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1) Oceans apart
Author
Language
English
Description
Conner Evans and his wife Michele seem to enjoy a perfect life, until a seven-year-old son Conner never knew existed comes to live with them after the death of his mother, forcing them all to confront hidden truths before healing can begin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering upon her mother's death that she is the illegitimate daughter of an earl, 1920s governess Rachel Woodley teams up with a dubious associate who helps her infiltrate key social circles in order to contact her father and undermine her privileged half-sister's world.
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. But Arrington has other plans for Stone...including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago.
7) Howards End
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Howards End is a masterful discussion of changing social class-consciousness. Three families from different levels of society become intertwined: the rich capitalists, the intellectual bourgeoisie and the struggling poor. Forster does not suggest that relationships between the classes are easy, but he does think them vitally important. The social philosophy inherent in the novel is significant and beautifully written.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bastard son of Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin, is named the new Royal Governor of New Jersey, but all he has achieved is threatened when the colonies, led by influential figures including his own father, begin the fight for independence--a cause he refuses to support.
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 1
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed and newly wealthy, Miss Julia is visited one day by Hazel Marie, who claims that her nine-year-old son is the child of Julia's late husband, and when Julia is left to care for the child, she reveals the scandal that precipitated her husband's death.
10) Philomena
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A woman searches for her lost son, who was taken away from her many years ago after she was forced to live in a convent after she became pregnant.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fifty years after being forced to give her son up for adoption, Irishwoman Philomena Lee decides to find him, while, on the other side of the Atlantic, her son, a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, struggles to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career and endanger his search to find his mother.
12) The lost orphan
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
n 1754 London, six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim her daughter, only to find that she has already been picked up by someone else.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church.
Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In an effort to discover the truth about his family, the author uses DNA testing and interviews to learn the real story behind his paternity and that of his eight brothers and sisters. What the DNA reveals, and how the author and siblings handle it, serves as a lesson to anyone undertaking ancestry research"--
Author
Series
Brides of Bellaire Gardens volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When his charge, heiress Clarissa, the daughter of a notorious rake, and her beautiful, yet penniless, half-sister Isobel launch themselves into society against his wishes, the new Earl of Salcott must protect Clarissa from fortune hunters while dealing with the sharp-witted, rebellious and utterly intoxicating Izzy.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A first entry in a four-part memoir series based on the author's childhood in 1950s Dublin told entirely in vernacular prose that explores how the author's mischievous and hopeful spirit prevailed in the face of poverty and abuse.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci team up to expose a serial killer when Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan to discern the truth about his beloved illegitimate son's murder, an investigation that reveals the secret history behind the controversial political work, "The Prince."
19) Always remember
Author
Series
Ravenswood novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The ton suspiciously gossips about the bastard son of the Earl of Stratton who embarks on a friendship with Lady Jennifer, left unable to walk by a childhood illness.
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