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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sandra has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
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Lottie Carlyle is happy enough. Living in a beautiful cottage with her two adorable-sometimes-kids in an idyllic village, on good terms with her ex-husband, and with friends all around, everything is going just fine. But when she meets her new boss, her peaceful world is thrown into delightful, exciting, and frustrating chaos.
64) Caf? de Flore
Publisher
Icon Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2011, Antoine has a girlfriend, Rose, and is raising two daughters. However, Rose is not Antoine's first love, and he's still infatuated with his ex-wife Carole, the mother of his children. Carole hopes he'll someday return to her, though despite his feelings there's little evidence to suggest he will. In 1969, Jacqueline is a single mother raising a seven-year-old son with Down Syndrome who is not expected to live past 25. We learn that Jacqueline...
65) Montana man
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Lily Danziger packed up her newborn daughter and headed for a new start--until a Montana blizzard stopped them in their tracks and she had to ask a stranger for help. He led them to a temporary refuge, but could he also hold the key to a future Lily has only dreamed of?
66) Impersonation
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
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"Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America's cultural definitions of motherhood have left her a lapsed idealist. Lana Breban is a powerhouse lawyer, economist, and advocate for women's rights with designs on elected office. She also has a son. Lana and her staff have decided she needs help softening her public image and that a memoir about her life as a mother...
67) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop--with Sunday hours--across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
68) Lover's lane
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For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for herself and her son Christopher. Nobody in the quiet little beach community of Twilight Cove, California, suspects she is running from the tragic memory of her fiancé Rick and his unexpected death--and from his rich, powerful parents, who want to take away her child. She has carefully concealed her troubled past from the folks in the isolated cove. Until now.
Private investigator, Jake Montgomery,...
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"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
70) Ride steady
Author
Series
Chaos novels (Kristen Ashley) volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
622 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
After Carson Steele comes to struggling single mom Carissa Teodoro's rescue, he finally gets a chance with this woman he has loved from afar for years, as he struggles to deal with a dangerous threat to his motorcycle club.
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Anastasia Pollack crafting volume 3
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
277p.
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Anastasia Pollack, a crafts teacher at a senior center, investigates the untimely murder of a creative resident with a scandalous past, a case that implicates Anastasia's cantankerous mother-in-law.
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"She's your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That's why she's so dangerous. A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train"--
"A debut psychological thriller--in the vein of GONE GIRL or GIRL ON A TRAIN--that focuses on a mommy blogger, her best friend who disappears suddenly, and the latter's husband--with betrayals and reversals,...
73) Saving Grace
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
304 pages (large print) ; cm.
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"For Louisiana Richardson, desperate times call for crazy-like-a-fox measures. As the new librarian at Alligator Bayou Parish's struggling library, she's returning to her Southern roots and facing trouble hotter than fresh cornbread out of the oven. Somehow, she's got to draw readers back in and prove the library is still vital--even as domineering parish board head Mrs. Gunderson plans to shut it down for good. If that means Louise has to resort...
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Pub. Date
2010
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Following a tragic accident, two women--Tessa Russo, a renowned pediatric surgeon, and Valerie Anderson, an attorney and single mother--living in the same Boston suburb but with relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children converge in ways no one could have imagined.
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself. Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about to make another one. In a small town where everyone knows everyone's business, down-on-her-luck single mother Jenny is on a first-name basis with the debt collector at the bank, who is moving toward foreclosure. She is constantly apologizing to her precocious young daughter, Billie Starr, who is filling a book with her mother's sorries, and it seems to Jenny...
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Butternut Lake volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
357, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"It's summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has returned to her family's cabin beside tranquil Butternut Lake, where as a teenager she spent so many carefree days. She's promised her five-year-old son, Wyatt, they will be happy there. She's promised herself this is the place to begin again after her husband's death in Afghanistan. The cabin holds so many wonderful memories, but from the moment she crosses its threshold Allie is seized with...
80) Close to home
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Single mother Sarah McAdams' attempt to raise her two teen daughters in her childhood home turns terrifying when the dilapidated mansion is rumored to be haunted and teenage girls begin disappearing around town.
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