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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 FictionAmerican SouthContemporary Fiction
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Shem Creek

Dorothea Benton Frank · 384 pages

Meet Linda Breland, single parent of two teenage daughters. The oldest, Lindsey, who always held her younger sister in check, is leaving for college. And Gracie, her Tasmanian devil, is giving her nightmares.

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionAmerican SouthContemporary Fiction
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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.

Single Parent ProtagonistAmerican SouthWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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The Funeral Dress

Susan Gregg Gilmore · 389 pages

"Emmalee Bullard and her new baby are on their own. Or so she thinks, until Leona Lane, the older seamstress who sat by her side at the local shirt factory where both women worked as collar makers, insists Emmalee come and live with her. Just as Emmalee prepares to escape her hardscrabble life in Red Chert holler, Leona dies tragically. Grief-stricken, Emmalee decides she'll make Leona's burying

Single Parent ProtagonistAmerican SouthWomen's FictionFemale Lead
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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 ProtagonistCourtroom DramaWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Spring Fever

Mary Kay Andrews · 402 pages

"Annajane Hudgens truly believes she is over her ex-husband, Mason Bayless. They've been divorced for four years, she's engaged to a new, terrific guy, and she's ready to leave the small town where she and Mason had so much history. She is so over Mason that she has absolutely no problem attending his wedding to the beautiful, intelligent, delightful Celia. But when fate intervenes and the wedding

American SouthWomen's FictionWealthy FamiliesContemporary Fiction
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The House Girl

Tara Conklin · 372 pages

A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.

American SouthCourtroom DramaWealthy FamiliesContemporary Fiction
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Someone Else's Love Story

Joshilyn Jackson · 318 pages

Single mom Shandi Pierce's life takes a turn when an enigmatic geneticist saves her and her 3-year-old genius son from an armed robber. "At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. She's got enough complications without getti

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Sweet Tea at Sunrise

Sherryl Woods · 389 pages

Emotionally wounded single mom Sarah Price has come home to Serenity, South Carolina, for a fresh start. With support from her two best friends--the newest generation of the Sweet Magnolias--she can face any crisis. But sometimes a woman needs more than even treasured friends can provide. Sexy Travis McDonald may be exactly what Sarah's battered self-confidence requires. The newcomer is intent

Single Parent ProtagonistAmerican SouthWomen's FictionFemale Lead
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A Dollar Short: The Bottom Dollar Girls Go Hollywood

Karin Gillespie · 329 pages

Waitress Chiffon Butrell is outraged when she learns that her husband has left her and their three children for a famous actress, a situation that prompts Chiffon to turn to her best friends and an estranged sister for help.

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionAmerican SouthContemporary Fiction
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The Girl Who Chased the Moon

Sarah Addison Allen · 269 pages

In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mo

Women's FictionAmerican SouthWealthy FamiliesContemporary Fiction
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Crossing Oceans

Gina Holmes

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The Prayer Box

Lisa Wingate · 400 pages

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Objects of My Affection

Jill Smolinski · 310 pages

Struggling to start over after a failed relationship and her son's entry into drug rehab, a struggling Lucy Bloom tackles an unexpectedly challenging job clearing the cluttered home of a reclusive artist and hoarder who hides an astonishing secret.

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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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 ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Odd Mom Out

Jane Porter · 432 pages

Advertising executive Marta Zinsser is no poster child for her wealthy Seattle suburb-and nothing could please her more. This former New Yorker wears combat boots, not Manolos, and drives a righteous Harley hog instead of a Mercedes SUV. Now she's launching her own agency in this land of the Microsoft elite, even though her ten-year-old daughter wishes she'd put on a sweater set and just be norm

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Wild Designs

Katie Fforde · 320 pages

From: http://www.katiefforde.com/books/info/?e=9780099446675&t=Wild-Designs Althea is the mother of three strong-minded children - one of whom is a Buddhist - and owner of a finicky dog named Bozo. Saddled with too large a house (albeit in a beautiful Cotswold village), worrisome mortgage payments, a bossy younger sister and irksome ex-husband, Althea still manages to muddle through life comf

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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A Good Year for the Roses

Gil McNeil · 340 pages

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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

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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My Best Friend's Girl

Dorothy Koomson · 448 pages

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Art of Hiding

Amanda Prowse · 288 pages

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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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 FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Smart Women

Judy Blume · 320 pages

Margo and B.B. are each divorced, and each is trying to reinvent her life in Colorado—while their respective teenage daughters look on with a mixture of humor and horror. But even smart women sometimes have a lot to learn—and they will, when B.B.’s ex-husband moves in next door to Margo...

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Wilde Like Me

Louise Pentland · 391 pages

When single mom Robin Wilde decides to change her life, new opportunities are soon on her horizon.

Single Parent ProtagonistWomen's FictionContemporary FictionFemale Lead

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