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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Alex, a workaholic attorney, is forced to reinvent her life after her husband suddenly leaves. While juggling a career case, a young son, and a father struggling with the effects of aging, Alex discovers both a vulnerability and inner strength she had not yet tapped into, all while holding her family together.
2) Puppy love
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She immediately regrets her decision when Caitlin gravitates to the biggest, sloppiest dog in the pound, Jake. As Megan considers returning Jake, handsome ballplayer Ben shows up claiming Jake is his dog. Ben wants to take his dog and leave, until he sees that Caitlin loves Jake as much...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Miranda Wells is a hard-working young widow struggling to raise three children on her own. A powerful storm brings a devastating challenge and a mysterious man, Bray Johnson, into her life. In just a few short days, Bray's presence re-ignites the family's spirit, but he also carries a secret, and it's a secret that could change everything.
4) Captive
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Brian Nichols, on the run as the subject of a city-wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son, takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren's bestselling inspirational book, The purpose driven life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope.
5) The babadook
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son's deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
The Oscar-winning melodrama provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy's long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun; an illustrious star of the stage; and a transgender sex worker.
8) Babes
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Babes follows childhood best friends Eden and Dawn, now in different phases of adulthood. When single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge.
9) St. Vincent
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Maggie, a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her twelve-year old son, Oliver. Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent, a retired curmudgeon with a desire for alcohol and gambling. An odd friendship soon blossoms between the improbable pair. Together with a pregnant stripper, named Daka, Vincent brings Oliver along on all the stops that make up his daily routine,...
10) Z
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Beth's son brings home an imaginary friend named "Z", she becomes concerned that he is falling too deep into a world of make-believe. He starts to display extremely destructive behavior, blaming Z for all of his actions. But after he gets kicked out of school, Beth is forced to find a solution. She medicates her son, making him unable to see his imaginary companion. But now Beth sees Z and he wants to be her friend.
12) Kidnap
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. Karla will stop at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Juana, a working-class, single mother, decides to take a job at a local Japanese restaurant. Against all odds, she fights to achieve her dream of becoming a sushi chef.
Después de varios años trabajando en la industria de la comida, Juana desarrolla una habilidad para cortar muy rápido y con precisión. Decide cambiar el rumbo de su vida y asistir al chef de un restaurante japonés, en donde descubre un mundo completamente nuevo y diferente....
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Dos mujeres coinciden en una habitación de hospital donde van a dar a luz. Ambas están solteras y se quedaron embarazadas por accidente. Janis, de mediana edad, no se arrepiente y está exultante. La otra, Ana, una adolescente, está asustada, arrepentida y traumatizada. Janis intenta animarla mientras pasean por los pasillos del hospital. Las pocas palabras que intercambien en esas horas crearán un vínculo muy estrecho entre las dos, que por...
16) The conjuring 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
17) Home again
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A daughter of a famous filmmaker, who has just separated from her husband and moved with her two daughters into her childhood home in Los Angeles, meets three young aspiring filmmakers and lets them live in her home.
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