Levy, Ashley Nelson
Summary: "A tender and fierce debut novel that explores of the bond between two siblings-one the biological child and one adopted-and the complexities of motherhood, infertility, race, and the many definitions of family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVNoonan, Rosalind
Summary: "Twelve years ago, Glory abandoned her two daughters--four-year-old Ruby and baby Aurora--at a fire station, running off to a man who promised love and protection. Though the refuge she hoped for turned out to be a sham, she believes Ruby and Aurora are better off without her. But Glory has since given birth to another daughter, who's clamoring for a life beyond their close-knit, tightly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION NOOAppanah-Mouriquand, Nathacha
Summary: Marie, a nurse in Mayotte, a far-flung, tropical department of France in the Indian Ocean, adopts a baby abandoned at birth by his mother, a refugee from Comoros. She names him Moïse and raises him as her own--and she avoids his increasing questions about his origins as he grows up. When Marie suddenly dies, thirteen-year-old Moïse is left completely alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPSegovia, Sofía
Summary: "From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Sage is a lonely child. Her adoptive parents watch her obsessively, as if studying her for warning signs of...something. And maybe they're right to--even she can't make sense of the strange things she sees and hears. She possesses knowledge that other teenagers don't, that her parents and teachers--no adult--could possibly have. So when Sage finally makes a friend who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Andrews 2016Higgins, Kristan
Summary: "A kid walks into your bookstore and . . . Guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! It's a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently, he felt the need to secretly arrange a vacation to Cape Cod for the summer so he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction HigginsAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "A young boy suffers amnesia from a trauma he suffered in what feels like must have been another life. He's adopted into a wealthy family--but what will happen when he learns the truth about his past?" -- provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Andrews 2015Leavitt, Caroline
Summary: "As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love--yearning, breathless love--that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her life was unexpectedly upended when she was accused of trying to murder Jude's father, an imperious superior court judge, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. When she learns she's pregnant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEAHawkins, Rachel
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWHuang, Christopher
Summary: "Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered--savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archaeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist. But his heirs soon find that his last testament contains a strange proviso--that his estate shall go to the heir who solves his murder. To secure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2023
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Summary: "After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PONForbes, Lani
Summary: "Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life. Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer--until fate took a turn. Now family, home, and even her name have been stripped away. As 'Black Cat Whitfield,' adopted daughter of an outlaw, she's wanted by the authorities. It certainly wasn't the destiny she imagined--especially as one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023