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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Formats
Description
"Billie Letts takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the best and worst of America's heartland as she tells a story of two abandoned children desperately searching for people to call family and a place to call home"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Binh has grown up not knowing his parents, an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman. In an effort to find a better life he searches for his mother in Saigon before heading to New York City and later Houston.
4) Dr. Knox
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Adam Knox comes from a long line of patrician Connecticut doctors--a line he broke to serve with an NGO in the war-torn Central African Republic. His attempt to protect his patients there from a brutal militia ended in disaster and disgrace, and now he runs a clinic near Los Angeles's Skid Row, making ends meet by making house calls--cash only, no questions asked--on those too famous or too criminal to seek other medical care. When a young boy is...
Author
Series
Travis family romances volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Men of the sisterhood volume 4
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
On New Year's Eve, the octuplets Huit--Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia--discover that their parents are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what happened to their parents.
9) Any day now
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
10) Lost & found
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
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.
11) Bridge to haven
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 468 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.
12) Swift justice
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Charlotte "Charlie" Swift, a former Air Force investigator turned private eye, likes her solitary existence. When her silent partner flees 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.
Author
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
134 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Author
Publisher
Marble Arch Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 21cm
Description
Four brothers--none of whom knew the others existed--come together for the first time to search for their missing father, a truck driver who abandoned them when they were young, and put together the pieces of his life.
Author
Series
Description
When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them--a man they believe is John Grant.
16) Red skies
Author
Series
Tales of the scavenger's daughters volume 04
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
The lives of three strangers converge in profound and unexpected ways. As the daughter of the town scavenger, Mari grew up knowing hardship, but she never anticipated the struggles facing her as an adult. Max, an American photojournalist, arrives in China to face his demons and end his unbearable suffering. A little girl grows up on the streets, longing for the one thing she's never known, a family.
17) Light on snow
Author
Publisher
Time Warner AudioBooks
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
7 CDs (ca. 6.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Finding a wailing infant while snowshoeing in the woods with her father makes 12-year-old Nicky Dillon question her life's strange shape, from why her father moved them to the isolated New England farmhouse to how they can come to terms with the tragedy they left behind.
18) Marcia's madness
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
viii, 119 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
The Huit octuplets discover Marcia's special power--the ability to see through things--which helps when their evil neighbor calls Social Services to report that they are living alone because their parents have not returned from wherever they disappeared to.
Author
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Description
A.J. Fikry owns a failing bookshop. His wife has just died, in tragic circumstances. His rare and valuable first edition has been stolen. His life is a wreck. Amelia is a book rep, with a big heart, and a lonely life Maya is the baby who ends up on A.J.'s bookshop floor with a note. What happens in the bookshop that changes the lives of these seemingly normal but extraordinary characters? This is the story of how unexpected love can rescue you and...
20) Petal's problems
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
vii, 132 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
During the month of June, Petal, one of the eight Huit octuplets, gets her power, which she uses to great advantage when Crazy Aunt Serena tries to kidnap Rebecca and throw her off the Eiffel Tower while the rest of the family attends a wedding.
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