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Texas heiress turned PI Abby Rose specializes in adoption cases, and her latest one turns out to be a doozy. A baby was abandoned on a woman's doorstep 19 years ago. Now a superstar college basketball player, Will Knight wants to find his birth parents--and Abby Rose is on the case like a bird dog on a duck.

Adrienne Sheppard isn't raking it in as an NFL star's baby mama, so she's looking to get wifed. Zakiya Lee is pregnant by the NBA's hottest new player, but fame is wearing her out. And sports reporter Cherise Long has a pro athlete picked out too--but he happens to be Adrienne's man.

Class brain Bindy Mackenzie has alienated her entire high school but when she realizes someone is trying to kill her, she has to make friends in order to get help.

In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

To relieve the boredom of a long, hot summer, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby join their fun-loving neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her mischievous dog Zeke on an adventurous sightseeing boat cruise.

In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold.

When Adelaid Proctor finds herself stranded in 1883 Texas, she's hired by a British-born sheep rancher as governess for a daughter still grief-stricken over her mom's death. As Adelaid gently draws the girl out of her shell of silence, the governess and sheep rancher, at first, resist their mutual attraction. But as a looming standoff draws near, it will either shatter or strengthen their developing romance.

A hard-bitten group of mangy highway cats is changed forever after the mysterious arrival of three kittens.

Single mother Peaches Miller is rattled when her fianc�e gets a promotion that would require they move far away. Then, her son's father comes back into her life. But Peaches isn't sure either man can make her happy--or whether she needs any man at all.

Johanna has lived her entire life in Amana and she longs to explore the outside world. Meanwhile, rebellious Berta struggles to adjust to life in their close knit community.