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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.
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"Justine had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. The proof could be found in her mother's elegance, her uppercrust London accent--and in a cryptic letter hinting at her claim to a country estate. But beneath the polished veneer lay a fearsome, unpredictable temper that drove Justine from home the moment she was old enough to escape. Years later, when her mother sent her an envelope filled with secrets from the past, Justine buried...
83) A web of air
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In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.
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Cemeteries of Amalo volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Celehar's life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city-the foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys go to the Prelacies; foundling girls are sold into service, or worse. At once touching and shattering, Celehar's witnessing for one of these...
85) Raven summer
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©[2009], 2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Led to an abandoned baby by a raven, fourteen-year-old Liam seems fated to meet two foster children who have experienced the world's violence in very different ways as he struggles to understand war, family problems, and friends who grow apart.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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3 DVDs (460 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium, which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons. Based on author Philip Pullman's beloved trilogy.
88) Folly
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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
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249 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.
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Capstone Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
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154 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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As a baby Minerva Mint was found in a travel bag in the waiting room of a London train station, together with the deed to a rundown mansion called Lizard Manor, and for nine years she has been living there with Geraldine Flopps, the former station custodian who found her--now, together with two new friends, she is determined to find her true identity.
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Way down deep novel volume 2
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders.
92) Tom Jones
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
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2 DVDs (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Abandoned as a baby, rescued and adopted by a country gentleman, Tom Jones grows up kind, handsome, free-spirited, and very popular with the ladies. But he cannot escape his lowly birth. When he falls in love with the bright, beautiful heiress Sophia Western, and she falls in love with him, their families unite against the match. They both end up in London, facing the wiles and whims of Sophia's aunt, the beguiling but dangerous Lady Bellaston, who...
93) Tom Jones
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English
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Lusty tale set in 18th century England. Birthed by a local woman but raised by the village squire, Tom Jones grows up to be a handsome young man with a way with women. He loves the daughter of a neighboring landowner, and falls into many adventures in pursuit of her, including duels, bedroom romps and prison!
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2 entertain/BBC Video
Pub. Date
2007.
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1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (1,278 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young girl is destined to liberate her world from the grip of the Magisterium which represses people's ties to magic and their animal spirits known as daemons.
96) True colors
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
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