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721) Driveways
Description
A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"These stories...wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love, and even abuse. 'Watergate Sue,'...[spans] two generations of mothers/daughters, Eve’s obsession with Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal throughout 1973 heightens her self-doubt about whether she wants to raise more children (resonantly mirroring the anxiety many of us had while doom scrolling our way...
723) Chocolat
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A single mother and her daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop-with Sunday hours-across the street from the local church.
724) Kiss shot
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Out of cash, out of a job, and soon-to-be out on the street, single mother Sarah Collins returns to the pool rooms of her youth to hustle the money to pay her home mortgage bill, only to encounter a globe-trotting, pool-playing ladies' man.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune...
726) Mum : season two
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
729) The way back home
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Ex-Marine Gabe Ryder is fulfilling the last request of his best friend, Rob, who was killed in a firefight during their final days of service. He promised to help Robâs familyâ especially Robâs twin sister, Aliciaâwith their struggling river rafting business. Gabe has a hidden past with Alicia, though. Sheâs the woman who taught him that love might exist, yet he walked away from her.Alicia has more than enough on her plate...
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Series
Longhorn Canyon volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Christmas with a cowboy: Maverick Callahan lives up to his reputation as a freewheeling cowboy. But a year ago he fell head-over-heels for an extraordinary woman he met while on vacation, a woman he was convinced he'd never see again. So when she appears on his doorstep like a Christmas miracle, Maverick is determined not to waste his lucky break. Bridget O'Malley's world has flipped upside down. As the new guardian of her best friend's baby, she...
731) Operation Christmas
Description
As her new romance blossoms, a single mother is dismayed when her boyfriend, a military sergeant, is deployed right before Christmas. Determined to not let it ruin the holidays for her and her children they decide to give back to the struggling military families on his base and, as their efforts go viral, they are rewarded in ways they never imagined.
732) Bob the butler
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Likable, bumbling Bob can't hold a job, and finds employment using the phonebook. Once in the B's, he stumbles upon Butler School and is soon hired by Anne, a single mother of two and a business owner, who desperately needs help.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Judy Alexander, alias Judy Smith, and her nephew Timmy are on the lam, running from the man who shot and killed the boy's father during a bank robbery in Dallas. Judy was an eyewitness whose testimony brought about a conviction. Wealthy Ben Bramwell has a furnished apartment for rent above the garage of his estate, and Judy believes it's the perfect hiding place while they wait for the escaped criminal to be caught. Will God untangle life's knots?...
734) The single moms club
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
When five struggling single moms put aside their differences to form a support group, they find inspiration and laughter in their new sisterhood, and help each other overcome the obstacles that stand in their way.
735) Full time
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
736) Mum : season one
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
737) My kind of you
Author
Series
Trillium Bay novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Emily Callaghan is back in her quaint northern Michigan hometown of Trillium Bay: divorced, flat broke, and dragging along her twelve-year-old. The arrangement is that Emily, a house flipper, will renovate one of her grandmother's rental properties in exchange for a much-needed loan. But her dad is more distant than ever; her younger sister is dating a much older man, the cottage remodel grows increasingly daunting... and then there's out-of-towner...
738) Kidnap
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. Karla will stop at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
739) Weeds: Season 2
Series
Weeds volume Season Two
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Nancy Botwin, the soccer mom who had to learn how to deal - pot, that is - after the death of her husband. Now, her business is a hit. But keeping up with the neighbors in this suburban utopia isn't easy.
740) Sunshine Cleaning
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. When Oscar is expelled from school, Rose takes a new job as a bio-hazard crime-scene cleaner to help pay for a private education. She brings Norah on to help in her steady growing business.
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