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Bridget Jones volume 4
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English
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Bridget Jones finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour. However, her joyful pregnancy is dominated by one crucial but awkward question --who is the father? Could it be honorable, decent, notable human rights lawyer, Mark Darcy? Or, is it charming, witty, and totally despicable, Daniel Cleaver?
2) Identity
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Fina Ludlow novels volume 2
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English
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"Private investigator Fina Ludlow returns to tackle a new case for her family's firm--a paternity case that goes horribly wrong"--
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Nurse Nyla Franklin knows three things to be true. Taking care of others brings more joy than a basket full of kittens. A triple-fudge sundae can cure just about anything. And no good ever comes from keeping a secret... So when her best friend spills his biggest one ever, Nyla knows she's not just holding a secret. She's holding a ticking time bomb. Mr. Always Does the Right Thing Leo Sayre knows three things to be true. Piloting smokejumpers over...
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Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The powerful forces of science and family collide when Paige Robson, a genetic scientist whose life's work examines why some fathers can't bond with their children, finds her world in upheaval: her eight-year-old son Miles is struggling to fit in at his new school and begins asking questions about his biological father that Paige can't answer--until fate thrusts the anonymous donor she used into their lives. Paige's carefully constructed life begins...
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Miss Julia series volume 7
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English
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Popular author Ann B. Ross' fan base grows with the publication of each novel in her Miss Julia series. In this episode, the graceful Southern lady's impeccable manners are pushed to the brink. When she learned her philandering (and late) husband left behind a lover and illegitimate son, Miss Julia could have gotten nasty. Instead, she kept her cool, adding Hazel Marie and Little Lloyd to her makeshift family. But now rumors are surfacing that call...
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"A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to terms with the legacy of his family's painful past and discover who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation about his own origins. Adam Frankel's maternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and built new lives, with new names, in Connecticut. Though they tried to leave the horrors of their past behind, the pain they suffered...
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Maya Rao is the owner of a bustling cafe and bakery in New York and the mother of a teenage daughter, Samantha. But when Samantha lands in legal trouble over a misdemeanor she didn't commit, Maya is desperate enough to call Samantha's dad, Sam Hutcherson, whom Maya left abruptly many years ago, and who is now a successful lawyer. Sam doesn't know he has a daughter. As Maya and Sam reconnect, those old sparks begin to fly.--Adapted from publisher's...
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A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to terms with the legacy of his family's painful past and discover who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation about his own origins. Adam Frankel's maternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and built new lives, with new names, in Connecticut. Though they tried to leave the horrors of their past behind, the pain they suffered...
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"A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week--narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a perpetually broken vacuum cleaner. Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the death of her husband, the loss of her favorite manager, her only child's lack of aspiration, and the grim state of the world, she...
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A penetrating critical perspective on the question of Thomas Jefferson's paternity that will make you rethink recent conventional wisdom.
It is accepted by most scholars that Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at least one of her children, a conclusion based on a 1998 DNA study published in Nature and on the work of historian Annette Gordon-Reed. Framing a Legend argues compellingly that the DNA evidence is inconclusive...
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"From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three...
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Harlequin Iberica
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
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El multimillonario Alex Dalton había tenido en su vida mujeres de sobra. Pero ahora necesitaba a una en concreto: a Julie Bartlett, la pelirroja salvaje con la que había pasado la noche más apasionada de su vida. ¿Era ella la que había dejado a un bebé en la puerta de la mansión Dalton? Las pruebas de paternidad no resultaron concluyentes, así que necesitaba el ADN de Julie para determinar si el padre de la niña era él o su hermano gemelo....
14) Klown
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Danish
Description
Klown follows two wildly inappropriate friends as they run amok through the Danish countryside plowing through social taboos, unspeakable debaucheries and absurd sexual encounters. Misguided Frank kidnaps the nephew of his pregnant girlfriend in an eager attempt to prove his fatherhood potential while the sex-driven Casper is determined to visit a world-renowned brothel. Based on the popular Danish 6-season TV show by the same name.
15) Barry Munday
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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After womanizer Barry Munday wakes up in a hospital and discovers he has lost his testicles in a violent attack, he is hit with a paternity suit from a woman he does not remember sleeping with.
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Pete Morrison has always had doubts about whether his well-loved son Sam was really his, and when a paternity test proves his worst fears, his ex-wife cuts off visitation rights, and Pete "brings a lawsuit that breaks new legal ground in defining what a father is."
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Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the biological dad she's never known. Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters--and rules for every second of the day. Tiffany tries to make the best of things, but she doesn't fit into her new luxurious, but super-strict, home--or get along...