single mothers

"Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can't afford to pay for. That's Jess's life in a nutshell-until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess's knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean"--Provided by publisher.

Every summer the Newton family returns to their home on Nantucket for three months, but when Arch Newton is killed in a plane crash, his widow Beth can barely keep her life, much less her family together, as she tries to continue the family's summer tradition.

Explores how single moms have developed a new form of parenting that rejects social judgments about family structure and gender stereotypes and stresses the importance of communication, community, and love, resulting in a generation of young men that are socially savvy, generous, caring, and masculine.

Presents a collection of verse stories narrated by the character Ella as she contemplates life as marginalized brown person negliected by society's norms and explores her sexual identity.

Dottie Connell struggles to face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget when she becomes the caregiver of her childhood friend's daughter.

The author offers advice for single mothers on taking care of their children while re-entering the dating scene.

Provides information and advice for single mothers at every stage of the experience from pregnancy through the teen years, answering questions about money management, child support, baby care, talking about dad, dealing with ex-relatives, and dating.

Gracelin O'Malley immigrates to America in order to escape the devastating famine in Ireland, and travels to San Francisco to meet the sea captain whose marriage proposal she accepted, but when he is not there to meet her, Gracelin is forced to accept a job with a prominent doctor and finds herself reunited with a lost love from her past.

A collection of journal entries in which writer Anne Lamott chronicles the first year of her son's life.