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After the death of her adoptive mother, thirty-six-year-old Chelsea Kane is consumed by the need to uncover her biological heritage. Taking a break from her successful architecture career, she arrives in the New Hampshire town where she was born, determined to learn the truth, her only clue a tarnished silver key. One of her first discoveries, however, is something quite unexpected: the irresistibly attractive Judd Street. Buoyed by love and resolution,...
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Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family sheś ashamed to invite to Parents ́Weekend. Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past.
3) Already home
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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. That is, 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...
5) Birthright
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When 5,000-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adventure, danger and romance.
6) Lion
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"As a five-year-old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, from Australia, I found my way back. This is what happened in between..." (Front cover).
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"Science raises questions only love can answer in this moving and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times Book Reviews) life-changing fiction. One frozen embryo. Two families with life-long secrets. And a guy who never planned to fall in love again. Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents...
10) Oceans apart
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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He failed his family only once, long ago, but they never knew about it. Now pilot Connor Evans's life and marriage are going great, until Connor finds himself face-to-face with his past in the form of a seven-year-old boy.
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Blessings volume 4
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2012.
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Anyone worried that living in a small town could be boring certainly hasn't lived in Henry Adams, Kansas. From the wealthy divorcee who saved this historic town founded by freed slaves to the romantic entanglements that have set tongues wagging and hearts fluttering (and everything in between), there's plenty to keep the lovably eccentric townsfolk busy. Preston Miles is happy living with his foster parents, but an e-mail from his maternal grandmother...
12) Alburquerque
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Focusses on an ex-Golden Glove champion who meets up with a writer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while searching for his father.
13) Finders keepers
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The story of a girl who was abducted as a baby by a rich couple dying for a child. The novel follows the privileged life of Jessie Roland of South Carolina and her discovery of her real parents.
15) Omens
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Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor-Jones has the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy, prominent Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education, pursues volunteerism, and is engaged to a handsome young CEO with political ambitions. But Olivias world is shattered when she learns that shes adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving life sentences. When the news brings a maelstrom of unwanted publicity...
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"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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♭2015
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The 2015 edition of The Ultimate Search Book displays Lori Carangelo's mastery for finding adopted children, missing relatives, runaway children, and others that was cultivated over an adult lifetime. Inside you will learn just how search experts get past the wall of secrecy and roadblocks to their loved ones; how, in the case of adoptees, they find someone without a prior knowledge of the name; and the trade secrets of both professional investigators...
18) As time goes by
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"With her promotion to news anchor and the plum assignment of covering a sensational murder trial for her network, Delaney Wright should be celebrating, but her urgent need to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. On trial is Betsy Grant, who claims she loved her husband and would never have put him out of the misery of early onset Alzheimer's disease. As the trial unfolds and the evidence against Betsy piles up, Delaney's pursuit of the...
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Known professionally as the "success guru," Morgan Spencer is the turn-around genius who revitalizes failing corporations. His gift for identifying problems and finding solutions extends to the personal lives of his friends and acquaintances. But the one life he can't seem to set straight is his own. Behind his charming rebel facade is a need that drives him toward success and emptiness. Then Jill Runyan reenters his life with news that will either...
20) Rose cottage
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[1997]
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In 1940s England, a young woman searches for information on her mother. Kate Herrick was born out of wedlock and abandoned at the age of six. Now a widow, she returns to the shuttered cottage of her childhood and finds someone was there before her. By the author of the Stormy Petrel.