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Claflin, Stacy

Summary: "He gave up his daughter years ago, but now he'll risk his life to save hers. Alex Mercer is no stranger to kidnappings. The emotional scars still run deep from his sister's disappearance years earlier. His daughter Ariana remains safe long after her adoption, and he cherishes the few times a year he gets to see her. The joy is palpable when he takes her on their first one-on-one outing. At...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Harrington, Claudia

Summary: Lenny follows Adam for a school project and learns about his family life as an adopted child.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HAR

Benway, Robin

Summary: Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEN

Brown, Dolores

Summary: An adoption story told from the point of view of two parents about the love they have for their adopted child.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NubeOcho 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRO

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 LEV

Appanah-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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APP

Graham, Heather

Summary: "Twenty-four hours. That's all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever. Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career. When a football accident...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Graham, Heather

Summary: Twenty-four hours. That's all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever. Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career. When a football accident...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRA

Lewis, David (David Gerald)

Summary: "Desperately clinging to the hope of finding her long-lost daughter, will Kelly miss out on the chance to find love--and a family--once more?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEW

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lewis 2014

Kochar, Amandeep S.

Summary: "Jeet and his puppy Fudge love to read books and wish they could make more friends who also like to read. Inspired by another Sikh boy practicing his seva (his selfless act of kindness) by donating books to people in need, Jeet and Fudge set out with their Mom and Dad to give back to their community. Could it bring some reading buddies their way as well?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR PURPLE KOC

Khakpour, Porochista.

Summary: "In a tiny village in rural Iran, Zal's demented mother--horrified by his pale skin and hair, the opposite of her own--becomes convinced her baby is evil. She puts him in a wire birdcage on her veranda with the rest of her caged flock, and there he stays for the next ten years: eating birdseed and insects, defecating on the newspaper he squats upon, squawking and shrieking like the other...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHA

Baart, Nicole

Summary: Jessica Chamberlain, newly separated and living with her two sons in a small Iowa town, can't believe that a tragedy in another state could have anything to do with her. But when her phone rings one quiet morning, her world is shattered. As she tries to pick up the pieces and make sense of what went wrong, Jess begins to realize that a tragic death is just the beginning. Soon she is caught in a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAA

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Two brave women, estranged sisters, get the chance to connect and right the wrongs of the past, turning wrenching loss into reconnection and a family reunited after bringing dark secrets into the light.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Palmer, D.J.

Summary: "Penny Francone, age sixteen, is a murderer. Her guilt is beyond doubt: She was found alone in the victim's apartment, covered in blood, holding the murder weapon. The victim's identity and her secret relationship to Penny give Penny the perfect motive, sealing the deal. All the jury needs to decide now is where Penny will serve out her sentence. Will she be found not guilty by reason of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PAL

Baart, Nicole

Summary: Jessica Chamberlain, newly separated and living with her two sons in a small Iowa town, can't believe that a tragedy in another state could have anything to do with her. But when her phone rings one quiet morning, her world is shattered. As she tries to pick up the pieces and make sense of what went wrong, Jess begins to realize that a tragic death is just the beginning. Soon she is caught in a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018

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Caputo, Philip

Summary: The newsman in Luke Blackburn shuns the spotlight when he and his old friend, now the county mayor in Key West, discover stranded Cuban refugees during a fishing outing turned tragic, but he is part of the story that goes out on the wire. When Corinne, his lover from many years ago, happens to read it and reaches out, the news she bears will disrupt his carefully orchestrated life and threatens...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAP

Ngũgĩ wa, Wanjiku.

Summary: "In this stunning debut novel, a Kenyan expat is living the American Dream until she uncovers her husband's secrets and opens a Pandora's box of good versus evil. You can escape from a place...but not from your past. Mugure and Zack seem to have the picture-perfect family: a young, healthy son, a beautiful home in Riverdale, New York, and a bright future. But one night, as Mugure is rummaging...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGU

Willard, Katie.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIL

Brown, Eleanor

Summary: "Though they look like any other family, they aren't one--not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting four biological siblings, having committed to keeping the children as connected as possible. At the heart of the family, the mothers grapple to define themselves and their new roles. Tabitha, who adopted the twins, crowns herself planner of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Segovia, Sofía

1 hold on 2 copies

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEG

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEG

Jiwa, Bernadette

Summary: "'People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?' Dublin 1965. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But all is not as it seems. Joan lives in the shadow of a secret - the couple's decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before. For the next three decades,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JIW

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIW

Michaels, Fern

Summary: In a thrilling new story of female empowerment, adventure and vigilante justice from a best-selling author, The Sisterhood reunites to avenge an attack against one of their own. The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIC

Pritchett, Laura

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRI

Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)

Summary: While nursing a broken arm, almost twelve-year-old adoptee Coop, with the help of his grandfather and friend Zandi, unwaveringly cares for and protects Hop, a baby mockingbird born with one wing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOO

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