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Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work there are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep the child . . . while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of the estate, for her own reasons, agrees to help him. "Blessings" explores how the secrets of the past affect...
3) Water keep
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(Jeffrey Scott),Farworld volume 1
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English
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Found in the desert as an infant by monks who named him, thirteen-year-old Marcus, who is confined to a wheelchair, knows nothing of his background. He endures the difficulties of his daily life by dreaming of Farworld, a magical place whose pull increases in strength.
4) The Guardian
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Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
Language
English
Description
After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
5) Monster baby
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver are delighted to find a newborn baby on their doorstep one morning, but must learn to adapt when they discover that he is not like other babies.
6) Air keep
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English
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Marcus and Kyja continue to search for the Elementals they need to unite to open a drift between Earth and Farworld, but the Air Elementals have a strange sense of humor and with Farworld in the grip of a terrible drought and daily earthquakes, the two friends face untold challenges.
8) Factotum
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Series
(David M.),Monster blood tattoo volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
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Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family. They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois...
11) True heart
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
With his unicorn characteristics disguised beneath the beautiful armor created by Joseph Lequire, Moonsilver accompanies Heart on the journey to the place where Lord Irmaedith's men have taken the gypsies.
13) Bachelor mother
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Unemployed Polly Parrish impulsively picks up a baby left at orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the foundling is hers, including Polly's playboy ex-boss, who offers her a job if she'll live up to her maternal duties. A paycheck would be handy, so Polly complies. Then the boss's tycoon dad assumes the infant is his secret grandson, and things really spin out of control.
14) Silas Marner
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English
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Disappointed in friendship and love, and embittered by a false accusation, weaver Silas Marner retreats from the world with his loom, but soon finds his monastic existence forever changed by the arrival of an orphaned girl, whom he takes in and raises as his own daughter.
15) Land keep
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English
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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.
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Mo and Dale mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Fielding's classic novel chronicles the adventures of Tom Jones, who was abandoned as an infant and grows into a lusty, imprudent young man. Promising to mend his ways, Tom competes with an abusive rival for the affections of a wealthy squire's daughter, and eventually learns the truth about his identity.
19) The sunset gates
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
While continuing the quest for her true identity, Heart and the unicorns once again join forces with the gypsies and Heart is taught to read so that she may one day unravel the secrets of Lord Dunraven's book.
20) The witch's boy
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Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.
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