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Earliest Publication Date

2008

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Discovering that fifteen-year-old Olivia is pregnant, Daisy and her unfaithful husband decide to send her to her grandmother Birdie's Alabama farm for the duration of the pregnancy, but Birdie refuses to allow Olivia to stay unless her estranged daughter, Daisy, remains, in a story of three generations of women struggling to make sense of their roles as mothers.

2) Home again : a novel

Author

Hannah, Kristin

Earliest Publication Date

2005

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Struggling with her rebellious daughter and her conflicting feelings for a soul-seeking priest and a cynical man, cardiologist Madelaine learns to overcome past betrayals when a tragedy brings them all together.

3) Man of the house: a novel

Author

Hudler, Ad

Earliest Publication Date

2008

4) The bear and the nightingale: a novel

Author

Arden, Katherine

Earliest Publication Date

2017

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"At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor...

5) The book of secrets: a novel

Author

Arnold, Elizabeth Joy

Earliest Publication Date

2013

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"After more than twenty years of marriage, Chloe Sinclair comes home one night to find that her husband, Nate, is gone. All he has left behind is a cryptic note explaining that he's returned to their childhood town, a place Chloe never wants to see again. While trying to reach Nate, Chloe stumbles upon a notebook tucked inside his antique copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Written in code, the pages contain long-buried secrets from their...

6) The language of flowers: a novel

Author

Diffenbaugh, Vanessa

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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Victoria Jones, an eighteen-year-old foster child newly emancipated from the system, finds she is unable to connect with anyone in the real world except through flowers and their meanings. When a florist takes her in, Victoria must confront her past and decide whether or not to risk everything for a chance at happiness.

7) When we were friends: a novel

Author

Arnold, Elizabeth Joy

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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Lainey Carson and Sydney Beaumont were the closest of friends in high school, until popular Sydney leaves her contemplative, ungainly friend behind. Eighteen years later Sydney and her infant daughter come to Lainey's doorstep. Sydney tells her friend that she is escaping the child's abusive father. Lainey takes the child but then Sydney tells the news that the child has been kidnapped. Whom can Lainey trust?