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61) Detour
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Manhattan professionals Paul and Joanna Briedbart, unable to have children of their own, decide to adopt a baby from Columbia despite warnings about the dangers of entering the country, and soon find themselves in a desperate situation when Joanna and the infant are kidnapped and their lives depend on Paul's being able to deliver a shipment of cocaine to a New Jersey location within eighteen hours.
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"Lisa Pearl is an American teaching English in Japan and the situation there--thanks mostly to her spontaneous, hard-partying ways--has become problematic. Now she's in Seoul, South Korea, with her childhood best-friend Mindy. The young women share a special bond: they are both Korean-born adoptees into white American families. Mindy is in Seoul to track down her birth mom, and wants Lisa to do the same. Trouble is, Lisa isn't convinced she needs...
63) 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."--
64) The rising
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The rising volume 01
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"Twenty-four hours. That's all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever. Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career. When a football accident lands Alex in the hospital, his world is turned upside...
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Seven sisters volume 3
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"Riley's engaging and mesmerizing story of self-discovery and love...can be perfectly read as a stand-alone. This book will appeal to readers of Edwardian novels and Jane Austen-style fiction." —Library Journal (starred review)
"[Lucinda Riley] is a master of plotting...This substantial book is a surprisingly quick and easy read, with engaging characters, a tantalizing glimpse of Edwardian society, and dual storylines...
"[Lucinda Riley] is a master of plotting...This substantial book is a surprisingly quick and easy read, with engaging characters, a tantalizing glimpse of Edwardian society, and dual storylines...
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"Arianna Shrader's new nanny gig is more than a job - it's an opportunity to bond with the infant boy she gave up to her sister for adoption. But widower Jack DeMoise doesn't know she's not just his child's aunt. As Arianna grows closer to the ranch veterinarian and his son, can she find a way to reveal her secret... and become a permanent part of their family?"--FantasticFiction.com.
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Unlock the door to the beach house a place where life slows down, people come together, and love is the strongest force of all. After you've given your baby to strangers, what do you say when someone asks if you have children? Fourteen years ago, Melinda Campbell was fifteen and a half, pregnant and terrified. Desperate to protect her baby from a malicious grandfather and needed at home to take care of her own critically ill father, Melinda makes...
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"Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strong. But...
69) Someone like you
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When Maddie West discovers that she was adopted as an embryo and may have a sister, she feels betrayed, angry, and confused. Maddie moves away, leaving her job, fiancé, and family. Dawson Gage is mourning the death of his best friend, London Quinn. Then London's mother reveals she and her husband donated a frozen embryo decades ago, meaning that London might have a sibling. When Dawson finds Maddie and takes her to the Quinns, they welcome her into...
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Eternity Springs novels volume 15
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"A man who loves adventure and the open sea, Devin Murphy returns for a short Christmas trip to his small hometown of Eternity Springs. Immersed in the joy and magic of the holiday season all around him, he doesn't hesitate to play along when a young boy phones Santa to ask for a very special wish. Devin never guesses that a wrong number has the potential to make everything in his life so right. Jenna Stockton adopted Reilly when he needed a mother...
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A guide for adoptive parents that covers such topics as bonding, effects on the family, explaining to the adopted child, medical history, contact with biological relatives, ethnic identity, international adoption, and behavioral problems. Also includes practical resources on child-rearing leave, health insurance, naturalization, and other related topics.
72) Firstborn
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Erika and Steven, committed Christians, feel hopeless when their marriage begins to fall apart after the daughter Erika secretly bore at the age of seventeen and gave up for adoption contacts her seeking a relationship.
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Willa's biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, put Willa up for adoption, only to realize that he couldn't go on in life without seeing her again. Willa's adoptive parents, anything but ordinary, are doing their best to hide a strange and sordid past. These dramatic circumstances swirl around Willa, as she tries her hardest to grasp onto a sliver of normality.
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Judy Lee's life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. She's divorced, she's broke, and her dreams of being a painter have fallen by the wayside. Her co-worker Roger might be a member of the Yakuza gang, but he's also the only person who's asked her on a date in the last year.
75) Kiss of the bees
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Walker family volume 2
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Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering heat of the Arizona desert and descended upon the Walker family of Tucson. A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into the Walkers' world, nearly murdering Diana Ladd Walker and her young son, Davy. Now much has changed. The family has grown larger. there's Lani, the beloved adopted daughter-a beautiful Native-American teenager "kissed by the bees"...
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The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "home" orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate to keep her daughter safe. Meanwhile, Charlie must endure the prickly scrutiny of her beautiful, Bryn Mawr'educated mother, Gran'who, as the daughter of a cultured Chinese doctor, came to America to survive Mao's Revolution'and...
77) Tick tock
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Sisterhood series volume 34
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In a thrilling new story of female empowerment, adventure and vigilante justice from a best-selling author, The Sisterhood reunites to avenge an attack against one of their own.
"The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right. In the course...
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"Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted--a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life--when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything. A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew...
79) I'm adopted!
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[2011]
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With a perceptive text and dynamic photographs, the creators of this book demystify adoption for young children and celebrate the joy that comes with adding to a family.
80) Rubyfruit jungle
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Born out of wedlock and adopted by a poor, loving family, Molly Bolt finds the South and even bohemian New York a hostile world for a lesbian but manages to thrive and remain confident.
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