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121) The murmur of bees
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family,...
Author
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
Russian
Description
If I want to whistle, I whistle (2010): Silviu, a young man who has spent years in a youth penitentiary, is granted release. Before he can leave, his mother returns to Romania to bring his little brother to Italy with her, despite Silviu's objections. He meets a young woman, Ana, who is working on a research project in the prison, and becomes interested in her. In his desperation Silviu resorts to violence, and Ana becomes his hostage.
Kiss (2009-TV):...
123) Magic lessons
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1600s, Maria was abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, who recognizes that Maria has a gift, she learns about the 'Unnamed Arts.' When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. She invokes a curse that will haunt her family for generations. And she learns the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life: Love is the...
124) Min and Bill
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Min, the feisty owner of a waterfront hotel who has raised an abandoned girl as her own child, is at constant odds with Bill, a rough and ready ship captain. Then the girl's happiness is threatened by her drunken mother's reappearance and Min's world is turned upside down.
125) Murder in Chelsea
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has...
126) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout,' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
127) Bones and all
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter. It's a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind.
129) Dust child: a novel
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--
130) The drop box
Publisher
Arbella Studios
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Examines the work of Pastor Jong-rak Lee, who accepts into his family infants placed anonymously in the "baby box" at the front of his church in Seoul, South Korea.
Series
Publisher
Panorama Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Persian
Description
Orphaned by the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu stows away on a truck which takes him north to a place where another language is spoken and Bashu is ridiculed for his dark complexion. A woman shows compassion taking him into her house, slowly establishing contact and trust.
Author
Series
Inspector Lynley novel volume 14
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Three abandoned children--Ness, who loses herself in drugs, alcohol, and fast boys; Toby, who harbors problems nobody is willing to acknowledge; and Joel, who forges a pact that sets a terrible crime into motion--become the focus of a murder investigation.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Silent night: In New York, a thief steals a woman's wallet with a medal of St. Christopher she was taking to her husband in hospital. One of her young sons gives chase, only to be abducted by a killer as a hostage for a getaway to Canada. But St. Christopher spoils his plan.
All through the night: Retired cleaning lady Alvirah Meehan sets out to reunite a mother with a daughter who was stolen as a baby eight years earlier. The mother left her pram...
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.
137) Girl on fire
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Lolo Wright always thought she was just a regular fourteen-year-old dealing with regular family drama: her brother, James, is struggling with his studies; her dad's business constantly teeters on the edge of trouble; and her mother... she left long ago. But then Lolo's world explodes when a cop pulls a gun on James in a dangerous case of mistaken identities. Staring down the barrel, with no one else to help, Lolo discovers powers she never knew she...
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