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Author
Series
Baxter family volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world--Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
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Series
Song of Acadia volume 2
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Description
In This Intimate Historical Epic, the Heart-wrenching Dilemmas of The Meeting Place Come to Rest on...The Sacred Shore Oceans and circumstances have forced families apart. For the banished French Acadians drifting in exile, the shore means safety--though it is a safety at a terrible price. For the lonely British nobleman, the shore holds a single chance to secure his legacy. For Andrew and Catherine Harrow, the shore marks a tragic separation. An...
Author
Series
Daughters of Lancaster County volume no. 3
Language
English
Description
After her father's tragic accident, Leona's faith wavers. When outlander Jimmy Scott is hired to paint an Amish schoolhouse, Jimmy and Leona find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Can anything good come from the love between an Amish woman and an English man? What secrets will be revealed and what miracles await God's people in Lancaster County?
6) Birthright
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Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Callie Dunbrook is called to Antietam Creek to investigate a 5000-year-old skull that has been unearthed. She encounters danger, misfortune, secrets, and revelations about the history of both the archeological artifact and her own life.
Author
Series
Daughters of Lancaster County volume 1-3
Language
English
Description
The Storekeeper's Daughter: "Naomi Fisher's heart yearns for the love of Caleb Hoffmeir, but her days are plotted for her as surrogate mother to six siblings--until the afternoon her baby brother goes missing from the yard. How can Naomi expect anyone to love and trust her if she couldn't take care of one small boy?" -- Page [4] cover.
The Quilter's Daughter: "Abby Miller leaves her successful quilt shop and patient fiancé in Ohio to help her pregnant...
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Series
Language
English
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"A man receives the best Christmas present he could ask for: the chance to re-write the past. Bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher hasn't been home for almost twenty years--not since his mentally ill mother kicked him out of the house when he was just sixteen. When a lawyer calls, days before Christmas, to inform him that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him, Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try and...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The death of Thomas and Savannah McClair's mother turns their world upside down. Raised to be fiercely curious by their grandmother Maggie, the twins become determined to learn the identity of their biological father. And when their mission goes viral, an eccentric producer offers them a dream platform: a fully sponsored podcast called The Kids Are Gonna Ask. To discover the truth, Thomas and Savannah begin interviewing people from their mother's...
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Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...
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Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, fortune teller Madam Burova, before she can have a little piece of life for herself, must fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.
Brighton. After inheriting her mother's fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. After a lifetime of keeping...
12) Finders keepers
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Language
English
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Raised in a magnificent Charleston house, Jessie Roland wants for nothing. But as she grows into young adulthood, all she feels is loss and a desperate need to break free from the stifling possessiveness of her "parents." Somewhere, in the deepest part of herself, Jessie believes that the world she has always lived in is not the one she came from...or belongs in. Now, at nineteen, she has escaped to Washington, D.C., where no one knows her, and where...
13) Already home
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English
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"After nearly a decade as a sous-chef in a trendy eatery, Jenna is desperate for a change. She's supported her ex-husband's dreams for so long that she can't even remember her own. Until she sees a for-lease sign near her parents' home and envisions her very own cooking store Her crash course in business is aided by a streetwise store manager and Jenna's adoptive mother. But just as she's gaining a foothold in her new life, in walk her birth parents--aging...
14) Omens
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Taylor-Jones is the daughter of a prominent Chicago family--or so she thought. Ivy League educated, with a handsome, politically ambitious fiancé, Olivia is shattered when she learns that she's adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving life sentences. Overwhelmed by a maelstrom of unwanted publicity, Olivia flees to home to pursue the truth about her birth parents. Landing in the small town of Cainsville,...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
College student Christine Bradley grew up in a loving and honest family. So she couldn't have been more surprised when, shortly after her mother's death, her father revealed the startling truth that Christine had been adopted at birth. In search of clues about her biological mother, Christine encounters a family she never knew she had. She digs deeper as Christmas nears and what she finds reveals a shocking lineage. Will Christine be able to come...
16) Firstborn
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Language
English
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Robin Lee Hatcher has won the Christy Award for Romance Fiction, two RITA Awards, and multiple career achievement awards. Perfectly blending human drama with inspiring themes, Firstborn is a riveting novel about making difficult choices and dealing with the consequences. Twenty-three years after concealing her pregnancy, Erika Welby's secret is revealed. Now she must come to terms with the decision she made so long ago.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st William Morrow ed.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A powerful story of a woman's search for her past. After the death of her adoptive mother, Chelsea Kane is a woman consumed by a need to discover her natural heritage. She arrives in the New Hampshire town where she was born, aching for answers. It is while she is looking for them that she finds something quite unexpected: a love she thought she would never know. As Chelsea gets closer to the truth, she realizes that someone is determined to stop...
18) The lost ones
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years--since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.
Author
Series
Annie McIntyre mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At a gathering for her cousin's wedding party, newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question: what really makes us who we are, nature or nurture? Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire Annie to find his biological parents, and that question is on his mind. Annie accepts his case, not knowing then that she, too, must decide if she really believes what she tells him that night--in...