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1) Sweet baby
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A woman confronts her past with the help of the man she loves in this emotional mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author.
Abandoned as a little girl and bounced from foster home to foster home, photojournalist Tory Lancaster has finally found someone to love in Brett Hooker, an investigator for the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office.
Then Tory takes a photo that...
Abandoned as a little girl and bounced from foster home to foster home, photojournalist Tory Lancaster has finally found someone to love in Brett Hooker, an investigator for the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office.
Then Tory takes a photo that...
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"Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible--a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local community college, and a cozy house in a quaint little beach town. It may not look like much, but it's more than she ever dreamed of or what her difficult childhood promised. Her life's mantra is to be good, quiet, grateful. Until something shifts and Cinnamon is suddenly haunted by a terrifying question:...
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Brides of Amish country volume 6
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"Yearning to find a meaningful life in the outside world, nurse Miriam Kaufman strayed far from her Amish community. She also needed distance from Nick Bradley, the cop who had caused her so much pain. Back in Hope Springs to care for her ailing mother, Miriam needs Nick, now sheriff, to find the mother of Hannah, the baby abandoned on her porch. Nick is as wary of Miriam's intentions as she is of facing their past. Can two wounded hearts overcome...
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1997 Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association Prize for First Novel. Sarajean is the child of love children. She lives with Jimmy Henry, a Vietnam vet she accepts as her father. Her mother, whoever she was, disappeared long ago. Sarajean scams her way through childhood, surviving on intuition, seeing her world clearly without judging it. From carelessly discarded clues, she knits together the identity she's always longed for. "An extraordinarily...
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Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood.
But, the ghosts of the dead children are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, which is the only place...
6) The odds
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The Homicide Department is upside down-Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potocki's life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her boss's health, she can hardly think. A young boy in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood dies of a suspicious overdose. The Narcotics police are working on tips and they draft Colleen and Potocki to help them. In this same neighborhood, four young kids have...
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"Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel." - --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky
"Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read." - --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
"Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is...
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A brilliantly original novel of the 1970s counterculture
Alice Duncan is an eleven-year-old girl who looks so much like a grown woman, she attracts the attention of adult men. Abandoned by her mother and neglected by her father who has checked himself into a mental asylum, Alice and her sixteen year old Aunt Esme live on their own in an Upper East Side townhouse, entertaining teenage boys, shoplifting at department stores, and dining on cookies and...
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"Shaye Geist has tracked down gunslinger Chad Martin in the wilds of Montana, seeking refuge from her powerful father. But Chad's also hiding, the target of terrorists. In imminent danger, Chad and Shaye are ready to run when they find an abandoned baby. Can they keep themselves and the mysterious child safe--even as enemies close in on all sides?"
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"Quarter Horse breeder Fox Colton is a loner by nature. So when an anonymous infant appears on his doorstep, he reluctantly takes in the baby--and new assistant Kelsey Lauder. As he grows to cherish his unexpected family, Fox works to track down Baby John Doe's real parents. But when secrets from Fox's own past are unearthed, he could find himself alone again, just as he's come to love the new people in his life."--Back cover.
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"Rancher and lawyer Garrett Cole wants a family--eventually. Until he finds a sweet newborn abandoned on his doorstep. If it weren't for Abby Scott, the social worker temporarily working in his office, he'd be lost. But when their attraction grows deeper, can this cowboy dad risk his heart on a woman who might not be in town for good?"--Page [4] of cover.
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A surly cowboy and an abandoned baby! Retired rodeo cowboy Dean Hunter s escaped to Charming, Texas, for some solitude, some surf and a new start. But his plans are interrupted by the distraction of Maribel del Toro, his stunning and sparring neighbor next door and the baby he discovers on Maribel's doorstep! Now Dean has to convince skeptical PhD Maribel that they need to give a desperate mom a second chance by temporarily caring for the baby......
14) Leaving Haven
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Georgia longs for a baby, but she's had miscarriage after miscarriage since her daughter was born more than a decade ago. Through a miraculous egg donation, Georgia is thrilled to find herself pregnant-until she makes a startling discovery that changes her mind about how much she really wants the baby... Georgia's best friend, Alice, has a happy teenage daughter, a faithful husband, and a perfectly organized life. But her world spins off its axis...
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"Detective Reed Dawson should be looking for the mother who abandoned her infant in his office. But a freak snowstorm has him stranded and left to care for the baby with social worker Aimee Gallagher. Reed can see that Aimee is a caring person and a natural mother. But despite their ice-melting attraction, Reed's painful past prevents him from getting involved. So why does he keep imagining their future as a family?" --
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"Stricken with temporary amnesia, Maddie Wolfe can't remember a single thing about her life ... or her boy-next-door husband, Sawyer. But even with electricity crackling between them, it turns out their fairy tale's careening toward disaster. When Sawyer's unexpectedly thrust into caring for his newborn twin nephews, will he finally change his mind about being a dad and give Maddie the family of her dreams--and his?"--Back cover.
17) Muskrat ramble
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Seamlessly threaded into the emerging hot jazz music scene that captured the hearts of music lovers in 1913 New Orleans, are the themes of the tightening Jim Crow era, World War I and its aftermath of economic ills, political upheavals and epidemics, and the choices, heartbreaks and ultimate decisions of women of all races. At its heart, however, "Muskrat Ramble" is the saga of a young woman's unwavering devotion to the child she was forced to abandon...
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Hoping to overcome her reputation as Leadville, Colorado's biggest gossip, wealthy socialite Flora Montgomery offers to help a miner care for an abandoned child. But her growing affection for the sweet boy's handsome rescuer could be a problem. Especially since her parents insist she must marry for money. Undercover mine owner George Baxter is digging himself into a dilemma. The once-spoiled Flora has become a delightful, generous woman, and she'll...
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"The Christmas that changed all three of them! After her dreams of motherhood were dashed, Feilicity Hart is determined to make a fresh -- baby-free -- start in Lovestruck. Unfortunately, she now has to work with firefighter Wade Ericson on the town festivities! And Wade ends up at the center of all things baby-related in town -- this time, a baby abandoned at the firehouse. Then Felicity finds herself moving in to Wade's house and using her foster-care...
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"1976. Rushing out of the University Library, undergraduate Alice Kenzie bumps straight into PhD student Tristan Somers. There begins a whirlwind romance, and Alice falls pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. Then Tristan is killed in a car accident. Unable to cope, Alice takes her baby to The Summer House, Tristan's parents' family home in Suffolk, leaves her there and disappears. 2018. Olivia Somers has always been told that her mother died in...
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