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The rescue2023
Summary: While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story's subjects -- an adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickMika in real life : a novel2022
Summary: At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki's life is a mess. Her last relationship ended in flames. Her roommate-slash-best friend might be a hoarder. She's a perpetual disappointment to her traditional Japanese... more »- place hold (0)
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Foster2022
Summary: It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an... more »- place hold (0)
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Brother alive : a novel2022
Summary: In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten... more »- place hold (0)
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Other people's children : a novel2021
Summary: Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried -- once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn... more »- place hold (0)
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Someone like you : a novel2020
Summary: Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted... more »- place hold (0)
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The country guesthouse2020
Summary: Hannah Russell's carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When her best friend dies, she becomes guardian to her 5-year-old son, Noah.- place hold (0)
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Two weeks : a novel2019
Summary: "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child... more »- place hold (0)
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Daughter of Moloka'i2019
Summary: Rachel Kalama was quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa-- and forced to give up her daughter at birth. Ruth is taken to the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in... more »- place hold (0)
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That kind of mother2018
Summary: Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. She reaches out to the Priscilla Johnson and begs her to come home with them... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickLittle fires everywhere2017
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a... more »- place hold (0)
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The heart's invisible furies2017
Summary: Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his... more »- place hold (0)
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Before we were yours : a novel2017
Summary: "Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old,... more »- place hold (0)
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The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane : a novel2017
Summary: Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea in their remote Yunnan village. Then a stranger arrives, finding the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha... more »- place hold (0)
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Happy family : a novel2016
Summary: Cheri Matzner, a former cop-turned-disgruntled academic, tries to come to terms with her adoptive and biological families as she struggles to become pregnant herself.- place hold (0)
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The red thread : a novel2010
Summary: The painful and courageous journey toward adoption made by several of her clients forces Maya Lange, founder of The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China... more »- place hold (0)
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Three weeks to say goodbye2009
Summary: 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... more »- place hold (0)
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