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Hold My Girl

Charlene Carr

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Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult · 466 pages

A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious

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Then Came You

Jennifer Weiner · 338 pages

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.

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The Friends We Keep

Susan Mallery · 416 pages

After five years as a stay-at-home mom, Gabby Schaefer plans to return to work are derailed by some shocking news and her husband's crushing expectations. Hayley Batchelor has trouble staying pregnant, and her husband is worried about the expensive fertility treatments and frantic about the threat to her health. Nicole Lord's ex-husband left barely a ripple in her life; can she trust herself to re

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A House for Happy Mothers

Amulya Malladi · 301 pages

In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs; a loving husband, a career, and a home. But the one thing she wants most is the child she's unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn't have much. She and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads. But she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the

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The Same Sky

Amanda Eyre Ward · 281 pages

This "tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothe

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What Alice Forgot

Liane Moriarty · 557 pages

Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine her surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital to find out that she's getting divorced, has three kids, and is actually thirty-nine. Now Alice must reconstruct a lost decade -- and try to reconstruct her life. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks t

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Another Piece of My Heart

Jane Green · 386 pages

A woman marries into a ready-made family and learns the true meaning of motherhood.

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Dear Thing

Julie Cohen · 415 pages

"This is the story of Claire and Ben, who are perfectly in love - in fact, perfect in almost every way. Except one. They can't have a baby. It's also the story of Ben's best friend Romily, who, after years of watching Ben and Claire suffer, offers to have a baby for them. But being pregnant stirs up all sorts of feelings in Romily - feelings she'd rather keep buried, but can't. Suddenly this situa

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Between Friends

Kristy Kiernan · 325 pages

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The Secrets of Married Women

Carol Mason · 327 pages

For Jill, having a child has never been the be all and end all. She's just happy to have a lovely husband she can trust. But now Rob's gone off sex and treats her more like a flatmate than a lover. When Jill meets a handsome foreigner on the beach, will she take her chance for a bit of fun, or is it a risk not worth taking.

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The Idea of You

Amanda Prowse · 332 pages

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Baby Proof

Emily Giffin · 352 pages

Is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? What happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things? First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes--a baby carriage. Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fa

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A Sister's Gift

Giselle Green · 424 pages

Hollie Hudson and her husband Richard are fast losing hope...Despite her infertility, Hollie is unable to give up her dream of having her own family and so calls on her last chance - her wayward half-sister. 24-year-old blonde bombshell Scarlett is the antithesis of her darker, more reserved older sister and capable of giving Hollie the miracle she so desperately desires.Having single-handedly bou

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Secret Daughter

Shilpi Somaya Gowda · 352 pages

On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter's life is to give her away. It is a decision that will haunt her and her husband for the rest of their lives, even after the arrival of their cherished son.Halfway around the globe, Somer, an American doctor, decides to a

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Saving Abby

Steena Holmes · 264 pages

All childrens book illustrator Claire Turner ever wanted was to be a mother. After six years of trying to conceive, she and her husband, Josh, have finally accepted that she will never be pregnant with a child of their own. Yet once they give up hope, the couple gets the miracle theyve been waiting for. For the first few months of her pregnancy, Claire and Josh are living on cloud nine. But when s

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The Color of Tea

Hannah Tunnicliffe · 313 pages

"An exciting debut novel set in the exotic, bustling streets of Macau, China about a woman whose life is restored when she opens a small cafe forms unlikely friendships, and gains the eventually the courage to trust what's in her heart"--

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The Baby Trail

Sinead Moriarty · 320 pages

Early thirtysomething Emma decides it's time to have the baby - but it just doesn't happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it's never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.

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The Saving Graces

Patricia Gaffney · 400 pages

Four women in Washington meet regularly for dinner and support. One is searching for a husband, a second cannot get pregnant, a third is seeing a therapist, while the fourth is dying from cancer. A tale of sisterhood.

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Happiness Sold Separately

Lolly Winston · 320 pages

The New York Times bestseller about how marriage, love, and how sometimes falling in love with the wrong person at the wrong time can be the right thing. Elinor Mackey has lived her life in perfect order: college, law school, marriage, successful corporate career. But when she discovers that she and her podiatrist husband, Ted, can't have children, Elinor withdraws into her own world of heartbreak

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All Your Perfects

Colleen Hoover · 336 pages

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us--whose writing is "emotionally wrenching and utterly original" (Sarah Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)--delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Graham's perfect love is threatened by their imperfect mar

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Looking for Jane

Heather Marshall · 400 pages

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The Choices We Make

Karma Brown · 368 pages

"Hannah and Kate became friends in the fifth grade, when Hannah hit a boy for looking up Kate's skirt with a mirror. While they've been close as sisters ever since, Hannah can't help but feel envious of the little family Kate and her husband, David, have created--complete with two perfect little girls. She and Ben have been trying for years to have a baby, so when they receive the news that she wi

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Freeing Grace

Charity Norman · 357 pages

Witty, warm and poignant, Freeing Grace tells the story of a young couple: David, the vicar of an inner-city London parish, and Leila, his Nigerian-born wife. Not able to have children of their own, they're desperate for a family, and when they finally hear they' ve just been approved to adopt a young baby, Grace, they are over the moon.

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