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2. Finding Noel
Author:
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
[2006]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
A twenty-one-year-old woman searches for clues to her past while struggling with vague memories of being sent away by her parents at the age of seven, a younger sister, and a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word, "Noel."
Author:
Publisher:
Gallery Books
Pub. Date:
2021
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 ... 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 to rest at her house while they wait for...
Author:
Publisher:
World Editions
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
"One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: "A miracle!" Baby Pascal is stikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Travis family romances volume 3.
Series:
Travis family romances volume 3
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. He makes no commitments, he loves many women, he lives for pleasure. Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby's aunt.
7. Lucky Us
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Forging a life together after being abandoned by their parents, half sisters Eva and Iris share decades in and out of the spotlight in golden-era Hollywood and mid-twentieth-century Long Island.
8. Lost & found
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Formats:
Description:
Follows a shared encounter between an abandoned 7-year-old, a widowed shut-in and a nursing home escapee, who embark on a road trip across Western Australia to find the child's mother.
Author:
Publisher:
Viking
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken--until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances: one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket ... And although their cruel matron might think they're 'unadoptable,' they know their individuality...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Formats:
Description:
In a near future world of heat, greed, and hunger, Devin earns a coveted spot in a home for abandoned children that promises unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family, but Devin discovers the home's horrific true mission when he investigates its intimidating Administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children.
11. Seeking Sarah
Author:
Publisher:
Gallery Books
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
On the day of her father's funeral, Brooke Green's grandmother breaks the shocking news: her mother, Sarah, is very much alive, living in Atlanta. She abandoned her family because she claimed she wasn't fit for motherhood-- but began an new career, and even has a family in Atlanta. Stunned, Brooke doesn't know if she wants answers or revenge. When she meets Sarah's husband, Tony, Brooke sees the perfect way to make her mother pay. But her plan for...
Author:
Publisher:
Flux
Pub. Date:
[2013]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
1 stars
Description:
When his alcoholic mother disappears, fifteen-year-old Laurence is determined to find her, take care of his little brother, and keep their predicament a secret, all while trying to win a luxury vacation for his mom in a radio call-in contest.
14. Homecoming
Author:
NoveList Series:
Tillerman family volume 1.
Series:
Tillerman family volume 1
Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Abandoned in a parking lot by their mother, who left them with a bag of sandwiches and the address of a distant great-aunt, Dicey, James, Maybeth, and Sammy Tillerman embark on an arduous and eventful journey.
15. A healing touch
Author:
Series:
Publisher:
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Dr. Ruth "Dok" Stoltzfus dedicates her life to her patients, addressing not just their physical needs but their emotional needs too. When an abandoned infant arrives at her office, she resists the idea of fostering him. Too old, too busy, too everything. But just as she begins to form a bond with the baby, the birth mother unexpectedly reappears"--
16. Ferals
Author:
NoveList Series:
Ferals volume 1.
Series:
Ferals volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
A street kid, whose only friends are crows, saves a girl from a vicious attack only to discover the existence of other wild kids like himself who possess the ability to communicate with animals.
In a city ravaged by crime and corruption, 13-year-old orphan Caw's only friends are the murder of crows he has lived with since his parents flung him from their house aged only five. Caw lives in a treehouse in an abandoned city park, surviving on scraps...
17. Outer dark
Author:
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Pub. Date:
1993
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Set in Appalachia around the turn of the century, a woman bears her brother's child. The father hides the baby in the woods and tells his sister the baby died of natural causes. When she discovers the lie, she sets out to find her son and both parents move headlong toward an apocalyptic resolution.
Author:
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
"What kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist BegonĢa GoĢmez Urzaiz became fixated on artistic women who overcame both society's condemnation and their own maternal guilt to leave their children -- at will or due to economic or other circumstances. The Abandoners is sharp, at times slyly humorous, and always deeply empathetic. Using famous...
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
20. Truth or dare
Author:
NoveList Series:
Men of the sisterhood volume 4.
Series:
Men of the sisterhood volume 4
Publisher:
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
When the call comes, the Men of the Sisterhood drop everything to help their friends. This time it's Cyrus, their four-legged hound dog and unofficial mascot. While member Joe Espinosa is driving along an isolated country road with Cyrus in tow, he catches a glimpse of movement in the woods bordering the road and notes Cyrus pawing desperately at the car window. As soon as he pulls over to investigate, Cyrus bolts out the door and leads Joe to three...
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