Books like First time by Meg Tilly

A woman who abandons her husband and daughter for another man faces profound regret when her new partner leaves her. She attempts to repair her shattered family ties while caring for a retired resident in a seaside cottage.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

Kiko Himura seeks to leave her toxic mother relationship and enroll in a dream art school, but when that plan stumbles, she tours alternative schools with a friend and discovers life‑changing truths about herself and her past.

Teenage mother Renee struggles to raise Kendra after both endured early motherhood, as their teenage daughters navigate school, family expectations and a legacy of sacrifice in New York City.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

Cassie O'Malley, committed to a mental hospital against her will, defies medical advice at eighteen, seeks a fresh start in college, only to have her estranged mother return and unravel all she thought she knew about herself.

When Bean’s grandfather dies, her life turns upside‑down as she uncovers hidden truths about her family, her mother, and a father she never knew.

A sculptor from a family of artists takes a carpentry job at a small-town wedding venue owned by the spirited Pallas Saunders. Between commissions, fragile love and business pressure push the pair toward an unexpected romance.

Eleven‑year‑old Hope learns resilience in Oregon after her mother’s verbal abuse, drawing lessons from a history unit on the Holocaust while saving money at a thrift shop to buy her dream purple hiking boots.

Simply and well-told story of the facts of life for young children that follows the story of a new life from the moment of conception to its birth. Excellently illustrated throughout.