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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs; a loving husband, a career, and a home. But the one thing she wants most is the child she's unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn't have much. She and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads. But she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the Happy Mothers House: a baby farm where she can rent her...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of fifteen years, admits his yearning for a child. Suzette has always feared passing along the genes that led her mother to a mental institution. But Hyland proposes a differentidea: a baby via surrogate. Dorrie is a young woman struggling to find the money to go to college. When she sees an advertisement to be a surrogate, she believes it's a sign that her destiny is to help...
4) Sweet evil
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A surrogate mother goes berserk and tries to kill her host family.
Author
Series
Shenandoah album volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kendra and Jamie were never storybook sisters. But after a long estrangement, Jamie has offered Kendra and her husband their ultimate dream--a child of their own. Despite some lingering misgivings about her once-wayward younger sister, Kendra agrees, and Jamie, a promising architect and single mother, becomes a gestational surrogate for Kendra and Isaac. In addition to this amazing gift of life, Jamie designs a house for the couple on Isaac's ancestral...
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Robin Lockwood faces an unimaginable personal disaster and her greatest professional challenge in the next New York Times bestselling Phillip Margolin's new legal thriller, The Darkest Place. Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she's becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin...
10) The testaments
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When a young loner becomes the gestational surrogate for a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The in vitro fertilization mistake was simply stated: Carolyn Savage was pregnant with someone else's embryos. She and her husband Sean were forced to make a seemingly inconceivable choice: Either terminate the pregnancy, sue for custody, or deliver the baby--and relinquish it. The Savages decided to do what they would hope that another couple would do in a comparable situation. This is their story.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Libby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing career. Now for the first time in years, things are looking up. She's just sold her first novel, and she and Ethan are going on a much-needed vacation. Everything seems to be going their way, so why can't she stop looking over her shoulder or panicking every time Ethan wanders out of view? Is it because...
14) The midwife
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The story about a mother who risks everything to save a child not genetically hers.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Essentially this book is a heavily visual memoir-in-essays that explores how the experience of gestational parenthood--conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding my son Samson--eventually clarified my gender identity and allowed me to project a different, more masculine self. Ruminating on how the experiences contained under the umbrella of "motherhood" don't fully describe my experience amplifies the outsiderness the speaker, who is almost always addressing...
16) Inconceivable
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to return to work as a doctor, Angela befriends young mother Katie and asks her to serve as a live-in nanny. But Angela and her husband, Brian, have no idea about Katie's horrific past, and Brian's mother grows suspicious. When infertile Angela asks Katie to become a surrogate mother, Katie's ulterior motives begin to surface, and Angela quickly realizes that things are not what they seem.
17) Then came you
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Jules hopes the ten-thousand dollars she receives from donating her eggs can help save her father from addiction. Annie is sick of living paycheck-to-paycheck and after watching a TV show about surrogates, decides to become one herself. India knows that a baby is the only way to get Marcus, her much-older boyfriend, to marry her. But when her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to Annie and Jules. However, the plan is derailed by Marcus' sudden...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
At "I'll Have Seconds," a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the perfect client. At home, Nora grapples with the bleaker reality of enormous debt, a tiny apartment, and ever-dwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will have a family of their own. When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Nora's life, the women spark an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned...
19) The jewel
Author
Series
Jewel volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As a young mother with a toddler and a live-in boyfriend, Maggie Fisher's job at a checkout counter in downtown Phoenix doesn't afford her much financial flexibility. She dreams of going to college and becoming a teacher, options she squandered when she fled her family home as a teenager. When Maggie stumbles onto an ad offering thousands of dollars to women who are willing to gestate other people's babies, she at first finds the concept laughable....
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