birthparents

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The kids are gonna ask

2020
"The death of Thomas and Savannah McClair's mother turns their world upside down. Raised to be fiercely curious by their grandmother Maggie, the twins become determined to learn the identity of their biological father. And when their mission goes viral, an eccentric producer offers them a dream platform: a fully sponsored podcast called The Kids Are Gonna Ask. To discover the truth, Thomas and Savannah begin interviewing people from their mother's past and are shocked when the podcast ignites in popularity. As the attention mounts, they get caught in a national debate they never asked for--but nothing compares to the mayhem that ensues when they find him"--OCLC.

Then came you

a novel
2012
The lives of four women intersect in a miraculous way when India Bishop, having married and then fallen in love with a wealthy older man, decides to cement their relationship with a baby, despite the disapproval of his grown daughter Bettina, and turns to Princeton student and egg donor Jules Strauss, and surrogate mother Annie Barrow, for help.

A brief chapter in my impossible life

Sixteen-year-old atheist Simone Turner-Bloom's life changes in unexpected ways when her parents convince her to make contact with her biological mother, an agnostic from a Jewish family who is losing her battle with cancer.
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Katie just desserts

"Worried about meeting her biological father, Katie is blindsided by the news that her mother's boyfriend intends to propose to her mom"--OCLC.

Lion

a long way home
Saroo Brierley discusses his life as an adopted boy living in Tasmania and his time spent finding his birth family in India.

Cleo Edison Oliver in persuasion power

"Successful businesswoman Fortune A. Davies has announced a new website where "kidpreneurs" can upload ads for their businesses and Cleo and her friend Caylee are sure this is the their big break to get funding for their personalized barrettes, Passion Clips--but producing an internet ad using their classmates is proving difficult, and Cleo is further distracted by her desire to find her birth parents"--Provided by publisher.

Cleo Edison Oliver in persuasion power

2017
"Successful businesswoman Fortune A. Davies has announced a new website where 'kidpreneurs' can upload ads for their businesses and Cleo and her friend Caylee are sure this is the their big break to get funding for their personalized barrettes, Passion Clips--but producing an internet ad using their classmates is proving difficult, and Cleo is further distracted by her desire to find her birth parents"--Provided by publisher.

The promise of light

1993
In 1921, the son of an Irish immigrant sets out for Ireland to learn the truth about his family and his past.

A long way home

"The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--.

Dark eyes

2012
Wally, who was adopted from a Russian orphanage and raised in a wealthy New York City family, finds herself living on the streets at fifteen, and, at sixteen, she sets out to locate her birth mother before her Russian gangster father can.

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