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Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
They buried her father at noon, at five she found his journals, and in one quick read her world turned upside down: he thought she was a failure. Every child, no matter how old, wants their father’s love and Tessa—emerging writer, ex-rocker; confused adult—is no exception. In the existential chaos that follows, an unexpected family member steps up to guide Tessa on a journey that leads to surprising truths.
Author
Publisher
Pen-L Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The story of four old friends reuniting to contemplate their 60th birthdays turns into a marvelous, magical mystery tour with plenty of surprises and laughs along the way. An enchanting exploration of aging, art, philosophy, feminism, and motherhood, written with style and a heavy dose of humor. A Divine Comedy, indeed! During a four-day reunion in Whistler, B.C., Tillie Bloom, a wacky installation artist, reconnects with three women she had hung...
Author
Publisher
Thomas-Jacob Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Physics wunderkind Fleur Robins, just a little odd and more familiar with multiple universes than complicated affairs of the heart, is cast adrift when her project to address the climate crisis is stalled. Worse still, her Ethiopian-born fiancé Assefa takes off right after her 21st birthday party to track down his father, who’s gone missing investigating Ethiopian claims to the Ark of the Covenant. Fleur is left to contend with the puzzle of parallel...
Author
Series
Fleur trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Thomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
How do you maintain your balance in a world turned upside down? Buffeted by dire winds of climate change, Nobel scientist and odd duck extraordinaire Fleur Robins rides rough waves of sexual betrayal and gender fluidity, bullying and loss, as she and her physics team speed up their efforts to ensure a viable future for the world’s children—including her own. Thanks to her fascination with the void; a vivid imagination; a loving, if eccentric,...
Author
Publisher
Touchpoint Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rachel is a thirty-year-old married, Jewish woman who’s wanted a baby for a long time. Katie’s a thirty-two-year-old single, catholic woman who has been trying to find a man who’ll stick around. We follow the women individually as they find themselves pregnant, Rachel happily, Katie, not. As they enter their second trimester, they’re shocked to hear that there’s something very wrong with the babies they’re carrying. Rachel and Katie meet...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eric and Abby travel from California to Ukraine to pick up Jillian, born via surrogacy, when Russia attacks and they are forced to flee. It is the middle of the COVID pandemic in the frigid temperatures of winter as they escape the horrors of war with an infant and little else.
Author
Language
English
Description
When anxiety-prone Rachel Granza learns that her growing sense of emptiness is affecting her relationship with her almost perfect boyfriend and that she’s jeopardizing any possibility of a marriage proposal, she knows she must pull herself out of her funk. But how? A dream apartment in New York City, a thriving psychotherapy practice, and her unique obsessions with topics like the Titanic don’t even make her feel grounded anymore. Red alert! ...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Warrior Won is spiritual fiction that is both compelling and fun"-Foreword Reviews"One of the strongest spiritual women's fiction pieces to appear in recent years"-Midwest Book ReviewEverything is going great in Lorna Crawford's life. She is married to a fantastic guy, is mom to an adorable two-year-old with another child on the way, has a posse of girlfriends, and recently landed a new job. The spiritual practices she has made a centerpiece of her...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's time for widow Molly Stevenson to stand on her own two feet. With blind dates, a needy ghost, and her small‑town bookstore in trouble, she's going to need all her inner strength to prevent another unhappy ending.
Forty‑something Molly can't bear to remove her wedding band. Still grieving the death of her beloved husband, the last thing she needs is her sleazy landlord raising the rent to drive her bookshop out of business. Now, this...
Author
Language
English
Description
A mystery writer must solve an impossible dilemma when her sister suffers a brain-hemorrhage, and can no longer speak for herself. Would her sister want to go on struggling, damaged as she is, or end her suffering? Can anybody know what’s best for others? A sister’s love vs. a cruel fate. Following her sister’s devastating stroke, forty-three-year-old Claire Waters rushes from Los Angeles to Italy. She obtains her sister’s medical power of...
12) Dark Deception
Author
Language
English
Description
Dark Deception is an emotionally engaging and thought-provoking work that centers around a closely-knit trio of women who come to depend on one another as they attempt to live meaningful lives in a authoritarian, faith-based community. The forces their families, friendship, and others in the community exert on the three don't always work in harmony and they limited freedom, addressing issues large and small. The lives of the three and other various...
Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Spanning ten years, The Brevity of Roses explores the interwoven lives of three damaged people who are each offered a chance to heal—if they can banish the ghosts of their pasts. Meredith Dahlberg-Lang hides behind a facade. In public, she's a wealthy socialite. In private, she's a lonely woman with a heart imprisoned by guilt after her husband’s death. But she can’t deny the longing she feels when a younger man seeks her attention. Jalal...
14) Magic Kiss
Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
He’d lost his best friend… Logan Dorsey left the military and his job as an undercover detective, but he still couldn’t shake the nightmares that haunted him. The only thing that had ever silenced the horrors for the chiseled former Marine was the one woman that was untouchable for so many reason… She’d lost her husband… Emma Locke wrote romantic stories for a living despite the fact that her happily-ever-after had been taken away years...
Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After last summer's failed attempt at romance, Gina is absolutely done with men. And especially with millionaires. She has a good job as a fashion editor and amazing friends, and she's decided she needs nothing else. All she really misses is the sex. But that rush just isn't worth the risk of being ensnared in another relationship. When the hot bartender at her best friend's Sonoma wedding suggests some harmless stress relief, she takes him up on...
16) Unverified
Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Matthew Milles-Lade, a rich kid whose trust fund is suddenly in question, and Margo Valentine Melon, a writer whose career fizzled before it sparked, are two twenty-something strangers stuck living at home, trying to figure out their lives. When they each come across a real estate listing for a palatial (and significantly underpriced) guest house in one of LA’s toniest neighborhoods, their lives get turned upside down. What happens next has them...
17) Life in a Box
Author
Publisher
Imagery Lit
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
How much would you sacrifice to hide a secret? Andee Camp inherits a box of family history with a challenge from her mother to write a novel based on their ancestors. With obstacles in her path she discovers the mystery surrounding her relationship with her parents and theirs with each other as the pieces in the complicated puzzle begin to fit together. In the end we all discover just how much we would sacrifice to hide a secret.
18) The Visitor
Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fiercely independent Mary Pontrelli is blindsided when the New Orleans building housing her New Age store and upstairs apartment is listed for sale. Worse yet, a developer wants to destroy it and her high school ex-boyfriend—ahem, nemesis—is leading their charge. But this budding sweet spot for that weasel from the past can’t happen since traitors never change. The best chance Mary has to save her cherished French Quarter building is to...
Author
Publisher
Bellekeep Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Can whales watch the humans who watch them? Miranda Jones is convinced they can and do. She’s looking forward to her day of whale-watching off California's Central Coast. In preparation for a painting commission, she'll be photographing the migrating gray whales. The day-trip starts out peacefully enough. But the tables are turned when a whale of a different species turns out to be watching her. A rogue boat out of control . . . a rogue whale out...
Author
Publisher
AltaPress
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The story takes Evie Madison from her childhood in the Girls' Home during World War II to her life with Nick Landry, a lawyer. Evie and Nick find refuge in their loving marriage, weathering the challenges of raising children, nourishing their relationship and overcoming the impact of a fling, but Evie’s Alzheimer’s disease tips Nick over the edge. When the pressure to send her to a nursing home becomes overwhelming, Nick bundles her into their...
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