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Intervention volume 2
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lance tries to help Jordan, a young, pregnant meth addict whose drug-addict mother wants to sell her baby for profit, but just when Jordan's situation seems hopeless, Lance discovers her newborn baby in the backseat of his car, which leads to Lance being arrested.
42) The lost mother
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers along with the rest of the country, and Henry Talcott, with only occasional work as a butcher, is reduced to moving into a tent on the edge of Black Pond with his two children. Their beautiful but unreliable mother has left them, and Henry is devastated by her desertion. He hasn't told Thomas or Margaret why she left-or if she will return. Told from twelve-year-old Thomas's perspective, The Lost...
43) Silver lady
Author
Series
Dangerous gifts volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A sense of duty sends Bran Tremayne to Cornwall to confront his heritage of British nobility. Abandoned at birth, Bran wants nothing to do with the embittered remains of his family. But as a special agent for the Home Office, he senses trouble brewing along the coast. And he can't turn away from the vulnerable woman he encounters in the Cornish countryside. Merryn's amnesia makes her past a mystery to them both, but with her life in danger, the only...
45) Godshot: a novel
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for....
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Series
Little Bridge Island volume 2
Language
English
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"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-not-covered desk. But fate -- in the form of a newborn left in the library restroom -- has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate. When John Hartwell folds...
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Series
(Virginia C.).Umbrella lady volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Left on the train platform of some strange village, eight-year-old Saffron Faith Anders is certain her father will return shortly, just like he promised. She holds out hope as the hour grows late and the station sets to close. She clings to her suitcase like a life raft. When a peculiar old woman carrying a large umbrella approaches and inquires about her situation, Saffron doesn't immediately trust the imposing do-gooder, but eventually does agree...
48) Rogue stallion
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
"'I don't want kindness--or your kind of woman.' Sterling McCallum gave the plain, hard warning to Jessica Larson. The brooding rogue cop had a stone in place of a heart and a past as mysterious as the case that had brought them together. But this time Jessica couldn't back off. Something compelled her to stand her ground and brave the emotions this man had long aroused. Suddenly, their darkest secrets, their deepest desires, shimmered to the surface...about...
49) Livia Lone
Author
Series
Livia Lone novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Seattle PD sex-crimes detective and former human-trafficking victim Livia Lone must relive the horrors of the past when she gets a fresh lead as to the whereabouts of her little sister, Nason.
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English
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"In this new holiday-themed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk, a man receives the best Christmas present he could ask for: the chance to re-write the past. Jason Chercher is not doing well in love or life. Just two weeks after his wife leaves him he receives a phone call that his estranged mother has passed away, days before Christmas--leaving her home and all her belongings to him. Frankly,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child's fate in this moving, page-turning novel from "a gifted storyteller" ( People ). For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he'd befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands-and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout desperate...
53) Bittersweet
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Series
Home sweet home (Shirlee McCoy) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Benevolence, Washington, the Lamont family's luscious handmade chocolates are a beloved tradition-and the sweetest of comforts. And for the most reserved of the three Lamont sisters, they're a much-needed way to challenge the past, rekindle hope-and make happiness for a lifetime.
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
National bestselling author Lauraine Snelling brings a small mountain town to thrilling life when a natural disaster threatens to destroy lives.
U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James' life is in tatters. A tragic accident stole the love of his life and he never finished grieving. Turning to the bottle for support, he lost sight of what was important. While making his last patrol run before a storm rolls in, Ben's canine partner Bo finds an abandoned...
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English
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"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 marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden...Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood Hills, Eleanor is cast in a ...in a remake of Rebecca. As she immerses herself in that eerie gothic tale, Orlando's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Firefly Cloak is the powerfully vivid coming-of-age story of Tessa Lee, who, after being abandoned by her mother, sets off on a risky journey to discover what she has lost.
When eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her brother, Travis, are abandoned in a campground by their desperate mother and her boyfriend of the moment, they are left with only two things: a phone number written in Magic Marker on Travis's back and their mother's favorite housecoat, which...
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Abandoned by their family, Antoinette and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel grew up under the guidance of pious nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. When they came of age, the sisters set out together with a fierce determination to prove themselves worthy to a society that has never accepted them. Their journey propelled them out of poverty and to the stylish cafés of Moulins, the dazzling performance halls of Vichy--...
59) Lies come easy
Author
Series
Posadas County volume 23rd
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
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,...
60) Cygnet
Author
Pub. Date
©2019.
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old girl, abandoned by her parents, is reluctantly taken in by her grandmother, who lives on private Swan Island ten miles off the New Hampshire coast. But the island is populated only by senior citizens who want the youngster gone, and when her grandmother dies, she is left alone once again, struggling to get by with part-time work digitally retouching the mementos of one elderly resident and aching with loneliness and a deep wish...
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