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2) The switch
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Gillian and Melina are identical twin sisters, both beautiful and close in every way but are complete opposites. Gillian is the straight and narrow career-woman. Melina is the wild one. When one twin is murdered after a secret night of passion with a world-famous astronaut, the other will stop at nothing to find the truth and avenge her death. Even if exacting revenge will cause her to cross the police, and the FBI.
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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. Catherine's granddaughter Monica has no idea that her grandfather was the famous doctor Alex Gannon, and Alex's...
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Award-winning writer Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as...
5) Mirror Image
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Delacorte Press
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English
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When World War I breaks out, the adventurous New York heiress, Victoria, is prevented from taking part because she is married. So she changes places with her lookalike sister, Olivia, who is a homely type. Everything works, until Olivia falls in love.
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In this beautifully rendered, affecting novel, a young widow's world is shattered when she meets her late husband's identical twin - and finds herself caught between honoring her husband's memory and falling in love with his reflection.Haley's whirlwind romance and almost three-year marriage to Sam, an army medic, ends tragically when he is killed in Afghanistan. As she grapples with widowhood and the upcoming birth of her son, her attempts to create...
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Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation. Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village. Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much deeper. Helena is forced to contend with the jealousy her choices...
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Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
c 2009
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English
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When her beloved twin brother stages a suicide by instigating a gun fight with the police, Lila Cole is shocked to discover disturbing facts about her twin's relationships with his wife and children, a situation for which she risks her job and marriage to find answers. By the best-selling author of Once Upon a Day.