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"Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay--and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died...
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"On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a fiancé willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birth father, a man she never knew, won't be able to walk her down the aisle. Until:...
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In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. A Prayer for Owen Meany is a coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished American classics....
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Ella Varner, having been left by her sister to care for her child, tracks down the baby's father, millionaire playboy Jack Travis, and decides to confront the man and demand he takes responsibility, but when she shows up at his house and finally meets him, her anger turns to attraction and she finds it hard to leave.
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Los Angeles, 3:58 a.m.: Elvis Cole receives the phone call he's been waiting for since childhood. Responding to a gunshot, the LAPD has found an injured man in an alleyway. He has told the officer on the scene that he is looking for his son, Elvis Cole. Minutes later, the man is dead. Haunted throughout his life by a lack of knowledge about his father, Elvis turns to the one person who can help him navigate the minefield of his past--his longtime...
7) Darkest fear
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Life isn't going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling, and his father, recently recovered from a heart attack, is facing his own mortality - and forcing Myron to face it too. Then Emily Downing, Myron's college sweetheart, reappears in his life with devastating news: her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and can be saved only by a bone-marrow transplant - from a donor who has vanished without trace. Before Myron can absorb...
8) Navy baby
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It was a night she'd never forget-two strangers coming together in one breathless moment of intense need and heart-stopping desire. But now sheltered Hannah Raymond is expecting the child of rugged naval seaman Riley Murdock-a man she never thought she'd see again… Riley has been searching for the elusive Hannah for months-ever since that night of searing passion left him shaken to the very depths of his soul. Now fate has finally reunited them....
10) Foxmask
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Thorvald, having always felt apart from the community of Norse warriors and gentlefolk inhabiting the Orkney Isles, learns upon coming to manhood that he is really the son of Somerled, a war leader exiled for treachery, and sets out in a boat to find his parent, not realizing the beautiful Creidhe, who has loved him since birth, has stowed away, determined to be with him.
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From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy-- an intoxicating ride through Tokyo' s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious,...
12) Oceans apart
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Connor Evans, an airline pilot, tries to decide whether or not to accept into his family his young son from a previous affair with a stewardess.
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In this gripping narrative, an award-winning author and journalist tells the story of a 39-year-old adoptee who discovered that his birth father is one of the most infamous and still-wanted serial killers in American history, forcing him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world.
14) Oreo
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Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking...
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From a USA Today–bestselling author, a wealthy CEO discovers he has fathered a child with his former lover and demands she marry him for his son's sake.
Jake Marriot had always been clear about the terms of his relationships-no marriage, no babies. So when Ashleigh Forrester found out she was pregnant with his child, she ran!
But Jake's back. The billionaire has returned to convince Ashleigh that she belongs in his bed. But when he meets her...
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Sarah Brandt, a midwife working in the tenements of turn-of-the-century New York, is summoned to the home of the wealthy Lintons to confirm their worst fear: their mentally retarded daughter is pregnant. But, how? She's never left alone. With the help of her friend Detective Sgt. Malloy, Sarah vows to find out. When one of the suspects is poisoned, Sarah knows she must work fast before more lives are ruined.
17) Summer harbor
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When Kiley Harris returns to the small New England beach town where she spent summers as a child, she intends only to prepare the old family house for sale -- she doesn't expect to rekindle her first love with Grainger Eagan, and to finally lay ghosts from their past to rest.
18) Remembered
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Veronique Girard travels to the Colorado Territory to escape the threat of war in France and to search for her father, who left Paris to seek his fortune in America when Veronique was just a child.
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"Ramadan Ramsey is the improbable love story between Alicia Ramsey, a ninth generation New Orleans African American, and Mustafah Tota, a Syrian refugee in the city's Ninth Ward. Through a series of familial betrayals, Mustafah returns to Syria unaware that Alicia is carrying his child. When the baby is born, Alicia names their son Ramadan and raises him with the help of her mother, Mama Joon. But tragedy strikes when Hurricane Katrina barrels into...
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Catherine Sanderson, having dodged questions about her daughter's father for seventeen years,reaches a critical point when B.J., a newspaper correspondent and the only man she ever loved, returns to Atlanta--not knowing he is a dad--and enlists Cat in investigating a female slavery ring that as it turns out has ties to Cat's client, the legendary maid-service mogul Miss Mandeville.
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