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The other mothers / by Faulkner, Katherine,author.;
"When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as a freelance journalist. But she has also been searching for something else--new friends to help her navigate motherhood. She sees them at her son's new playgroup. The other mothers. A group of sleek, sophisticated women who live in a neighborhood of tree-lined avenues and stunning houses. The sort of mothers Tash herself would like to be. When the mothers welcome her into their circle, Tash discovers the kind of life she has always dreamt of--their elegant London townhouses a far cry from her cramped basement flat and endless bills. She is quickly swept up into their wealthy world via coffees, cocktails, and playdates. But when another young woman is found dead, it's clear there's much more to the community than meets the eye. The more Tash investigates, the more she's led uncomfortably close to the other mothers. Are these women really her friends? Or is there another, more dangerous reason why she has been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world? Who, exactly, is investigating who?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Journalists; Mothers; Parents; Play groups; Secrecy; Young women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The seven skins of Esther Wilding / by Ringland, Holly,author.;
Esther Wilding's search for explanations after the death of her sister, Aura, takes her from Tasmania to Denmark and on to the Faroe Islands, following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven cryptic fairytales about selkies, swans and women, alongside verses Aura had secretly had tattooed on her body.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Forgiveness; Grief; Interpersonal relations; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Supreme Macaroni Company : a novel / by Trigiani, Adriana,author.;
When a secret about her business partner and lover is revealed during her family's celebration of The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Valentine Roncalli must make life-altering choices as she fights for everything she wants while sustaining her family's business and enjoying life to the fullest.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Love stories.; Family-owned business enterprises; Italian American families; Italian American women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Little disasters : a novel / by Vaughan, Sarah,1972-author.;
Liz Trenchard is an experienced pediatrician with a duty to protect all children admitted to her busy emergency room. So when her friend Jess turns up at the ER one night with her baby girl and a story that doesn't quite add up, Liz is forced to question everything she thought she knew about her friend and about herself. There are so many secrets and so many lies. The truth can't come soon enough.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Medical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Women pediatricians; Motherhood; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The island villa / by Morgan, Sarah(Romance fiction writer),author.;
"Celebrated romance author Catherine Swift has topped the bestseller lists for decades, though her personal story hasn't been quite so successful. Three failed marriages have left her relationship with her daughters strained, but that's about to be rectified. Engaged yet again, Catherine is counting on this wedding to be what finally brings them together as a family, and she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Secrecy; Sisters; Weddings; Women authors;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The restoration of Celia Fairchild : a novel / by Bostwick, Marie,author.;
Celia Fairchild, known as advice columnist ‘Dear Calpurnia', has insight into everybody's problems--except her own. Still bruised by the end of a marriage she thought was her last chance to create a family, Celia receives an unexpected answer to a "Dear Birthmother" letter. Celia throws herself into proving she's a perfect adoptive mother material--with a stable home and income--only to lose her job. Her one option: sell the Charleston house left to her by her recently departed, estranged Aunt Calpurnia. Arriving in Charleston, Celia learns that Calpurnia had become a hoarder, the house is a wreck, and selling it will require a drastic, rapid makeover. The task of renovation seems overwhelming and risky. But with the help of new neighbors, old friends, and an unlikely sisterhood of strong, creative women who need her as much as she needs them, Celia knits together the truth about her estranged family--and about herself.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Advice columnists; Divorced women; Dwellings; Dysfunctional families; Family secrets; Female friendship;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Been there, married that / by Grazer, Gigi Levangie,author.; Levangie, Gigi,author.;
"A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal. When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife -- she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn't cover divorce, which is the way Agnes' life is headed after she comes home one day to find her credit cards cancelled and the security passwords to get into her enormous LA home changed. Oh, and there's a guy there whose job it is to tase her if she tries to enter ... which she does. Needless to say, Agnes' husband is dead set on making sure she loses big time, but Agnes isn't the type to just lie down and take it. In a world of fremenies and hot nannies, personal psychics and "skinny" jello shots, Agnes may be losing her husband, but could that mean getting her own life back? Been there, married that is a drop-dead hilarious battle of wills that will make you laugh out loud, cringe, and keep turning the pages to see what crazy disaster will happen to Agnes next ... and how she'll rise from the ashes"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Women authors; Motion picture producers and directors; Divorce; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Custody of children; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Not our kind : a novel / by Zeldis, Kitty,author.;
One rainy morning, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia's difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor at their Park Avenue home. Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys' rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant bond with Margaux. Soon the idealistic young woman is filling the bright young girl's mind with Shakespeare and Latin. Though her mother, a hat maker with a little shop on Second Avenue, disapproves, Eleanor takes pride in her work, even if she must use the name "Moss" to enter the Bellamys' restricted doorman building each morning, and feels that Patricia's husband, Wynn, may have a problem with her being Jewish. Invited to keep Margaux company at the Bellamys' country home in a small town in Connecticut, Eleanor meets Patricia's unreliable, bohemian brother, Tom, recently returned from Europe. The spark between Eleanor and Tom is instant and intense. Flushed with new romance and increasingly attached to her young pupil, Eleanor begins to feel more comfortable with Patricia and much of the world she inhabits. As the summer wears on, the two women's friendship grows--until one hot summer evening, a line is crossed, and both Eleanor and Patricia will have to make important decisions--choices that will reverberate through their lives. Gripping and vividly told, Not Our Kind illuminates the lives of two women on the cusp of change--and asks how much our pasts can and should define our futures.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Jewish women; Tutors and tutoring; New York (N.Y.);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Island girls [sound recording] / by Thayer, Nancy,1943-; Campbell, Cassandra.;
Read by Cassandra Campbell.When the will of a recently deceased ladies' man mandates a summer-long reunion for his daughters from different marriages at his posh Nantucket house, the three sisters are forced to confront long-festering resentments and misunderstandings as well as challenges in their private and professional lives, a situation that is complicated by a shocking revelation and the arrival of their mothers.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Audiobooks.; Forgiveness; Friendship; Sisters; Women;
© p2013., Random House Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The summer nanny / by Chamberlin, Holly,1962-author.;
Every June, the quiet beach town of Ogunquit is overtaken by wealthy families who hire local young women like Amy Latimer and Hayley Franklin to care for their children. Best friends since childhood, Amy and Hayley are eager to secure lucrative summer jobs. Amy wants to finance her upcoming move to Boston. Hayley hopes to squirrel away enough money so that her mom can finally leave her abusive husband. But the passing weeks bring complications and revelations, altering friendships, testing the bond between mothers and daughters, and proving that the ripples from a single season can last forever.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Mothers and daughters; Nannies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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