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Kate Reddy novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
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Kate Reddy, a hedge fund manager and mother of two, struggles to juggle her professional and personal lives and to balance--often unsuccessfully--on the tightrope of work and home.
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2008.
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"In "Strong Medicine" Speaks, Hearth turns her talent for storytelling to a Native American matriarch presenting a powerful account of Indian life." "Born and raised in a nearly secret part of New Jersey that remains Native ancestral land, Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould is an eighty-five-year-old Elder in her Lenni-Lenape tribe and community. Taking turns with the author as the two women alternate voices throughout this book, Strong Medicine tells...
5) Leave me
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"International bestselling author Gayle Forman's trademark humor and insight abound in this masterful adult debut, showing us that sometimes you have to leave home in order to find it again. For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working...
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Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter with an unplanned pregnancy.
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Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Each chapter begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body...
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Jason Manning was not the marrying kind -- until a precocious teenage matchmaker interfered, and the born bachelor and sports fan found himself irresistibly drawn to single working mother Charlotte Weston. Beneath Charlotte's reserved exterior was a warm, loving woman whose tender passion rocked Jason to the very depths of his soul. Swept away by feelings he'd never known, he asked her to be his wife. But Charlotte had been hurt before and was afraid...
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Kate Moore novels volume 1
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Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. When her husband another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and sheś terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception.
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The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak with passion an wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story, Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world.
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c2009
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Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced, including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter with an unplanned pregnancy.
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"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her...
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[2006]
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Working mother Kate Warner's life in suburban Pickard, Ill., is shattered when her eight-year-old daughter, Jenny, gets off the school bus one afternoon and disappears just steps away from home. To make matters worse, Kate's husband and Jenny's dad, Richard, becomes the prime suspect. Other suspects include Richard's business associate, a local physician and the anonymous caller who keeps taunting the Warners.
19) Odd mom out
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Pub. Date
2007
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"Jane Porter returns with another entertaining tale of a bohemian, single working mother who finds herself at odds with the stay-at-home, alpha moms"--Provided by publisher.
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2017
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The Memoir Collection is a collection of three short memoirs: If Walls Could Talk - The House on Anza Street; The Summer of '82 - The Discovery Islands; and Death and Back - A True Story. If you enjoy memoirs, you'll enjoy this collection. If you are single working mother, you'll enjoy this collection. If you like true-life stories, you'll enjoy this collection.