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In this blockbuster novel from Danielle Steel, two estranged sisters get the chance to connect again and right the wrongs of the past. Melissa Henderson is leading a quiet life. Once a bestselling author, she now pours all her energy into renovating a Victorian house nestled in the foothills of rural New England. Six years ago, she lost her young son to cancer, and her marriage dissolved. She stopped writing. It was only when she bought the old house...
2) Love, Oran
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"A secret letter hidden in a wall for 70 years sets off a miraculous chain of events that changes a family forever"--www.imdb.com.
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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church."--Publisher.
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"Former free spirit Zoe Collins swore she'd never again set foot in Copper Creek or speak to the man who broke her heart. But return she must when her beloved Granny dies, leaving the family legacy to Zoe--a peach orchard nestled at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains"--Provided by publisher.
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When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
10) Way down east
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Griffith billed this film as a "simple tale of plain people." This modest remark does little to convey the scale and significance of one of this director's most ambitious works and his most popular after Birth of a nation.
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Management consultant Lucie Yi is done waiting for Mr. Right. After a harrowing breakup foiled her plans for children -- and drove her to a meltdown in a Tribeca baby store -- she's ready to take matters into her own hands. She signs up for an elective co-parenting website to find a suitable partner with whom to procreate -- as platonic as family planning can be. Collin Read checks all of Lucie's boxes; he shares a similar cultural background, he's...
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It is Christmas 1913, and rumours of war are beginning to rumble through the land. This only serves to increase the dissatisfaction felt by Agnes Conway for her lot in life as a low-paid assistant in her father's shop. There are dark secrets in her father's past and these come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister becomes pregnant. 1990.
17) Philomena
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"A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent"--www.imdb.com.
19) The love child
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Alice, a young adult from a well off family gives birth to a little girl. She's forced to give the child up for adoption. Little Irene ends up in a family of good standing, but throughout her childhood she's the odd one out. She survives, but the urge to belong drives her on a search for her birth mother.
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption.
Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other...
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