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Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Claire Abrams's dreams became a nightmare when she passed on a genetic mutation that killed her little boy. Now she wants a second chance to be a mother, and finds it in Robert Nash, a maverick fertility doctor who works under the radar with Jillian Hendricks, a cunning young scientist bent on making her mark--and seducing her boss. Claire, Robert, and Jillian work together to create the world's first baby with three genetic parents--an unprecedented...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life. Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college and taking the first steps towards his dream--a career in medicine. But as he starts his...
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Language
English
Description
"The Latecomer follows the story of the wealthy, New York City-based Oppenheimer family from the first meeting of the parents Salo and Johanna, under tragic circumstances, to their triplets born during the early days of IVF. As children, the three siblings--Harrison, Lewyn, and Sally--feel no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, even as their father becomes more distanced and their mother more desperate. When the triplets...
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English
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Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive. A feat of bravery grants her access to the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are overshadowed by a greater power - a fierce maternal love that bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart and her society, and lead her to perform unthinkable deeds....
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning first novel--of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism--that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war. Captain Tom Barnes, leading British troops in the war zone. Two boys growing up there sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. The man who trains one boy to fight the other's father as well...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Infertility is one of the most painful and painfully common of human experiences. One in six couples will experience fertility challenges when they attempt to get pregnant, and while more and more people have spoken openly about infertility in recent years, the experience can still be incredibly isolating. But none of us is alone in our struggles. In fact, infertility is a universal part of the human experience that is mentioned in the earliest...
Author
Series
Wake the dragon novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Thousands of years ago the god Kur created the wreth, beautiful and powerful in magic. Then he commanded them to destroy Ossus, the dragon at the heart of the world, and disappeared telling them that only when the dragon was destroyed would he return. The wreth created a lesser race-- the humans-- as servants, slaves and soldiers. Millennia later the land is fertile again. Humans have survived; the wreth and Osus are tales of a legendary post.......
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a real-life case of an IVF laboratory mix-up. Grace and Dan Arden are in their forties and have been on the IVF treadmill since the day they got married. Six attempts have yielded no results, and with each failure a little piece of their hope dies. Priya Laghari and her husband Nick Archer are being treated at the same fertility clinic, and while they don't face the same time pressure as the Ardens, the younger couple have their own problems....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. After their divorce, Max moves in with his brother and sister-in-law, Reid and Liddy, and backslides into self-destructive drinking, while Zoe devotes herself to music therapy turns into love and marriage. Max, meanwhile, converts to an evangelical brand of Christianity that pits him against Zoe when she asks Max for permission to use...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"After a health scare, Brighton-based Lou is forced to confront the fact that her time to have a baby is running out. She can't imagine a future without children, but her partner doesn't seem to feel the same way, and she's not sure whether she could go it alone. Meanwhile, in Yorkshire, Cath is longing to start a family with her husband, Rich. No one would be happier to have children than Rich, but Cath is infertile. Could these strangers help one...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate past--or possible future--a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change. A family farms the fertile valley. Soon, a village sprouts, and not long after, a town. Residents learn to harness the water, the wind, and the animals in order to survive and thrive. The growing population becomes ever more industrious and clever, bending nature itself to their will and their ambition:...
14) Dead on the vine
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English
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"Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farm--much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through...with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte is stuck with running the farm in the midst of a murder...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Every child prodigy grows up eventually. For the Promise sisters, escaping their mother{u2019}s narcissism and the notoriety that came with her bestselling book hasn't been easy. Minerva Promise claimed that her three ; daughters gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery ; were engineered and molded to be geniuses. In adulthood, their modest lives fall far short of her grand ambitions. But now, twenty years after the book's release,...
Author
Publisher
Magnetic Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Young Waluk and old Eskimo are two polar bears helping each other get by in the modern Tundra. But food is growing scarce and their world is changing thanks to global warming and the human strangers who carelessly roam through their territory. But these carefree bears optimistically head out in search of fertile hunting grounds, making friends and avoiding dangers along the way. An adorable wildlife adventure tale about friendship, trust, and the...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on...
18) Children of men
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and regugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations. Torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, a London...
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Conrad and Joanne are finally ready to have kids, they find themselves on a difficult, expensive IVF journey. Each 'successful' implantation is followed by a two-week wait to see if the pregnancy takes. Join them, their friends, their family, and a stream of expert medical practitioners as they experience the highs and the lows, the tears and the laughter, in this sensitive but unflinching portrayal of the hope and heartbreak offered to so many...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Mercy Thompson's world just got a whole lot bigger ... A collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, "one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today" (Fiction Vixen Book Reviews), and the characters she calls friends ... Includes the new stories ... "Silver" "Roses in Winter" "Redemption" "Hollow" ... and reader favorites "Fairy Gifts" "Gray" "Alpha and Omega" "Seeing Eye" "The Star of David"...
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