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After a difficult five years, at age forty-three, Nina Morgan Clarke's time has finally arrived. With an ex-husband relocated across the country, her father bouncing back after the loss of his beloved wife, and her daughter, Xandra, thriving at boarding school, Nina is stepping into her dream job as a trifecta: a first-generation, Black female head of the storied Royal-Hawkins School. To mark the moment, Nina and her best friend, Marisol, take a long-overdue...
Author
Series
Eagle Point search and rescue volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After serving his country as a Green Beret, Zeke Calhoun was happy to get out of the military and settle into small-town life as a bar owner. His position with Eagle Point Search and Rescue fulfills his need to serve and provides some of the best friends he's ever known. He didn't realize anything was missing until it was right under his nose every day-- his sweet, shy waitress, Elsie. It isn't easy to convince the independent, gun-shy single mom...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The story of Kin, a young divorced mother raising her 12-year-old daughter, Mindy. When Mindy sets her sights on finding her mother a new boyfriend by using ancient Chinese magic, the results are unexpected, funny, and heart-warming.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A divorced mom looking to reknit her unraveling family decides to purchase her family's remote mountain cabin from her dead uncle's estate, but once she arrives there with her kids, the family discovers that their "dead" relative is very much alive and needs their help protecting the mountain's secret from a ruthless developer.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
3-disc collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
It takes a lot of heart to keep a family like this one together. Amid Brock and Barbra Jean's marital troubles, Cheyenne's personal struggles, Van's career crisis and Kyra's growing pains, Reba somehow manages to keep the whole family functioning at a level just above dysfunctional.
72) Labor Day: DVD
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A lonely, divorced mother allows an escaped killer to stay with her and her thirteen-year-old son.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the summer heat of a small Arizona border town, sparks fly for three generations of women. 17-year-old Blanca discovers romance for the first time with the new bad boy in town. Lolita, her mother, had hit a dry spell until the husband of one of her customers husband pays her a visit. Blanca's grandmother, Doña Genoveva enlists her gardener Don Pedro to give her driving lessons and learns about more than cars in the process.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Single working mom Christine Campbell has just learned that her ex is dating a much younger woman with the same first name. To avoid any confusion, the new girlfriend is dubbed New Christine, which leaves her with the unfortunate nickname Old Christine. Christine struggles to hold it together as she adjusts to her new nickname, confronts the meanie moms at her son's private school, jumps back in the dating pool-- and gets laughs every misstep of the...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
Anya Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, often unmooring world of "grown-up" dating in this darkly comic graphic novel. After her fifteen-year marriage ends, Lena Finkle gets an eye-opening education in love, sex, and loss when she embarks on a string of online dates, all while raising her two teenage daughters. The Vampire of Bensonhurst, the Orphan, Disaster Man, and the Diamond Psychiatrist are just a few of the unforgettable characters...
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.
78) I, Parrot
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Typing up positive-thought messages for a self-help guru isn't exactly Daphne's idea of dream job. But to regain custody of her nine-year-old son, she's willing to try. A few weeks later, when that same self-help guru asks her to take care of 100 endangered parrots, Daphne is willing to try that too. What ensues is a hilarious, heartbreaking tragicomedy involving the love of her life, the landlady from hell, three house painters, a flock of passenger...
Series
Reba volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
3-disc collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
A Southern soccer mom (Reba) learns her married daughter isn't going to be moving out of the house with her husband and baby. Reba accepts a job working for her ex-husband. No matter how hard she tries to make family life run smoothly, she learns there is no way to please everyone.
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