Moreno, Dano
Summary: "In a celebration of open adoption, both a baby's birth mother and his adoptive parents share the same universal wishes for the child"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORHoran, Molly
Summary: "Jane Worthing's claim to fame is that she was one of the first viral internet sensations...discovered as a one-year-old in an oversized Gucci bag by her adopted father in a Poughkeepsie train station. Now in her senior year of high school, Janey is questioning whether she wants to look for her bio family due to a loving, but deeply misguided push from her best friend Algie, while also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HORVinuesa, Victoria
Summary: Mia has had a heart condition her whole life. She's not afraid of dying but something has always stopped her from her biggest fear: tracking down her biological mother in Spain...until now. Before her next surgery, Mia wants to meet the woman who gave her away once and for all. Kyle has always been the life of the party...that was until the car accident that killed his best friend. Since then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VINPeters, Shawn
Summary: Twelve-year-old orphan Logan and his superhero friends embark on an adventure to stop the evil supervillain Necros and find the true identity of Logan's birth mom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PETSteel, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC SteelSummary: 20-year old Nathan loses his career and his girlfriend and begins to question his purpose in life. Compounding his struggle, he grew up in a foster home and never met his birth mother. Nathan sets out to find his mother and come to terms with her rejection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family MeantBaart, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAAClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: "Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. When Delaney's friends Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy offer to look into the mystery surrounding her birth, they uncover a shocking secret they do not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clark 2016Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CLAKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: A young woman decides to search for her birth mother--a woman separated by lies and long years from a man she has never forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the eighteen-year-old son she's only held once. With the encouragement of his adoptive parents, David embarks on a journey of discovery that leads to a staggering truth about his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIFHiggins, Kristan
Summary: Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted--a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life--when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything. A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HIGHiggins, 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 Adult, Call number: LP FIC HIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction HigginsCulley, Betty
Summary: Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CULCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CULHiggins, Kristan
Summary: Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved her dreams--a bookstore on Cape Cod, a happy single life--when the son she put up for adoption seventeen years ago gives her a surprise visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Muller, Marcia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANDDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Krakow, 1931. A baby girl is born out of wedlock, and deposited at a remote convent in the French countryside. Amandine is raised by her governess, Solange. As global war looms, the two flee toward Solange's childhood home, and begin a perilous, years-long odyssey across Occupied France-- and deeper into the treacheries of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEBGalbraith, Megan Culhane
Summary: "A hybrid memoir-in-essays with photographs that confronts the realities of growing up as an adoptee born before Roe v. Wade, searching for birth records, examining the Domecon baby experiments, and interrogating the idea of traumatic memory itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio GalbraithLondon, Julia.
Summary: Elementary school teacher Jane Aaron cancels her summer vacation plans and heads to Cedar Springs, Texas, to find her birth mother. While there, she's hired by Asher Price, a wealthy widower, to look after his thirteen-year-old daughter Riley and five-year-old son Levi. As Jane finds herself growing attached to the children, she discovers how a woman can come to love children she didn't give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LONSamson, Lisa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Faith 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMTrollope, Joanna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROWiggs, Susan.
Summary: In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she's never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past sixteen years: the day she gave her baby daughter away. Now, facing a life-altering crisis, she's decided to fix the broken pieces of her heart and seek out Lila, even if it means she has to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010