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41) House of furies
Author
Series
House of furies volume 1
Publisher
Audio Editions
Pub. Date
2017, ©2017
Physical Desc
7 CDs (510 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boarding house. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle House, Louisa begins to realize that the house's mysterious owner, Mr. Morningside, is providing much more than lodging for his guests. Far from a place of rest, the house is a place of judgment, and Mr. Morningside and his unusual staff are...
42) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to...
43) Mosquitoland
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
©2015
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mim lives in a medicated haze with her dad and stepmom in Mississippi. When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, she confronts her demons on a 1,000-mile Greyhound bus journey that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what itmeans to be sane.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1080
Publisher
Janus Films, Criterion
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm).
Description
In 1983, director Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall set out to tell the stories of homeless and runaway teenagers in Seattle. These two films together create a frank, empathetic portrait of lost youth.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill Canada
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Description
It's Newfoundland, 1986. Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life in an unsafe, unsanitary house. Her mother is a compulsive hoarder, and Bun has had little contact with the outside world. What she's learned about life comes from the random books and old VHS tapes that she finds in the boxes and bags her mother brings home. Bun and her mother rarely talk, so when Bun's mother tells Bun to leave one day, she does. Hitchhiking out of...
47) Runner
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
While searching for fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus, who has run away from her foster home, Black homicide cop-turned-PI Cass Raines soon discovers that Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for and if Cass can't find her first, she will have nowhere left to run.
48) Riding the rails
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression, including interviews and archival footage of teens riding atop speeding trains.
49) Numbers
Author
Series
Numbers volume 1
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they'll die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
"Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
51) Smithereens
Series
Criterion collection volume 941
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Wren, a punk teenage girl who escapes New Jersey for 1980s New York City to become famous.
Author
Publisher
Rising Phoenix Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
174 pages : portrait ; 23 cm.
Description
Growing up Amish and leaving the fold, Emma Gingerich left her Amish community in Eagleville, Missouri, at the age of eighteen. Disagreeing with the beliefs of Amish traditions and upbringing, the pressure became too much for her to bear. Forced to make a personal decision, Emma found the courage to leave the only life she had ever known. She had no idea the emotional turmoil she'd inflict on her family and friends. The emotional reaction of her parents,...
Author
Description
Rebellious teenager Rose has been missing for weeks with no word, and Rose’s younger sister, the feisty and fierce Clara, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window, hoping for her sibling’s return. Enter thirtyish Liam Kane, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small northern town, where he promptly moves into the house next door–watched suspiciously by astonished and dismayed Clara, whose elderly friend, Mrs. Orchard,...
55) Incredible doom
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Description
"Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family's first computer, she escapes into a thrilling new world where she meetings Samir, a like-minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from home with her. After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind, Richard receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to 'Evol BBS,' a dial-in...
56) Stage dreams
Author
Series
Formats
Description
The New Mexico Territory, 1861. Young Grace, a trans runaway, has headed west, fleeing her Georgia homeand conscription into the Confederate Army. But her coach ride to California makes an unplanned stop when notorious outlaw the Ghost Hawk swoops in, shaking down its passengers and stealing away with Grace. The Ghost HawkFlor to her friendsmeans to hold Grace for ransom. But when the two get to talking about Flor's plan to crash a Confederate gala,...
57) Runner
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
441 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Native American guide Jane Whitefield returns from retirement to the world of the runner determined to hide a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.
58) Secret father
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
637 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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