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1) Divisadero
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Language
English
Description
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire...
2) Eyes only
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 24
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Gretchen Spyder gave her twin babies up for legal adoption. Now she and her father are trying to get them back. The twins' adoptive parents are a loving but poor couple, completely outgunned by the Spyders' wealth. Their only hope lies with Myra Rutledge and her formidable Sisterhood, who are as ready as ever to fight the good fight. But the case is far more twisted than it first appeared.
3) Silas Marner
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Language
English
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A gentle linen weaver in a small English town is wrongly accused of a theft. He then goes into seclusion and finds redemption in his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears at his cottage.
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With his band promised fame as rock stars with the caveat that their audience will mostly be young children, Blake Lear--the band's lead singer, songwriter, and mad genius--takes America by storm and succumbs to temptation as witnessed by his impulsively adopted son, Sweet.
6) Look again
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Language
English
Description
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something makes her look again, and her heart stops--the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was legal. But she's a journalist, and she won't be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth....
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English
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Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family's three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care. Pressured by her community to allow her former fiancé to raise the child, Dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget.
Spanning a decade, This Heavy Silence explores the...
10) Tabula Rasa
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English
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State Trooper Sebastian Bly and his brother-in-law Billy Nightingale are called in to investigate a house fire that killed two young children. Suspicious details at the fire scene – and the discovery of a baby hiding underneath the porch – put them on the trail of a murderous mother and lead to Sebastian and his wife, Annie, raising baby Meredith without revealing her dangerous and frightening past. Meredith grows up to be a promising young ballerina...
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Language
English
Description
Jean Sheridan sets out to attend the twenty-year alumni reunion of Stonecroft Academy, where she is to be honored along with six other distinguished class members. One of their number, Alison Kendall, drowned in her pool and is the fifth whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end. Jean has received a taunting, anonymous fax referring to the daughter she had given up for adoption twenty years earlier. Jean is introduced to detective Sam Deegan,...
13) Child of mine
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Desperately clinging to the hope of finding her long-lost daughter, will Kelly miss out on the chance to find love--and a family--once more?"--
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
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.
15) Crossroads
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissension drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.
16) Ginny Moon
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, Ginny has finally found her "forever home"a safe place with parents who will love and nurture her. This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for, right?"--Amazon.com.
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English
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Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation. Presumed guilty by his community and rejected by the woman he loves, Silas leaves and lives as a recluse near Raveloe village. He takes refuge only in working and attaining wealth, until his precious gold is stolen from him. But a child, her mother found dead in the snow, is thrust into his life, changing it completely. Ultimately, Silas Marner is a redeeming
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