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Series
Noel collection volume 1
Language
English
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Bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher hasn't been home for almost twenty years -- not since his mentally ill mother kicked him out of the house when he was just sixteen. When a lawyer calls, days before Christmas, to inform him that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him, Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try and reconcile with the past and the pain and abuse he experienced as a child. Also, maybe cleaning...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher hasn't been home for almost twenty years -- not since his mentally ill mother kicked him out of the house when he was just sixteen. When a lawyer calls, days before Christmas, to inform him that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him, Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try and reconcile with the past and the pain and abuse he experienced as a child. Also, maybe cleaning...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Told from three viewpoints, a brisk historical tale follows the experiences of two sisters who discover an abandoned baby on the library steps, while their estranged friend, racing to complete an important errand for his World War II soldier brother, jumps to the wrong conclusion.
144) They're watching
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood dreams crumble and then his storybook marriage hits a snag. Now, DVDs start being delivered to his house, DVDs which show that someone is watching him and his wife, that the two of them are being stalked and recorded by cameras hidden in their house. Then someone offers to fix everything, to take the mess his life has become and make it all right. Patrick figures it's the offer of a lifetime....
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she's happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree. Sarah Grace Landreneau Fulton is at a crossroads. She has always tried so hard to do the...
146) 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.
147) Lucky breaks
Author
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
148) Invisible girl
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Rosie appears at the kitchen door. Her hair’s tousled, eyes cloudy with sleep. She puts an arm around my neck and I hold her. Her warm, compact body, clean and innocent, brings back in a heartbeat so many memories of the past. Of everything I’ve lost. But when Becca meets Maddy, she feels so sorry for her. Maddy has lost everything – the victim of something so awful she can’t even talk about it. Becca’s struggles,...
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...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn't mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation, along with his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement consults him on the suspicious death of several local kids. They're...
151) When we last spoke
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1967, sisters Juliet and Evangeline are abandoned by their mother at their unsuspecting grandparents' farm in the small southern town of Fireside. Stunned by their sudden arrival, tender-hearted Walt and champion fiddler Ruby graciously stand in for the missing parents and create one blue-ribbon recipe for a loving family. Fireside, home of radio Station KOFF, kept secrets, broken promises and to-die-for sundaes serves as the backdrop for this...
152) The stillwater girls
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return. As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying. A brutal winter is bearing down. Then comes the stranger....
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Yuletide baby: "Shocked to find a baby girl abandoned at his church on Christmas Eve, pastor Shawn O’Riley needs help. Experienced foster mom Heather is happy to show him the ropes of baby care—but isn’t prepared for the way he melts the walls around her heart. Can Shawn and Heather give each other the best Christmas gift of all—family and love?"--FantasticFiction.com.
A husband for Christmas: "Picturesque Lilac Circle,...
154) The unadoptables
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although their cruel matron might think...
155) Summer longing
Author
Language
English
Description
Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life's compromises, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community.
The appearance...
156) Out of the rain
Series
(Virginia C.).Umbrella lady volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The newest book from #1 New York times bestselling author V.C. Andrews, and the second book in The Umbrella Lady Series. Out of the Rain follows Saffron Anders as she leaves the clutches of the umbrella lady and reunites with her family. But this reunion may not be as happy as it seems"--
After escaping the trauma of the Umbrella Lady's home, Saffron Faith Anders is determined to find the father who abandoned her all those years ago. When she finds...
157) Wilde: 02The match
Author
Series
Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he's ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man leads to more questions than...
158) The ration book baby
Author
Series
Village at war volume 1
Publisher
Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1940. Nurse Annie Russell anxiously listens to the terrifying sounds of planes and gunfire overhead, worried about what the morning will bring for the patients in her care. The boys from the local airfield fly up in the skies each night, risking their lives to protect the people of Bramble Heath village, but they can't stop every bombshell. Until a knock at the door makes her jump. Awaiting Annie on the doorstep is a hatbox. Peeking under...
159) Out of the Rain
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Umbrella volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"The newest book from #1 New York times bestselling author V.C. Andrews, and the second book in The Umbrella Lady Series. Out of the Rain follows Saffron Anders as she leaves the clutches of the umbrella lady and reunites with her family. But this reunion may not be as happy as it seems"--
After escaping the trauma of the Umbrella Lady's home, Saffron Faith Anders is determined to find the father who abandoned her all those years ago. When she finds...
160) The Umbrella Lady
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Left on the train platform of some strange village, eight-year-old Saffron Faith Anders is certain her father will return shortly, just like he promised. She holds out hope as the hour grows late and the station sets to close. She clings to her suitcase like a life raft. When a peculiar old woman carrying a large umbrella approaches and inquires about her situation, Saffron doesn't immediately trust the imposing do-gooder, but eventually does agree...