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901) 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.
903) 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...
904) A farewell to yarns
Author
Series
Jane Jeffry mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Language
English
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.
906) 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....
907) 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....
909) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As a single mother of two, Faye O'Neill has no time for fairy tales. She's not even certain she believes in luck. Practical, smart, and desperate to escape a shadowy past, Faye takes a job at a top advertising firm in London where she hopes she and her children can find a fresh start. When she finds the beautiful two-story flat for rent in a stately old Victorian complete with a neglected but tumbling English garden, she can scarcely believe her good...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
[Navy baby:]"It was a night she'd never forget...two strangers coming together in a moment of intense desire. But now sheltered Hannah Raymond is expecting the child of a rugged naval seaman she thought she'd never see again. Riley Murdock has been searching for Hannah for months-ever since that soul-shaking night of passion. Now fate has reunited them. Determined to give his child the chance he never had, Riley marries Hannah. They've created the...
915) Lilith: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the way back home from North Africa. She must then complete the adoption of her young daughter June alone. A decade later, she gives birth to a bastard daughter, Marguerite. Now Hetty must go before a tribunal to prove that she will be a fit mother. What follows is the story of little Marguerite's childhood in the recovering...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Gina Petrillo thought she was on the run from her troubles...but they followed her home to Winding River, Wyoming. Struggling with single-motherhood and career pressures, Denver attorney Emma Rogers comes home for a reunion with the Calamity Janes in desperate need of their support.
918) Saga: Volume 11
Author
Series
Saga volume 11
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war. Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic for mature readers, Saga follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war. A multiple award winning, critically...
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