adopted children

Practicing silence to shield herself from the traumas of her past, Mallory, after years of homeschooling, enrolls in public school, a challenge that is complicated by her reunion with Rider Stark, a friend and protector from her childhood.

"Growing up, Adrien and his sister, Grace, competed viciously for everything. It wasn't easy being the adopted sibling, but Adrien tried to get along... When their scientist parents died in a terrible lab fire, there was nothing left to hold them together. After years apart, Adrien and Grace are now forced to reunite for their senior year... Being back around everyone he used to know causes Adrien to examine the person he's become, even while being back around Grace turns him into someone he doesn't want to be. But all those questions are cast aside when Adrien starts to suspect that Grace might be stealing their parents' research...or worse, that she had a hand in their deaths"--Dust jacket.

At the beginning of her last summer in Kentucky before leaving for college, Natalie is once again visited by the apparition she calls "Grandmother" and meets a new boy, Beau, who changes her life.

When ten-year-old Cyrus sees a 'For Sale' sign plunged into his front lawn, it's a complete and utter disaster. Usually, his younger brother, Rudy, is the scaredy-cat, but for the first time in his life, Cyrus is terrified.

The adopted daughter of two respectable human parents, Kayla is a werecat in the closet. All she knows is the human world. When she comes out to her boyfriend, tragedy ensues, and her determination to know and embrace her heritage grows. Help appears in the lithe form of sexy male werecat Yoshi, backed up by Aimee and Clyde, as the four set out to solve the mystery of a possessed antique carousel while fielding miscast magic, obsessive strangers, and mounting species intolerance.

Dottie Connell struggles to face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget when she becomes the caregiver of her childhood friend's daughter.

Relates the experiences of Tuyet, an orphan from Vietnam who was adpoted by a Canadian family, as she underwent operations to correct damage done to one of her legs from polio and struggled with memories of the Vietnam War.

As Olivia Taylor-Jones proceeds with her investigation into her birth parent's crimes in Cainsville, Illinois, she meets an unlikely ally to help her in her search for the truth. Gabriel Walsh is a self-serving, morally ambiguous lawyer. Together they have chased a devious killer and partially cleared her birth parents of their crimes. Their success is short-lived however, when Gabriel's past mistakes come to light and cause a rift between them.