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Emily Atkinson leads a complicated life in New York City. She’s a successful marketing executive who lives in a luxury apartment and enjoys a glamorous existence until she lands in the hospital with a double diagnosis: she parties too much—and she’s pregnant. Her nurse and new best friend, Betsey, helps Emily rediscover how much she loves morning runs in the park and quiet nights at home. But as a series of women in her wealthy social circles...
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"Discovering she's pregnant--after she was told she may not be able to have biological children--Tabitha throws herself headfirst into the world of "single mothers by choice." When an unexpected turn of events draws Marc--her on and off-again ex-boyfriend--back into her world with surprising demands, and the situation at work begins to threaten her livelihood and her identity, Tabitha must make some tough decisions. It takes a village to raise a child,...
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"Charley Davidson has enough going on without having to worry about twelve hellhounds hot on her trail. She is, after all, incredibly pregnant and feeling like she could pop at any moment. But, just her luck, twelve deadly beasts from hell have chosen this time to escape onto our plane, and they've made Charley their target. And so she takes refuge at the only place she thinks they can't get to her: the grounds of an abandoned convent. Of course,...
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Helen has a handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way after years of trying, But her life begins to change the day she attends her first prenatal class and meets Rachel, an unpredictable single mother-to-be. Rachel smokes, drinks, and professes little interest in parenthood. Still, Helen is drawn to her: she's a bit lonely herself, and Rachel makes Helen laugh, invites her confidences, and distracts her from...
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Emmie Croftner answered the door to her late husband's home to discover that he was a bigamist and the home she thought she inherited never belonged to her at all. Displaced, powerless, and ashamed, Emmie leaves Indiana for Fort Laramie, Wyoming, to find her friend Sarah Montgomery and a new beginning. But when she discovers she's pregnant, the new seems to slip from her fingers. Until she meets Isaac Liddle, a handsome soldier with a kind heart.
8) Fight night
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From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women. “You're a small thing,” Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.” Swiv's Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community, she has fought those who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit. She has fought...
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In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled...
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Black girls must die exhausted” is a phrase that Tabitha Walker knows all too well. After diving headfirst into the world of ‘single mothers by choice’—Tabitha is exhausted. And that’s before her boss at the local news station starts getting complaints about Tabitha wearing her natural hair on-air. When an unexpected turn of events draws Marc—her on and off-again ex-boyfriend—back into her world with surprising demands and the situation...
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Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you're paid big money to stay here--more than you've ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds; your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. Jane, an immigrant...
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