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"What happens after you get what you've always wanted? In Colleen Faulkner's thought-provoking and emotionally compelling novel, a mother is reunited with the daughter who was abducted as a toddler--only to face unexpected and painful challenges... It's the moment Harper Broussard always dreamed of. Her daughter Georgina, snatched fourteen years ago during a Mardi Gras parade, is standing before her, making cappuccinos behind the counter of Harper's...
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Moonglow Cove volume 2
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"It was a story that couldn't possibly be true: identical twins, separated at birth. Anna Drury wouldn't have believed it, but the woman standing before her was physically alike her in every way, and held in her hands a keepsake baby bracelet, the same as Anna had. How could it be? Anna, with her tall, strong husband and two adorable children, grew up loved and secure, and she freely opens her heart to others, so she embraces the idea of her new-found...
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(Virginia C.).Umbrella lady volume 2
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After escaping the trauma of the Umbrella Lady's home, thirteen-year-old Saffron Faith Anders is determined to find the father who abandoned her all those years ago. But when she finds him in a nearby town, Saffron is shocked to discover that he has married a woman he clearly had been involved with before her mother's death. Worse, her father insists Saffron pretend to be his niece so he can continue to con his new wife's family. Desperate for her...
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In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. What Junie doesn't know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three...
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Every day, Paige Redwine is haunted by a choice she made when she was only seventeen. Now, just past forty, still single, she lives a tidy, controlled life as a well-respected English professor at a college in Nashville. Nothing could prepare her for the day Treha Langsam -- the daughter she secretly placed for adoption -- walks into her classroom as a student, unknowingly confronting Paige with both her greatest longing and her greatest fear. As...
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Annie Delancey is happily married, in her early 50s, with three grown children. But Lizzie guards a dark secret. At age 18 she had a baby boy, and gave him up for adoption. She still thinks of him every day. Then, out of the blue, she receives an official-looking letter from Kent Social Services. Her son, Daniel, wants to make contact. On one hand she is overjoyed -- she longs to meet him. On the other, she has never told her children that they have...
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Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as an ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor.
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Haven Point volume 10
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Elizabeth Hamilton has been lost. Trapped in a tangle of postpartum depression and grief after the death of her beloved parents, she couldn't quite see the way back to her husband and their two beautiful kids...until a car accident stole away her memories and changed her life. And when she finally remembered the sound of little Cassie's laugh, the baby powder smell of Bridger and the feel of her husband's hand in hers, Elizabeth worried that they'd...
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They thought love was in their past... But could it be their future? After completing rehab, Mark Rivers returns to his hometown to make amends with his ex-wife, Kylie, and their daughter. But he doesn't expect to stick around beyond seeking her forgiveness. So when helping Kylie run her coffee shop after a health crisis draws them closer together, Mark is forced to decide--a career in Nashville or a second chance with the family he thought he'd lost...
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El 13 de agosto de 1961, los berlineses se despiertan con la amarga noticia de la construcción del muro. Alzada por sorpresa y ante la indignación de medio mundo, la pared no solamente divide la ciudad en dos, sino que también separa a numerosas familias como la de Stefan, que se ve alejado de su mujer y su hija.Stefan y unos amigos deciden cavar un túnel subterráneo, pero el riesgo es mayúsculo...
On August 13, 1961, people in Berlin wake...