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Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
2) Rose cottage
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In the summer of 1947, Kate Herrick, widowed by the war, returns to Rose Cottage, her childhood home. A tiny, thatched dwelling nestled in an idyllic country setting, Rose Cottage at first appears the picture of tranquility. But Kate soon discovers that someone has broken in, and valuable family papers have disappeared. The village seethes with gossip. How harmless are her elderly neighbors, who are suspected of witchcraft? And what is behind their...
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Kristen Heitzmann's characters leap from the page with a balance of strength and fragility as they face anguish from the past. Jill and Morgan, once high school sweethearts, had loved and lost--each other and the baby whom Jill gave up at birth. Years later, Morgan is outwardly successful, but he is still haunted by the memory of the tiny child. And then Jill shows up again in his life with very disturbing news. With her trademark dramatic storytelling,...
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“[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan . . . an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free.” — The Guardian
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...
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...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Wendy and Rip Porter are a working-class couple fighting to regain custody of Joey, the young son Wendy gave up for adoption when Rip went to prison seven years earlier. But Joey's adoptive parents will stop at nothing to ensure that the small boy stays in the only home he's ever known.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...
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Ella Varner, having been left by her sister to care for her child, tracks down the baby's father, millionaire playboy Jack Travis, and decides to confront the man and demand he takes responsibility, but when she shows up at his house and finally meets him, her anger turns to attraction and she finds it hard to leave.
9) Already home
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"After nearly a decade as a sous-chef in a trendy eatery, Jenna is desperate for a change. She's supported her ex-husband's dreams for so long that she can't even remember her own. Until she sees a for-lease sign near her parents' home and envisions her very own cooking store Her crash course in business is aided by a streetwise store manager and Jenna's adoptive mother. But just as she's gaining a foothold in her new life, in walk her birth parents--aging...
10) Melancholy baby
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Sunny Randall mysteries volume 4
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English
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P.I. Sunny Randall uncovers some dark secrets of her own while helping a young woman locate her birth parents.
11) The lost ones
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Nora Watts novels volume 1
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English
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It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years--since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.(--Cover)
12) Voodoo River
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English
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Elvis Cole finds himself embroiled in a mystery involving a crazed housewife, a Cajun thug, and a menacing, hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther
13) Delivering Hope
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Bonneville Books
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[2012], ©2012
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English
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A woman unable to have a baby yearns to have children, and an unwed mother chooses to put her baby up for adoption.
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Cupcake diaries volume 29
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon Spotlight paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Worried about meeting her biological father, Katie is blindsided by the news that her mother's boyfriend intends to propose to her mom.
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Eagle Gate
Pub. Date
c2002
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344 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Will Martin and his new wife return to his boyhood hometown to run the family real estate business, but as they approach their first anniversary, Will and Rose's inability to communicate threatens their marriage, but the joy of the Christmas season soon helps them rediscover their love.
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Publisher
Bowen Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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As her turn to be "Star of the Week" in her kindergarten class approaches, Cassidy-Li puts together a poster with pictures of her family, friends, and pets, and wonders about her birth parents in China.
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Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where everything from coconut mallow cookies to Clabber Girl Baking Powder costs only a dollar, and coffee and gossip are free. For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee, the Bottom Dollar Girls, logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it's family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things...
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"Maddie West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Now, the total stranger who confronts Maddie with the truth tells her something else that rocks her world--Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves her...
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Noel collection volume 1
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English
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"A man receives the best Christmas present he could ask for: the chance to re-write the past. Bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher hasn't been home for almost twenty years--not since his mentally ill mother kicked him out of the house when he was just sixteen. When a lawyer calls, days before Christmas, to inform him that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him, Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try and...
20) Lion
Pub. Date
2017
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1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
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