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English
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"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...
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Series
Shenandoah Album novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Childless Kendra and husband Isaac accept an offer from Kendra's younger sister- single mom Jamie- to conceive and carry a child for them. But when a medical crisis threatens Jamie's health she learns that the most difficult choice in her life is yet to come
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of fifteen years, admits his yearning for a child. From the beginning they'd decided that having children was not an option, as Suzette feared passing along the genes that landed her mother in a mental institution. But Hyland proposes a different idea: a baby via surrogate. Suzette agrees, and what follows is a whirlwind of candidate selections, hospital visits, and Suzette's...
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Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
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
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Convinced they'll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother carrying the child of a wealthy Southwestern couple, two small-caliber crooks soon run into major problems.
7) Deadly deals
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Series
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English
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After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. But soon the birth mother reappears, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves.
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Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
284 page (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Held captive... When Georgia Nielsen is asked to be surrogate for an enigmatic tycoon she can't afford to say no. Before she realises that she's struck a deal with the devil she's trapped on his isolated Greek island, with no escape from the brooding master who stalks its shores! Carrying his child! Scarred by the loss of his wife, Nikos Panos's future rests on leaving behind a legacy. But Georgia's constant presence threatens to unleash the powerful...
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Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a forty-eight-year-old woman, Shyama, whose decision to use a surrogate mother from India in order to have a child with her younger boyfriend causes her life to intersect with Mala's, a young girl trapped in an oppressive marriage in a rural village in India who dreams of escape"--
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Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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 takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn't know - what she can't know - is how this one decision, this one case, will wreak complete...
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
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English
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"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? ... But three...
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Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
283 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The rebel bachelor is back... To claim her baby! In this Greek Island Brides story, pregnant surrogate Popi Costas is faced with raising her late sister's child alone - until the baby's wealthy uncle arrives to take charge! Apollo Drakos is distractingly handsome, but Popi won't let that stop her fighting to keep the baby. Yet as she gets to know the man behind the wildcard reputation Popi finds she's reconsidering welcoming Apollo into her new little...
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hannah and Kate became friends in the fifth grade, when Hannah hit a boy for looking up Kate's skirt with a mirror. While they've been close as sisters ever since, Hannah can't help but feel envious of the little family Kate and her husband, David, have created--complete with two perfect little girls. She and Ben have been trying for years to have a baby, so when they receive the news that she will likely never get pregnant, Hannah's heartbreak is...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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In February 2011, 61-year-old Kristine Casey delivered the greatest gift of all to her daughter, Sara Connell: Sara's son, Finnean. At that moment, Kristine--the gestational carrier of Sara and her husband Bill's child--became the oldest woman ever to give birth in Chicago. While Finnean's birth made local headlines, this book tells one modern family's remarkable surrogacy story. Connell recounts the tragedy and heartbreak of losing pregnancies; the...
17) The surrogate
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Grand Central Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Kat and her husband Nick have tried everything to become parents, and are on the point of giving up. Then a chance encounter with Kat's childhood friend Lisa gives Kat and Nick one last chance to achieve their dream. But Kat and Lisa's history hides dark secrets. And there is more to Lisa than meets the eye. As dangerous cracks start to appear in Kat's perfect picture of happily-ever-after, she realizes that she must face her fear of the past to save...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Ivy Campbell has always been a good kid ... Ivy is 100 percent supportive when her mom decides to be a gestational surrogate, carrying and giving birth to her friends' baby. But when Ivy finds out the surrogacy treatment worked and her mom is pregnant ... she's shocked that she's jealous and worried about what others will think ... Ivy is determined to prove to herself that she's just as unselfish as she's always believed, and she gets the chance...
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Language
English
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"Recently separated Amelia Saxton, a dedicated journalist, never expected that uncovering the biggest story of her career would become deeply personal. But when she discovers that a cluster of embryos belonging to her childhood friend Parker and his late wife Greer have been deemed "abandoned," she's put in the unenviable position of telling Parker--and dredging up old wounds in the process. Parker has been unable to move forward since the loss of...
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