Recently widowed, grieving Los Angeles midwife/nurse Melinda Monroe answers a small upstate town's ad for help. Nestled amongst California's giant redwoods, quaint Virgin River is host to many quirky characters--including bar owner Jack...
Abandoned children
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Author:Carr, RobynSummary: -
Author:McIsaac, MeaghanSummary:Urgle is not a good hunter; he's not good at much of anything, particularly being a big brother to Cubby. But he has no family to fall back on: Urgle and Cubby live among the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit. One by one, generations of boys...
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Author:Klune, T. J.Summary:Tre anni fa, la madre di Bear McKenna se ne è andata per una destinazione sconosciuta con il suo nuovo ragazzo, lasciando Bear a crescere il fratellino Tyson di sette anni, detto anche Kid. In qualche modo ce l’hanno fatto, ma visto che...
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Author:Ibbotson, Eva.Summary:After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in...
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In a small town in 1950s South Carolina, Bonnie Wilder's husband finds an abandoned baby by the river. After voicing her concern for local mothers who are unable to raise their children, Bonnie finds more abandoned newborns on her...
- Author:Heneghan, JamesSummary:
Abandoned in a department store as a baby, thirteen-year-old Tom Mullen has been shuffled from one rotten foster home to another his entire life. When he hears rumors that a mass grave has been unearthed on his school grounds, he finds...
- Author:Lansens, LoriSummary:
The story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, conjoined twins born in a rural farming community in 1974. To some they are freaks, monsters or witches. But to most in small-town Leaford, they are just "The Girls".
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Author:Howarth, KateSummary:An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes. Ten Hail Marys follows the first seventeen years of Kate Howarth's life in Sydney and country New South Wales. Raised by various Indigenous...
- Author:Woods, JanetSummary:
A married woman, pregnant with her sea-captain lover's child, dies giving birth. The child, Serafina Finn, is abandoned to an orphanage and grows up longing to feel that she belongs somewhere. Eighteen years later, her father,...
- Author:Clayton, MelindaSummary:
As recounted in Appalachian Justice, Jessie is an adult survivor of horrendous childhood abuse. At the age of thirteen, she was rescued by reclusive mountain woman Billy May Platte. Now forty-seven, Jessie is outwardly successful but...
- Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately...
- Author:Thompson, VictoriaSummary:
Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on...
- Author:Acheson, AlisonSummary:
Aba Zytka Jones (Abi) doesn t expect to get anything from anybody. Her dad's stuck in his chair and her mom's taken off, but she's going to work out what to do on her own. At least that s what she thinks.
Sixteen, almost...
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Author:Adderson, CarolineSummary:At first Curtis isn't worried when his mother doesn't come home after her all-night shift at the gas bar. For a time Curtis manages on his own, looking after himself and his five-year-old brother. But then the credit card maxes out and...
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Author:Klune, T. J.Summary:Il y a trois ans, la mère de Bear McKenna a mis les voiles avec son dernier petit ami en date, laissant à Bear la tâche d’élever son petit frère de six ans Tyson, surnommé le Moustique. Depuis, les deux frères ont appris à se...
- Author:Anderson, JamesSummary:
Ben Jones, protagonist of the glowingly reviewed Never-Open Desert Diner, returns in a devastatingly powerful literary crime novel about parenthood, loss, and the desert in winter. Winter has come to Highway 117, a remote road through...
- Author:Rivest, ClaudetteSummary:
«L’objectif que je poursuis est de démontrer que lorsque l’attachement avec la mère n’a pas eu lieu, les enfants vivent une carence affective et sont troublés par la peur inconsciente, mais permanente, d’être abandon- nés. Les rapports...
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Author:DeKeyser, StacySummary:What would you do? As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse not to be decent... Especially when you're responsible for a kid. It just figures that 15-year old Victoria's dad fails once again to be at the train station like he's...
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Author:Kohli, Marjorie, Bagnell, Kenneth, Pettit, Mary, Corbett, Gail H.Summary:In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent...
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Author:Welch, Nancy M., Kersey, Katharine C.Summary:Russia banned the United States from adopting from their country, and subsequently a flurry of media stories brought attention to the prevalence of severe behavioral and emotional disorders in children adopted from Eastern European...
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