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Author
Series
Publisher
Allyn and Bacon
Pub. Date
1928
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though Silas Maner started life as a religious man, a heartbreaking betrayal leaves him feeling abandoned by his friends, the woman he is to marry, and his God. He leaves everything behind and exiles himself to the small village of Raveloe. The suspicious and superstitious townspeople of Raveloe don't understand the reclusive weaver and soon come to the conclusion that Marner is too strange and perhaps even a bit evil. Marner's growing stack of gold...
2) The guardian
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lives are changed forever when a teenage couple leave the baby they cannot keep in a box on the grounds of the Blessings estate, and caretaker Skip Cuddy, aided by matriarch Lydia Blessing, decides to keep and raise the infant.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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After the horror of World War I, Tom Sherbourne welcomes his new job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, an isolated island with no residents aside from him and his wife Isabel. But times on the island are tough for Isabel as she suffers multiple miscarriages and a stillbirth in just four years time. When a boat with a dead man and a young baby washes ashore, Isabel convinces Tom to let her keep the baby as their own, but the consequences to her...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 28
Great books of the Western World volume 37
Modern Library college editions volume T15
Great books of the Western World volume 37
Modern Library college editions volume T15
Language
English
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A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son. Tom falls in love with the beautiful and unattainable Sophia Western, a neighbor's daughter, whose marriage has already been arranged. When Tom's sexual misadventures around the countryside get him banished, he sets out to make his fortune and find his true identity. Against the vivid background of eighteenth-century London,...
Author
Series
Adventures of a girl called Bicycle volume 1
Language
English
Description
Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.
Author
Language
English
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"Since its original publication in 1847, the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine has long echoed on the moors. After being spurned by his lover and degraded by his adoptive family, Heathcliff leaves his home in Yorkshire, only to return wealthy, educated, and seeking retribution. Obsession, vengeance, and jealousy will pour from this tangle of lovers in Emily Bronte’s only published novel, a story of unrequited love."--
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. : chiefly col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Japanese couple adopts a boy found in a giant wave who does not grow, in a story inspired by Hokusai's "The Great Wave Off Kanegawa" and featuring information on the artist and his work on the back lining papers.
12) Moonsilver
Author
Series
Unicorn's secret volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
78 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heart, a foundling who was discovered five years earlier wrapped in a unicorn-embroidered blanket, finds a pregnant white mare in the woods and struggles to keep her and her colt safe and well.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 7
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
294 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paris computer expert Aimee Leduc, alerted by an anonymous phone call to look in her courtyard, finds an abandoned infant, and her search for the baby's mother leads her into a plot involving espionage, environmental degradation, and murder.
14) True colors
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
15) No offense
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate - in the form of a newborn left in the restroom - has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment". When John Hartwell...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
456 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When apprentice librarian Elisabeth is implicated in sabotage that released the library's most dangerous grimoire, she becomes entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy that could mean the end of everything.
17) Silas Marner
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Series
Language
English
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Eliot's touching novel of a miser and a little child combines the charm of a fairy tale with the humor and pathos of realistic fiction. The gentle linen weaver, Silas Marner, exiles himself to the town of Raveloe after being falsely accused of a heinous theft. There he begins to find redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child he discovers in his isolated cottage.
18) If you find me
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"There are some things you can't leave behind... A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother...
Author
Series
Cemeteries of Amalo volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel to The Witness For The Dead ... Celehar's life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city--the foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 p. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon, still dealing with the loss of her mother and baby sister two years earlier, and her grieving father's sudden decision to move to an isolated New England farmhouse, takes further steps into the adult world when she and her dad find an abandoned newborn clinging to life in the woods near their home, and later come to know the young mother and learn her story.
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