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1) Kiss River
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman campaigns to rescue an Outer Banks community’s lighthouse lens from the ocean in this classic novel by a New York Times bestseller.
Separated by a continent from her child, Gina Higgins comes to Kiss River with little more than a desperate plan. Now, saving her daughter depends on whether she can uncover a message buried deep below the ocean’s surface.
Kiss River’s...
Separated by a continent from her child, Gina Higgins comes to Kiss River with little more than a desperate plan. Now, saving her daughter depends on whether she can uncover a message buried deep below the ocean’s surface.
Kiss River’s...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two girls on different timelines--each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee--find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences"--OCLC.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
ix, 371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
13) Family storms
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a hit-and-run accident kills her mother and leaves her badly injured, Sasha, formerly homeless, is taken in by wealthy Mrs. Jordan March, a complete stranger who has never recovered from the loss of her own daughter and wants Sasha to take her place.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
405 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A chance airport encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--as both couples await the arrival of an adopted daughter from Korea, prompts an examination about what it means to be an American.
15) My sweet girl
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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... Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything-schools, money, and parents so perfect that she fears she'll never live up to them. Now thirty years old and recently cut off from her parents' funds, she decides to sublet...
16) Eden's children
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the children to carry on her legacy. Luckily, she has a cohort...
Author
Publisher
Minka Kent
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22cm
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by memories of the daughter she gave up at fifteen, Autumn Carpenter never fully moved on. She doesn't have to. Instead, she lives a life of relative seclusion, content to watch from a distance as the picture-perfect McMullen family raises her daughter as their own. Every birthday, every milestone, every memory, Autumn is watching. Only no one knows. But when the opportunity presents itself, Autumn allows herself to become intertwined in...
18) Savage girl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society--Amazon.com. Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan...
19) Family family
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Getting to know Penny, the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago, thirty-five-year-old Mika Suzuki finds unexpected love with Penny's widowed father and finally has a chance to have the life and family she's always wanted until her deceptions catch up with her. At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki's life is a mess. Her last relationship ended in flames. Her roommate-slash-best friend might be a hoarder. She's a perpetual disappointment to her...
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