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241) Mully
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A homeless orphan in Kenya becomes a lucrative businessman, only to give it all up and open an orphanage that today serves over 2,000 Kenyan children.
243) August Rush
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Language
English
Description
A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
244) My own private Idaho
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
245) Any day now
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their living arrangement is discovered, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.
246) Imperfections
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1862 Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, fourteen-year-old Rosemary Elizabeth strives to fit in with the Shaker sisters of this "Heaven on Earth, " but yearns to be reunited with her mother and siblings from whom she was separated when they sought refuge from her abusive father. Includes facts about Shakers and Morgan's Raiders.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Silent night: In New York, a thief steals a woman's wallet with a medal of St. Christopher she was taking to her husband in hospital. One of her young sons gives chase, only to be abducted by a killer as a hostage for a getaway to Canada. But St. Christopher spoils his plan.
All through the night: Retired cleaning lady Alvirah Meehan sets out to reunite a mother with a daughter who was stolen as a baby eight years earlier. The mother left her pram...
249) Chance Harbor
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve, admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm and responsible. Zoe is passionate and rebellious. Nobody is surprised when Zoe gets pregnant, drops out of college, and spirals into drug addiction. One night Catherine gets a call from Zoes terrified daughter, Willow, saying her mother has abandoned her in a bus station and disappeared. Eve blames herself, while Catherine, unable...
252) Punky Brewster
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Punky Brewster, a bright eight-year-old girl, has been abandoned by her mother and lives on the streets of Chicago with her puppy sidekick Brandon. Punky thinks she doesn't need help, but after getting picked up by the police, she enters a foster home and starts to search for a family. Punky meets Henry, a long-lost relative, and decides he's the adoptive dad for her. All she has to do is convince the foster home, adoption judges and lawyers, and...
254) The painted bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II.
Author
Series
Gunhild volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Could you follow your dreams if the whole world was against you? Gunhild dreams of becoming a real-life god, and everyone everywhere thinks it's a terrible idea made up by a petulant twelve-year-old. In the world of Norse mythology , humans revere the mighty gods and fear the mystical, nature-wielding Jotuns, and Gunhild is a fire Jotun . Abandoned by her own kind and raised in a human girls' orphanage , Gunhild wishes to prove to her peers that she's...
256) Dust child: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Past and present converge in the intertwined stories of an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man, all of whom are forced to grapple with secrets they kept during and after the Việt Nam War.
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