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Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Tucker has always followed her heart, and now it leads her to one of Oklahoma's largest ranches where she can teach in her very own schoolhouse. When suspicious accidents put the ranch-and lives-in jeopardy, Charlotte believes in the one man no one else trusts and asks him to help her uncover the truth. There's bad blood between the ranch owner and its newest hand, Owen Wallace, but Owen is as brave as he is caring, risking even his own...
42) La pivellina
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Italiano
Description
A hard-luck family of circus performers takes in a young girl they find abandoned in a park near Rome.
43) Swift justice
Author
Series
[Charlie Swift series] volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte "Charlie" Swift, a former Air Force investigator turned private eye, likes her solitary existence. When her silent partner flees the the country, leaving his socialite wife Gigi with a half interest in the business, Charlie must find a way to cope with her while also investigating the case of an abandoned baby.
44) The painted bird
Author
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Called by the Los Angeles Times "one of the most imposing novels of the decade," it was eventually translated into more than thirty languages. A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, The Painted Bird is a dark novel that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love....
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la "chica de la marisma". Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y cañaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeras de juego. Kya aprende a descifrar los signos de la naturaleza...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
Swedish
Description
In the summer of 1981, a 9-year-old girl is left behind in her aunt's care while the rest of her family goes to Africa as aid workers. The aunt is soon courted by a man and leaves the girl with the promise to return in a few days. The abandoned girl keeps this a secret from everyone and uses her freedom to discover the world around her as the summer passes by. With sharpening senses she gradually discovers the often absurd and careless world of adults....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as "the girls." They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the Darlens are special. Now nearing their 30th birthday, they are history's oldest craniopagus twins, joined at the head by a spot the size of a bread plate. When Rose, the bookish sister, sets out to...
48) On our own
Publisher
Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of four children abandoned by their father and left to themselves when their mother dies. Learning they are headed for separate foster homes, they run away, hoping to find their Uncle Jack and start a new life.
51) Adopt a highway
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
Italiano
Description
Caterina, a beautiful young nun, is about to take her final vows. But her life changes when she takes in an abandoned baby. As she seeks the baby's family, she meets Ernesto. Together, they seek the truth about the baby, and re-evaluate their own lives.
53) The unadoptables
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although their cruel matron might think...
55) The match
Author
Series
Wilde volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He became known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods. Now Wilde has had a hit on the DNA website he has been researching. A 100% match. His father. They meet up, and Wilde soon realises that his father doesn't even know he had a son and is as...
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a natural disaster threatens to destroy lives in the small mountain town of Pineville, Minnesota, Doctor Esther Hanson struggles to help her patients without giving in to overwhelming emotions triggered by a long-suppressed memory and U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James, grieving the tragic loss of his wife, rushes an abandoned baby to Esther's clinic. Brought together by the life of a child, Ben and Esther become each other's reason to change....
57) Any day now
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple take him in and become the loving family he's never had. But when their living arrangement is discovered, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.
58) Nobody knows
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After moving into a new apartment, Akira's mother abandons her family to live with her boyfriend, leaving Akira and his two younger siblings to fend for themselves and face limited freedom and malnutrition.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
Czech
Description
A dysfunctional family, including a college professor, his long-estranged son and the lover they both shared are reunited. Two petty pickpockets attempt to rob a black belt in karate. A dimwitted soccer hooligan's wife buys a baby in a pawnshop. These are just a few of the unconnected strangers who find a common connection.
60) Any Day Now
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Winner of 10 Audience Awards at film festivals around the country and starring the amazing Alan Cumming, Any Day Now is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced...
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