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The one plus one

Jojo Moyes · 480 pages

Single Parent ProtagonistDivorced ParentsMother and DaughterWomen's Fiction
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The Friday Night Knitting Club

Kate Jacobs · 384 pages

Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships.

Single Parent ProtagonistMother and DaughterFemale FriendshipWomen's Fiction
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The Night the Lights Went Out

Karen White · 406 pages

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Flight Patterns comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems ... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It's not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren't helped by an a

Divorced ParentsFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionMultiple POV
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

Janelle Brown · 401 pages

Divorced ParentsWomen's FictionMother and DaughterMultiple POV
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Rogue

Danielle Steel · 321 pages

Meet Maxine Williams, a dedicated doctor with three great kids, a challenging career, and the perfect new man in her life. Her only problem? Her irresistibly charming, utterly infuriating ex-husband, aka the . . .RogueBeing married to Blake had been an amazing adventure for Maxine. Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, Blake Williams made millions and grabbed headlines as a dot-com ent

Single Parent ProtagonistDivorced ParentsWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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She's Gone Country

Jane Porter · 382 pages

After her husband announces he's fallen in love with someone else, 39-year-old former model Shey Darcy moves back home to Texas with her three teenage sons. Life on the family ranch, however, brings with it a whole new host of dramas.

Divorced ParentsSingle Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Nights in Rodanthe

Nicholas Sparks · 217 pages

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy; of sacrifice and forgiveness -- a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite,

Divorced ParentsMother and DaughterWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Local Girls

Alice Hoffman · 197 pages

Alice Hoffman evokes the world of the Samuelsons, a family torn apart by tragedy and divorce in a world of bad judgment and fierce attachments, disappointments and devotion. Hoffman charts the always unexpected progress of Gretel Samuelson from the time Gretel is a young girl already acquainted with betrayal and grief, until she finally leaves home. Gretel's sly, funny, knowing perspective is a

Divorced ParentsFemale FriendshipMother and DaughterContemporary Fiction
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Keeping Faith

Jodi Picoult · 432 pages

For the second time in her marriage, Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, and Faith, their seven-year-old daughter, witnesses every painful minute. In the aftermath of a sudden divorce, Mariah struggles with depression and Faith seeks solace in a new friend -- a friend who may or may not be imaginary. — Faith talks to her "Guard" constantly and begins to recite passages from the Bi

Divorced ParentsMother and DaughterWomen's FictionMultiple POV
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The Secret Between Us

Barbara Delinsky · 352 pages

Nothing will break this mother-daughter bond. Not even the truth.Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the

Divorced ParentsWomen's FictionMother and DaughterMultiple POV
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares · 310 pages

Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they're great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they're fabulous. Lena decides they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody kn

Divorced ParentsFemale FriendshipMother and DaughterContemporary Fiction
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Bed of Roses

Nora Roberts · 426 pages

Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts's celebrated Bride Quartet series.As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, and Parker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do" moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they start their own wedding planning company to make every woman's dream day come true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyful moments ca

Female FriendshipSingle Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club

Gil McNeil · 404 pages

For every woman who has ever dreamed of starting over, or being a better mother, or just knitting a really nice scarf . . . When her husband dies in a car crash—not long after announcing he wants a divorce—Jo Mackenzie packs up her two rowdy boys and moves from London to a dilapidated villa in her seaside hometown. There, she takes over her beloved Gran’s knitting shop—a quaint but out-of-date sto

Single Parent ProtagonistFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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How to Make an American Quilt

Whitney Otto · 214 pages

Eight women gather together over the years to piece together an extrarodinary quilt of their own imaginative devising. And as they stitch, we listen to the stories they have to tell of their successes and failures, their lives and loves, their dreams, desires, and the surprise and sometimes joy of living

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionMother and DaughterContemporary Fiction
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The Courage Tree

Diane Chamberlain · 400 pages

Eightyearold Sophie Donohue just wants to be like everyone else in her Brownie troop. Which is why her mother, Janine, finally agrees to let Sophie go on a weekend camping trip with the other girls. But Sophie is no ordinary childshe suffers from a rare disease that requires constant treatment.When Sophie fails to return from the trip, Janine's worst fears turn to sheer panic. A fullscale search i

Women's FictionSingle Parent ProtagonistMother and DaughterContemporary Fiction
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Firefly Lane

Kristin Hannah · 552 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it a

Mother and DaughterFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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My Best Friend's Girl

Dorothy Koomson · 448 pages

Single Parent ProtagonistFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Queen Sugar

Natalie Baszile · 372 pages

" A mother-daughter story of reinvention-about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los A

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionMother and DaughterContemporary Fiction
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Flying Changes

Sara Gruen · 361 pages

Single mom Annemarie Zimmer, her own competitive riding career abruptly ended twenty years earlier with a tragic accident, has trouble letting her teenage daughter Eva pursue her own dreams of Olympic glory as an equestrian.

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionMother and DaughterContemporary Fiction
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Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver · 363 pages

A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees.

Single Parent ProtagonistMother and DaughterWomen's FictionMultiple POV
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The Mother's Promise

Sally Hepworth · 390 pages

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipMother and DaughterMultiple POV
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The Most Wanted

Jacquelyn Mitchard · 407 pages

Women's FictionMother and DaughterFemale FriendshipContemporary Fiction
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Little Altars Everywhere

Rebecca Wells · 288 pages

The companion to the beloved bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, here is the funny, heartbreaking, and powerfully insightful tale that first introduced Siddalee, Vivi, their spirited Walker clan, and the indomitable Ya-Yas.

Women's FictionFemale FriendshipMother and DaughterMultiple POV
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Cocktails for Three

Madeleine Wickham · 302 pages

Madeleine Wickham, who writes the internationally bestselling Shopaholic series as Sophie Kinsella, has penned an irresistibly dishy and entertaining novel about three savvy young women and the secrets they share over monthly drinks. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipMultiple POV

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