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1) Sam: a novel
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Sam is 7 years old and living in Beverley, Massachusetts. She adores her father, though he isn't around much. Her mother, struggling to make ends meet, never fails to remind Sam that if she studies hard and acts responsibly, adulthood will be easier - more secure and comfortable. But security and comfort are of little interest to Sam. She doesn't fit in at school, where the the girls have the right shade of blue jeans and don't question the rules....
4) Breed
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Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A couple obsessed with their infertility travels to Slovenia to have an unusual and painful procedure that results in horrible consequences they manage to hide until their twins, Adam and Alice, turn ten years old and start asking questions.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
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Neil Banks provided the biological material needed for his former college girlfriend, Jenny Callahan to conceive a child. But at that time becoming a father was not part of the deal, and he signed away all paternity rights. Two years later he turns up unexpected and unauthorized for the baby's christening.
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Publisher
Mantle, an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Pub. Date
2018.
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Rose Woodrowe is getting married to Tyler Masson - a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels in love with her. The only problem? This isn't the first time for either of them, and their five grown-up children have strong opinions on the matter... Who to listen to? Who to please? Rose and Tyler are determined to get it right this time, but in trying to make everyone happy, can they ever be happy themselves?
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Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Bruno Johnson, a newly minted LA County Sheriff Violent Crimes detective, gets the worst assignment possible--infiltrate a sheriff's narcotics team that may be involved in murder for hire. Gain their trust and be brought into the scheme. If he succeeds, he will have to arrest and testify against his fellow deputies. To make matters worse, his ex-girlfriends shows up on his doorstep with their daughter, stunned and terrified, he now faces immediate...
10) Sea wife
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two - Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression,...
11) After the end
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Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers--unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a different future for their son.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters, he's overjoyed because...
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