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Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes · 592 pages

Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband - the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands - and no memory of how she got there. While

Widowed ProtagonistWomen's FictionLarge FamilyNew York City
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The Empty House

Rosamunde Pilcher · 175 pages

At twenty-seven, Virginia Keile had been through the most intense experiences life had to offer-a magical first love ending in heartbreak, a suitable marriage, motherhood, and widowhood. All she wanted now was to take her daughter and son to a seaside cottage and help them recover. But Virginia's true love was there, waiting, hoping, praying that this time she would be strong enough to seize happi

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherWomen's FictionCharacter-Driven
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Regretting You

Colleen Hoover · 363 pages

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherWomen's FictionMultiple POV
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Where We Belong

Emily Giffin · 384 pages

Her carefully constructed life thrown into turmoil by the appearance of an eighteen-year-old girl with ties to her past, New York television producer Marian Caldwell is swept up in a maelstrom of personal discovery that changes both of their perceptions about family.

Single MotherWomen's FictionNew York CityCharacter-Driven
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Terms of Endearment

Larry McMurtry · 410 pages

Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma’s hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer.

Single MotherWidowed ProtagonistWomen's FictionMultiple POV
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The Rescue

Nicholas Sparks · 446 pages

One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Midwives

Chris Bohjalian · 312 pages

Sibyl is a respected midwife, accused of murder after she performs a caesarian on a mother whom she believes to have died of a stroke during a long and difficult labour. A trial ensues to decide whether Sibyl has committed murder. The story is told from Sibyl's daughter's viewpoint.

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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The Pilot's Wife

Anita Shreve · 304 pages

Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to

Widowed ProtagonistWomen's FictionSingle MotherContemporary Fiction
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Up at Butternut Lake

Mary McNear · 400 pages

It's summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has returned to her family's cabin beside tranquil Butternut Lake. She's promised her five-year-old son, Wyatt, that they will be happy there. She's promised herself that this is the place to begin again after her husband's death in Afghanistan. The cabin holds so many wonderful memories, but Allie is seized with doubts. Has she done the right t

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherWomen's FictionMultiple POV
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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 MotherWomen's FictionNew York CityContemporary Fiction
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We Never Asked for Wings

Vanessa Diffenbaugh · 400 pages

For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children -- Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six -- in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is cha

Single MotherWomen's FictionEmotionalCharacter-Driven
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The Mother's Promise

Sally Hepworth · 390 pages

Single MotherWomen's FictionCharacter-DrivenMultiple POV
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Night Road

Kristin Hannah · 432 pages

"For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows-her twins, Mia and Zach-are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jud

Single MotherWomen's FictionContemporary FictionCharacter-Driven
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Not My Daughter

Barbara Delinsky · 387 pages

A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, "a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors." (Boston Globe) When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She

Single MotherWomen's FictionCharacter-DrivenMultiple POV
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The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

Bridget Asher · 438 pages

Brokenhearted, still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with her son Abbott and her niece Charlotte to spend the summer repairing their family home in a small village in the south of France. There, thousands of miles from home, Charlotte makes a shocking confession, and Heidi learns the truth about her mother's "lost summer."

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding · 400 pages

Londonite Bridget Jones faces the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety buttons and three remotes to simply turn on, all while raising two children, attempting to date again, and writing a screenplay.

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherWomen's FictionCharacter-Driven
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Little Earthquakes

Jennifer Weiner · 417 pages

A chef, an event planner, and a basketball player's wife find their marriages and careers in Philadelphia challenged by new motherhood, difficult schedules, and infidelity.

Single MotherWomen's FictionMultiple POVContemporary Fiction
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The Beach House

Jane Green · 341 pages

Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of women's fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Green's avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of women—and The Beach House will not disappoint. Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn't care what people think. At sixty-five-years old

Widowed ProtagonistWomen's FictionEmotionalCharacter-Driven
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These Girls

Sarah Pekkanen

Women's FictionNew York CityCharacter-DrivenContemporary Fiction
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Needles and Pearls: A Beach Street Knitting Society Novel

Gil McNeil

The warm and witty sequel to The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn ClubSlip one . . .Two weddings and a year after her husband's funeral, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. The boys are thriving, the yarn shop is doing well—thanks to Jo's improvements—and she's just about keeping her head above water.Knit two together . . .But a man from Jo's past and a

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Rosie

Anne Lamott · 275 pages

If Elizabeth Ferguson had her way, she'd spend her days savoring good books, cooking great meals, and waiting for the love of her life to walk in the door. But it's not a man she's waiting for, it's her daughter, Rosie-her wild-haired, smart-mouthed, and wise-beyond-her-years alter ego. With Rosie around, the days aren't quite so long, but Elizabeth can't keep the realities of the world at bay, an

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The one plus one

Jojo Moyes · 480 pages

Single MotherWomen's FictionCharacter-DrivenContemporary 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 MotherWomen's FictionContemporary FictionMultiple POV
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Deep Down True

Juliette Fay · 399 pages

"Newly divorced Dana Stellgarten has always been unfailingly nice--even to telemarketers--but now her temper is wearing thin. Money is tight, her kids are reeling from their dad's departure, and her Goth teenage niece has just landed on her doorstep. As she enters the slipstream of post-divorce romance and is befriended by the town queen bee, Dana finds that the tension between being true to yours

Single MotherWomen's FictionCharacter-DrivenContemporary Fiction

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