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- Eyes only / by Michaels, Fern.;
The Sisterhood decides to help a poor family that is fighting to keep their adopted children despite the rich birthmother's determination to get them back.- Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Sisterhood (Imaginary organization); Vigilance committees; Female friendship; Billionaires; Vigilantes; Adoption; Poor;
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- The restoration of Celia Fairchild : a novel / by Bostwick, Marie,author.;
Celia Fairchild, known as advice columnist ‘Dear Calpurnia', has insight into everybody's problems--except her own. Still bruised by the end of a marriage she thought was her last chance to create a family, Celia receives an unexpected answer to a "Dear Birthmother" letter. Celia throws herself into proving she's a perfect adoptive mother material--with a stable home and income--only to lose her job. Her one option: sell the Charleston house left to her by her recently departed, estranged Aunt Calpurnia. Arriving in Charleston, Celia learns that Calpurnia had become a hoarder, the house is a wreck, and selling it will require a drastic, rapid makeover. The task of renovation seems overwhelming and risky. But with the help of new neighbors, old friends, and an unlikely sisterhood of strong, creative women who need her as much as she needs them, Celia knits together the truth about her estranged family--and about herself.- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Advice columnists; Divorced women; Dwellings; Dysfunctional families; Family secrets; Female friendship;
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- The Giver quartet / by Lowry, Lois.; Lowry, Lois.Giver.; Lowry, Lois.Gathering blue.; Lowry, Lois.Messenger.; Lowry, Lois.Son.;
The Giver -- Gathering blue -- Messenger -- Son.The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. -- Messenger: In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand. -- Son: Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.LSC- Subjects: Dystopias.; Control (Psychology); Orphans; People with disabilities; Artists; Community life; Healers; Mother and child; Separation (Psychology);
- © [2014], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
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