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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...
23) Betrayals
Author
Series
Cainsville volume 4
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Olivia Taylor-Jones risks her life to find out who is killing the street kids of Chicago and who is trying to entangle her boyfriend in those crimes. --Publisher
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Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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After learning that she was adopted and there is no record of her existence, Chicago journalist Clare Prentice searches for her origins in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where she is shocked to discover that her birth mother, Lily Gunderson, was murdered.
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Series
Noel collection volume 1
Language
English
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Jason Chercher is not doing well in love or life. Just two weeks after his wife leaves him he receives a phone call that his estranged mother has passed away, days before Christmas - leaving her home and all her belongings to him. Frankly, he would like to see everything just burned. But curiosity about his past and anxiety about his future fuels him to make the drive from Salt Lake City to her home in Medford, Oregon. Maybe cleaning out her house...
27) Wicked forest
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Series
(Virginia C.).De Beers volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©2002
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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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.
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Series
Amish blessings volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a young Amish woman discovers that she was adopted and that her birth parents are English, she will have to determine what she believes and where her future lies.
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Series
Road to perdition volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A follow up to the graphic novel, "Road to Perdition," finds an adult Michael O'Sullivan returning to Chicago to resume his long-standing feud with the Capone mob, for which he risks his life to become an aide to Frank Nitti.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The day after Memorial Day 1889, 20 million tons of water careened downhill to Johnstown, PA, washing away the city, along with 2,000 of its residents. The tragedy occurred when a dam built for the recreation of members of the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club broke. This tragedy links Elizabeth Haberlin and Lee Parker. Elizabeth was a member of society's elite in late 19th-century Pennsylvania. Lee and her mother have been abandoned by...
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Brighton. After inheriting her mother's fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. After a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, Madam Burova is ready to have a little piece of life for herself. But she still has one last thing to do: fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them. In London,...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O’Callaghan, live alone in Roscarbury Hall with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, the two communicate only by terse notes. But when the sisters are threatened with bankruptcy, Ella defies Roberta’s wishes and takes matters into her own hands, putting her baking skills to good use and converting...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance. His sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads to his deportation to South Korea, Bucky is forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and he has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources...
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Gold Valley volume 4
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With only a suitcase and a broken-down truck to her name, McKenna came to Gold Valley aiming to confront her birth father, then leave by Christmas. Working at the Dodge ranch wasn't planned, nor was falling for Grant Dodge, the gorgeous cowboy who keeps his heart roped off.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Kalama was quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa--and forced to give up her daughter at birth. Ruth is taken to the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, and adopted by a Japanese couple who raise her on a farm in California. During World War II Ruth and her husband suffer internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp. After the war, she receives a letter from Rachel. As the two meet and come to love one...
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Series
Creektown discoveries volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Andrea Wagner has made it to her thirties feeling like she has had a charmed life and finally has fallen in love with Brandon Prentice, a local veterinarian. But then she discovers she was adopted-and all she thought she knew about herself has crumbled. Andrea becomes so fixated on finding her birth mother that she pushes Brandon away. A friend suggests Andrea write to the "Dear Caroline" column in the newspaper for romance advice, and she finds...
40) A mother's love
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
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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