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"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...
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Running her farm-to-table caf�e as well as a menagerie of rescued animals, Luna Wright, when the owner of Apple Ridge Farm passes away and his investment manager takes over control, she, with her home threatened, must dig deep to find true strength and the real meaning of love and family.
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Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelganger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths. It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew--an icy and cunning woman...
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English
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A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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For Widow Rose Raber, it's been a year of tragic loss and difficult decisions. She thought providing for her young daughter was the greatest challenge she faced. Until her dying mother revealed that Rose was adopted-and her birth mother is someone with much to lose if the secret comes out. As Rose struggles to reconcile the truth with her faith-and her troubling curiosity-outgoing newcomer Matthias Wagler is another surprise she didn't expect. His...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in contemporary literature"--
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Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
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342 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition, First international edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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English
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Follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, Ruth, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II.
11) The confession
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Heritage of Lancaster County volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The Dramatic Sequel to The Shunning... Katie Lapp is torn from her close-knit Plain community in the painful ordeal called the shunning. But as she strikes out alone into the strange and sometimes dangerous "English" world, she is unaware that the man she loves is planning to return to his Amish family...and to her.
12) Cut and run
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Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Twin sisters separated by the past are reunited by unspeakable crimes in this novel of suspense by Mary Burton.
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English
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After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows. It's life as usual in Mitford. A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who is still running for office? All this, of course,...
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Gallery Books, Jeter Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
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viii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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The founder of Comfort Cases, an organization that makes life better for thousands of foster children, shares his own experiences in foster care and how he was able to chart his own path and achieve his wildest dreams.
15) Betrayals
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Cainsville volume 4
Publisher
Random House Canada
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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When Olivia's life exploded--after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers--she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois. Working with Gabriel Walsh, a fiendishly successful criminal lawyer with links to the town, she discovered the truth about her parents' crimes in an investigation that also revealed the darker forces at...
16) The lost ones
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Nora Watts volume 1
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English
Description
A dark, compulsively readable psychological suspense debut, the first in a new series featuring the brilliant, fearless, chaotic, and deeply flawed Nora Watts—a character as heartbreakingly troubled, emotionally complex, and irresistibly compelling as Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander and Jo Nesb's Harry Hole.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...
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Adopted as an infant, Cass has questions about who she is and where she came from that her adoptive parents can't answer, but eighteen years ago, Cass's birth mother wrote her a series of letters that may just hold the answers she is searching for.
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Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
377 p.
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English
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Ruby McKee, the unofficial town mascot after being found abandoned as a baby, embarks on a quest for answers about her discovery with the help of her adoptive sisters and learns this small town she calls home is hiding the biggest, and darkest, of secrets.
19) If only
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a pregnant sixteen-year-old Bridget and her decision to give her baby up for adoption and the story of sixteen-year-old Ivy as she searches for her birth mother to find out where she comes from.