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English
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Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...
4) Birthright
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Language
English
Description
Overseeing the evacation of an ancient skeleton at a small-town construction site, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook copes with accidents and rumors that the project is cursed, a situation that is complicated by a stranger's claims about her past.
7) Voodoo River
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Language
English
Description
L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thiry-six years before.. When Cole realizes that his employer knew more than she was telling, Voodoo River becomes a twisting tale of identity, secrets, and murder.
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Series
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English
Description
"When Maddie West discovers that she was adopted as an embryo and may have a sister, she feels betrayed, angry, and confused. Maddie moves away, leaving her job, fiancé, and family. Dawson Gage is mourning the death of his best friend, London Quinn. Then London's mother reveals she and her husband donated a frozen embryo decades ago, meaning that London might have a sibling. When Dawson finds Maddie and takes her to the Quinns, they welcome her...
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After losing their parents when they were just babies, private investigators Fran and Ken Stein now specialize in helping adoptees find their birth parents. So when a client asks them for help finding her father, with her only clue a rare ukulele, the case is a little weird, sure, but it's nothing they can't handle. But soon Fran and her brother are plunged into a world where nothing makes sense - and not just the fact that a very short (but very...
Author
Publisher
Ancestor Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A life-threatening diagnosis sent me on a race against time to unlock the secrets trapped within my sealed adoption records. After three decades of failed attempts and closed doors using traditional search methods, something had to change. The diagnosis intensified the need to find my birth mother and family medical history. Time was running out.Then, through a message received in a dream, I was told that to unlock this mystery, "unconventional methods"...
12) Girl unknown
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A professor's marriage and family begin to unravel when one of his students tells him that he might be her father.
David Connolly is up for an important promotion at the university; his wife Caroline has recently returned to work after years away while the children were little. The recent stresses of home renovation and of a brief romantic betrayal (Caroline's) are behind them. When a student appears in David's university office and says, "I think...
14) Missing Mila, finding family: an international adoption in the shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War
Author
Series
Louann Atkins Temple women and culture volume 27
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
15) Rose cottage
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Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"Rose Cottage, a tiny thatched dwelling in an idyllic English country setting, would appear the picture of tranquility to any passerby. But when Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home, she uncovers a web of intrigue as tangled as the rambling roses in its garden. It is the summer of 1947. Kate, widowed in the war and comfortably settled in London, travels to Rose Cottage to retrieve some family papers for her grandmother. Curious as to the changes...
16) A long way home
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Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home ... but an identity long-since left behind"--
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English
Description
"Madame Burova--beloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyant--is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront. After inheriting her mother's fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. She and her trusty pack of Tarot cards have seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Now, after a lifetime of keeping other people's...
18) Seoulmates
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A Korean-American adoptee fights to be with the one she loves while coming to terms with her new identity in this enthralling romantic drama and sequel to Heart and Seoul by USA Today bestselling author Jen Frederick. When Hara Wilson lands in Seoul to find her birth mother, she doesn't plan on falling in love with the first man she lays eyes on, but Choi Yujun is irresistible. If his broad shoulders and dimples weren't enough, Choi Yujun is the...
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