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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Evolution has reversed itself: woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. For Cedar Hawk Songmaker, this change is profound and deeply personal: she is four months pregnant. As society begins to disintegrate, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation. There are rumors of martial law, and rewards for those who turn pregnant women in. It will take...
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Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie - now Katherine Mayfield - sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to the peaceful home of Lydia Miller, where electric lights and telephones sets Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy"...
3) Found
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Book 3 in the 5-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.5 million copies
A story of God's divine leading and the truth that God rewards those who seek Him with all their heart, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Desperate Search
Driven by his wife's dying wish to find their firstborn son,...
A story of God's divine leading and the truth that God rewards those who seek Him with all their heart, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Desperate Search
Driven by his wife's dying wish to find their firstborn son,...
5) Family
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Book 4 in the 5-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.5 million copies
A story about the search for renewed hope and the desperate need to be loved and to belong, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Sensational Trial
When Katy Hart travels to Los Angeles to testify against the knife-wielding...
A story about the search for renewed hope and the desperate need to be loved and to belong, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Sensational Trial
When Katy Hart travels to Los Angeles to testify against the knife-wielding...
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English
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Mansfield Park is a study of three families-the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices-with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose...
7) The letter
Author
Series
Christmas box trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection is, most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is in the hard times that we truly see what is best in love as well as in life. Though love may be temporarily...
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Language
English
Description
"Forensic genealogist Rowan Healy has made a name for herself by helping investigators trace the family trees of violent criminals who have eluded justice for years. But the pressure of police cases left her burned out, and she's shifted her focus to helping adoptees find their biological parents. Austin detective Jack Bruner has spent his career successfully tracking down vicious criminals -- with the notable exception of the West Campus Rapist,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The day after Memorial Day 1889, 20 million tons of water careened downhill to Johnstown, PA, washing away the city, along with 2,000 of its residents. The tragedy occurred when a dam built for the recreation of members of the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club broke. This tragedy links Elizabeth Haberlin and Lee Parker. Elizabeth was a member of society's elite in late 19th-century Pennsylvania. Lee and her mother have been abandoned by...
10) A mother's love
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When widow Rose Raber finds out that she is adopted she struggles with her curiosity and her faith as she adjusts to raising a young daughter and meets a newcomer named Matthias Wagler.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the snowy Highlands of Scotland, Suzanne McBride is dreaming of the perfect cozy Christmas. Her three adopted daughters are coming home for the holidays and she can't wait to see them. But tensions are running high. Workaholic Hannah knows she can't avoid spending the holidays with her family two years in a row. But it's not the weight of their expectations that's panicking her--it's the life-changing secret she's hiding. Stay-at-home mom Beth...
Author
Series
Amish blessings volume 2
Language
English
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"Abigail's Amish life has always followed a certain path . . . until an Englisch woman disrupts all she's known to be true. Growing up Amish, Abigail Bontrager often felt like a square peg in a round hole. Her pie crusts always turned out tough. Her stitches always ran crooked. She was clumsy. Not ideal for an aspiring Amish wife and mother, but her faith and love of her family, which are so much more important, are solid. Plus, her relationship with...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of a Christmas blizzard: A baby on the doorstep. It's taken a long time and a little heartache, but Annie Sutton is finally following her dream of living on Martha's Vineyard. She fell in love with the island's singular beauty while using it as a setting for two of her novels. In her cozy rented cottage on Chappaquiddick, she's settling in for her first Vineyard winter--complete with a fierce nor'easter on the way, forecast to bring...
Author
Series
Nora Watts novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Contacted by the desperate adoptive parents of the child she gave up fifteen years earlier, Nora embarks on a search through the streets of Vancouver only to become enmeshed in a puzzling conspiracy.
15) True to you
Author
Series
Bradford sisters volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a devastating heartbreak three years ago, genealogist and historical village owner Nora Bradford has decided that burying her nose in her work and her books is far safer than romance in the here and now. Unlike Nora, former Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient John Lawson is a modern-day man, usually 100 percent focused on the present. But when he's diagnosed with an inherited condition, he's forced to dig into the secrets of his past and...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious--and still at large--serial killers in America. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. It was a quest that would...
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Series
Language
English
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One of the world's best loved and most versatile romance authors, Janelle Taylor has captured the hearts and imaginations of countless readers around the globe. Now the award-winning novelist spins the unforgettable tale of a couple irrevocably bound by a love that transcends the years--and by the fierce commitment to a child whose fate lies in their hands. . .
Sometimes the Right Decision. . .
Fifteen years ago, preacher's daughter Mariel Rowan...
Author
Series
Carson Springs novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows that feisty, sensual Gerry Fitzgerald wasn't always so outspoken. As a young novitiate, Gerry became pregnant, fleeing the altar just as she was about to take her vows and never breathing a word about why. Twenty-eight years later the child she gave up for adoption has returned, a grown woman looking for answers. Now Gerry must learn how to defuse the years of guilt, shame, and bitterness that divide her from her daughter. At the same...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2010, 2004.
Language
English
Description
Lara Chandler returns home to the Rocking B Ranch after a four-year absence and encounters her former lover Carson Blackridge, a seductive man who had once used her love to hurt her and who now wants her to become a part of his future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ansley Brookshire's search for her birth mother takes her from the gated estate where she grew up to Lonesome, Montana. This is where she meets Buck Crawford. Determined to help, the gorgeous rancher introduces her to Colt Brothers Investigations. But someone wants the secrets surrounding her adoption to stay buried--and they'll do anything to keep her from uncovering the truth...
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