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"When the Chatsworth Library closes indefinitely, Dodie Fairisle loses her sanctuary. How is a small-town art teacher supposed to cope without the never-ending life advice and enjoyment that books give her? Well, when she's as resourceful and generous as Dodie, she turns her sunroom into her very own little lending library. At first just a hobby, this lit lovers' haven opens up her world in incredible ways. She knows books are powerful, and soon enough...
82) The other sister
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
Josey Muller's life is shaken when her parents inform her that she has a sister. Having given up the baby while in high school, they are overjoyed to reunite with Audrey, and even Josey's brothers are cool with it. But Josey, no longer the only daughter and the "smart one" in the family, struggles to accept her infuriatingly friendly, witty, and talented older sister, until a new side of Audrey offers a fresh start for them both.
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Series
Harlequin romance volume 4785
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With a string of luxury hotels to his name, brooding Baron Xander Montague needs help to freshen his public image. Reluctantly agreeing to adopt a rescue dog for Christmas, Xander isn't prepared for the whirlwind that is also part of the deal-- free-spirited dog nanny Elfie. But whisking her into his world, he discovers there's more to Elfie than he bargained for, and soon he can't imagine life without her-- or the dog."-- Back cover.
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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While American music icon Nola Sands is on a goodwill concert tour in China, a baby is thrust into her arms. Nola's well-orchestrated life is thrown out of orbit as she bonds with the infant and resolves to save her from death in the dumping ground of China's orphanages.
85) Lost birds
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways.Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents...
86) The final case
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Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of...
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2023.
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English
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"Pastor Nate Fisher is confident he can handle a bunch of teenagers and ignore his attraction to camp co-director Hayley Harris for the summer. That is, until he learns a camper with an emotional support dog is the child Hayley placed for adoption thirteen years ago. When a misunderstanding brings Hayley and Nate closer together, keeping the secret becomes impossible. But will the truth reunite a family…or destroy Hayley's trust forever?" --back...
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2011.
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English
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When Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter rejects applicants who want to adopt homeless dogs, she makes a lot of enemies. In dogs Holly trusts, and the dogs she trusts most are her beloved malamutes, Rowdy, Kimi and Sammy. but right now she could use a human friend. Lately, it seems wherever she turns, things go wrong: an anonymous call turns vicious, her husband is keeping secrets, and acquaintances die under mysterious circumstances. Then Holly's...
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2019.
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English
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life. Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college and taking the first steps towards his dream--a career in medicine. But as he starts his...
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[2023]
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English
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"Young and in love, Momma Red and Poppa Yellow Tomato decide to have a baby tomato. However, Momma and Poppa quickly learn that they cannot properly care for their sweet seedling and make the difficult decision to release her to another loving tomato family in Hopewell Garden, using the assistance of a helpful ladybug adoption agent"--
93) Project pets
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[2024]
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English
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Jina's parents insist that she is too young to have a pet, but when a mother cat with kittens show up at her cousin's house, Jina is determined to find a home for all five cats, with some help from her grandmother.
95) My sweet girl
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Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she's about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you... Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma hashad the best of everything-schools, money, and parents so perfect that she fears she'll never live up to them. Now thirty years old and recently cut off from her parents' funds, she decides to sublet...
96) Jin Woo
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Pub. Date
2001.
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English
Description
Davey is dubious about having a new adopted brother from Korea, but when he finds out that his parents still love him, he decides that having a baby brother will be fine.
97) Byrd
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Addie Lockwood believes in books. Roland Rhodes believes in blues guitar. Coming of age in the small-town South of the 1970s, they form a friendship as extraordinary as it is unlikely. They meet again in their disillusioned thirties, this time in California, where Roland's music career has landed him. Venice Beach is exotic, a world away from North Carolina and Addie's cloistered life as a bookstore clerk. But when her whirlwind reunion with Roland...
99) Sisters
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
Having recently lost both her parents in a tragic car accident, Alex Woods is shocked to discover through the family lawyer that her beloved mother was keeping a secret: a baby she gave up for adoption when she had just left high school. But when Alex decides to search for her long lost sister-- and finds her-- she is in for a terrible surprise...
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