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181) Dust child: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--
182) The odds
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (464 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tarzan goes to India: Summoned to India by a dying maharajah, Tarzan attempts to remove an elephant herd from a valley to be flooded upon completion of a modern dam.
Tarzan's three challenges: The spiritual leader of an Asian country is dying. The leader's evil brother is plotting to prevent the youthful heir from assuming his rightful position. Tarzan is summoned to protect him and he must face three tests of skill, wisdom, and strength.
Tarzan...
184) Livia Lone
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; marooned in America; abused by the men who trafficked them... the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason. Now a Seattle PD sex-crimes detective, Livia has never stopped looking. She does everything she can to put predators in prison-- or in the ground. When a fresh lead offers new hope of finding Nason, she'll have to relive the horrors of the...
185) Lies come easy
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
One blizzardy New Mexico night, Deputy Pasquale picks up a toddler from the shoulder of State 56, apparently dumped out of a truck by his father. Nearly as horrifying is the brutal murder of Constance Suarez in the border town of Regál, population 37. The Posadas County Sheriff's Department is stretched to its limits as its dedicated personnel juggle working cases and caring for citizens with their own relationships and celebrations. The irony of...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why would a mother ever abandon her child? And is an abandoned child destined to grow up and make the same mistake? These were some of Melissa Cistaro's questions after her mother drove off without explanation one summer. Decades later Melissa finds herself at her dying mother's bedside with 6 days to find answers, fearful that she could do the same to her own little girl. Then she discovers a cache of letters her mother wrote but never sent and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Possessing no memories of his life before entering an orphanage, young Duncan recites fantastical stories about his origins and is astonished when his singer mother claims him into an adult world of hazy bars and a salty Vietnam veteran lover.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (approximately 312 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The perfect furlough: A scheming corporal with a personnel file that reads like a stag movie rigs a raffle and wins a trip to Paris with a beautiful movie star.
The great impostor: The incredible but true story tells of how the untrained, uneducated yet brilliant Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. assumes the identity of a college professor, Trappist monk, prison warden and surgeon in the Canadian Navy, while outrunning the FBI, the police, a priest, and...
189) Little girl lost
Author
Series
Foundlings volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
May, 1968: On a murky Mother's Day, pre-dawn, sinister secrets play out miles apart in New York City. In Harlem, a church janitor finds an innocent newborn in a basket. In Brooklyn, an elusive serial killer prowls slumbering families, leaving a trail of blood, and a twisted calling card. Cloaked in lies, these seemingly unrelated lives and deaths are destined to intersect. October, 1987: Amelia Crenshaw embarks on a search to discover the truth about...
191) Min and Bill
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 65 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Min, the feisty owner of a waterfront hotel who has raised an abandoned girl as her own child, is at constant odds with Bill, a rough and ready ship captain. Then the girl's happiness is threatened by her drunken mother's reappearance and Min's world is turned upside down.
194) The Star of Kazan
Author
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
196) Blossoms in the dust
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To Edna Gladney, founder of the Texas Children's home and Aid Society, every abandoned child deserves the miracle of a loving home. Edna's devotion echoes today as she declares, "There are no illegitimate babies-- only illegitimate parents."
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
6 Blu-rays (702 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 books (82, 199 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
Swedish
Description
Fucking Åmål: Awkward teenager Agnes has recently moved with her family to the small rural town of Åmål, and has a secret: she's head over heels in love with one of the popular girls at her school, the impulsive and restless Elin. When a doomed birthday party leads to a chance encounter between the pair, an unexpected romance blossoms that might be the most exciting thing to happen in Åmål in years.
Together: Stockholm, 1975. Fleeing her drunken...
198) The murmur of bees
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
461 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family,...
199) The torn skirt
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
200) Half a world away
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
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