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The fiction tradition that a woman will do anything for a man is alive and well in this fiction. Sylvia seizes the opportunity by a hospital fire to switch infants, a newborn, whose appearance resembles her husband's. Her true child, fathered by Sylvia's lover, is left to make her own way in the world.

"Family, community, faith, and love. These "quilt blocks" sewn together made Ariana's beautiful life. When they are pulled to pieces, will anything familiar remain? The Old Order Amish life Ariana Brenneman loved vanished virtually overnight with the discovery that she was switched at birth twenty years ago. Now she's immersed in the Englischer world, getting to know her mother, and under the authority of her biological father, an atheist intellectual...

Pete Riley answers the door one morning and lets in a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, a stranger who breaks the devastating news that Pete's son, Theo, isn't actually his son; he is the Lamberts', switched at birth by an understaffed hospital, while their real son was sent home with Miles and his wife Lucy. For Pete and his family, life will never be the same again. The two families, reeling from the shock, take comfort...

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight on the night that India gained its independence and finds, several years later that he is connected to over 1,000 others who were born at the same time--including the one with whom he was switched at birth.

Have you ever felt like you didn't belong? Imagine not knowing who you really are. That was my reality when everything I knew about myself was ripped away. My life was flipped upside down on April 7, 2001, one day before my forty-third birthday. I received the DNA test results that had answered a lifetime of questions. Everything - and I mean everything - I knew about myself wasn't true. I turned into my own private investigator, digging through records...

Roxana, a light-skinned slave nurse on a large Southern plantation, is desperate to give her son a better chance at life than she had ever enjoyed, and so she switches him with the master's son. Years later, when Roxana's real son has turned to gambling, murder, and theft, it is the country lawyer, Pudd'nhead Wilson, who unmasks the true identity of the two. Considered Twain's most courageous work, this short novel is one of the most sensitive treatments...

"The one woman he wants is the one he cannot have. Former foster kid Sebastian Grant has leveraged his intelligence and hard work to become a pediatric heart surgeon. But not even his career success can erase the void he's tried so hard to fill. Then he meets high school teacher Leah Montgomery and his fast-spinning world comes to a sudden stop. He falls hard, only to make a devastating discovery--Leah is the woman his best friend set his heart on...

Paula, an investigative reporter, feels like a fish out of water in the small town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Then she's offered her dream job as a television reporter in Chicago. There is so much to gain and so much to lose--including the only man she's ever loved. Linn has made a lot of mistakes--bad mistakes. she can never forgive herself for all the pain she's caused others. How can she dare to get close to anyone again? What will happen if Paula...

When Lauren Beckett is nearly killed in a home invasion and discovers her son was switched at birth, she knows there's only one man she can turn to for protection. Deputy Cameron Doran isn't expecting to find his ex-lover on his ranch, claiming the unthinkable about the nephew he's been raising. But as they seek the truth, someone else is on the hunt?and wants them dead.