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22) Oreo
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A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with...
23) TEMPTING
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After three romantic flame-outs in a year and a restaurant career going nowhere, Dani Buchanan needs a fresh start. She goes looking for her biological father, but never expects to find a senator running for president. As his long-lost "love child," Dani could seriously derail the election—something his handsome campaign manager Alex Canfield isn't going to let happen. Dani isn't about to let Alex run her life, no matter how tempting she finds...
25) Darkest fear
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"...it all begins when Myron's ex tells him he's a father . . . of a dying thirteen-year-old boy. A surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend is unsettling enough. But Emily Downing's news brings Myron to his knees. Her son Jeremy is dying and needs a bone marrow transplant from a donor who has vanished without a trace. Then comes the real shocker: Jeremy is Myron's son, conceived the night before Emily's wedding to another man. Myron is determined to...
26) Blood kin
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Tess Grey thrillers volume 8
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When Nicolas 'Po' Villere runs into Elspeth Fuchs, an old flame, he's surprised to find who's by her side. It's her son, Jacob, and he's a dead ringer for when Po was a child. His age lines up with when Po last saw Elspeth, before she left him for Caleb Moorcock and a life in a secluded community. Elspeth and Jacob are now running for their lives from the abusive Caleb. Po and his partner, Private Investigator Tess Grey, offer shelter. But before...
27) Nelson's brand
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Allison Hathoway and Gene Nelson, both of whom have been wounded by life, find solace in each other, while Colt Wakefield strives to win Kaylee Simpson back after discovering that he is the father of her two-year-old son.
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Harlequin presents volume 3048
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"She's got the one things he wants--the Zavros heir. Magazines regularly devote gossip column inches to Greek magnate Ari Zavros, and the new supermodel gracing his arm--and his bed--each week. Tina Savalas is nothing like Ari's usual playmates, but this ordinary girl hides the most scandalous secret of all: four years ago her passionate fling with Ari left her pregnant ... . Her bombshell revealed, Ari can see only one solution--the innocent Tina...
29) Every breath
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Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter...
30) BRENTWOOD
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Marjorie Wetherill grew up in a loving family among the wealthy and privileged—but she always knew she was adopted. And though she questioned how her birth family could give up a child, she was content and happy with her life. But when she faces her first Christmas alone after her parents' deaths, she starts to wonder about finding her first family. A letter among Mrs. Wetherill's things gives her the key to start a search that will change
...31) The edge of doom
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Rich and witty, the literary whodunits by Amanda Cross are a delight for readers who like their mysteries smart and suspenseful. Now comes the highly anticipated sequel to her Kate Fansler novel, Honest Doubt, which the Providence Journal called “one of [her] best books in years.” Here, Cross takes her beloved protagonist into uncharted territory, turning Kate Fansler’s world upside down.
Just when Kate Fansler...
Just when Kate Fansler...
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"With trembling hands Arabella dons the mask of Miss Noir for her first night at Mrs. Silver's House of Pleasures. Thinking of her young son, she prepares to smile prettily at the next gentleman who enters ... . Dominic Furneaux, Duke of Arlesford, is stunned to see that the woman who shattered his heart has fallen so low. He offers her a way out--by making her his mistress! The temptation to reacquaint herself with Dominic's body is hard for Arabella...
35) Sing a new song
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Dying from cancer, chart-topper Tiffany Knightly returns to Hempstead, N.Y., to try to discover which of numerous sex partners is the father of her daughter.
36) Worthy's town
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Beneath the quiet surface of life in Old Kane, Illinois, love, cruelty, murder, and friendship drive the destinies of Worthy and Willa Giberson and their boy Cappy in this novel spanning 1925 to 1950.
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"Caleb Wilde, infamous attorney, has a merciless streak and a razor-sharp mind ... Years of relentless work have hardened Caleb's heart--until one New York night changes everything. Now, he's haunted by the memory of tangled sheets, unrivaled passion and one woman--Sage Dalton. The siren of his dreams is, in reality, the woman who played him for a fool--but still nothing can satiate his burning desire for her. So when he learns that Sage has something...
38) High meadow
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Kate Foley was only 21 when her wild sister Colleen died, leaving behind an infant son. Forced to drop out of college and raise her nephew, Ben, as her own, Kate tries to protect him from a possibly sadder truth by telling him that his absent father is dead.
39) Winter cottage
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"Still grieving the loss of her wandering, free-spirited mother, Lucy Kincaid leaves Nashville for the faded town of Cape Hudson, Virginia. She goes to see the house she's inherited - one she never knew existed, bequeathed to her by a woman she's never even met. At the heart of this mystery is the hope that maybe - just maybe - this "Winter Cottage" will answer the endless questions about her mother's past...including the identity of her birth father....
40) Nobody's son
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While planning his wedding to the love of his life, private detective Semaj Matthews receives an anonymous tip about his birth father that turns everything he's ever believed in upside down, causing him to lash out at the world.