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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 25 cm
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
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When an at-home DNA test reveals the truth about her father, Summer Sutherland, meeting him for the first time, settles into his Carmel home, ready to get to know her instant family-and pursue a romance with his business partner, which could tear their lives apart.
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home--until he realizes he has no choice. With its doors slamming shut and locking behind him, Whimbrel House is not about to let Merritt leave"--
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
9) A secret
Author
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man discovers his family's history during the Holocaust.
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