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"At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the perfect client. At home, Nora grapples with the bleaker reality of enormous debt, a tiny apartment, and ever-dwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will have a family of their own. When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Nora's life, the women spark an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned...
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Shenandoah Album novels volume 5
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English
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Childless Kendra and husband Isaac accept an offer from Kendra's younger sister- single mom Jamie- to conceive and carry a child for them. But when a medical crisis threatens Jamie's health she learns that the most difficult choice in her life is yet to come
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The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
4) Deadly deals
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Sisterhood series volume 16
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English
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It's an unseasonably cold Thanksgiving at the mountaintop retreat where the Sisterhood has gathered. They are ready to face their next challenge-- dismantling a highly successful illegal baby selling ring.
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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306 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Libby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing career. Now for the first time in years, things are looking up. She's just sold her first novel, and she and Ethan are going on a much-needed vacation. Everything seems to be going their way, so why can't she stop looking over her shoulder or panicking every time Ethan wanders out of view? Is it because...
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Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2019.
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Large print edition.
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Approx. 288 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
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They met at a wedding... Will they say 'I do'? It's wedding photographer Harper's job to capture other people's happy-ever-afters, but she doesn't believe in one for herself. Until she meets ruggedly gorgeous best man Drew... Having offered to be a surrogate for her best friend, Harper tries to fight their instant chemistry, but Drew sneaks past her defences. She's about to learn that this extraordinary man has an extraordinary secret!
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As a young mother with a toddler and a live-in boyfriend, Maggie Fisher's job at a checkout counter in downtown Phoenix doesn't afford her much financial flexibility. She dreams of going to college and becoming a teacher, options she squandered when she fled her family home as a teenager. When Maggie stumbles onto an ad offering thousands of dollars to women who are willing to gestate other people's babies, she at first finds the concept laughable....
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Handmaid's tale volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown,...
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When surrogate mother, Cally has a change of heart, engineering a harrowing escape from the hospital with the newborn, a whole series of doubts and secrets are revealed and it's no longer clear what's "right" and what's "wrong."
Minnesota. Ruth is a fortysomething journalist desperate for a child with her new husband. Hal is a divorced attorney and the father of two teenage boys; open to having another child, he wants Ruth to be happy. Their hope...
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"An unputdownable gothic novel following a young woman who is determined to make it as a singer in America-no matter the cost. Renowned for her singing across the English countryside, Emma is tired of performing only in pubs and at church services. She's determined to leave her misty hometown for the dazzling streets of New York City. She'll become a Broadway star, or die trying. Her father, stubborn and full of rage, disowns her on the spot. But...
12) California girls
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Mria's Synopsis: The California sunshine's not quite so bright for three sisters who get dumped in the same week... Finola, a popular LA morning-show host, is famously upbeat until she's blindsided on live TV by the news that her husband is sleeping with a young pop sensation who has set their affair to music. While avoiding the tabloids and pretending she's just fine, she's crumbling inside, desperate for him to come to his senses and for life to...
13) Baby mama
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Kate is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. At 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own. Unable to get pregnant, a driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode. She reads childcare books, baby-proofs the apartment and researches top pre-schools. But, Kate's...
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Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
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Español
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A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's children.
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Robin Lockwood novels volume 5
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English
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"Defense attorney Robin Lockwood faces an unimaginable personal disaster and her greatest professional challenge in the next New York Times bestselling Phillip Margolin's new legal thriller, The Darkest Place. Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she's becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin...
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"Recently separated Amelia Buxton, a dedicated journalist, never expected that uncovering the biggest story of her career would become deeply personal. But when she discovers that a cluster of embryos belonging to her childhood friend Parker and his late wife Greer have been deemed "abandoned," she's put in the unenviable position of telling Parker--and dredging up old wounds in the process. Parker has been unable to move forward since the loss of...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Ensconced within a Hudson Valley retreat where expectant birth mothers are given luxurious accommodations and lucrative rewards to produce perfect babies, a Filipino immigrant is forced to choose between a life-changing payment and the outside world.
18) Los testamentos
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Publisher
Narrativa Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
1a. edición.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 22 cm
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Español
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En esta brillante secuela de The Handmaid's Tale, la aclamada autora Margaret Atwood responde las preguntas que han cautivado a los lectores durante décadas. Subo y penetro en la oscuridad del interior; o luz Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe después de Offred al final de The Maid's Tale, los lectores no tenían forma de saber cuál sería su futuro: libertad, prisión o muerte. Con la publicación de Los Testamentos, la espera...
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