Carolyn Summer Quinn
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Belinda and Jonathan O'Malley always wanted a sibling for their daughter, Holly. When the opportunity arose in 1975 to adopt two Vietnamese orphan girls from Operation Babylift, they were overjoyed to welcome Liana and Bonnie into their home. Exuberant Bonnie is delighted to finally find herself with a family but Liana is a lot more reticent. When a strange Vietnamese man Belinda doesn't know takes such an interest in Liana that he tracks her to...
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An ominous cloud full of questions has hung over Bethany Barrows' wildly dysfunctional family ever since her little cousin Ashley was abducted from their eccentric Jersey Shore neighborhood in 1988. It's part of a series of unsolved crimes against children. Now, in March 2020, as Covid-19 is starting to disrupt the whole country, Bethany, the last of the Barrows, is back at the shore to close up her late uncle's house. Uncle Ryan was a kindhearted...
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Jasmine works for a talent agent so tyrannical she's looking forward to the day she can quit when she enters the office and finds him dead on the floor. That narcissistic agent is one of the most hated characters on Broadway, and it's not really a surprise that he finally got stabbed in the back. Already in shock, young Jasmine is furuther astonished to find out that the boss she couldn't abide left her the agency, and everything else he owned, in...
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It's the 1920s. Song-and-dance man August La May, formerly known as Avram Landenberg of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, thought he was living a grand life on the Orpheum Circuit in vaudeville, traveling the country with his gal Violetta and daughters April and Florabelle. Even after Violetta deserted the act and broke his heart, he continued touring with his talented children, still bringing down the house while billed as "The Three La Mays."...
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A bad private school. The boomerang of corruption! Amanda Conway has been haunted for twenty-one years by the emotional abuse she endured as a child at an "exclusive" but unscrupulously run private school. One scandal ultimately led to the school's demise, but more went uncovered, and now a killer is exacting retribution on the adults who once made certain children's lives almost unbearable. When Amanda's cousin, Detective Pablo Conway, enlists her...
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What's a nice down-to-earth girl from Brooklyn doing in a place like Hollywood?It's 1964, and Katie Hathaway, almost but not quite twenty-one, has been living in sunny Southern California with her television star aunt and uncle, and their various children and staff, since her parents died ten years earlier. Her uncle is decent, but his wife, the aunt, is a vainglorious pain in the rump. Jealous Aunt Floriana picks a fight with her daughter Clover...