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- Family family : a novel / by Frankel, Laurie,author.;
- "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 knows there's so much more to her family than tragedy. Soon she's at the center of a media storm, battling accusations from the press and the paparazzi, from protesters on the right and advocates on the left. Her daughter Fig knows they need help - and who better to call for help than family? Because India's not just an adoptive mom. She also had a baby she gave up for adoption her senior year of high school. That baby is now sixteen, excited to meet her birth mother and eager to help, but she also has an agenda and secrets of her own. It turns out what makes a family isn't blood and it isn't love because no matter how they're formed, the hallmark of true family is this: it's complicated"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Actresses; Adoption; Family secrets;
- The leftover woman : a novel / by Kwok, Jean,author.;
- "An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women in New York City"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Motherhood;
- Beverly Lewis' The shunning. -- by Lewis, Beverly,1949-;
- LSC
- Subjects: Christian fiction.; Amish; Betrothal; Family secrets;
- © c1997., Bethany House,
- The rocks [sound recording] / by Nichols, Peter,1950-; West, Steve(Actor);
- Read by Steve West.A tale set around a popular Mediterranean seaside resort follows the story of two honeymooners who abruptly split in 1948 and live separately for decades until children from their rivaling families fall in love.
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Love stories.; Psychological fiction.; Audiobooks.; Family secrets; Separation (Psychology);
- The Ashford affair / by Willig, Lauren.;
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Family secrets; Self-realization in women; Women lawyers;
- © 2013., St. Martin's Press,
- Lisey's story : a novel / by King, Stephen,1947-;
- Subjects: Authors; Family secrets; Grief; Marriage; Widows;
- © c2006., Scribner,
- The summer deal : a novel / by Shalvis, Jill,author.;
- From Jill Shalvis comes a friends-to-frenemies-to-sisters story - and then add in a love story (okay, two love stories). Shake. Stir. Read on a lazy summer day at the beach.
- Subjects: Chick lit.; Friendship; Sisters; Family secrets; Man-woman relationships;
- The searcher / by French, Tana,author.;
- "Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Missing persons; Villages; Family secrets;
- The searcher [sound recording] / by French, Tana,author.; Clark, Roger,narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
- Read by Roger Clark."Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Family secrets; Missing persons; Villages;
- Never ask me / by Abbott, Jeff,author.;
- "One seemingly perfect American family finds themselves targeted for destruction after the shocking murder of a family friend in the park behind their backyard. Early one morning, Danielle Roberts, who lives next door to the Pollitts and has for a decade been like family to them, is found dead just beyond their property line, throwing the exclusive Winding Creek neighborhood of a wealthy Austin suburb into chaos. The Pollitt family--dad Kyle, mom Iris, daughter Julia, and son Grant--are caught in a maelstrom of suspicion and intrigue. Ask your parents why they killed her, an anonymous email charges the son, Grant. No one can learn the truth now, thinks the father, Kyle. Never ask me what I'd do to protect my family, resolves the wife, Iris. I'll do whatever it takes to protect him, vows Julia of her best friend, Danielle's grieving teenage son, Ned, a boy in the midst of his own dangerous crisis, which may or may not have brought on his mother's murder"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Secrecy; Family secrets; Murder;
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