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1) Night road
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
"For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows-her twins, Mia and Zach-are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prisoner in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girl's life. Eleven years after they began fostering, Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete, but when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who has been horrifically abused...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fearless novel about a lost boy in search of his identity-who happens to be a time-traveling mass murderer Flight, the third novel by National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie, is both shattering and full of laughter. The story of Zits, an orphaned Indian boy, resonates profoundly in a country scarred by violence. Alexie works his trademark magic to turn Zits's experiences into a fable about identity, race, and American history. In a gutsy, challenging...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck....
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Baby, 13 and motherless, is young enough to drag her dolls around in a vinyl suitcase and old enough to know more than she should about life on the streets. She lives with her father Jules, who has a penchant for heroin. To survive, Baby spins stories, cracks herself up, and slips through life. Her beauty captures the attention of Alphonse, and his stable of young girls. Jules sends her to reform school, but Baby finds a way out and into the hands...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Boss Man has an unexpected motive in destroying Mike Wingate, who's worked his way up from the bottom to become a successful home contractor in Lost Hills, California. To protect his family and himself, Mike, who was raised in a foster home, summons his only friend from those days, the formidable Shep, who has grown up to be a career criminal of considerable skill.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
Author
Series
Love like sky volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Georgie and her sister Peaches relocate to Bogalusa, Louisiana, with their mother to help their Great Aunt Vie, Georgie becomes involved in the search for the truth about her new friend Markie's mother.
11) Otto and Pio
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press, a McEvoy Group company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Otto the squirrel reluctantly becomes a foster parent when a strange, furry creature hatches outside his home, saying nothing but "Pio" and growing very, very quickly.
12) Romeo blue
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin/Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Someone will do anything to get federal judge Sidney Logan to throw a trial--even target her six-month-old foster daughter. And it's up to US Deputy Marshal Tanner Wilcox to keep Sidney and little Lilly safe in the Colorado Rockies. But with danger finding them at every turn, there might be a mole in the courthouse...and trusting anyone could prove lethal." --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "[B]orn in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her only successful foster placement with a prostitute later stabbed to death (Anais found the body). She's been sent to this facility, where the inmates are under constant surveillance, because she had a bad history with a policewoman who has been bludgeoned...
15) Hideout
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When his Mississippi policeman gives Sam a fishing boat, he uses the boat to disappear for hours at time. Exploring the swampy surroundings of his bayou home, Sam finds a boy living on his own in the wilderness. Davey gives evasive explanation as to why he's on his own, and Sam makes efforts to help him. But this leads him to telling small lies that only get bigger as the danger increases for both boys and hidden truths become harder to conceal.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During a terrible heat wave in 1991, nine-year-old Anton is locked in an apartment alone for seven days without electricity. He breaks a window to climb out and the police find him covered in blood. His mother is found nearby in a crack house, where her drug dealer raped her and kept her high. A Harvard-educated senator's son, Judge David Coleman is desperate to have a child in the house again after the tragic death of his teenage son. He uses his...
17) 29 seconds
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Sarah Haywood rescues a young girl in trouble, she expects nothing in return. But her instinctive act of bravery puts her in the debt of a powerful and dangerous man, and he has other ideas. He lives by his own brutal code, and all debts must be repaid - in the only way he knows how. He offers Sarah a way to solve an impossible situation with her intolerable boss. A once-in-a-lifetime deal that could turn her life around and make all her problems...
18) We must be brave
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Then...
19) Orphan train
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck and chance. This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast...
20) Ellen Foster
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
146 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate, and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, "The real thing. Which is to say,...
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