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41) The dark mirror
Author
Series
Bridei chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
512 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
42) Tom Jones
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1985.
Edition
First Modern Library edition.
Physical Desc
982 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus The King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborate disasters, to claim his legitimacy, his fortune, and his true love. Describes the foundling, Tom,...
44) Foundling
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and radian, spirited Isabel live together in married bliss on a remote, rugged island off the coast of Australia. But their windswept world is turned upside down when Isabel learns that she's unable to bear a child. One day, a drifting lifeboat washes ashore with a crying baby in it. The dilemma the couple now face will echo far beyond the island, engulfing and irrevocably impacting their world, and that of a stranger....
46) Always October
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Jake and "Weird Lily" enter the monster-filled land of Always October, made famous in Jake's grandfather's books, to save a foundling who becomes a monster during the full moon.
47) Tumbleweed Baby
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
49) Factotum
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 3
Publisher
G.P Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xiv, 684 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accused of being a monster instead of human, Rossamünd Bookchild looks to monster-hunter Branden Rose for help, but powerful forces are after them both, believing that Rossamünd holds the secret to perpetual youth.
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of Skip Cuddy, the Blessings caretaker, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him, Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. This is a powerful novel...
51) Water keep
Author
Series
(Jeffrey Scott),Farworld volume 1
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xi, 419 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Found in the desert as a baby by monks who named him, thirteen-year-old Marcus, who has been confined to a wheelchair ever since he can remember, knows nothing of his background and endures the difficulties of his daily life in various foster homes and schools by dreaming of Farworld, a magical place whose pull seems to be getting increasingly stronger.
52) The orphan house
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1934: Connie Burroughs loves living in the orphanage that her father runs in the English countryside. But everything changes the day she sees him carrying a newborn baby that he says he found near the broken front gate. A baby she recognizes ... Present Day: Arriving at her father's beloved cottage beside the Thames, Sarah Jennings is hoping for peace and quiet, and an escape from her difficult divorce. But when she finds her father unwell and poring...
53) Land keep
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having discovered that his destiny is tied to that of Farworld, Marcus, despite his growing power over water, struggles with physical pain and inner doubts as, with the help of his companions, he tries to complete the quest to find the other elementals that will help destroy the evil force of the Dark Circle.
54) The convent
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Mysteries of Sparrow Island volume 14
Publisher
Guideposts Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
229 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Isabella, a beautiful but lazy young woman, agrees to marry an equally lazy prince, the sorceress who raised her gives her the head of a goat in hopes that she will learn to do things for herself.
58) Steward of song
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
60) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
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