder ... a tragic accident ... or just parents behaving badly? What's indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She's funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class...
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English
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Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Ruby Butterman and her husband, Peanut, cannot have children, but they're given a second chance at a family when eight-year-old orphan Carlie is left in their care. It's a challenge for Carlie to adapt to a new town, a new school, and a new family, and when she gets bullied at school, Ruby and Peanut discover how to step up as parents, and how to make a forever family for their beloved little girl.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 52
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters!
Mary Anne can't stop thinking about babies. First she starts baby-sitting for a pair of adorable baby twins. Then she and Dawn decide it would be great to have a baby brother or sister of their own.But Mary Anne learns that taking care of a baby is a big responsibility when she and Logan have to pretend to be parents to an egg "baby" for a class at school. "Sammie,"...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Forced to relocate to Florida and accept an in-law's dubious employment after losing his job, Drew Perry awaits the birth of his first child and becomes unwittingly embroiled in the company's shady business dealings.
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An accomplished photographer and the devoted mom of an adorable little boy, Allie Ross has just moved to an upscale DC suburb, the kind of place where parenting feels like a competitive sport. Allie's desperate to make a good first impression. Then she's framed for murder. It all starts at a neighborhood party when a local dad corners Allie and calls her by an old, forgotten nickname from her dark past. The next day, he is found dead. Soon, the police...
8) Unexpected
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Series
Start up in the city volume 1
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"The next three decades of Abby Herbert's life are as carefully planned out as the last three were. Best career ever? Check. Great friends, one of whom she lives with in a stunning Tribeca apartment? Check. Perfect man to share her dream family? Surely just a matter of time. But then she gets devastating news from her doctor--if she wants to get pregnant, she needs to get started on that by ... well, yesterday. On the bright side, she has the perfect...
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Series
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Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"She's always been just a friend! Grace Beverly spent years hopelessly in love with her best friend, Billy Austin. Now he's back in Eagle's Rest, Colorado, determined to provide the best life possible for his four-year-old daughter. He's just not sure how. Helping Billy navigate the world of parenting is a one-way ticket back to heartache. Yet how can Grace say no to her oldest friend?"--Page [4] cover.
10) Little wonders
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It was the Mommy Meltdown seen around the world! Quinn Barrett's Instagram-perfect life turns inside out when her sons refuses to wear his handcrated costume to the Little Wonders Preschool Happy Halloween Parade and Dance Party. She loses it - complete with stomping, screaming, and costume destruction galore. Not her best day. And caught on viral video. Yep, "Halloween Mom" is now internet famous. The posting culprit: tattooed, blue-haired West Coast...
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Series
Redemption's Amish legacies volume 5
Publisher
Love Inspired Larger Print
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The last thing widower Paul Ebersole needs after discovering he has a teenage daughter and a granddaughter is for his kitten to cause havoc in Haddie Petersheim's Amish creamery. Yet working with Haddie to repair her store might be the answer to his prayers...if he and the widowed mother join forces on their parenting problems. But what happens when their two little families start to feel like one?
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Already a national bestseller in the U.K., Lola Jaye's By the Time You Read This is a profoundly beautiful story of a father's abiding love for the daughter he will never see grow up-and his determination to help guide her through the difficult crossroads and crises of her life even after his own passing. Poignant and unforgettable, evoking in part The Pursuit of Happyness and The Last Lecture, By the Time You Read This celebrates a remarkable bond...
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The littlest angel : Angela Adams refused to have anything to do with her unborn baby's father, especially after his less-than-enthusiastic reaction to her news. And while Clint Brady admits he could have been more supportive, the thought of baby bottles and diaper pins rattled him. But now that the shock has passed, Clint is determined that nothing will come between him and fatherhood - not even Angela herself!"--
"Natural born trouble : Veterinarian...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change...and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like his...
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English
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"In the final installment of Amy Clipston's bestselling Amish Marketplace series, a young widow struggling to raise her son dreams of one more chance at love. Since her husband died seven years ago, Leanna Wengerd has done her best--tending to her son, Chester, and running her Jam and Jelly Nook at the Amish market. Though she enjoys seeing her cousins and customers at the marketplace, she wishes she could find more time for her rebellious teenage...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Shortly after moving with her mother to Florida, a lonely, fourteen-year-old bibliophile is reminded of her infant brother who died and decides to care for an abused, abandoned child with help from a new friend.
18) Say what?
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When their parents begin saying the wrong thing every time six-year-old Sukey and her older brothers misbehave, the children discover that it is a plot and fight back with their own wrong phrases.
19) Mom's night out
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Publisher
B & H
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful, grown-up evening of dinner and conversation... a long-needed moms' night out. But in order to enjoy high heels, adult conversation and food not served in a bag, they need their husbands to watch the kids for a few hours--what could go wrong? Chronicling one night out gone awry, three harried moms, their husbands, a sister-in-law with a misplaced baby, a tattoo parlor owner, a motorcycle gang, and a bewildered...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Jill becomes both pregnant and single at the end of one spring semester, she and her two closest friends plunge into an experiment in tri-parenting, tri-schooling, and trihabitating as grad students in Seattle. Naturally, everything goes wrong, but in ways no one sees coming.
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