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81) Love, Aubrey
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
83) Jellicoe Road
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
84) Born blue
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mothers neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someday being a famous singer.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occured five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
90) The odds
Author
Series
Richard Christie mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A young boy in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood dies of a suspicious overdose. In this same neighborhood, four young kids have been abandoned and are living on their own. Connecting these people and their stories is Nick Banks, who is just out of prison.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The Fairchild family is spending the Christmas holidays on idyllic Sanpere Island in Maine while the Reverend Thomas Fairchild recuperates from surgery. His wife, Faith, is rejoicing in the rare, holiday family-time together--but Faith's high spirits are dampened when she discovers the body of a young woman on Christmas Eve. Then, on Christmas morning, she learns of an abandoned, newborn baby boy who was left in a nearby dairy barn along with a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
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
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In "Natural Born Lawman," deputy Justin Adams meets single mother Patsy Longhorn when she tries to steal some medicine for her sick son; and in "The Unclaimed Baby," Sharon Adams and Cord Branson dream of a family while caring for an abandoned baby.
95) Jackie's jokes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
April Fools' Day is long and hard for the third-grade Huit octuplets, but it is nothing compared to the challenges of Tax Day, through which Jackie discovers her special power and gift and learns more about their parents' mysterious disappearance.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Cecilia Wilborg has it all. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a home in an idyllic Norwegian suburb. When the receptionist at her daughter's swim club asks her to drop off a small boy who hasn't been picked up yet, she knows it is her duty to help. When Cecilia arrives at the address she was given, the house is empty. The boy begs her to take him home with her just for the night. Cecilia reluctantly agrees but she could never guess that...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From "a talented writer whose lyrical, evocative writing invites comparisons to Rick Bass and Richard Ford" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) comes a deftly woven novel that examines the layered makeup of a family: the affections and resentments, obligations and sacrifices"--
"Set in a backwoods village in northern Canada, this is the story of a young woman who leaves her dysfunctional, male-dominated family to make a new life in London. With...
99) Rock-a-bye bones
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney finds an infant abandoned on her doorstep and must find the mother, whose life is in grave danger"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of the great Scandinavian humorists, SWEET SWEET REVENGE LTD is a declaration of love for keeping art free and accessible to all, told through world-class storytelling. Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai warrior; Kevin, his sort-of-son; Jenny, a wronged and penniless ex-wife; and Hugo, an unscrupulous Stockholm ad-man who has set up a company specializing in revenge services. As Jenny and Kevin seek revenge against the gallery owner who...
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