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121) Bones & all
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking...
122) Hojae
Author
Series
Onŭl ŭi chŏlmŭn chakka volume 23
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1-p'an.
Language
Korean
123) The witch's kind
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar--two women living alone on the outskirts of town. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous family secret. But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power like their own. The second is the sudden reappearance of Barrie...
124) The edge of nowhere
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother abandons her on Whidbey Island, Washington, a fourteen-year-old girl with psychic abilities meets a Ugandan orphan with a secret.
125) Fortune: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One drop of blood for a chance at a multimillion-dollar windfall. Is it a philanthropic gesture from a billionaire widow? Some suspect a darker motive behind the DNA lottery--one tied to the eighteen-year-old mystery of an infant's unidentified remains that mars the history of idyllic Rosemary Hills, Iowa. Right after the blood lottery is announced, three local women fall under suspicion of knowing something about that night, and their carefully...
Author
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...
127) Not quite mine
Author
Series
Not quite volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Gorgeous hotel heiress Katelyn "Katie" Morrison seems to have it all. But when she crosses paths with Dean Prescott--the only man she's ever loved--at her brother's wedding, Katie realizes there's a gaping hole in her life. After the ceremony she gets an even bigger surprise: a baby girl left on her doorstep. Determined to keep the newborn until she learns who her mother is, Katie has her hands full and doesn't need Dean snooping around, especially...
129) Dr. Knox
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peter Spiegelman's Dr. Knox is a bruised wonder of a crime novel. Filled with page-turning intrigue and an L.A. atmosphere so richly rendered you can practically smell the 'eucalyptus and dust,' it is both thrilling and rueful, harrowing and moving. DON'T MISS IT" -- Megan Abbott , award-winning author of The Fever From the author of Red Cat and Thick as Thieves: a gripping new thriller about a medical doctor with a powerful humanitarian impulse,...
130) The law of Moses
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten o'clock news - the little baby left in a basket at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems. I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down his body, like he'd been broken at birth. I knew that wasn't what...
131) Lies come easy
Author
Series
Posadas County volume 23rd
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
One blizzardy New Mexico night, Posadas County Deputy Pasquale picks up a toddler scooting his Scamper along the shoulder of State 56. Yes, it's horrifying - a child apparently dumped out of a truck by his father. Nearly as horrifying is what unrolls while Christmas approaches after dad Darrell Fisher's arrest: a request arrives from the US Forest Service to locate a missing range tech and his unit last reported headed for nearby Stinkin' Springs,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Marie, a nurse in Mayotte, a far-flung, tropical department of France in the Indian Ocean, adopts a baby abandoned at birth by his mother, a refugee from Comoros. She names him Moïse and raises him as her own-and she avoids his increasing questions about his origins as he grows up. When Marie suddenly dies, thirteen-year-old Moïse is left completely alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil. In a state of panic, he runs away from home, and...
133) Chance Harbor
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve, admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm and responsible. Zoe is passionate and rebellious. Nobody is surprised when Zoe gets pregnant, drops out of college, and spirals into drug addiction. One night Catherine gets a call from Zoes terrified daughter, Willow, saying her mother has abandoned her in a bus station and disappeared. Eve blames herself, while Catherine, unable...
136) The painted bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II.
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