02785cam a2200541 i 4500 935774263 TxAuBib 20230815120000.0 190425t20192004||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019296442 9780345520807 softcover : acid-free paper 0345520807 softcover : acid-free paper TxAuBib rda Hannah, Kristin, author. The Things We Do For Love / Kristin Hannah. Ballantine Books trade paperback edition. New York : Ballantine Books, 2019. ©2004. 418 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Random House reader's circle Reader's circle (Random House (Firm)) Reprint with new reader's guide. Previously published: New York : Ballantine Books, 2004. A poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love. Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria's heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family's restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie's fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman. Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-old. They quickly form a deep bond, and when Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie offers the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women-one who longs for a child and the other who longs for a mother's love-will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined. 20230815. Divorced women Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Restaurateurs Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Aging parents Fiction. Restaurants Fiction. Aging parents. fast Divorced women. fast Female friendship. fast Restaurants. fast Restaurateurs. fast Teenage girls. fast Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. fast Fiction. fast Psychological fiction. fast Random House reader's circle. Reader's circle (Random House (Firm).)