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In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy.

Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There's been a fatal car crash, and one of them is dead.

In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's daughter, Zain E. Asher, tells

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"Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns,...

"Lux is a single mom struggling to make her way in the world when she stumbles across an idyllic town in the Sonoma valley where she feels instantly at home. It seems like a place from another time--until she realizes it actually is. One night in 1906, an earthquake left Greengage stuck in the past. Lux must keep one foot in her world, raising her son as well as she can with the odds stacked against her, but every day she is more strongly drawn in...

"In The beach club, Mack Petersen has returned, as always, on the first day of May to once again open and manage the Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel alongside its owners, Bill and Therese Elliott. Years ago, Mack escaped the past and started over at this hotel, and it has since become his life and his home; but though he has poured his heart and soul into the club, he knows that it will eventually pass not to him but to Cecily Elliott, this owners'...

"Rae Dixon is lucky to be alive. Fifteen years ago, she survived being trafficked and abused, escaping her captors to reclaim her life. Now, she's running a thriving business with her best friend and raising a teenage daughter on her own. Rae's finally in control--literally. As Mistress V, Rae is the one calling the shots catering to Oklahoma City's elite in her private dungeon, which is fronted by a spa. But when a client goes missing, Rae's world...

Jamie Glasser has two ironclad rules: raise her kids the best way she knows how and--no more military men! The widowed mother of three lost to the army her late husband--and her faith in God--but she can't avoid former air force lieutenant colonel Eli Payton.

Zoe, a single mother with an adopted daughter, discovers that one of her neighbors could be a serial killer. Someone is busily dismembering Philadelphia's terrified nannies. Zoe and a mysteriously scarred detective named Nick Stiles together try to prevent the murderer from striking again, but the killer has targeted Zoe.

Holly Hamilton is on a mission to find her single mom a perfect man...even if she has to make that man up. One crazy mishap after another leads to the discovery that sometimes what you're looking for is already right in front of you. "Duff has found a formula that works, on TV or on screen, as a loving, loyal and slightly confused high schooler."--Denver Post "Arrives at some thoughtful conclusions that are likely to strike chords with mothers and...

Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...

Best mistake: Single mom, Zoe Fleming, gets confirmed bachelor, J. Cooper McKinnon, as her tenant; Local hero: Single mom, Hester Wallace, reluctantly invites neighbor Mitch Dempsey into her life for the sake of her son.