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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.
3) 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.
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
350 p
Description
When a massive storm cuts their tiny border town off from the outside world, U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James and physician assistant Esther Hanson struggle to cope with their traumatic pasts and care for those who rely on them.
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.
Author
Series
Formats
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.
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.
13) Bridge of Clay
Author
Description
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father's disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge--for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much...
15) Carry me home
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
422 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
19) Jackie's jokes
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
119 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
April Fools' Day is long and hard for the third-grade Huit octuplets, but it is nothing compared to the challenges of Tax Day, through which Jackie discovers her special power and gift and learns more about their parents' mysterious disappearance.
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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