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Other People's Children : a Novel
by R. J. Hoffmann
A pregnant teen who would go to college, a determined grandmother and a desperate would-be adoptive parent are pitted against one another in their respective efforts to protect their families.
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My Sweet Girl
by Amanda Jayatissa
Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she's about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you. When the man who knows her darkest secret is murdered, Paloma is afraid that this is all somehow tangled up in the desperate actions she took to escape Sri Lanka so many years ago and wonders if her secret died with him—or if she is in greater danger.
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Heart and Seoul
by Jen Frederick
Matched with her biological father from a DNA testing service, a Korean adoptee in Indiana sets out for Korea to discover her roots and embarks on a whirlwind journey of heartbreak, disappointment and confusion.
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Immediate Family
by Ashley Nelson Levy
A woman struggling to write a toast for her brother’s wedding reflects on their relationship from his adoption from Thailand when she was nine and explores the bonds and complexities of family, race, motherhood and infertility.
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A New Love for Charlotte
by Amy Lillard
When Paul Brenneman offers to marry her to make her adoption dreams come true, Charlotte Burkhart, longing to experience motherhood once more, must place her trust and faith in this man who offers her happily-ever-after.
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Dark State
by Charles Stross
As two nuclear superpowers clash across timelines, Rita, a new spy and the estranged adopted daughter of Commissioner Burgeson, must deal with an activated sleeper cell, in the second novel of the series following Empire Games.
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The Nature of Small Birds : a Novel
by Susie Finkbeiner
"When Mindy announces that she is returning to Vietnam to find her birthmother, it inspires her father, mother, and sister to recall the events of her adoption at the end of the Vietnam War during Operation Baby Lift. In this beautiful time-slip story, Mindy's family reexamines what it means to grow together beyond genetic code"
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Devil in Disguise : the Ravenels Meet the Wallflowers
by Lisa Kleypas
A strong-willed young widow running her late husband’s shipping company, Lady Merritt Sterling avoids scandal until she meets a rough-and-tumble Scottish whisky distiller (adopted at birth) who is trying to outmaneuver a very determined killer.
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Winter's Child
by Margaret Coel
Investigating the hit-and-run death of a lawyer hired by a Native American couple to help them adopt an abandoned child, Vicky and Father John unravel a disturbing connection between the child, the lawyer's death, a missing Arapaho wanted for robbery and a dark Wind River secret.
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The Rising
by Heather Graham
He always knew he was adopted, but he never knew the real reason his birth parents abandoned him. Alex, a college-bound football star, is targeted by the same forces that kill his family and land him in the hospital, he flees at the side of the school valedictorian he loves to investigate the dangerous truth about his real identity.
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One Warm Winter
by Jamie Pope
Posing as the girlfriend of Cullen Whelan, a former military intelligence officer — and her bodyguard — Wynter Bates, adopted as a child by a tech billionaire, searches for her origins while trying to ignore her attraction to this man whom she is not sure she can trust.
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The Perfect Daughter
by Daniel Palmer
When the abandoned girl she adopted years earlier is locked in a decaying psychiatric hospital amid murder allegations, Grace embarks on a desperate search for the origins of her daughter’s multiple-personality disorder.
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All You Can Ever Know : a Memoir
by Nicole Chung
A Korean adoptee who grew up with a white family in Oregon discusses her journey to find her identity as an Asian American woman and a writer after becoming curious about her true origins.
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The Adoptee's Guide to DNA Testing : How to Use Genetic Genealogy to Discover Your Long-Lost Family
by Tamar Weinberg
Adoptees, foundlings, and others with unknown parentage face unique challenges in researching their ancestors. This book is a comprehensive guide to adoption genealogy that has the resources you need to find your family through genetic testing. Inside, you'll find: strategies for connecting your genealogy to previous genealogists, detailed guides for using DNA tests and tools, plus how to analyze your test results and apply them to research, and real-life success stories that put the book's techniques into practice and inspire you to seek your own discoveries.
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