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121) A turn in the road
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When a successful New York lawyer joins a small-town legal practice and seeks to find the daughter she has long ago given up for adoption, she finds herself drawn into a complex murder investigation which opens old wounds.
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"Baby safe haven" laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location--such as a hospital or fire station--were established in every state between 1999 and 2009. Promoted during a time of heated public debate over policies on abortion, sex education, teen pregnancy, adoption, welfare, immigrant reproduction, and child abuse, safe haven laws were passed by the majority of states with...
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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...
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Lizzie McLane series volume 3
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"A student at NYU in Greenwich Village, Liz McLane pursues her dream of becoming a poet while searching for and ultimately finding her birth mother. Based on the author's experiences. Includes an autobiographical afterword."--
125) American curious
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A cross-cultural story of one man's journey toward identity, AMERICAN CURIOUS goes across the border with David Green, an adopted man who learns that the birth mother he never knew has just died and left him her restaurant--and that she was Mexican.
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This book looks at the simultaneous processes of making and un-making of families that are part of the adoption practice. Whereas most studies on transnational adoption concentrate on the adoptive family, the author identifies not only the happy occasion when a family gains a child, but also the sorrow and loss of the child to its family of origin. Situating transnational adoption in the context of the Global North-South divide, Hogbacka investigates...
129) Legado mortal
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"La reportera de televisión Delaney Wright está a punto de saltar a la fama por dar la noticia en el informativo de las seis de juicio por asesinato del que todo el mundo habla. Debería estar entusiasmada, pero en realidad solo piensa en su afán por encontrar a su madre biológica. En juicio por asesinato está Betsy Grant, viuda de un rico doctor que ha padecido de alzhéimer durante ocho años. A pesar de que su antaño famoso abogado la insta...
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"Finding out that you're pregnant is normally the beginning of a mother's journey. It's the start of a joyful adventure and a lifetime of love. But what about those mothers who, whether by circumstance or choice, give up their children for adoption? Lorri Benson's memoir, To Have and Not to Hold, chronicles her decision to place her unborn daughter for adoption. Years later, Lorri did everything she could to find and connect with her. With accounts...
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"His brief was simple: confirm whether model Oriel Cuvier is the secret daughter of a Bollywood legend. But when billionaire security specialist Vijay Sahir locks eyes with Oriel, all thoughts of work disappear -- leading to a few stolen hours where all rules are broken... Weeks later, Oriel gets two life-changing surprises. First, the truth about her birth mother. Second, she's pregnant with Vijay's child! He demands marriage, but can she really...
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"In the summer of 1974, 17-year-old Anita Keagy discovered that she was pregnant by her boyfriend. Having grown up in a loving but strict Christian home, Anita feared the disgrace it would bring on her family and considered abortion. Instead, with much prayer and courage, she gave her child up for adoption. Years later, married and raising four children, Anita felt compelled to communicate with her unknown daughter. Through the adoption agency, Anita...
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Moving of Sophia Myles : Sophia Myles and her husband Reverend Nathaniel Myles have a devoted marriage, and are the lifeblood of their small town's moral fabric. When the Reverend passes away, Sophie finds herself at a loss.
Chasing secrets : Rating: Not rated. "Contains some material that may not be suitable for children"--Container.
Chasing secrets : An emotionally compelling account of a young woman's struggle to leave the family she knows to...
134) Death note
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DS Ruby Preston thriller volume 1
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Twenty years ago you were forced to give your daughter up. Now she's back. Or is she? Women who've had to give up children for adoption are being killed. A knock at their front door begins a nightmare from which they will never wake up. East London Detective Ruby Preston and her team must hunt down a disturbed individual before someone else is taken. But when bodies start turning up, staged in perfect, domestic scenes, it carries the echo of a memory...
138) Being Lara
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"Lara Reid knew she was an alien. What other explanation could there be? With her dark complexion and kinky hair, so unlike her fair-skinned parents, Lara knew she was different. At eight she finally learned the word 'adopted'. Twenty-two years later, a stranger arrives as she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake; a woman in a blue-and-black head tie who also claims the title 'Lara's mother'. Lara, always in control, now finds her...
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