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Family secrets

  • Author:
    Woods, Janet
    Summary:

    A married woman, pregnant with her sea-captain lover's child, dies giving birth. The child, Serafina Finn, is abandoned to an orphanage and grows up longing to feel that she belongs somewhere. Eighteen years later, her father,...

  • Author:
    Kacer, Kathy
    Summary:

    Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage, a medical certificate and a Star of David, lead her to Germany....

  • Author:
    Haines, Carolyn
    Summary:

    In Carolyn Haines's next charming mystery, Southern belle turned PI Sarah Booth Delaney digs into a cold case when a film crew comes to town to research the death of a prominent family's son. Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and...

  • Author:
    Yelchin, Eugene
    Summary:

    In this noir mystery middle grade from Newbery Honor author Eugene Yelchin, a boy stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes American national security. It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States...

  • Author:
    Banks, Maya
    Summary:

    Abandonné à un très jeune âge dans le foyer d’un jeune couple fortuné et dans un monde privilégié, notre héroïne n’a aucune trace de son passé et d’où elle vient, autre qu’elle possède des dons de télékinésie. Cacher du monde extérieur...

  • Author:
    Grimshaw, Charlotte
    Summary:

    During the long summer holiday, the Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a large beach house belonging to Prime Minister David Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather is perfect and outwardly all is well, but tension is brewing...

  • Author:
    Alexander, Kwame
    Summary:

    New York Timesbestseller! Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no...

  • Author:
    Moore, Meg Mitchell
    Summary:

    Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to...

  • Author:
    Kitses, Jennifer
    Summary:

    A husband and wife try to outrun long-buried secrets, sending their lives spiraling into chaos.

  • Author:
    Grant, Vicki
    Summary:

    Dot, whose name reflects her stature, has always had big dreams. But her dreams have to be put on hold while she searches for the truth about her parents. She gets a job as a seamstress at a lakeside resort in rural Ontario and falls...

  • Author:
    Larsen, Cassandra
    Summary:

    “Most teens get a car for their seventeenth birthday. Me? I get inducted into a freaky coven of witches.” When Emerson wakes up on her seventeenth birthday, she has no idea that her life will change forever. After her mother’s...

  • Author:
    Toten, Teresa
    Summary:

    Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth...

  • Author:
    Clayton, Melinda
    Summary:

    On the anniversary of her husband’s death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories.Struggling to make peace with the death of a...

  • Author:
    Sanders, Jill
    Summary:

    To Katie life was simple. She wanted a little house in upper Boston, and four kids fathered by her best friend Jason, who she's been infatuated with since she was eight. After a devastating family secret is exposed, all she wants now is...

  • Author:
    Friddle, Mindy
    Summary:

    When her husband dies on the eve of their impending European vacation, housewife Emma Hanley watches her dreams of world travel vanish even as she becomes more immersed in the lives of her two living children.

  • Author:
    Beiko, S.M.
    Summary:

    As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds — all because one girl couldn’t stay dead …

    Roan Harken considers herself a typical high school student — dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the...

  • Author:
    Rosnay, Tatiana de
    Summary:

    On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on...

  • Author:
    Russell, Coral
    Summary:

    When Mexican drug cartels fight for control along the border, Juarez becomes the murder capital of the world. In El Paso, Texas it's drug business as usual: a grifter sets out to buy her freedom, a car salesman runs drugs to make his...

  • Author:
    Jackson, Lisa
    Summary:

    Fifteen years ago Kate Summers adopted a little boy in secret and fled to a small town in Oregon. Today, she has a wonderful life and believes she has outrun her past. But a mysterious figure is searching for her and threatens to...

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    Author:
    Patchett, Ann.
    Summary:

    Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider...

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