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"When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as a freelance journalist. But she has also been searching for something else--new friends to help her navigate motherhood. She sees them at her son's new playgroup. The other mothers. A group of sleek, sophisticated women who live in a neighborhood of tree-lined avenues and stunning houses. The sort of...
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"When Jenn Berney and her wife decided they wanted to have children, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. Intrauterine insemination is a simple medical procedure that has been available since the 1950s, but doctors were baffled by Jenn's situation. With no man factoring into her relationship, she was disparaged by doctors, given an inaccurate diagnosis, and her medical needs were overlooked. Berney decided to step outside...
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"Brilliant….Stepmothers, stepfathers, stepchildren: all, I think, will find amusement and comfort in its pages."
-Nigella Lawson
"I really, really loved it."
-Marian Keyes
You can choose your family-but are you sure you want to? That's the question Samantha Baker poses in The Other Mothers' Club-a fresh, funny, and touching fictional look at stepmotherhood, an often-misrepresented aspect of female life. Join The Other Mothers' Club...
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Detective Jo Fournier volume 4
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Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
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2021.
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"It's a crisp spring morning when the small-town community around Briar Ridge Elementary School is shattered by devastating news. Bright and shy five-year-old Nicole has disappeared at recess. When the phone call comes, Gia Marchand is suddenly living every parent's worst nightmare. She feels like time has stopped and she struggles to truly understand it: she dropped her daughter at the school gate this morning and now Nicole is gone. In her big house...
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Written by three mothers who've been through it all, What the Other Mothers Know gives you straight, funny, realistic talk on:
• Getting drool stains out of clothing finding the perfect babysitter and maintaining her loyalty.
• Taking car trips with toddlers recognizing how to set limits and holding to them.
• Sucking up to preschool director.
• Skeeping your child off ihatemymom.com.
• And much, much more.
The maternal wisdom of the ages...
7) And nanny makes three: mothers and nannies tell the truth about work, love, money, and each other
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From the playground to the playroom, mothers and nannies are engaged in a relationship like no other — they are sometimes co-parents and comrades, often confidants, and much more than employer and employee. It is a complex relationship that touches on issues of love, trust, and money. It can be a wonderful collaboration between two women who care for the same child or it can be a difficult situation with unfulfilled expectations on both sides.
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"From the author of the internationally bestselling The Lake of Dead Languages comes a gripping novel about madness, motherhood, love, and trust. When Daphne Marist and her infant daughter, Chloe, pull up the gravel drive to the home of Daphne's new employer, it feels like they've entered a whole new world. Tucked in the Catskills, the stone mansion looks like something out of a fairy tale, its lush landscaping hiding the view of the mental asylum...
10) The Other Mother
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A shocking psychological thriller from bestselling author, J.A. Baker!
Three troubled women. One deadly secret.
Lissy and her daughter, Rosie, live a quiet life and keep themselves to themselves. But when shocking events at Rosie's school are revealed, their peaceful existence is shattered.
Meanwhile, middle-aged women Erica and Beverley appear to have perfect lives, but behind closed doors, things are not all as they seem.
All three women are...
11) The Other Mother
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A page-turning generational saga about a young man's search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the name of family
Jenry Castillo is a musical prodigy, raised by a single mother in Miami. He arrives at Brown University on a scholarship—but also to learn more about his late father, Jasper Patterson, a famous ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. On his search, he meets...
12) The Other Mother
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You love your best friend.
You trust her with your life.
But could you give her the most precious gift of all?
Alex's life is a mess. She's barely holding down a job, only just affording her apartment, and can't remember when she was last in a relationship. An unexpected pregnancy is the last thing she needs.
Martha's life is on track. She's got the highflying career, the gorgeous home and the loving husband. But one big thing is missing. Five rounds...
13) The Other Mother
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Jackie McClain tries not to let it bother her when she hears that her ex-husband Mitch has suddenly remarried. But when she notices that his new wife Tiffany is young, beautiful, and has really hit it off with her daughter Brooke, Jackie finds herself jealous of Tiffany's relationship with her family. As Tiffany begins to lead Brooke down a dark path, Jackie must find a way to reconnect and save her daughter before she loses her forever.
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After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth to her daughter, she watched in unanticipated horror as her partner scooped up the baby and said, "I'm your new mommy!" While they both had worked to find the perfect sperm donor, Aizley had spent nine months carrying the baby and hours in labor, so how could her partner claim to be their child's mommy?
Many diapers later, Aizley began to appreciate the complexity of her partner's new role as the other mother....
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"Raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida, Jenry Castillo, newly arrived at Brown University on a music scholarship, finds himself searching for information about his late father Jasper Patterson, an internationally recognized principal ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. Jenry thinks his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a professor of African American history at Brown and a titan in his field, might have the answers...
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Europa Editions
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©2012
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Follows the life of a liberated Jewish woman who refuses to follow society's rules, lives life to the fullest, and has a child with each of the three men she loves, all as World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and Nazism take over Europe.
17) The other mother
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"From Matthew Dicks, the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, comes The Other Mother, a novel about a teenage boy coping with the rupture of his family by viewing his mother in an unusual light. The one he loves most, is the one he knows least. Thirteen-year-old Michael Parsons is dealing with a lot. His father's sudden death; his mother's new husband, Glen, who he loathes; his two younger siblings, who he looks after more and more now...
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