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1) Oceans apart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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He failed his family only once, long ago, but they never knew about it. Now pilot Connor Evans's life and marriage are going great, until Connor finds himself face-to-face with his past in the form of a seven-year-old boy.
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Language
English
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Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. He makes no commitments, he loves many women, he lives for pleasure. Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby's aunt.
3) Remembered
Author
Series
Fountain Creek chronicles volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The threat of war--and a final request--send Véronique Girard from France to a distant and uninviting country. In the Colorado Territory, she searches for the man who has held her heart since childhood--her father. Pierre Girard left Paris for the Americas to seek his fortune in fur trading, vowing to send for his wife and daughter. But twenty-five years have passed and his vow remains unfulfilled. Sifting through shards of broken promises, Véronique...
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
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After Julia DeSmit's boyfriend, Parker, left her in a college parking lot six years ago, she made a new life with her son, younger brother, grandmother, and new boyfriend. She works hard at a grocery store to bring in a meager income and takes classes toward her associate's degree. Overall, Julia is happy. But when she receives an email from Parker, her son's father, wanting to know if he has a child, her world is turned upside down.
Author
Series
Minnesota murder volume 05
Publisher
Moon Finder Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
Harper Rowe hires private investigator Jon Frederick to help her find her biological father, Billy Blaze. Her imagined possibilities were dashed when she finds out he was a dangerous psychopath who called St. Cloud his home for two decades, before disappearing. Even through COVID restrictions and the Minneapolis riots of 2020, Jon and his wife Serena discover the answers to Blaze's sordid history and find that dangerous secrets lie somewhere between...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2008, 2004.
Language
English
Description
Fathers never forget seeing their kids for the first time. But Evan is greeting his son, Dean, fourteen years late. Dean's mother ran off to another city long ago-and now that she's passed away, Dean has arrived in Seattle. Evan becomes a single parent in an instant. Back in the day, he was lead guitarist for a hot band with a hit single. At thirty-one, he gets by as a guitar instructor to middle-aged guys, and does menial work in a music shop. He...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay--and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died...
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Series
Publisher
Mary Campisi
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Only one thing is missing from Tess and Daniel "Cash" Casherdon's perfect life--a child. Oh, how they long for one to make their life complete. But what is it people say about being careful what you wish for...? Their wish will come true, but not in the way they think. Daniel Casherdon's past is about to catch up with him. It's bad enough when a woman arrives in Magdalena with a nine-year-old boy she claims is his, but confessing to a terminal illness...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Henry Dolan's granddaughter, Martha Lynch, adopted 23 years earlier, wants to find her birth parents. Her adopted parents are frantic over the idea of losing her, so Henry seeks out Father Dowling for help.
Meanwhile, Martha's birth father, Nathaniel Fleck, who left before Martha's birth, has contacted Martha's real mother, Madeline, for details about Martha. Madeline panics, afraid he won't leave her alone, and turns to Amos Cadbury, a lawyer, for...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy-- an intoxicating ride through Tokyo' s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious,...
14) Salt River
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 26
Language
English
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Description
"The sins of the past come back to haunt Doc Ford and his old friend Tomlinson in this thrilling new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White"--
"Marine biologist and former government agent Doc Ford is sure he's beyond the point of being surprised by his longtime pal Tomlinson's madcap tales of his misspent youth. But he's stunned anew when avowed bachelor Tomlinson reveals that as a younger man strapped for cash, he'd unwittingly...
15) Vital signs
Author
Series
Baxter series volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books/One World
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Catherine Sanderson and her daughter, Phoebe, have always been as close as a mother and daughter could be, except for one secret between them: the identity of Phoebe's father. Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity-that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned investigative...
Author
Publisher
Outskirts Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Will Connie ever find who she is looking for? Surviving four foster homes and a stint in an orphanage before she was adopted at the age of four, Connie finds herself wondering who her mother is, where she came from and who she looks like. Escaping an abusive marriage, she finds herself in Las Vegas helping her new husband with his Veterinary Clinic by day and playing at the Sands Hotel Orchestra with Wayne Newton by night. Constantly wondering what...
20) Father figures
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
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