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1) Rose cottage
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English
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In the summer of 1947, Kate Herrick, widowed by the war, returns to Rose Cottage, her childhood home. A tiny, thatched dwelling nestled in an idyllic country setting, Rose Cottage at first appears the picture of tranquility. But Kate soon discovers that someone has broken in, and valuable family papers have disappeared. The village seethes with gossip. How harmless are her elderly neighbors, who are suspected of witchcraft? And what is behind their...
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Song of Acadia volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In This Intimate Historical Epic, the Heart-wrenching Dilemmas of The Meeting Place Come to Rest on...The Sacred Shore Oceans and circumstances have forced families apart. For the banished French Acadians drifting in exile, the shore means safety--though it is a safety at a terrible price. For the lonely British nobleman, the shore holds a single chance to secure his legacy. For Andrew and Catherine Harrow, the shore marks a tragic separation. An...
3) Already home
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English
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"After nearly a decade as a sous-chef in a trendy eatery, Jenna is desperate for a change. She's supported her ex-husband's dreams for so long that she can't even remember her own. Until she sees a for-lease sign near her parents' home and envisions her very own cooking store Her crash course in business is aided by a streetwise store manager and Jenna's adoptive mother. But just as she's gaining a foothold in her new life, in walk her birth parents--aging...
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English
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"When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her--threatening the life she's built, including her marriage--the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe. Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged to be married. When she meets and befriends his fianc?e,...
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English
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On a sunny day in July, Clare Prentice arrives in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Although she is on assignment to interview the town's notoriously reclusive novelist Nate Hanssen, Clare is really in search of a different story-her story.
Just months before, Clare was a bride-to-be, living in Chicago, and looking to the future…until the day she learned her entire life had been a lie.
Not only was Clare adopted, but there is no record that she or...
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Bottom Dollar volume 1
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English
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Running the local general store for their small-town South Carolina community, manager Elizabeth enlists her two fellow shopkeepers and a crew of friends to save the store from a rival who would put her out of business.
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English
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Henry Dolan's granddaughter, Martha Lynch, adopted 23 years earlier, wants to find her birth parents. Her adopted parents are frantic over the idea of losing her, so Henry seeks out Father Dowling for help.
Meanwhile, Martha's birth father, Nathaniel Fleck, who left before Martha's birth, has contacted Martha's real mother, Madeline, for details about Martha. Madeline panics, afraid he won't leave her alone, and turns to Amos Cadbury, a lawyer, for...
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Nora Watts novels volume 1
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English
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Contacted by the desperate adoptive parents of the child she gave up 15 years earlier, Nora teams up with her mutt companion and embarks on a search through the streets of Vancouver only become enmeshed in a puzzling conspiracy.
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Irene Adler adventures volume 8
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English
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Irene Adler, accompanied by her faithful chronicler Nell, daredevil reporter Nellie Bly, and master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, works to outmaneuver her enemies and learn the truth about her secret birth.
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Wendy and Rip Porter are a working-class couple fighting to regain custody of Joey, the young son Wendy gave up for adoption when Rip went to prison seven years earlier. But Joey's adoptive parents will stop at nothing to ensure that the small boy stays in the only home he's ever known.
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
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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.
14) Gravelight
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Series
Light series (Marion Zimmer Bradley) volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 548 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lux was given up for adoption at birth but has now been reunited with her birth parents, radio show host Cate and bartender Baze. The three form an unlikely family, complicated by the fact that Cate is engaged to co-host, Ryan.
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 570 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows foster care teen Lux Cassidy, who, in hopes of gaining emancipation, tracks down her birth parents: Baze, the father who never knew she existed, and Cate, the former teen mom who put her up for adoption. But when Lux's plan backfires and a judge places her in the custody of Cate and Baze, the three must learn how to be a family.
17) Voodoo River
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Series
Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 5
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English
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"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 thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history and report back. It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that there's something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor's parents,...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
499 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
Nine months after adopting a baby, Jack and Melissa are devastated when their daughter's teenage birth father and her grandfather, a powerful Denver judge, seek to put aside the adoption, and Jack and Melissa suspect their motivations are sinister.
19) Alburquerque
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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bowen Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
As her turn to be "Star of the Week" in her kindergarten class approaches, Cassidy-Li puts together a poster with pictures of her family, friends, and pets, and wonders about her birthparents in China.
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