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Journalist Gemma Hendricks is sure that scoring an interview with Colin Firth will save her lagging career and rocky marriage. Yet a heart-tugging local story about women, family ties, love, and loss, captures her heart and changes everything. The story concerns Bea Crane, a floundering 22-year old who learns in a deathbed confession letter that she was adopted at birth. Bea is in Boothbay Harbor to surreptitiously observe her biological mother, Veronica...

At sixteen Bridget is pregnant-- and her boyfriend has dumped her for another girl. She's trying to envision an future for her baby. But as she sifts through the many paths and the many people who want to parent her child, she can't help but feel that there is no right decision. Fifteen years later: Ivy knows that she is now the same age Bridget was when she placed Ivy for adoption. She knows that Bridget was the one who named her. When Ivy goes in...

Follows the trials of Pippa Dunn, who is adopted by British parents and finally meets her American birth parents when she is twenty-eight, but chaos and confusion ensue as she is caught between two opposing cultures.

Based on a remarkable true story

Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life—and his destiny—is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family

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Lewis's most popular series reveals the closed world of an Amish community. Now in a special 3-in-1 value edition. In The Shunning, Katie Lapp stumbles upon a satin infant gown in the dusty leather trunk of her parents' attic and determines to discover the story behind it. Why would her mother, a Plain woman who embraces the ways of the Old Order, hide such a beautiful worldly gown? In The Confession, Katie is now torn from her close-knit community...

For Amish widow Naomi Ropp, moving back to her parents' Bliss Valley home is a chance to start over and bury the painful secrets of her marriage forever. But her parents have been keeping a secret and now her only confidant is her father's new employee, who was once her childhood tormentor. Samuel King knows more than anyone should about mistakes--and the way he treated Naomi is at the top of his list. But the shock of seeing her again is overshadowed...

"Ayesha is a world away from home when she meets the boy of her dreams. Like her, Suresh is from India but going to high school in Illinois. Once they get together, they are inseparable... until a twist of fate takes Suresh back to India right when Ayesha discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly she feels she's on her own, navigating the biggest decision she'll ever make. Seventeen years later, Ayesha's daughter Mira finds an old box with letters addressed...

"Twin sisters separated by the past are reunited by unspeakable crimes"--Back cover.