Hocking, Amanda
Summary: Ulla Tulin's journey to learn who her parents were has brought her to the attention of the Alvolk sect-- and a man claiming to be her father. The Alvolk released her-- but Ulla has lost a month of her life, and spends time trying to regain her memories. The incantation that will open the bridge to Alfheim, the First City, will unleash a menagerie of monstrous creatures upon Earth to consume...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HOCHogan, Ruth
Summary: After a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, fortune teller Madam Burova, before she can have a little piece of life for herself, must fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGIto, Susan
Summary: "A memoir about one woman's search for her birth parents, exploring complicated relationships with family, the legacy of WWII internment on generations of Japanese Americans, and the challenges adoptees often face in learning their own histories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ITO, SUSAN ITOLevine, Jessica
Summary: "When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her--threatening the life she's built, including her marriage--the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe. Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVAssimacopoulos, Lynn
Summary: "After discovering that her son's friend, Ryan, is on the search for his birthparents, Lynn Assimacopoulos decides to use her skills as a genealogical hobbyist to find them. Delving through phone books, sending letters, and searching everything from the local library to the National Archives, Lynn is defeated by the lack of information she has to go on. However, a random search for Ryan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorrance Pub Co 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 ASSCarangelo, Lori
Summary: "It's more comprehensive than any book of its kind." --Keith Rose, former Director, LDS Family History Center "A wealth of hard to find data... I know of no other resource that comes close to the scope of this book." --Gordon Brooks, Librarian III, Los Angeles Public Library "A great job with a massive amount of information. I know our patrons will be delighted to access it." --Margaret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Access Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 CAR1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 CAR
Vickers, Elaine
Summary: Katie and Ana are the kind of friends who share everything with each other. But there are some things you can't even share with your best friend. Katie has always known she was adopted, but recently she's been wondering about her birth parents and her birthplace. She worries that saying this out loud -- even to her best friend -- could mess up the perfect family she has now. Ana's family has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VICWright, Camron Steve
Summary: "Based on the true story of Taj Rowland, who was kidnapped as a child from his village in Southern India, sold to an orphanage, and then adopted by an American couple."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WRIEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: "When bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher returns to Salt Lake City to settle his estranged mother's estate, a young woman arrives looking for her birth mother who lived with Jacob's family during her pregnancy. They discover a diary written by Noel and begin a quest to find her, reconcile their pasts and rewrite their futures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVACarangelo, Lori.
Contents: Search basics : forty search tips for starters -- Missing and runaway children -- Family tree, genealogy, debtor, child support, heir, classmate, old love, war buddy, missing adults or anyone -- With or without a name : family members separated due to adoption, divorce -- Internet searches -- Searching the USA -- International searching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. for Clearfield Co. 2011
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 CarangeloBurke, Diane
Summary: "The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn't prepared to deal with them. Steve Orlandi, happily married, father of two and step-father of three, was living the typical middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURKE, DIANE BURGillespie, Karin.
Summary: For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee -- the Bottom Dollar Girls -- logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it's family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to set up shop and run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things go catawampus. Manager Elizabeth, who has a good head for business even though she flunked pin-curling in beauty school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILGillespie, Karin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GILPlain, Belva.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLARoberts, Nora.
Summary: Overseeing the excavation of an ancient skeleton at a small-town construction site, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook copes with accidents and rumors that the project is cursed, a situation that is complicated by a stranger's claims about her past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RoberWeiner, Jennifer.
Summary: The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEIArmstrong, Kelley
Summary: After learning that she is the daughter of accused serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen, privileged 24-year-old Olivia Taylor ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, to prove her birthparents' innocence. But as she and Gabriel, her mother's lawyer, start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ARMDouglas, Carole Nelson.
Summary: Irene Adler, accompanied by her faithful chronicler Nell, daredevil reporter Nellie Bly, and master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, works to outmaneuver her enemies and learn the truth about her secret birth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUMina, Denise
Summary: "She thought she was finding her birth mother. Now she's searching for a killer. Dr. Margo Dunlop is at a crossroads. Her adoptive mom just passed away, and Margo misses her so much she can't begin to empty the house-or, it seems, get her brother on the phone. Not to mention she's newly single, secretly pregnant, and worried about her best friend's dangerous relationship. In an effort to cheer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINSummary: It is the story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that are both devastating and dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROSMallery, Susan.
Summary: After nearly a decade as a sous chef in a trendy eatery, Jenna is desperate for a change. She sees a 'for lease' sign near her parents' home and envisions her very own cooking store. But just as she's gaining a foothold in her new life, in walk her birth parents, aging hippies on a quest to reconnect with their firstborn. Now Jenna must figure out how to reconcile the free-spirited Serenity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible--a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local community college, and a cozy house in a quaint little beach town. It may not look like much, but it's more than she ever dreamed of or what her difficult childhood promised. Her life's mantra is to be good, quiet, grateful. Until something shifts and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023