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Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life. The irascible A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books, the only bookstore on Alice Island, has already lost his wife. Now, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances....
3) Lucky us
Author
Language
English
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Description
Forging a life together after being abandoned by their parents, half sisters Eva and Iris share decades in and out of the spotlight in golden-era Hollywood and mid-twentieth-century Long Island.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Octogenarian Addy Shadd, having grown up in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the 1800s, finds the memories of her early life returning to her when she is left to care for a five-year-old mixed race child who has already suffered some hardships of her own.
5) Virgin River
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wanted: Midwife/nurse practitioner in Virgin River, population six hundred. Make a difference against the backdrop of towering California redwoods and crystal-clear rivers. Rent-free cabin included. When the recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees this ad she quickly decides that the remote mountain town of Virgin River might be the perfect place to escape her heartache, and to re-energize the nursing career she loves. But her high hopes are dashed...
7) Warlight
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the...
Author
Series
Intervention novels volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan-the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Natalia Rose Baleine Gallagher dreams of seeing whales on the beach near her new home, and is consumed with the prospect that her mother who abandoned her as a child loves and misses her, and wants Nat to find her.
Author
Series
The Littles volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
111 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Major Nick Little and his band of soldiers find two babies abandoned in Trash City and they must find out how they got there.
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
447 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them -- a man they believe is John Grant.
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 6
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1864 and the nation is still torn apart by civil war when Heather Worth discovers she is with child. She has been working as a laundress with her husband's army unit, but when the army gets orders to march south to Tennessee, Gideon insists Heather go home to have their child under safer conditions. Heather agrees, but returns home to another kind of devastation--deaths in the family and a father who refuses to forgive her for marrying a Yankee....
14) The match
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he’s known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.
Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he’s ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions...
15) Mudwoman
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
428 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.
16) Bridge to haven
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.
Author
Language
English
Description
In a near future world of heat, greed, and hunger, Devin earns a coveted spot in a home for abandoned children that promises unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family, but Devin discovers the home's horrific true mission when he investigates its intimidating Administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children.
18) When i found you
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
476 p. [pbk]
Language
English
Description
Nathan McCann thought he didn't want a family. But when he finds an abandoned newborn in the woods, he feels an inexplicable bond with the boy and starts to make plans to raise the child as his own--until the baby's grandmother steps forward to claim him.
19) Blue Monday
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 1
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
322 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has...
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