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62) Fallen angels
Author
Series
Millwood Hollow series volume 1
Publisher
Warner Faith
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
viii, 301 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
63) The odds
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
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...
Author
Series
Ben Jones novels volume 2
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, finds a mute Hispanic child who has been abandoned at a seedy truck stop along his route, far from civilization and bearing a note that simply reads "Please Ben. Watch my son. His name is Juan." At the bottom: "Bad Trouble....
66) Behold the many
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small town in 1950s South Carolina, Bonnie Wilder's husband finds an abandoned baby by the river. After voicing her concern for local mothers who are unable to raise their children, Bonnie finds more abandoned newborns on her doorstep. Soon she forms a secret network to match the babies with childless families. Thirty years later, one of those babies wants to know about her past.
68) SEALed forever
Author
Series
Navy SEALed volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Navy SEAL Garth Vale rescues an abandoned baby while running an undercover mission for the CIA. He desperately needs the help of local M.D. Bronwyn Whitescarver, who has her own reasons to get involved.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn't occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors--which have him running back to Stockholm as...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family's housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband's faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye. Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her dearly and maps her journey in an atlas he finds in her study....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1970. On the one-year anniversary of the Harrington family's darkest night, their beautiful London home goes up in flames. Mrs. Harrington, the two children, and live-in nanny Rita relocate to Foxcote Manor, ostensibly to recuperate. But the creeping forest, where lost things have a way of coming back, is not as restful as it seems. When thirteen-year-old Hera discovers a baby girl abandoned just beyond their garden gate, this tiniest, most...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : geneological table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman who abandoned her son faces the prospect of a reunion, while a young single mother hopes for a commitment from her boyfriend and a young man searches for answers about his parentage.
74) Rebel Seoul
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2199 in the Neo State of Korea, eighteen-year-old Jaewon is partnered with supersoldier Tera, but their evolving love is threatened when Jaewon must choose among conflicting loyalties--to the totalitarian government that promises to end all war, the nationalist rebels his father followed, or the crime syndicate staging a coup.
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
Language
English
Description
"Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn't mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation, along with his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement consults him on the suspicious death of several local kids. They're...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having spent the last seven years in Texas, Border Patrol Agent Peyton Cote is returning home to northern Maine, hoping it will be a safer environment for her young son. But the criminal element has turned what was once a quiet corner of the country into an illicit trade route...and there's no telling what they'll do to protect their interests. When Peyton finds a baby abandoned in a frozen field near the border, she's pulled into a deadly conspiracy...
79) Wildflower ridge
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 18 cm
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's Christmastime in Caerphilly. Meg is directing the town's nativity pageant when she finds a surprise in the manger: a live baby. A note attached to the baby girl's clothes implicates Meg's brother, Rob, as the father. And while a DNA test can reveal whether there's any truth to the accusation, Rob's afraid the mere suspicion could derail his plan to propose to the woman he loves. Meg discovers that the baby-- named Lark in the note-- may be connected...
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