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1) Finding Noel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A twenty-one-year-old woman searches for clues to her past while struggling with vague memories of being sent away by her parents at the age of seven, a younger sister, and a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word, "Noel."
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
When the call comes, the Men of the Sisterhood drop everything to help their friends. This time it's Cyrus, their four-legged hound dog and unofficial mascot. While member Joe Espinosa is driving along an isolated country road with Cyrus in tow, he catches a glimpse of movement in the woods bordering the road and notes Cyrus pawing desperately at the car window. As soon as he pulls over to investigate, Cyrus bolts out the door and leads Joe to three...
4) Warlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
One dark December night, in a small seaside town, a little girl is found abandoned. When her mother finally arrives, authorities release the pair, believing it to be an innocent case of a toddler running off. Gregor, a seemingly single man, is found bludgeoned and left for dead in his apartment, but the discovery of children’s toys raises more questions than answers. Every night, Ruby gazes into Gregor’s apartment, leading to the discovery...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
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.
9) Virgin River
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arriving in the remote mountain town of Virgin River in response to an ad, recently widowed Melinda thinks that she has made a mistake, until she finds an abandoned baby on her porch and lets a former Marine into her heart.
10) Bridge to haven
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller!
In this riveting saga of temptation, grace, and unconditional love, the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece delivers big-canvas storytelling at its very best.
To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her...
In this riveting saga of temptation, grace, and unconditional love, the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece delivers big-canvas storytelling at its very best.
To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 361 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton's life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living a life of pleasure and zero commitments, millionaire Texas playboy Jack Travis confronts responsibility for the first time in his life when an enraged aunt and the abandoned infant of one of Jack's former lovers appears on his doorstep.
15) Any Day Now
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Winner of 10 Audience Awards at film festivals around the country and starring the amazing Alan Cumming, Any Day Now is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced...
17) Middletown
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters...Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
On a brilliantly sunny July day, six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in the suffocating dark of a Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden. Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
viii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
On New Year's Eve, the octuplets Huit--Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia--discover that their parents are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what happened to their parents.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A triple homicide in a small Pennsylvania town is no small event. And when one of the locals is a writer with a hefty dose of curiosity, the secrets that people have been trying their best to hide never stay hidden for long... Acclaimed author Randall Silvis pushes the boundaries of crime fiction with The Deepest Black, a gripping and twisty novel written in the style of a true crime memoir that blends fact and fiction and leaves the reader guessing...