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My fathers' daughter My fathers' daughter Hannah Pool In 1974 Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and brought to England by her white adoptive father. She grew up unable to imagine what it must be like to look into the eyes of a blood … OL11971838W
The Indigo Notebook The Indigo Notebook Laura Resau An exciting new series from the acclaimed author of Red Glass.Zeeta's life with her free-spirited mother, Layla, is anything but normal. Every year Layla picks another country she wants to live in. T… OL14936967W
The Art of Love The Art of Love Elizabeth Edmondson The French Riviera is the setting for this absorbing tale of family intrigue, scandal and romance, against the glamorous background of 1930s artists and aristocracy.Polly Smith is struggling to make … OL15179260W
The secret sin The secret sin Darlene Gardner She's your daughter Annie Sublinski was sixteen when a brief encounter with Ryan Whitmore left her pregnant. Ryan stood by her decision to give up their baby for adoption. Now that child is here i… OL15436542W
Healing the M.D.'s heart Healing the M.D.'s heart Nicole Foster She didn't have a cure for heartache And to Dr. Lia Kerrigan that's exactly what loving Duran Forrester and his seven-year-old son entailed. They stirred up feelings that made the pretty pediatric… OL15855509W
Taste of honey Taste of honey Eileen Goudge Gerry Fitzgerald confronts a painful secret when the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-eight years earlier comes into her life, seeking answers. OL15856928W
Into temptation Into temptation Penny Vincenzi "The Lytton family past is full of secrets. Only one person knows them all and that is Lady Celia Lytton, the family matriarch. Some are more dangerous than others, some entirely her own, others shar… OL15925605W
Protecting her child Protecting her child Debby Giusti Wealthy heiress Eve Townsend is close to death. But before she dies, she has to know: what happened to the daughter she gave up for adoption twentyfour years before? Did she inherit her mother's life… OL16046068W
Fox evil Fox evil Minette Walters When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with bloodstains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy husband, Colon… OL16046494W
The girls : a novel The girls : a novel Lori Lansens One of the world's oldest living craniopagus conjoined twins at the approach of her thirtieth birthday, bookish Rose Darlen attempts to pen her autobiography while remembering the joys and challenges… OL16046506W
In focus In focus Anna Jacobs On a popular British television program, Beth sees an episode where the host, Pete, demonstrates a new computer program that can take a photo of an adult and regress the image to a young age. The res… OL17740657W
Iceling Iceling Sasha Stephenson With their scientist parents away on a research expedition, seventeen-year-old Lorna is left in charge of her younger sister Callie, an Arctic Recovery Orphan, or "iceling," who one night builds a mo… OL17871998W
The lost daughter The lost daughter Williams, Mary The adopted daughter of Jane Fonda describes her youth in 1970s Oakland, California, her daunting prospects in the face of her dysfunctional biological family, and the ways in which a structured home… OL18158940W
Finding Colin Firth Finding Colin Firth Mia March Three women, connected in secret and surprising ways, are in for a life-changing summer when rumor has it that actor Colin Firth is coming to their Maine town to film a movie. OL18160233W
Red dust road Red dust road Jackie Kay From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and… OL19946937W
In the air tonight In the air tonight Lori Handeland With her blue-black hair and dark eyes, Raye Larsen has never fit in with the Scandinavian community of New Bergin, Wisconsin. Being adopted is part of the reason she feels like an outsider, but what… OL20003725W
Happy Family Happy Family Tracy Barone 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. OL20026598W
Ashes of fiery weather Ashes of fiery weather Kathleen Donohoe A multigenerational tale about the passionate loves and losses of women in a family of firefighters traces their experiences spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after the September … OL20033703W
JoJo's bizarre adventure JoJo's bizarre adventure Hirohiko Araki Jotaro and his allies continue their perilous journey to track down the diabolical DIO. Their plane crashed, their submarine sank, so this time they're trying a boat! But enemies are everywhere and S… OL20053577W
A portrait of an idiot as a young man A portrait of an idiot as a young man Jon Holmes It's a story of how boys grow up to become (stupid) men, of sexual misadventure, of being accidentally shot in the face, of spiders, a ghost, a fatally injured gerbil, American road trips that went w… OL24292818W
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