Leaping from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this is the story of young Ada Sibelius and her brilliant computer scientist father, David, who runs a lab at a prestigious college in Boston, working to develop a lifelike artificial intelligence program, ELIXIR. Ada is being raised nontraditionally-educated by David and his lab colleagues, treated as one of the team, without kid gloves-but when David begins showing signs of Alzheimer's, her life is upended....

"Simple text and photographs present single-parent families, including how family members interact with one another"--Provided by publisher.

In White Pines, Texas, family comes first. The Cowboy and His Baby A year and a half ago, a tragic mistake cost single mother Melissa Horton her one true love-and a father for her baby girl. Now Texas rancher Cody Adams is back, shocked to discover he is a parent and determined to make Melissa his wife. But Melissa has surprised herself-and him-with her newfound independence. She doesn't just want a marriage of convenience. She wants it all-true...

When 84-year-old Anna McKenna returns to King's Meadow and to the Leonard ranch, she becomes an agent of change and healing for the two hurting families. Kimberly Welch lost her husband to a heart attack in the blink of an eye, but she's losing her daughter slowly, in the day-to-day tension. Chet Leonard lost his teenage son in a car accident, then his wife abandoned him and their two remaining boys. Sometimes you just have to let the memories hurt,...

A novel "about a forty-something wife and mother thrust back into the workforce, where she finds herself at the mercy of a #bosshalfherage"-- Provided by publisher. Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like "taking a break" from being a husband and father. Without warning Rory is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama...

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the...

Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.

"Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, arrive in Atlantic City and must find the location of Vero's kidnapped crush and a stolen car."-- Provided by publisher.

Separated from the sister she has been protecting from their irresponsible parents, fourteen-year-old Liz is forced to rely on distant relatives and forges a pact with a deceitful adult who compels her to keep a painful secret.

"A respected professor begins a secret affair with her son's girlfriend one summer on the Brittany coast in this intense, poetic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop"-- Provided by publisher.