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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"On the day of their estranged father's wedding, half-sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It's been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats, her resentment against her free-loading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial...
42) Never knowing
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Struggling with a need for closure, Sara Gallagher attempts to reconnect with her birth parents only to learn that her biological father is an infamous serial killer, a discovery that causes her to fear she has inherited violent tendencies.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For two decades, Lena Blackwell has kept her sons at her side, teaching them everything she knows about running their successful river lodge in Northern Maine. But what she really wants is to keep her boys in the dark about their tragic past. Her son Luke is right where he belongs, working at the family inn sheltered by acres of pine forest that stretch along the Penobscot River. So when his adopted brother, Jonah, threatens to upend their peaceful...
Author
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"--
Abigail Bontrager often felt like a square peg in a round hole with her Amish family, but her faith and love of her family were solid. Owen Kurtz is part dreamer, part entrepreneur. His friendship with Abigail has gradually blossomed into a sweet and loving courtship. She encourages...
45) Honest illusions
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010, c1992
Language
English
Description
Roxy Nouvelle, daughter of a world-renowned magician, inherits her father's penchant for jewel thievery, but when escape artist Luke Callahan enters her world, she is forced to make some changes.
46) Epically earnest
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jane Worthing's claim to fame is that she was one of the first viral internet sensations...discovered as a one-year-old in an oversized Gucci bag by her adopted father in a Poughkeepsie train station. Now in her senior year of high school, Janey is questioning whether she wants to look for her bio family due to a loving, but deeply misguided push from her best friend Algie, while also navigating an all-consuming crush on his cousin, the beautiful,...
48) Found
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The search for a serial killer leads a woman into the twisted tangle of her own family tree. Adopted when she was only days old, Ivy Hon knows little about her lineage. But when she's stricken with a mystery illness, the results of a genetic test to identify the cause attract the FBI. According to Ivy's DNA, she's related to the Full Moon Killer, who has terrorized the Pacific Northwest for decades. Ivy is the FBI's hope to stop the enigmatic predator...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, they 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 the mansion's old ballroom...
Author
Series
Cedar Springs romances volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Adopted as an infant, Jane Aaron longs to know the identity of her birth mother and why she gave her up. Her only clue is the name of the small Texas town where she was born, so she's come to Cedar Springs for answers. Handsome ad executive Asher Price lost his wife, the beautiful, mysterious Susanna, in a terrible car crash eighteen months ago. When he hires Jane as the nanny for his two children, sparks fly. Jane finds herself falling in love with...
54) Malignant
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.
55) The Jerk
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor Black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
56) The rancher
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Searching for her place in her birth family, engineer Rachel Ford Morgan goes up against her family's rival, Cauy Lymond, when she discovers worrisome fault lines around an abandoned silver mine on his property, which threatens all their futures.
57) One warm winter
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Adopted as a child by a tech billionaire, Wynter Bates knows nothing about her origins--or the world, beyond being privileged, sheltered, and lonely. But she won't let anything stop her from investigating who she is. Especially after a high-profile scandal involving her father's past lands her on an island retreat under bodyguard Cullen Whelan's protection--in the guise of being his girlfriend . . . A former military intelligence officer, Cullen figures...
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"Ruby McKee is a miracle. Found abandoned on a bridge as a newborn baby by the McKee sisters, she's become the unofficial mascot of Pear Blossom, Oregon, a symbol of hope in the wake of a devastating loss. Ruby has lived a charmed life, and when she returns home after traveling abroad, she's expecting to settle into that charm. But an encounter with the town's black sheep makes her question the truth about her mysterious past. Dahlia McKee knows it's...
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"As if Dio wasn't diabolical enough, now he's an immortal vampire with incredible strength! But Jonathan Joestar's not one to back down, even when it seems like victory is impossible! It's a classic battle! Good versus evil! Grit and determination against power and arrogance! Who will win?!"--
60) The confession
Author
Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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