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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
ONE SMALL SACRIFICE ONE SMALL SACRIFICE DeMeyer, Trace A …her ground-breaking memoir includes tribal representatives testifying to the US Senate in 1976 concerning the Indian Adoption Projects, operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Child Welfare… OL15165233W
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
Where are my birth parents? Where are my birth parents? Karen Gravelle Discusses how and why adopted children may try to locate and get to know their birth parents and examines possible psychological benefits and problems associated with the process. OL15841006W
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
Sweet Wind Wild Wind Sweet Wind Wild Wind Ann Maxwell PAST, PRESENT--FUTURE? Four years ago rugged Carson Blackridge had branded Lara with his masculine touch, then crushed her innocent heart. Utterly humiliated, she'd fled the Rocking B forever. Rel… OL15867W
Never knowing Never knowing Chevy Stevens 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 f… OL15901938W
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
True confessions True confessions Electa Rome Parks Kennedy Logan is gorgeous, educated and talented, but buckles under the weight of various predicaments, leading to a failed suicide attempt. At her psychiatrist's advice, Kennedy Logan uses writing a… OL15938151W
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
Silent Joe Silent Joe T. Jefferson Parker With the horrible remnants of a childhood tragedy forever visible across his otherwise handsome face, Joe Trona is scarred in more ways than one. Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a charismati… OL16049410W
The case of the stuttering bishop The case of the stuttering bishop Erle Stanley Gardner From the University of Buffalo's Special Collections webpage: "Bishop William Mallory of Sydney, Australia consults with Perry Mason about the statute of limitations in a manslaughter case that took … OL16740W
Doble Cuerpo Doble Cuerpo Tess Gerritsen La doctora Maura Isles se gana la vida relacionándose con la muerte. En calidad de patóloga de una gran área metropolitana, ha visto más cadáveres de lo que desearía, muchos de ellos víctimas de crím… OL17424787W
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
Surface tension Surface tension Russell Celyn Jones Mark's relationship with his sister Geena is so close that her friends can't help but speculate. Geena is hallucinating images from her past, but a past she doesn't recognise. But the brain has the p… OL17742071W
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