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"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In this...
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English
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
3) Eyes only
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Sisterhood series volume 24
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Years ago, Gretchen Spyder gave her twin babies up for legal adoption. Now she and her father are trying to get them back. The twins' adoptive parents are a loving but poor couple, completely outgunned by the Spyders' wealth. Their only hope lies with Myra Rutledge and her formidable Sisterhood, who are as ready as ever to fight the good fight. But the case is far more twisted than it first appeared.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
On the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess, the matriarch of the Windsor family, enlists the help of lawyer Jake Forrest to find Trinity, the daughter she had given up for adoption, a desperate search that exposes dark secrets and has unexpected consequences.
10) Kiss of the bees
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Series
Walker family volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A dying convict asks his cellmate to kidnap a girl and torture her to death because her mother blinded him while he was trying to rape her. On his release the cellmate abducts the girl, but she turns out to be as fiery as her mother.
11) Secret daughter
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Interweaves the stories of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother who gave her up in favor of a son, as two families--one in India, the other in the United States--are changed by the child that connects them.
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Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his adopted aunt become separated when the youngster is kidnapped during a visit to the planetarium in New York City by his wealthy, eccentric great-uncle, a separation that encompasses some fifteen years and mysterious ties that continue to link them unknowingly over the years
13) Divisadero
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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From the celebrated author of The English patient comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence--of both hand and heart--that...
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An Olympic yachting hopeful traces her heritage to Norway, following an intriguing clue left by her deceased father, which leads her to uncover the story of a woman linked one hundred years ago to the composer of "Peer Gynt," Edvard Grieg.
16) Running scared
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Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago in Boston, Kate Summers made a bargain: she became the mother of a perfect newborn boy and promised she would never tell anyone about the adoption. She has built a good life for herself and her son in Oregon, until a stranger shows up and befriends them, someone with his own past to hide. Someone is searching for Kate and her son, and is willing to go to any lengths to claim him.
17) Crossroads
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.
18) Ginny Moon
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
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Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Maia D'Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis'--a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva--having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage--a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of...
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