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The baby business is booming. Billions of dollars are spent each year on strollers, cribs, and clothing, not to mention assisted reproduction and adoption. With fertility rates dropping precipitously in the US and babies becoming ever more valuable as a combination of status symbol and perfect accessory, there's clearly a developing market for someone like Tom Starbird. Tom is The Baby Merchant
-though he'd never think of himself in such terms. In...
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"Award-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart of every family. Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate...
3) Little Paula
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"Faith Eden's brief foray into motherhood is marked by tragedy. Distraught that her baby was ripped away from her, she is determined to get little Paula back from the wealthy family who adopted her. Her brother, Trevor, is also anxious to get the baby back and will do anything necessary to do so. But when the dark truth comes to light, this twisted family will stop at nothing to keep outsiders out and secrets in -- no matter the cost."--
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but...
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[2002]
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Surgical pathologist Dooley McSweeny teams up with journalist Gabrielle Coulter when his search for the truth about the origins of his adopted son, supposedly a Russian orphan, coincides with her investigation into criminal international adoption practices.
7) Baby crimes
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2007.
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"A mystery novel featuring adoption attorney, Toby Dillon. A wealthy couple is being blackmailed due to their black market adoption of their daughter sixteen years ago. They seek Toby's help to legitimize their adoption and discover who knows their secret. The case turns deadly when suspects start turning up dead"--Provided by publisher.
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