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Author
Series
Kate Reddy volume 1
Publisher
Random House (in cooperation with Audible.com)
Pub. Date
p2002
Language
English
Description
Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies. But when she finds herself awake at 1:37 a.m. in a panic over the need to produce a homemade pie for her daughter's school, she has to admit her life has become unrecognizable.
3) Changes
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
A woman with a hugely successful career as a TV producer and a man who is an internationally famous heart surgeon must decide how to deal with commitment, their careers, and their relationship.
5) Odd mom out
Author
Publisher
5-Spot
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Jane Porter returns with another entertaining tale of a bohemian, single working mother who finds herself at odds with the stay-at-home, alpha moms"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A self-made, thirty-something Wall Street star juggles the impossible demands of working in sexist environments and raising her children with a deadbeat husband while considering the life she may have had with her former fiancé.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When her husband makes a radical career change, and Alice lands a job at a hip, young start-up that promises to be the future of reading, she thinks she's found the Holy Grail: meaningful work balanced with a happy home life. Of course that's when everything goes sideways... --Provided by publisher.
8) Wife 22
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life.
9) Leave me
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who's so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn't even realize she's had a heart attack. Surprised to discover that her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her, Maribeth does the unthinkable: she packs a bag and leaves. But, as is so often the case, once she gets to where she's going, she sees her life from a different perspective. Far from the demands of family and...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Abbey Lahey is a married, harried working mother of two, struggling to make ends meet in a blue-collar suburb of Philadelphia. When a tumble down a Nordstrom escalator lands her in an alternate reality, Abbey finds herself happily married to the one who got away--a dashing Philly blueblood she met briefly years earlier--and living a Cinderella life of privilege and luxury. It's everything Abbey ever dreamed of. Or is it? At first dazzled by the clothes,...
11) Weather: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"What do you hate most about the one you love? Mary Gilmour doesn't know whether it's his not quite reaching the laundry basket when he throws his dirty clothes at it (but doesn't ever walk over to finish the job) or the balled-up tissues he puts on the bedside table when he has a cold. Is it the way he never completely empties the dishwasher, leaving the 'difficult' items for her to put away, or the fact that she is responsible for all of the domestic...
Author
Series
Mischief Bay volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Gabby Schaefer reels in the face of crushing news that has thwarted her plans to return to work, Hayley Batchelor pursues high-risk fertility treatments and Nicole Lord fears falling in love after emerging from a divorce from a man who barely touched her heart.
Author
Series
Kate Reddy volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Reddy had it all: a nice home, two adorable kids, a good husband. Then her kids became teenagers (read: monsters). Richard, her husband, quit his job, taking up bicycling and therapeutic counseling: drinking green potions, dressing head to toe in Lycra, and spending his time--and their money--on his own therapy...Companies aren't necessarily keen on hiring 49-year-old mothers, so Kate does what she must: knocks a few years off her age, hires...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Alice Sullivan, a high-achieving architect and mom of two, is used to being in control. Until life rips the blueprints right out of her hands. While she's always strived for a picture perfect life, Alice's foundation is rocked when she discovers her daughter is failing reading at school, and worse, her son is a bully, having humiliated a classmate on stage in front of 500 of their peers. Alice feels desperate to make things right, but when she turns...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled, over-staffed, over-worked life. Shelley Stone might be a little overwhelmed. She runs the company Conch, the manufacturer of a small wearable device that attaches...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From Jo Piazza, the bestselling author of The Knock Off, How to Be Married, and Fitness Junkies, comes an exciting, insightful novel about what happens when a woman wants it all--political power, marriage, and happiness--but isn't sure just how much she's willing to sacrifice to get it. Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the country during a midterm election that will decide the balance of power in Congress. Still...
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