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81) The less dead
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When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found. Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone ...
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"A fresh new voice who adds her own charming, beguiling brand of lyricism to the growing body of Haitian American stories . . . a unique and fascinating book." —Lorna Goodison, author of From Harvey River
One of the South Florida Times's Best Bets For Your Weekend
An Essence Magazine Summer Reading Pick
Iris Odys, is the offspring of Hagathe, a Haitian maid, and Brahami, a French-educated...
One of the South Florida Times's Best Bets For Your Weekend
An Essence Magazine Summer Reading Pick
Iris Odys, is the offspring of Hagathe, a Haitian maid, and Brahami, a French-educated...
83) The lost child
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Adoptee Rebecca Hoffman experiences culture conflict when she brings her family to meet her birth family on a Navajo reservation.
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Harlequin desire volume 2619
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Cooper Hayes won't share his hotel empire, especially not with his business partner's secret daughter -- even if Terri Ferguson is the most beautiful woman in Vegas. He's obsessed with sinful fantasies -- and buying her out. But Terri refuses his offer . . . while she shares his bed. With enemies working against them, how far will Cooper go for a love that money can't buy?
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"One red-hot night with Finn Calvert was meant to be just that for gregarious lawyer Georgie Wallace. Now she finds herself before the brooding billionaire, not sure she's ready to reveal they have a six-month-old child... Finn can't deal with any more surprises. He's already reeling from the discovery that he's adopted. He wants answers. Not just about why the memories of their electrifying encounter refuse to be ignored, but the truth behind why...
87) Wildflower Falls
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Riverbend romance volume 4
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When Charlotte Honeycutt, owner of Stillwater Ranch, discovered her deceased mother's safety deposit box, she was not expecting life-changing news inside-the long-hidden identity of her biological father and the location of her two half brothers, Gavin and Cooper Robinson. While her father's location is unknown, her brothers have grown up in Riverbend Gap, just as she did. Charlotte is determined to know them, but she is unsure how the revelation...
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"Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers--which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues. To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a pact: Julie will approach their adoptive parents for...
90) A mother's love
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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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"Set against the tumultuous background of apartheid South Africa, a powerful and moving debut about family, sacrifice, and discovering what it means to belong... Celia Mphephu knows her place in the world. A black servant working in the white suburbs of 1960s Johannesburg, she's all too aware of her limitations. Nonetheless, she has found herself a comfortable corner: She has a job, can support her faraway family, and is raising her youngest child,...
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Ansley Brookshire's search for her birth mother takes her from the gated estate where she grew up to Lonesome, Montana. This is where she meets Buck Crawford. Determined to help, the gorgeous rancher introduces her to Colt Brothers Investigations. But someone wants the secrets surrounding her adoption to stay buried--and they'll do anything to keep her from uncovering the truth...
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All adopted teens have questions-questions about their adoptive family, about their birth parents, and about how adoption has affected and will continue to affect their lives. But not every adopted teen knows how to approach these questions or how to handle the intense emotions and high stress often associated with them.This guide has answers. Based on true stories, extensive research, and Danea Gorbett's own in addition to her background in psychology...
94) By blood
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"San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But the walls are thin and he's distracted by voices from next door--his neighbor is a psychologist, and one of her patients dislikes the hum of the white-noise machine. And so he begins to hear about the patient's troubles...
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It wasn't easy to move back to the Old Order Mennonite community from which quiet, responsible Suzanne Zimmerman was shamefully sent away as a pregnant teen. Returning twenty years later to take care of her mother, Suzanne and Alexa -- the daughter she raised as her own -- have spent months rebuilding relationships with her family. Now with the upcoming wedding of their biological daughter, Suzanne and Paul find themselves drawn to one another once...
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After years of believing he was an only child, Sullivan Grainger discovered he was adopted -- and that he has a twin! Eager to uncover the truth about his past, Sullivan arrives in Bronco and is drawn to Sadie Chamberlin, whose own connection to his family pushes her to help him find out the truth. But Sadie is afraid to trust her wary heart to a man who won't let down his guard... or stick around. Yet as Christmas approaches, her holiday wish is...
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"Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey's twin children. Falling under the de Greys' spell, Alice...
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Adoption, a subject long cloaked in silence, is coming out of the closet. A veritable avalanche of books, magazine articles, and television programs debate the end of the "closed" system, which cut adoptees off from their heritage, and the beginning of an open system. While legal and ethical controversies continue to swirl around adoption, here is the first book to provide solid psychological grounding for the importance of openness in adoption from...
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Harper's Glen volume Book 2
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Marnie Edwards thinks she has her life together. Then State Trooper Scott Randall starts asking mysterious questions at the same time she learns her mother has been hospitalized with cancer. When a bedside confession reveals she was adopted, suddenly Scott's investigation into child-trafficking becomes personal. Every time Scott turns around, he learns Marnie has something to do with his current investigation. Finding himself falling for the beguiling,...
100) The other daughter
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"Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother, and an indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky -- until the first cryptic, threatening note arrives: "You Get What You Deserve." Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now someone want her to remember it all, even the darkest nightmare the Stokes family ever...
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