Orem Library

"In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl,...

Lawyer Paul has plans--a new practice in San Diego, and if things work out, a future with Susan. But when Paul meets an old client, whose granddaughter has been abducted, he is drawn into a case which destroys everything he believes in.

Ambitious Becca Reinhart enjoys her solo life, as does footloose playboy Edward Kirkland, but their lives are turned upside down when the two strangers receive co-guardianship of spirited four-year-old Emily.

Vietnam veteran Allen Carmichael specializes in rescuing children from abusive parents and escorting them to loving homes. But after twenty-five years, he's ready to take on his final case--a case that could destroy him.

Tree-hiding Greens and mountain-hiding Grays hide in Manhattan, alien refugees from a cataclysmic war, until two teens from opposing sides find both species have survived. On a cold October night, Roger and Caroline Whittier accept an unexpected burden at gunpoint: Melantha Green 12, the Peace Child ready to die, prevented by NYPD Detective Thomas Fierenzo.

On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline,...

Bachelor Devon Pierce is appointed guardian of the four-year-old son of an Australian exchange student who lived with Devon's family ten years earlier. The boy's father surfaces, causing complications, and a custody battle ensues.

"Forever walking the line between passion and conflict, Laurel and Gavin's relationship ended in divorce after years of miscommunication and unmet expectations. Now pursuing their own separate lives and careers, the two are content . . . though not completely happy. When their best friends, Mike and Mallory, are killed in a plane crash, Laurel and Gavin are stunned to learn they ve been named guardians of their friends' young daughter, Emma. Putting...

"Will Martin has returned to his boyhood hometown to run the family real estate business. As they approach their first wedding anniversary, he and Renee are deeply in love but their inability to communicate threatens their happiness."--Jacket.

Sherry Carrigan O'Toole is forced into an uneasy alliance with her former husband, Brandon, when their son's plane goes down in the wilderness during a storm, and they race against time, the elements, and a deadly enemy to find him.