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One rainy night fifteen years ago, a knock at the door changed Liss Kehoe’s life forever. On that night, Ashley Hay stood on Liss’s front porch and handed over her brand-new baby Callan. She was never seen or heard from again. Since then, Liss has raised Callan as her own, and loves him as fiercely as any mother would. But in the back of her mind, she’s always wondered whether Ashley is still out there somewhere. When Ashley does reappear, it’s...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible--a good man by her side, a steady job, and a cozy house in a quaint town. Daisy Jacobs's hopes for her future are threatened when she gets unexpectedly pregnant. She hides this development and then makes a drastic decision with devastating consequences. When Cinnamon finds an abandoned baby in a park and takes the newborn into her home, the ripple effects risk exposing Cinnamon's...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Summer Uzoma's parents went on the run after they were accused of committing a crime, leaving her behind. She has been alternating stays with her friends' families, and secretly visits her old home. But she's fine: she has her skateboard and her bus pass. She just has to turn eighteen in a few weeks and then she'll truly be free. Then a nosy social worker arranges for Summer to be living with her cousin Olu-- someone she hasn't seen in years: a famous...
5) Unraveling
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Series
Publisher
Kelley Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kirin Lane barely escaped with her life from the mob boss who killed her mother. Now he's dead, and his family blames her and the man she loves. Sam Neal is playing a dangerous game, and he knows it. All he wants is to leave his old life behind for a future with Kirin but protecting her from those who want them dead will mean getting involved with a powerful woman from his past. And once she sinks her claws into him, he may lose Kirin for good. Entangled...
6) Entangling
Author
Series
Publisher
Kelley Griffin
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kirin Lane's father dies, it means nothing to her. Why should it? It's been thirty years since he abandoned her after her mother's death. But when her house is ransacked and sinister men pursue her, Kirin is forced to look to the only thing he left her for answers--a tattered Marine Corps field manual. Inside, she discovers clues that could unlock the mystery surrounding her mother's murder, if only she can follow the cryptic information. She...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In London, a man picks up an abandoned baby in a bus station and gives it to his childless sister. It's illegal, but she decides to keep it. What they don't realize is that the baby is bait in a scheme to extort money.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Raymond and his pup Rosie are abandoned by his family, he uses his wilderness skills to survive in the woods, but as winter comes, he realizes his wits are not enough, and that perhaps it is time he starts trusting others with his secret.
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Series
Gunhild volume 1
Publisher
Rockport
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
218 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 more than a little troublemaker. Every step of the way, it becomes clear that Gunhild must fight for what's right and follow her own sense of justice, seeing as no one else will fight for her. Gunhild's...
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