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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When their adopted eight-year-old son Max suddenly turns feral, Maya Shulman convinces her husband, Alex, to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max's birth parents, which results in unexpected consequences and life-altering changes.
Author
Series
Amish farm trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Cara Bentley's efforts to find her roots lead her to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where attorney Todd Reasoner helps her in her investigation, but it soon becomes clear that someone does not welcome her digging into the past.
25) Kiss of the bees
Author
Series
(Judith Ann)Brandon Walker volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into the Walkers' world, nearly murdering Diana Ladd Walker and her young son, Davy. And now the psychopath has died in prison, so Brandon and Diana believe they and their loved ones are safe at last. They are wrong... --Publisher
27) Omens
Author
Series
Cainsville volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After learning that she is the daughter of accused serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen, privileged 24-year-old Olivia Taylor ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, to prove her birthparents' innocence. But as she and Gabriel, her mother's lawyer, start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make her both a valuable addition to Cainsville and deeply vulnerable...
28) In good company
Author
Series
Class of their own volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Millie Longfellow is determined to become the best nanny the East Coast has ever seen. Unfortunately, she finds herself dismissed from yet another position. Everett Mulberry has unexpectedly become the guardian to three children that scare off every nanny he hires. At wit's end with both Millie and Everett, the employment agency gives them one last chance--with each other. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Tribute Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The timeless tale of a boy (with autism) and his (shelter) dog. Over the past 10 years, author Sandra Gerencher has been on a mission to save dogs from high-kill animal shelters. Her first rescue was P.J., the black and white Pomeranian in the story. She also adopted the orange Pomeranians Shelby and Lil Rascal, and of course, Chance, the big black Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix. All characters in the story are based on Sandra's real life family.
30) Love love
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Judy Lee's life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. She's divorced, she's broke, and her dreams of being a painter have fallen by the wayside. Her co-worker Roger might be a member of the Yakuza gang, but he's also the only person who's asked her on a date in the last year. Meanwhile, her brother Kevin, a former professional tennis player, has decided to donate a kidney to their ailing father--until it turns out that he's not a genetic match....
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 7
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The six D'Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister? They only have one clue - an image of a star-shaped emerald ring. The search to find the missing sister will take them across the globe; from New Zealand to Canada, England, France and Ireland, uniting them all in their mission to at last complete their family.In...
32) Detour
Author
Publisher
Time Warner AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Paul and Joanna adopt a baby girl from Colombia, but find their lives shattered when Joanna and the baby are kidnapped by abductors who demand millions of dollars of cocaine as ransom.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted-a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life-when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything. A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew Walker,...
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When their father dies, Star D'Apliese and her six sisters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world, are left with few clues to their heritage. But Star - the most enigmatic of the sisters - is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow her first clue, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world.
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Maia D'Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis'--a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva--having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage--a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of...
36) Ginny Moon
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and...
37) The rising
Author
Series
Rising volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-four hours. That's all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever. Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career. When a football accident lands Alex in the hospital, his world is turned upside down....
38) Luster
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...
39) Long time coming
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman is reunited with the man she has loved for years and must reveal the secret that will jeopardize her chance for happiness at last. The world-famous astronaut Law Kincaid shows up at Hibbs's determined to discover who is sending him anonymous letters claiming he'd fathered a son he knows nothing about.
40) Any other family
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new novel about three very different adoptive mothers who face the impossible question: What makes a family? Though they look like any other family, they aren't one--not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting four biological siblings, having committed to keeping the children as connected as possible. At the...
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