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41) A mother's love
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For Widow Rose Raber, it's been a year of tragic loss and difficult decisions. She thought providing for her young daughter was the greatest challenge she faced. Until her dying mother revealed that Rose was adopted-and her birth mother is someone with much to lose if the secret comes out. As Rose struggles to reconcile the truth with her faith-and her troubling curiosity-outgoing newcomer Matthias Wagler is another surprise she didn't expect. His...
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At twenty-one years old, Hope O Baker made one of the hardest decisions a person can make: she placed her son for adoption. She lived with her son's adoptive mother while she was pregnant and pursued an open adoption. After her son was born, Hope tried to resume her life. But the difficulty of letting her child go gnawed at Hope. Even though she.
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"1976. Rushing out of the University Library, undergraduate Alice Kenzie bumps straight into PhD student Tristan Somers. There begins a whirlwind romance, and Alice falls pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. Then Tristan is killed in a car accident. Unable to cope, Alice takes her baby to The Summer House, Tristan's parents' family home in Suffolk, leaves her there and disappears. 2018. Olivia Somers has always been told that her mother died in...
45) Three secrets
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A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption.
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Amish blessings volume 2
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"When a young Amish woman discovers that she was adopted and that her birth parents are English, she will have to determine what she believes and where her future lies"--
Abigail Bontrager comes home from her waitressing job one day to find a woman in her parents' living room who claims to be her birth mother. The woman who raised Abigail, Abigail's mudder doesn't deny it: this English woman gave Abigail up for adoption to the Bontragers the day...
48) Aida's secrets
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A web of family secrets unravels in this moving documentary following a family fractured by war. Two brothers, Izak and Shep, were born inside the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1945 and separated as babies, never told of the other’s existence. Nearly 70 years later, the discovery of family records leads the brothers to an emotional reunion with their elderly mother, Aida, who hid more from Izak and Shep than just each other. Official Selection...
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"When Sierra Evans gave her twins up for adoption, she didn't expect tragedy to leave them in the care of their uncle, a notorious millionaire playboy. Now Sierra will stop at nothing to protect her children--even if it means going undercover as the perfect nanny ... Former hockey player and entrepreneur Coop Landon can tell when someone's running a game. Clearly, his new nanny's not after his money or fame. Discovering her scheme is a challenge he's...
50) The birthparents
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"The Bronx. It's America at its most vibrant and chaotic; it's also where one foster care caseworker-a would-be white savior from New England, a twentysomething kid prematurely jaded by the system--takes it upon himself to reunify a troubled birthmother with her children, against the recommendation of his world-weary but wise Hispanic boss. (Nevermind the fact that the mother in question just might have a crush on him--either that, or she's running...
51) Reunion: a novel
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Successful talk show host Blue Reynolds is the envy of women across the country. No one knows the secret she has harbored for years, the one regret that could destroy the poised image she has so carefully crafted. Years ago, Blue gave birth to a child and put him up for adoption through illegal channels. And though she did what she thought was best for her child at the time, Blue now desperately longs to be a part of her son's life, and embarks on...
52) Autofocus
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"A senior photography project gives Maude the perfect opportunity to search for more information about her birth mother--but she may not like what she finds"--
Maude's birth mother died after giving her up for adoption. When her friend Treena goes to college in the same town where the birth mother grew up, Maude decides to visit and explore her past as part of a senior photography project. Bennett, who lives in the same dorm, understands Maude's...
53) SAVAGE COURAGE
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An Apache woman who was raised by whites strikes out on her own to find her true mother—and discovers true love instead.
54) Looking into you
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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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"The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn't prepared to deal with them. Steve Orlandi, happily married, father of two and step-father of three, was living the typical middle class American life. But since the age of eight, when...
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A young woman is caught between two mothers in 1850s Manhattan in this novella by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Age of Innocence.
Tina is a girl torn between two women. There is her adoptive mother, Delia Ralston, a member of one of Manhattan's ruling families, and then there is Charlotte Lovell, the woman who gave her up so that she could have a chance at a better life. As Tina grows up, the tensions between Delia and Charlotte begin...
57) Dharm
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The monotonous life of a Brahman priest is encroached upon by an abandoned infant. Left with no choice, the priest grudgingly adopts the child, and his life is transformed into a whirlwind of laughter and joy. After several years, a woman enters their happy life claiming to be the child's mother. The very core of Pandit Chaturvedi's belief in Hinduism is shattered when he learns that his adopted son was born of a Muslim woman, and he is torn between...
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"Thirty-year-old Elle Matheson has decided it's finally time to find the mother who gave her up as a baby. With a faded postcard from the Café Belle Vie in hand - one of the very few things she has from her mother - she heads straight to the Île de Ré to begin her search. With only the postcard and the ivory shawl she was wrapped in as clues, finding her mum is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, even with the help of friendly - and gorgeous...
59) Songbird
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When her mother abandons her, 11-year-old Charmaine feels like she's not even a real person anymore. Her situation improves when a loving Sunday school teacher welcomes Charmaine into her family and shows her what it means to be loved. When she falls in love with a devout travelling preacher, Charmaine finally knows that God is smiling at her.
60) Half a heart
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"When her biracial daughter appears suddenly after eighteen years searching for the mother who left her, former civil rights activist Miriam Vener begins a painful confrontation with her past." -- Amazon.com
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