A single mother on the run with her daughter
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suspenseful, a page turner. Mostly believable. I enjoyed this book enough to read others Gardiner has written.
4448333
This book was very a inspirational story.  A life about a shy girl who determine to make a better life for herself and her daughter.  How she kept going in face of real tragedy  in the loss of her husband and their daughter  A woman of real courage!  I hated for the book to come to an end.  Well worth reading
3623230
A very good inspirational story about a young woman that is running from an abusive ex boyfriend  and God works it out
3679065
Rich single father of a seven year old girl, her twenty year old virgin Nanny who is surprised by his attention one night. A rival pack attacks , she must protect the child while the males protect them from the intruders. Who will win? A good short story .
2206449
Tess is driving in a dark and deserted area when she sees a little girl standing in the road. Tess is able to walk up to her but the frightened child runs in the woods and disappears. Thus begins the suspenseful story of Tess' quest to find the child.
4070708
A story any mother can relate to, centering around an overworked mother, exhausted wife, and depleted friend. In a moment of taking her eyes off the kids, her friend's thirteen year old disappears, joining a growing list of missing girls. Determined to find her and discover what happened, and to make things right, she takes on the job of detective as well.
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I have never had any mother-daughter issues (thankfully) but still found this a book that I could relate to.  Well paced story. Plot line somewhat predictable, but not to the point where it interfered with the flow of the story.
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This is a very wonderful story of a single mom's journey with her four young children across the United States.  Melissa's writing style makes you feel like you are along on the trip.  Her extremely honest expression of her doubts and struggles as well as the joys and triumphs add to the enjoyment of reading the book.  God's sovereignty and faithfulness is displayed as this family travels from New York to California and back.  How He provides all along the way physically and spiritually makes the book worth reading.  Highly recommend.
3072214
Traveling cross country in a caravan is difficult with a family;  it is much more so for two single ladies.  Determination and faith help them survive.
3788051
A heart wrenching story of child abuse and how this child, realizing he had to run away, was able to get away from the abusive father.  Enter a Grandmother who has been kept away from this grandchild too long and is unaware of how abusive his home life has become.  Grandmother learns how the child escaped and possibly where he is, the father also learns from the same source the location the child has gone.  A race between the Grandmother and the father to reach the child first. The reader's toes will curl  afraid for the father to find the boy first.  Alone, with only $5.00 in his  pocket, an amazing story of how this young boy was able to survive in a wooded area for the week before he was discovered.
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A very good story of a woman with very little life, working at the DMV and taking care of a a very ungrateful and mean mother, She has visions about what is going to happen to people and they always come true. She ha a vision of herself dying and make a list of hings she wants to do before that happens and then discovers it is her mom who dies. So much after that, including the next door neighbor who is single, very handsome and caring. Police involvement, mystery, and so much more.
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I really liked this book because its a love story but it also involves a single mom out there! I like to read about people finding love even when it seems hard due to life.
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I love how the story was told from both the mother and daughter's point of view. The descriptions of the family in turmoil are  true to the bone.  This book is rugged but real and it brings great hope to those families buried in the darkness of addiction.
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In the beginning of the book they are at home.  About 1 week later they leave their house.  The people leaving from this household are Libby, her brother Joe, her mother, her father, and her dad's friend Pete. Libby thought Pete was her Fathers age.  She found out he was turning 19 pretty soon.  She just started liking Pete when she found out his age.  She wanted to hold him in her arms.  Their father is a newspaper reporter.  He has to report on the railroad race.  People get paid a lot of money to work on the railroad.  The railroad goes across the U.S.  People in California and the people in Wyoming will meet. Who ever had the most track is the winner.  When they got Wyoming where the railroad race started her little brother Joe was very bad. Joe would not listen to anything. He got in trouble about every day.  His parents decided to give him a job.  His job was to carry water out to the workers.  They needed water every hour.
Libby had met a girl where she was.  The girl was rich but friendly. Libby liked her. The two girls' parents became friends. The girl that Libby met was from the same school as Libby and she had seen her before. The girl Libby met lives in a mansion.
The two girls were not allowed to enter the town right next to where they were.  They wanted to no why but their parents wouldn't tell them.  They decided to figure it out themselves.  That both girls sneaked out of their houses and walked over to the town.  They heard noises but it was to dark to see anything.  So they went a little closer and all of a sudden they were grabbed by two guys and drug into a room where there was loud music and many people singing and dancing.  Libby was taken in a back room by the guy that grabbed her.  Both of the girls were scared. A little while later they got away and took off running.  Then Libby's dad heard them scream.  He came running.  He promised he wouldn't tell their mothers.  They went home.
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4473144
A different look at how single mothers handle their problems.  By the end of the movie they have formed solid friendships.  I will order from these people again.
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This was a great read! I was surprised that I liked it as much as I did! I felt as if I was there with the mother and daughter:)
3503434
a book about a disfunctionally normal mother daughter relationship that both my daughter and I can completely relate to. love it