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1) The one
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A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you'll be matched with your perfect partner--the one you're genetically made for.That's the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results have led to the breakup of countless...
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Robin Lockwood novels volume 2
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2019.
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"A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed both rapes--which is seemingly impossible since the man convicted of the first rape was in prison at the time of the second one. Now, the...
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FBI thrillers. Truth series volume 4
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Working on the case of convicted rapist/murderer Lester Ray Barnes, true-crime writer Regan Landry turns up a number of irregularities that ensure his release, but after a series of brutal killings, Regan confronts the possibility that she has unleashed a monster.
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Nils Shapiro novels volume 1
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Irreverent Jewish private investigator Nils Shapiro is just trying to stay warm, get over his divorce, and solve a murder that has no usable evidence. The police department of Edina, Minnesota, is stymied when they discover a murder victim covered in the dirt and dust of empty vacuum cleaner bags. The dirt contains the DNA of thousands of people and has covered the killer's forensic trail.Not knowing where to begin, Edina Police Detective Ellegaard...
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[2021]
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"Now: When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. Digging deeper into her mother's past-- and her own feelings of being the odd child out growing up-- Paige begins to question everything she thought she knew. What does it mean for Paige's memories of her father, a man she idolized and whose death she is still grieving? 1974: Betsy Kaplan, a straightlaced...
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[2022]
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"When a DNA test yields surprising results, widowed father Baxter Shaw and his 8-year-old daughter journey to southeastern Spain to connect with their mysterious roots where the romance of the culture awakens a new outlook on life but also reveals long-simmering secrets"--
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2007
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Twenty years after helping to convict a man for the heinous murder of her sister, an adult Tessa DeGraff learns that DNA evidence may have exonerated the original suspect, a possibility that forces Tessa to return to the New Hampshire town where her sister died to reconstruct key evidence.
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Single mom Jessica Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents—who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno—Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in. After all, her father was never around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material”...
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2021.
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"When two strangers are linked by a mail-in DNA test, it's an answered prayer--that is, for one half-sister. For the other, it will dismantle everything she knows to be true. But as they step into the unfamiliar realm of sisterhood, the roles will reverse in ways no one could have foreseen. Caroline lives a full, happy life--thriving career, three feisty children, enviable marriage, and a close-knit extended family. She couldn't have scripted it better....
13) Broken bonds
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[2021]
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"When Chris Breck comes to Mercy Hospital in search of answers regarding his family tree, his mother's dear friend Joy is there to help! Chris desperately needs a kidney transplant, but the cousin who volunteered to donate one turns out to be genetically unrelated to him. In fact, even though DNA evidence shows that Chris is his father's biological child, he is not related to his father's parents. Chris's grandmother insists she gave birth to Chris's...