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Cuando la maestra les preguntó a los chicos de primer grado la profesión o trabajo de sus padres, Verónica, entusiasmada, respondió:
"Mi mamá escribe". Sus compañeros, riéndose, dijeron: "Mi mamá también escribe". "Y la mía". "Y la mía".
Todas las mamás escriben. Pero vos quisiste decir otra cosa, gorda mía; y la maestra salió en tu ayuda:
"La mamá de Verónica escribe cuentos que salen publicados en las revistas". "Y muchos de esos...
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Money brings power. Power brings success. Show us your wealth or shove off. These were the rules of the haves versus have nots society Victoria Allen grew up in. What happens when the spoils no longer cut it? Mothermare takes us into the dark place where bitterness grows. A bitterness that is born not of a life without want but a life without fulfillment. Victoria Allen knows that the untold riches of her childhood will never cover the scars of pain...
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When her 18-year-old twins leave for university, single mum Nadia's life changes in ways she never expected: her Glasgow flat feels suddenly huge, laundry doesn't take up half her week, and she no longer has to buy 'the Big Milk'. After almost two decades of putting everyone else first, Nadia is finally taking care of herself. And with a budding romance with new boyfriend Jack, she's never felt more alive.
That is, until her son Alfie drops out of...
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The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times top 20 bestseller 'Deliciously twisted' Red'Addictive' Stylist'Atmospheric' Good Housekeeping Having a baby is all about firsts. The first touch. The first kiss. The first cuddle. They mark a lifetime of firsts — including the first goodbye. When Romilly says goodbye to her new baby daughter, abandoning her at the hospital hours after giving birth, no one can understand why she would leave — and...
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2018
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The voice of modern women is back! Perfect for fans of Milly Johnson and Jill Mansell. 'More than funny, it's true!' Elle After sixteen years of marriage, Nate and Sinead Turner have a nice life. They like their jobs, they like their house and they love their son Flynn. Yes, it's a very nice life. Or, at least Nate thinks so. Until, one morning, he wakes to find Sinead gone and a note lying on the kitchen table listing all the things he does wrong...
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2020
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The Book of Us is a story of the complexity of forgiveness and the friendships that change our lives forever. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes and Diane Chamberlain. We've got some important things to talk about. It's time. Cass and Loll used to be inseparable. They met at university and they made sense, like two halves of a whole. They had planned their lives around each other, writing down their dreams in The Big Book of Our Life –...
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Hannah Thompson loves her family beyond words... but sometimes, just sometimes, she wishes she could be recognised as more than just 'mum'. Eldest son Dylan is soon to be flying the nest, sixteen-year-old Scarlet keeps asking about penalties for worryingly specific crimes, they've forgotten world book day and Benji absolutely will not be Where's Wally again, and it's at least two days before she and hubby Nick can sit down for Wine Wednesdays... and...
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"Tara Gallagher is knackered. She used to dream of being Beyoncé but suddenly she's thirty-six - with three kids, a loving husband, a very boring job - and instead of headlining Coachella, she's in her pyjamas on a Friday night, watching cheesy TV. It's time for a mommy makeover. She's going to show her teenage daughter she's still cool. She's going to show her husband she's still an absolute ride. She's going to show her colleagues she's still...
10) Momma's Love
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Momma's Love is the story of a girl in need of her mother's love, something lacking from one generation to the next. The generational cycles falling onto a young mother, intensifying her own choices and hardships in life. The point of view, from the daughter's eyes, will determine whether this chain will be broken for future generations.
Khloe has always felt alone and unwanted, lonely and misunderstood by her mother and abandoned by...
11) Sky's the Limit
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When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up…
Sky is devastated when she finds that her husband is in love with someone else – her oldest friend Nick. Suddenly she has lost the two most important men in her life and her entire past feels like a lie. How can she ever trust again?
Seeking escape, she goes alone on a dream trip to Marrakech where she meets Gail, a woman on a mission to meet the father of her child, a man she loved but thought...
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'One of those books that makes you feel good about being alive!'
In the imposing Glen Carrick House overlooking Scotland's famous Loch Ness, lives eighty-eight-year-old Mimi McKinlay, cared for by her three adult sons. Hamish has inherited his mother's musical talents, Fin is the responsible brother, and Angus has the complicated and brooding personality to match his dashing good looks.
But what all the brothers share is a concern that their beloved...
13) Museum of Stones
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Museum of Stones reveals a possessive/obsessive world of a love that must be released. An exceptional child collects too many rocks, invents a garbage recycler that runs amok, does not "play well." His mother takes their relationship to extremes, threatening her sanity and health, a wrenching yet often-funny account.
14) Having Hope
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HAVING HOPE is a fiction novel about Victoria DeFeo and her struggles when she realized that her husband, Evan has family secrets. Nobody talks about who is buried at St. Theresa's Cemetery. None of the young mothers have baby showers in the Vento family, until after the baby is born and is healthy. Victoria learns that there is a rare genetic disorder present in Evan's genealogy. His branch of the family learns that Evan and his brothers are also...
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When Stephanie is told she's pregnant and that she is sick on the same day, she faces an impossible choice… After trying for a baby for so long, finding out I was pregnant was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. But in the same breath as the news I had been waiting years to hear, the doctor told me I was seriously ill. If I carry my baby to term, I will almost certainly die. If I proceed with treatment, my baby will not live. My husband...
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The mothers of some of the most illustrious Jewish men in recent history-Albert Einstein, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers-are chatting in heaven. The subject: their respective sons-and their undying love for their mothers.
Each one, as before in life, engages in one-upmanship toward the others when speaking about her own renowned offspring, and no opportunity to boast can ever be missed.
"He loves me so much that for...
17) Mummy Needs Help
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Renee and Nick are in the thick of their first year of parenthood... Renee is struggling to get to grips with having a totally dependent newborn, so decides to turn to a Facebook group of new mums for support. She finds a safe space for questions and confessions, but all Nick can see is how easily she seems to be adapting to parenthood and he starts to spend more and more time at the gym, the pressure to provide for his new family threatening to swallow...
18) Why Mommy Drinks
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Why Mommy Drinks is the brilliant novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter and Jane. Boy Child Peter, Girl Child Jane and Daddy have exciting adventures with Mommy. Daddy likes gadgets. Peter and Jane like starting fires, trying to kill each other and driving Mommy to drink. Written from the point of view of an exhausted mommy at the end of the day, it's honest, it's funny, and it's a little bit sweary. It is Mommy's 39th birthday....
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A family torn apart. A daughter determined to stay together.
When the parish guardians send Lydia, daughter of convict James Knowles, to be an apprentice in the cotton mill at Caton, she is distraught at being parted from her younger siblings and mother, Betty, but she has no choice.
At the mill, Lydia is bullied by some of the other girls and things do not go well when she stands up to the ringleader. Fearing she has killed someone and with the...
20) Stella Dallas
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Stella Dallas a pretty working class girl decides she wants more out of life than drudgery and work. She sets her sights on marry rich and she manages it. But she soon finds that marrying a rich man and keeping him are not the same things. Course and vulgar by upper class standards she is unable to bridge the cultural divide that separates them. When Stella and her husband inevitably divorce she shifts her ambitions to her daughter. But can she be...
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