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Not My Daughter
Not My Daughter | Barbara Delinsky
A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors. (Boston Globe) When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself. Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily's best friends-and the town turns to talk of a pact. As fingers start pointing, the most ardent criticism is directed at Susan. As principal of the high school, she has always been held up as a role model of hard work and core values. Now her detractors accuse her of being a lax mother, perhaps not worthy of the job of shepherding impressionable students. As Susan struggles with the implications of her daughter's pregnancy, her job, financial independence, and long-fought-for dreams are all at risk. The emotional ties between mothers and daughters are stretched to breaking in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has given us a powerful novel, one that asks a central question: What does it take to be a good mother? From the Hardcover edition.
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MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm This is pretty far outside my usual reading preference, but it has me intrigued... 🤔 Stacking! I‘ll be interested to see what you think of it. 4y
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Ahhhhhh! I‘m doing so much better with #BookSpinBingo this month! I hope we keep this going! I‘m loving the bingo boards. I find them so much more motivating 💃🏻🕺🏻👯‍♀️

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MallenNC I‘m so motivated by the bingo cards too! 4y
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'm definitely planning to keep the bingo going. So easy for people to skip a month or two if they aren't feeling it, while allowing anyone who wants to to read more than just 1 or 2 books from their list. It feels like the perfect compromise!! 4y
Clwojick Yay!!!! I‘m so happy that you‘re going to keep it going. And in case I forgot to actually use the hashtags, I did read both my #BookSpin and #doubleSpin books this month 🤪 @TheAromaofBooks 4y
TheAromaofBooks LOL Theoretically you have to read the “official“ books to get the credit, but I can't always keep track so for the bingo folks it usually ends up just being whichever two books they read first! 😂 4y
Clwojick 😅 No I meant, in case I forgot to tag you in those specific reviews. Lol. I did read them though. It was Death Wears a Beauty Mask and The Forgetting Time 💙 @TheAromaofBooks (edited) 4y
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Isn't this haul just amazing. This was my first thriftbooks order but I scored every book is like new. My youngin just had to help me she loves books and packages. #thriftbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So cute!!! I love thriftbooks!! 7y
Avanders Everything @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks said. 😉🎉🎉 7y
Cinfhen Cutie💗💗 7y
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