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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters determined to be each other's family find scandal under the bright lights of Hollywood and take a trip to a wealthy Long Island carriage house before a twist of fate separates superstar Iris from her sidekick and sister, Eva, in a novel spanning three decades spent seeing the people you love through good times and bad in America.
Author
Series
Men of the Sisterhood volume 4
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the call comes, the Men of the Sisterhood drop everything to help their friends. This time it's Cyrus, their four-legged hound dog and unofficial mascot. While member Joe Espinosa is driving along an isolated country road with Cyrus in tow, he catches a glimpse of movement in the woods bordering the road and notes Cyrus pawing desperately at the car window. As soon as he pulls over to investigate, Cyrus bolts out the door and leads Joe to three...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
5) Warlight
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
7) Virgin River
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 1
Language
English
Description
In Virgin River, Melinda needs a change after violence in Los Angeles took her beloved husband from her; but when she accepts a job as nurse practitioner and midwife in Virgin River in rural California, she gets something very different than she bargained for.--From source other than Library of Congress.
8) Love, Aubrey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Peter Decker teams up with his wife and daughter to solve a crime rooted in both the past and present.
While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional — in this case a male nurse with soulful eyes and lots of charm.
Now the hunt is on for the mother. Armed with advice...
While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional — in this case a male nurse with soulful eyes and lots of charm.
Now the hunt is on for the mother. Armed with advice...
10) Walk two moons
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
11) Girl in pieces
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
12) Angel sister
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1936 and Kate Merritt works hard to keep her family together. Her father slowly slips into alcoholism and his business suffers during the Great Depression. As her mother tries to come to grips with their situation and her sisters seem to remain blissfully oblivious to it, it is Kate who must shoulder the emotional load. Who could imagine that a dirty, abandoned little girl named Lorena Birdsong would be just what the Merritts need?
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The irascible A.J. Fikry, owner of Island Books, the only bookstore on Alice Island, has already lost his wife. Now, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances. The store itself, it seems, will be next to go. One night upon closing, he discovers a toddler in his children's section with a note from her mother pinned to her Elmo doll: "I want Maya to grow up in a place with books and among people...
16) Middletown
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters ... Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies...
17) Daniel's desire
Author
Series
Publisher
Silhouette
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings readers the final chapter in the classic tales of the Devaneys… five brothers torn apart in childhood, reunited by love. Previously published in The Devaney Brothers: Daniel.
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton’s tavern, Daniel Devaney’s job as a child advocate forces him to investigate…and to confront his tumultuous past with Molly. Though a tragic loss shattered their...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
19) Kiss the Moon
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Discovering a decades-old plane crash pushes a woman into a world of mystery and danger in this romantic suspense novel by a New York Times bestseller.
Lost in the frozen woods of New Hampshire, Penelope Chestnut discovers the wreckage of a small plane. An aviator herself, she sees clues to a conspiracy in the rusted-out remains.
Rumors of her discovery bring Wyatt Sinclair to Cold Spring, determined to put to rest a family scandal and learn...