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Evolution has reversed itself: woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. For Cedar Hawk Songmaker, this change is profound and deeply personal: she is four months pregnant. As society begins to disintegrate, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation. There are rumors of martial law, and rewards for those who turn pregnant women in. It will take...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now she's the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the horrors of her early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that people don't always mean what they say. But who is the man...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country, and much more throughout a long lifetime.
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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The adopted daughter of an outlaw, Catriona Macgregor, once the Blessed, meets a renegade priest who helps her understand how her ability may be part of a much bigger picture - one involving facing the man who ordered her parents killed andhis son, who betrayed them all.
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English
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Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy couple. Gifted with a loving family, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until tonight. Tonight, a has-been reporter turns up investigating her past. Tonight the first note arrives, saying, "You Get What You Deserve." And tonight, Melanie has her first, horrifying vision of the past. Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now someone...
6) October baby
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A college student's life changes after she discovers that she is an adopted child and the survivor of an attempted abortion.
8) Happy family
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Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Cheri Matzner, a former cop-turned-disgruntled academic, tries to come to terms with her adoptive and biological families as she struggles to become pregnant herself.
9) Rising tides
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Series
Chesapeake Bay volume 2
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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Ethan Quinn works to make the family's Chesapeake Bay boatbuilding business a success while struggling--despite his dark and painful past--to find happiness with the woman whom he has always loved.
10) Tangled lives
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A happily married woman with three grown children is both overjoyed and apprehensive when the son she secretly gave up for adoption in her teens contacts her in ways that pose unexpected challenges.
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
"On Ruby's thirteenth birthday, a wish she didn't even know she had suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren't her parents at all. Her real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to find them. Venturing into the forest with nothing but a suitcase and the company of her only true friend--the imaginary Shadow Boy--Ruby discovers a group of siblings who live alone in the woods. The children take her in, and...
14) Wicked forest
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Series
(Virginia C.).De Beers volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The adopted daughter of a distant psychiatrist and his abusive wife, Willow De Beers is stunned to discover that she had been the result of her father's illicit affair with a patient and embarks on a search to find her birth mother.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children"--
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Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When we first meet Ruby, a Métis woman in her 30s, she's a mess. She's angling to sleep with her therapist while also rekindling an old relationship with a man who was - let's just say - a mistake. As we will soon learn, however, Ruby's story is far broader and deeper than its rollicking, somewhat lighthearted first chapter. This is the story of a woman in search of herself, in every sense. Given up for adoption as an infant, Ruby was raised by...
17) Body double
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Series
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English
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Returning home from a trip to Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts a nightmarish scene. Police cruisers line her street and slumped in a car at the end of Maura's driveway is a dead woman, her head bloodied by a gunshot wound. Cops and neighbors gape at her as she approaches. Only when Maura looks at the victim does she understand why everyone is so shocked by her arrival. The dead woman looks exactly like Maura. Within a week, the...
Author
Series
Black dagger brotherhood volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"When Trez lost his beloved to a tragic death, his soul was crushed and his destiny seemed relegated to suffering. But when he meets a mysterious female, he becomes convinced his true love has been reincarnated. Is he right? Or has his grief created a disastrous delusion? Therese has come to Caldwell to escape a rift with her bloodline. The revelation that she was adopted and not born into her family shakes the foundations of her identity, and she...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
After a desperate search for her birth mother, fashionista Lily Rose is forced to confront her turbulent past. Love has set the tone for most of Lily Rose's young life in Cumberland Falls, high in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. But her perfect world falls apart when her beloved adopted parents are tragically killed and she is sent to live at Red Rose Farm, in the Bluegrass. Lily starts high school and meets her first love, who introduces the...
20) Lifemark
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the eighteen-year-old son she's only held once. With the encouragement of his adoptive parents, David embarks on a journey of discovery that leads to a staggering truth about his past.
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