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Author
Series
Dove Pond novels volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ava Dove-the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava Dove's Landscaping and Specialty Teas-is frantic. Just as she is getting ready to open her fabulous new tearoom, her herbal teas have gone wonky. Suddenly, her sleep-inducing tea is startling her clients awake with vivid dreams, her romance-kindling tea is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets, and her happiness tea is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. At...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay. Raised by a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has never known the identity of his father. His wife insists he must solve this mystery to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the mountain retreat of his mother{u2019}s former husband, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There, in the midst of a fierce blizzard, Kit and Jasper...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
After Julia DeSmit's boyfriend, Parker, left her in a college parking lot six years ago, she made a new life with her son, younger brother, grandmother, and new boyfriend. She works hard at a grocery store to bring in a meager income and takes classes toward her associate's degree. Overall, Julia is happy. But when she receives an email from Parker, her son's father, wanting to know if he has a child, her world is turned upside down.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
“[A] riveting novel with a vivid sense of place . . . Anyone who enjoys a well-written, fast-paced, noirish thriller with a great aha! moment shouldn’t miss The Forgotten Man.”—The Boston Globe
In an alleyway in Los Angeles, an old man, clutching faded newspaper clippings and gasping his last words to a cop, lies dying of a gunshot wound. The victim claims to be P.I. Elvis Cole’s long-lost father—a...
In an alleyway in Los Angeles, an old man, clutching faded newspaper clippings and gasping his last words to a cop, lies dying of a gunshot wound. The victim claims to be P.I. Elvis Cole’s long-lost father—a...
8) Every breath
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter...
9) Foxmask
Author
Series
Saga of the Light Isles volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When the teenage daughter he secretly fathered with an ex-girlfriend shows up pregnant at his doorstep, restaurant manager Joe experiences turbulence in his marriage while witnessing a chain reaction of lies that threatens to tear apart their Santa Ana neighborhood.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ella Varner shows up at the office of Jack Travis, a rich, tough Houston businessman, with a baby in her arms, claiming he is the father. Apparently, her sister gave birth to the baby and left it with Ella to take care of. After doing some investigating, Ella found Jack and wants him to take a paternity test to see if the baby is his.
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old piano prodigy Nia discovers her recently departed father wasn't her biological dad, she becomes desperate for answers, leading her to Omar, an ex-convict determined to win the love of his daughter.
13) Oceans apart
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
14) Remembered
Author
Series
Fountain Creek chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
15) Oreo
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1309
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Oreo, a biracial black girl from Philadelphia, searches for her Jewish father in New York City, navigating the labyrinth of sound studios, brothels, and subway tunnels of Manhattan in a journey of self-discovery.
16) Winter cottage
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Still grieving the loss of her wandering, free-spirited mother, Lucy Kincaid leaves Nashville for the faded town of Cape Hudson, Virginia. She goes to see the house she's inherited - one she never knew existed, bequeathed to her by a woman she's never even met. At the heart of this mystery is the hope that maybe - just maybe - this "Winter Cottage" will answer the endless questions about her mother's past...including the identity of her birth father....
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"California zookeeper Theodora Bentley is now happily married to Sheriff Joe Rejas. The Gunn Zoo is celebrating the arrival of Poonya, an adorable red panda, who forms a strong bond with Teddy. All appears fairytale blissful in the small Monterey Bay village of Gunn Landing until Teddy's mother-in-law, mystery writer Colleen Rejas, has discovered through DNA testing that Joe has sired a son he knew nothing about. Dylan Coyle, 18, arrives to meet his...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The McCloud Home for Wayward Girls was once a haven for unwed mothers. Now it is a bed-and-breakfast that Ruby runs with her daugher Jill. When Jill's fourteen-year-old daughter searches for the identity of her father, she sets in motion events that will test the bonds of the family. And then Jill agrees to host the wake of the town matriarch. But the convergence of people and memories reveals a shocking family secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Midwife Sarah Brandt is summoned to examine the teenage daughter of the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill. When pregnancy is confirmed, the young woman denies that any man ever hurt her. Sarah enlists the help of her friend Sergeant Frank Molloy to discover who is responsible. The search becomes more urgent when a minister falls dead during a service, poisoned by cyanide-laced wine in his chalice.
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