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Series
Criterion collection volume 646
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
After twelve-year-old Cyril's single father rejects him, the compassion of a stranger who agrees to take care of him helps him move forward.
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, the humans came for their gods. In the bloody revolution, gods were all but wiped out. Ever since, the children they left behind have been imprisoned in an orphanage, watched day and night by the ruthless Guard. Any who show signs of divine power vanish from their beds in the night, all knowledge of their existence denied. No one has ever escaped the orphanage. Until now. Seventeen-year-old Hero is finally free - but at a terrible...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Tillie's husband is away on business, the boxes in her new home aren't unpacked, and the telephone isn't even connected yet. Though she's not due for another month, sudden labor pains force Tillie to reach out to her estranged father for help-- a choice that means facing the painful memories she's been running from since she was a child.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Millie Bird's struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in a local store and never returns. Agatha Pantha, has not left her house, or spoken to another human being, since she was widowed seven years ago. Karl once used his fingers to type out love notes on his wife's skin; now widowed, he types his words out into the air as he speaks. Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark upon a road trip across Western...
Author
Language
English
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Description
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The first in a gripping new mystery series by literary agent Paula Munier, about a retired MP and bomb-sniffing dog who become embroiled in an investigation in the beautiful Vermont wilderness It may be the Fourth of July weekend, but for retired soldier Mercy Carr and Belgian Malinois Elvis, it's just another walk in the remote Lye Brook Wilderness--until the former bomb-sniffing dog alerts to explosives and they find a squalling baby abandoned...
88) Carry me home
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lulu, burdened with caring for her sister, Serena, since their father disappeared, must learn to trust her new friends and community when secrets and lies catch up with her.
90) Street dreams
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When Cindy Decker finds an abandoned newborn in a rubbish bin, she ultimately must turn to her father Peter Decker for help in solving the crime.
91) Y: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A foster child who has been shuffled through the system after being abandoned at the YMCA as a baby wonders about her birth family and the reasons she was given up, questions that lead to the tragic story of her flawed and desperate mother.
Author
Series
Language
Español
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Description
"En Linares, al norte del país, con la Revolución mexicana como telón de fondo... Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia Morales abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé deforme y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conservar y cuidar al pequeño, la familia decide adoptarlo. Cubierto...
95) Still waters
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Separated from her brother Bryan, and passed from caretaker to caretaker, Jenny discovers - as she rebels her way through high school and into adulthood - that the past can never be truly locked away forever. She survived the stunning traumas of a lost childhood, but survival may not be a way of life. Now the secrets, lies and loneliness that once imprisoned her are brought into sharp focus, where an adult Jenny can make her peace at last. But one...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Summer Uzoma's parents went on the run after they were accused of committing a crime, leaving her behind. She has been alternating stays with her friends' families, and secretly visits her old home. But she's fine: she has her skateboard and her bus pass. She just has to turn eighteen in a few weeks and then she'll truly be free. Then a nosy social worker arranges for Summer to be living with her cousin Olu-- someone she hasn't seen in years: a famous...
97) The ash house
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster. The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name like theirs. They show him the dorms and tell him about the wonderful oasis that the Headmaster has created for them. But the new boy already has a name....
98) Bones & All
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking...
99) Jellicoe Road
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
100) Tangled vines
Author
Series
Tales of the scavenger's daughters volume 2
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
During China's Cultural Revolution, Benfu survived the cruel years, but he did not emerge unscathed. The Scavenger's Daughters is the story of Benfu and his beloved wife Calli, chronicling their attempts to build a life in the turmoil and aftermath of Maoist China. At the heart of their struggle lies the pain of losing their only child. To fill the terrible hole in their lives, they take in abandoned girls; the unwanted "weeds" as their own, lovingly...
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