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Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1935 Alabama, when twelve-year-old MaryJake is abandoned by her financially-strapped parents and told to walk to the house of unknown relatives, she dresses like a boy and joins the household of an old widow before discovering secrets about her own family.
243) An unlikely mother
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to overcome her reputation as Leadville, Colorado's biggest gossip, wealthy socialite Flora Montgomery offers to help a miner care for an abandoned child. But her growing affection for the sweet boy's handsome rescuer could be a problem. Especially since her parents insist she must marry for money. Undercover mine owner George Baxter is digging himself into a dilemma. The once-spoiled Flora has become a delightful, generous woman, and she'll...
244) Why no goodbye?
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When his mother escapes Myanmar with his siblings during the Rohingya crisis, thirteen-year-old Jubair expresses anger over the abandonment and struggles to find forgiveness, in a series of letters.
246) Bittersweet
Author
Series
Home sweet home (Shirlee McCoy) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Caring family and friends, tranquil streets--ex-prosecutor Willow Lamont wishes these could make her feel truly at home. She's back to help her grandfather manage Chocolate Haven, a long held dream come true. But she's struggling to make their unique fudge--and to cope with a secret trauma that haunts her. Yet when she finds an abandoned baby who breaks her heart wide open, she wonders how long she can hide her emotions--especially from warm, handsome,...
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to save her daughter from a terrible war, the mother sends her into the forest telling her to return in three days. She meets St. Joseph who cares for her for three days, which in reality is thirty years.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When mail-order bride Elizabeth Dumont's intended weds another, her only option is to take a job as nanny to abandoned triplet babies. Though she longs to provide a real home for her three precious charges, as a single woman she can't adopt. Until her onetime sweetheart, minister Brandon Stillwater, offers a match of convenience. It's only for the triplets' sake, that's what Brandon tells himself.
249) The seven doors
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the tenant of a house that university professor Nina owns with her doctor husband goes missing after an uncomfortable visit, Nina starts her own investigation ... with deeply disturbing results.... University professor Nina is at a turning point. Her work seems increasingly irrelevant, her doctor husband is never home, relations with her difficult daughter are strained, and their beautiful house is scheduled for demolition. When she discovers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies...
251) Anya's war
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xiv, 188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1937, the privileged and relatively carefee life of a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, whose family emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, to Shanghai, China, comes to an end when she finds an abandoned baby, her hero, Amelia Earhart, goes missing, and war breaks out with Japan. Based on the author's family history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school.
253) Lies come easy
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
One blizzardy New Mexico night, Posadas County Deputy Pasquale picks up a toddler scooting his Scamper along the shoulder of State 56. Yes, it's horrifying - a child apparently dumped out of a truck by his father. Nearly as horrifying is what unrolls while Christmas approaches after dad Darrell Fisher's arrest: a request arrives from the US Forest Service to locate a missing range tech and his unit last reported headed for nearby Stinkin' Springs,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda's capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala--part journalist, part detective, part Good Samaritan--does not hesitate to dive into difficult or even dangerous situations to aid a child. Author of a newspaper column called 'Lost and Abandoned,' she is a resource that police and others turn to when...
255) Life of Melody
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
186 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two (supernatural) men and a baby. A human child abandoned in the woods is discovered by an unlikely pair: Razzmatazz, a fairy godfather, and Bon, a beast man. After quarreling over the best way to handle the child, they finally agree to co-parent in the human world--for now, at least. What the two men don't expect is this little arrangement will push them to discover more about themselves...and more about each other, which might result in love....
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