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21) Casting about
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the four years since Monica Brooks moved to Cedar Key, Florida, she's found a home, a husband, and a business taking over her mother's bustling knitting shop. But when her husband Adam's ex-wife is deemed an unfit mother, will the normally even-keeled Monica be ready to go straight from honeymoon to motherhood?
22) Unforgivable
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Your ex-wife didn't leave you because of me. She didn't abandon her little girl because of a couple of love notes in your jeans pocket. She left because she's twisted, and she wanted to punish you. And she's not finished yet. You have to believe me. If you don't there's no knowing what she'll do next... Becoming a stepmother is the best thing that ever happened to me. My favorite part of every day is picking Charlie up from school, watching her little...
24) Cinderella
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the transformative power of kindness with Disney's Cinderella, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination...and magic! Despite being bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters, a spirited Ella refuses to despair or retaliate, choosing instead to honor her mother's last words: "Have courage and be kind". Then one day, she meets a remarkable, like-minded man in the woods and she resolves to take charge of her fate in hopes of seeing...
25) Family of lies
Author
Language
English
Description
"After growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in the lap of luxury in San Francisco, her only job is to fawn over her much-older husband, so it's been easy for her to balance a life of shopping and affairs with younger men with a major secret: the sixteen-year bribery of one of her husband's mistresses to keep her pregnancy under wraps. Vera figures that a little hush money...
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Language
English
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Description
"Jiselle, a young flight attendant has just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger."--
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations, 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Annie loves living with her dad and her bunny, Snowball. But she wants her dad to find someone to love. Then he meets a woman named Martha. Soon it is time for a wedding!"--
28) Rescue: a novel
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel on Paige MacGowan, a wealthy New York woman who cannot have children and who is reluctant to adopt. She keeps herself occupied with good deeds until her husband's rebellious son from a first marriage arrives on the doorstep, thrown out by his mother for drugs. An opportunity for Paige to experience motherhood. By the author of Every Day.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers- Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal...
30) The crossroads
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
日本語
Description
A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.
32) The island
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Language
English
Description
"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
33) Bound
Author
Language
English
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first...
Author
Publisher
HarperChildren's Audio
Pub. Date
p2001
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4 1/2 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the beginning when Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother, to the time in the city during the drought, and further adventures of life on the prairie. Includes an interview with the author.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mercy Thompson's life has undergone a seismic change. Becoming the mate of Adam Hauptman, the charismatic Alpha of the local werewolf pack, has made her a stepmother to his daughter, Jesse, a relationship that brings moments of blissful normalcy to Mercy's life. But on the edges of humanity, what passes for a minor mishap on an ordinary day can turn into so much more. After a car accident in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Mercy and Jesse can't reach Adam...
39) The demon's door
Author
Series
Haunted mystery volume 2
Publisher
Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Randon House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
During rehearsals for a play based on his stepmother's bestselling children's books, eleven-year-old Zack discovers that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead by offering up a human sacrifice.
40) The wild swans
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this newly illustrated edition of the Andersen classic, eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother are saved by their beautiful sister.
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