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  Light on Snow

  by Anita Shreve

  A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife.The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from... (more)
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  Ten Thousand Sorrows

  The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

  by Elizabeth Kim

  I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today.' The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside. Ostracized by their family and neighbours, she and her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the rice fields. Yet, there was a tranquil... (more)
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  Bloody Jack Adventures: Book 4

  In the Belly of the Bloodhound

  Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber

  by L. A. Meyer

  The British crown has placed a price on Jacky's head, and so she returns to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston to lay low. But laying low isn't in the cards for a spunky lass who finds trouble even when she's not looking for it.      A school outing goes awry as Jacky and her classmates are abducted and forced into the hold of the Bloodhound , a ship bound for the slave markets on the Barbary... (more)
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  First Avenue

  by Lowen Clausen

  Written with compelling authenticity by a former Seattle police officer, this debut novel is the passionate and powerful story of a Seattle cop who can't shake the image of the abandoned, dead baby he finds in a seedy hotel-and who can't give up on finding the truth until those responsible are taken down...
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  The Alchemist's Daughter

  by Katharine McMahon

  There are long-held secrets at the manor house in Buckinghamshire, England, where Emilie Selden has been raised in near isolation by her father. A student of Isaac Newton, John Selden believes he can turn his daughter into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. Secluded in their ancient house, with only two servants for company, he fills Emilie with knowledge and records her progress obsessively. In the... (more)
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  Watch over me

  by Christa Parrish

  Deputy Benjamin Patil is the one to find the infant girl--hours old, abandoned in a field. When the mother can't be located, Ben and his wife, Abbi, seem like the perfect couple to serve as foster parents. But the baby's arrival opens old wounds for Abbi and shines a harsh light on how much Ben has changed since a devastating tour in Iraq. Their marriage teeters on the brink and now they must choose to either... (more)
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  Letters to a Soldier

  by Julia Spencer-Fleming

  Julia Spencer-Fleming burst onto the mystery scene with her debut, In the Bleak Midwinter, garnering almost every award imaginable. Since then, her Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series has taken suspense and heart-tugging to the next level, making for truly satisfying reading.  The newest installment, ONE WAS A SOLDIER, is available April 2011. In this eBook you’ll find a preview of ONE WAS A SOLDIER... (more)
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  Panos Karnezis'sthe Convent: A Novel [Hardcover](2010)

  by Panos Karnezis (Author)

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  Homer Kelly: Book 10

  Divine Inspiration

  by Jane Langton

  Jane Langton returns with her "most inventive and exhilarating Homer Kelly mystery" (New York Times Books Review). At a church in Boston, an abandoned baby suddenly appears. Who is he? Organist Alan Starr and Homer Kelly team up to find out--with possibly deadly results.
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  Ben's Bundle of Joy

  by Lenora Worth

  Reverend Ben Hunter hurried through the halls of his church, looking for help -- or at least lessons in taking care of babies. Little Tyler had been left in the church pew with a note attached to his makeshift crib. Someone thought that Ben would make the perfect father for the baby. And the beautiful daycare teacher, Sara Conroy, had to agree. As soon as she saw Tyler nestled so safely in Ben's arms, Sara... (more)