(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
1) After Anna
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girl is missing. Five years old, taken from outside her school. She has vanished, traceless. The police are at a loss ; her parents are beyond grief. Their daughter is lost forever--perhaps dead, perhaps enslaved. But the biggest mystery is yet to come : one week after she was abducted, Anna is returned. She has no memory of where she has been. And this, for her mother, is just the beginning of the nightmare..."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Blum, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead-- and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars. That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an instant,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerfully suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, 300 pounds of fury, is attacking the family's campsite, pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother's faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after ... until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change ... and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the attorneys at Cobb and Cobb, the pursuit of justice is about more than legal expertise; it's a family matter. David Cobb is not a typical lawyer--he's more interested in dispensing God's wisdom than pertinent legal advice. High-stakes litigation is way outside his comfort zone. For many years Zeke Caldwell has been concocting home remedies made from natural ingredients found in the coastal marshes near Wilmington, North Carolina. One of his...
6) One summer
Author
Language
English
Description
Jack is terminally ill and has a very short time to live. As Christmas approaches, he prepares to spend his last days with his wife Lizzie and their three kids. But suddenly, Lizzie is tragically killed in a car accident, and the children are separated and sent to live with different family members. However, when Jack miraculously recovers, he sets out to reunite his family.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In her new novel, Danielle Steel tells a riveting story of the dark side of motherhood. Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness, watching as her parents dedicated themselves completely to her final days and then divorced. As a young woman driven by these painful memories, Zoe sets the bar high for herself, studying hard and pursuing a career in the nonprofit world, where her deep compassion for disadvantaged children...
Author
Series
Mister Max volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Self-reliant Max Starling, a twelve-year-old detective and problem solver, struggles to keep his identity a secret as he investigates a case of arson, while cryptic messages from his still missing parents indicate that they need rescuing.
9) Taking Eve
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her child's disappearance years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son, a case that is complicated by Jim's twisted agenda.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Olivia's mother was murdered and her father disappeared, everyone suspected her father had done it. Fast-forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's father was actually murdered on the same fateful day her mother died. That means there's a killer still at large. Can Olivia uncover the truth before the killer tracks her down?"--Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1978
Language
English
Description
The thick flakes clung to her lashes so that she could hardly see. Somehow they slipped down her neck into the collar of her coat in spite of the mohair shawl. At least the wind was to her back. The strong gusts pushed her forward like an unseen hand...
13) A Christmas home
Author
Series
McCray Family novels volume 2
Publisher
Crown Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Todd has been working for years at the local animal shelter when he learns that it's being shut down. With his best friend, Laura, he struggles to place the animals in homes before the shelter closes, and Todd becomes torn between a dairy job close to home and a dog-trainer job three hours away, a decision that is further complicated when he realizes that he and Laura may be more than friends."--Publishers Weekly.
14) Good things
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Malcom loses his Pops, he pays homage to his life through the growth and love of plants. Includes a glossery of plants and plant terms and materials.
Author
Series
Mister Max volume 3
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Solutioneer Max Starling travels to a fictional South American country to rescue his parents who have become embroiled in a political power grab"--
17) Mama in the moon
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A baby sloth experiences a nighttime tumble and as mama sloth slowly makes her way down the tree, she helps him self-soothe by using his senses.
18) Saga: Book two
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"SAGA Book Two continues the action-packed education of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war"--Publisher's website.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Long Island Josh Goldin loves his wife Dori and their eight month old son Zack. However, the TV salesman is very worried about Zack who twice has been rushed to the emergency room with strange life-threatening symptoms. African-American ICU pediatric chief Dr. Darlene Stokes reports the Goldin case to the Child Protective Services based on her theory that Zack's mom suffers from Munchausen syndrome, which causes her to inflict harm to her child...
