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"Olivia Bender designs exquisite home interiors that satisfy the most demanding clients. But her own deepest desire can't be fulfilled by marble counters or the perfect rug. She desperately wants to be a mother. Fertility treatments and IVF keep failing. And just when she feels she's at her lowest point, the police deliver shocking news to Olivia and her husband, Park. DNA results show that the prime suspect in a murder investigation is Park's son....
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A PR stunt backfires when it reveals actor Dane Stewart's a dad. As a sperm donor, he's never met single mom Iris Turner, but they're now connected through their child. And the press is about to pounce. Having Iris act as his girlfriend is pure damage control ... except their chemistry is hotter than any love scene. But is a future together just a Cinderella fantasy?"--Back cover.
3) Delivery man
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The story of friendly underachiever David Wozniak, whose ordinary life gets twisted in a knot when he finds out that he has fathered 533 children via sperm donations he made twenty years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In this unputdownable story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance, the author, introducing her deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family that is anything but "normal," reveals how a colorful cast of characters were thrown together by chance and DNA"--
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English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling master of psychological suspense returns with a riveting thriller in which the possible heirs of a wealthy dying man are mysteriously being eliminated, one by one by one"--
Tech billionaire Miles Cookson has everything he could dream of-- except time. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, there is a fifty percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation. Two decades ago young, struggling Miles was...
6) Salt River
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 26
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Marine biologist and former government agent Doc Ford is sure he's beyond the point of being surprised by his longtime pal Tomlinson's madcap tales of his misspent youth. But he's stunned anew when avowed bachelor Tomlinson reveals that as a younger man strapped for cash, he'd unwittingly fathered multiple children via for-profit sperm bank donations. Thanks to genealogy websites, Tomlinson's now-grown offspring have tracked him down, seeking answers...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Quinn never expected that her best friend's courageous decision to be a single mother by choice would end up transforming her own life in this poignant novel from USA Today bestselling author Robin Wells. When Quinn Langston's best friend unexpectedly passes away, Quinn knows she'll do anything to protect Brooke's three-year-old daughter Lily and her grandmother Margaret. Not only is Quinn the little girl's godmother, but they are the family she...
8) Most wanted
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When a woman and her husband, desperate for a baby, find themselves unable to conceive, they decide to take further steps. Since it is the husband who is infertile, the heroine decides to use a donor. And all seems to be well. Three months pass and she is happily pregnant. But a shocking revelation occurs when she discovers that a man arrested for a series of brutal murders is her donor -- the biological father of the child she is carrying. Delving...
10) Unexpected
Author
Series
Silver Creek (Maisey Yates) volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a mix-up at the fertility clinic lands her with a hassle she didn't count on--a big, muscular hassle in a Stetson and cowboy boots--Kelsey, to appease the unexpected father of her baby, ends up in Silver Creek, Oregon, where she falls for the last man she ever expected.
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Harper Proulx and her newfound sibiling travel to Hawaii to track down their sperm donor father, the man she discovers -- a deep-sea diver obsessed with solving the mystery of a shipwreck -- forces Harper to face some even bigger questions.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Once shrouded in secrecy, the modern family, built with the assistance of gamete (egg or sperm) donation, is coming out of the shadows. As more people see friends, family members and celebrities use donor conception to build their families, the process has become much more mainstream and accepted. Donor sperm programs and egg banks have grown enormously in the past decade and the news is full of politicians, athletes and entertainers like Elton John,...
13) 806: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
KT, sixteen, learns that her father was Donor 806, discovers two half-brothers, and travels with them from Missouri to California to meet their biological father, redefining their notions of "family" along the way.
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