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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to meet her adoptive parents: practical, dependable Clem and glamorous, mercurial Lorna. The marsh, with its deceptive tides, is a beautiful but threatening place. Virginia's new parents' marriage is full of secrets and tensions she doesn't quite understand, and their wealthy neighbor, Max Deering, drops by too often, taking an unwholesome...
83) Sustaining faith
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Series
When hope calls volume 2
Language
English
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Description
So much has been accomplished. Lillian Walsh has stepped out courageously beyond what she'd ever dreamed of being able to achieve. She and her newly rediscovered sister, Grace, have settled three children from England into new Canadian homes and are prepared to place two more just after the New Year, when it happens--another painful disruption. A white lie the sisters used to protect some orphans has resulted in an official complaint and a letter...
84) Happy family
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Happy family" is n ot just the name of a dish on a Chinese menu--it also refers ironically to the relationships that Hua Wu discovers in her new home, New York City. Originally from Fuzhou, China, Hua Wu spends most of her time missing her homeland and her grandmother before connecting in a West Village park with Jane Templeton and her daughter, Lily, who was adopted from China. Soon, the young Chinese woman leaves her restaurant job to nanny for...
88) Tangled lives
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Annie Delancey is happily married, in her early 50s, with three grown children. But Annie guards a secret. At age nineteen she had a baby boy and gave him up for adoption. She still thinks of him every day. One day she receives a letter from Kent Social Services; her son Daniel wants to make contact. A part of her is overjoyed--she longs to meet him. But another part fears what this revelation will do to her family, none of whom know about her past....
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Language
English
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In "The Courtship of Carol Sommars," fifteen-year-old Peter Sommars, anxious for a little more independence, encourages his mother, Carol, to start dating Alex Preston, the father of his best friend, and in "The Nanny's Secret Baby," Arianna Shrader gets a job as nanny for the son she gave up for adoption and becomes close to his widowed father.
91) The duke heist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When he is kidnapped by Chloe Wynchester, who is determined to recover her father's painting, the Duke of Faircliffe, who needs to wed a highborn heiress to save his family's estate, loses his heart to this woman who is the complete opposite of what he needs.
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Series
Eternity Springs novels volume 15
Language
English
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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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English
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"Heather is devastated. There's no way she can keep her baby. She can barely pay the bills as it is. But when she meets Grace, a wealthy, single career woman, who wants a baby more than anything, Heather believes she has found the perfect adoptive mother. As Grace and Heather's lives become entwined, they are tested to breaking point, though neither can deny the other's love for the child. But just when they think they are learning how to live with...
100) Someone like you
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Series
Language
English
Description
Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world--Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves...
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