Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.

In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.

Jane Whitefield comes out of retirement to help a young woman who is trying to escape an abusive relationship with her real estate mogul boyfriend who will do anything to get her and their unborn child back.

"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...

"From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a powerful mother-daughter drama that explores the fault lines between love and control, My Year of Rest and Relaxation meets Freshwater"--

Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and religious zeal in the massacre's wake, this sleepy suburban neighborhood declares its saints, brands its demons, and moves on. But for a handful of people still reeling from that horrific day, life remains...

Daniel does not believe in love at first sight until he lays eyes on Six, a girl with a quirky personality, but a secret from the past could jeopardize their chance at happily ever after.

"A novel about two best friends living in New York in their early 30s, whose relationship changes when one unexpectedly becomes pregnant"--

Miriam Kessler, bolstered by food and friends, struggles to keep things together when her daughter Valentine, a pretty Jewish teen, develops a dual obsession with the Virgin Mary whom she closely resembles (as described by Bernadette at Lourdes), and her math teacher John Wosileski.

Hoffman tells the story of two women, one young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child, the other a mother who lost her daughter long ago.